[Maru]

Suddenly now this is about the local TV stations not being able to "preempt" content they don't like due to the monopolies... you know, this guy sucks. Just make a major statement about what the **** your policy actually is, why it's being changed and apply it equally. Going and commenting on random shows and forcing us to find little sound bytes to figure out what your policy changes are, is ridiculous.

[bots]

But didn't Carr start all this by telling local broadcasters that they must demand kimmel is taken off the air?

[Crimson Dynamo]

I recall when Kimmel said people who dont get vaccinated deserve to die

[Maru]

Originally Posted by bots

But didn't Carr start all this by telling local broadcasters that they must demand kimmel is taken off the air?

I thought I had heard a comment even where he had explicitly named quite a few shows (in reference to lapses), but honestly... this isn't working, the whole let's debate by sound byte garbage... Can they just release a ****ing statement like every other normal govt human being? I'm a nobody and I can't even figure out what their full stance is.

I do think there is a lot of pressure for media to "stfyou" (/censored), but that should be across the board applied. Otherwise, this is crap.

[bots]

What's interesting is that they target people who a lot of people don't like, like Kimmel. To me they are testing the boundaries before starting a major clamp down. It's the playbook of an authoritarian regime

[Maru]

Originally Posted by bots

What's interesting is that they target people who a lot of people don't like, like Kimmel. To me they are testing the boundaries before starting a major clamp down. It's the playbook of an authoritarian regime

If I'm honest, I think that's your own bias in coming to that conclusion. Broadcast media used to self-censor within very reasonable limits. Late night never used to go out of its way to insult half its market. In fact, late night used to be one of the safer options for avoiding dealing with the more difficult aspects of tough news topics so while yes, it was comedy, but it was very tasteful comedy within the tolerances of most Americans. Our media used to also sanitize certain material out when importing from other markets (across the world), including things that came out of the BBC. In the past decade or so a lot of that has changed to see what could be gotten through, so if anything, it's the media testing the boundaries.

[BBXX]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

I recall when Kimmel said people who dont get vaccinated deserve to die

Yes Jimmy's rhetoric around people not getting medical treatment if they chose not to get the vaccine was ****ing gross, as was the majority of Hollywoods/Celebrity. And I say that as someone who made a choice to get vaccinated.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by bots

What's interesting is that they target people who a lot of people don't like, like Kimmel. To me they are testing the boundaries before starting a major clamp down. It's the playbook of an authoritarian regime

care to predict who would be next in your scenario?

[Maru]

No surprise there, I guess:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Charlie Kirk

@charliekirk11

Jimmy Kimmel isn't funny

3:49 AM · Oct 6, 2017

https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/916133274505883648

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Maru

No surprise there, I guess:

Twitter Link

[Maru]

All politicians pull this crap by the way when their favorite people they've anointed are touched and people keep taking the bait.

Plot twist: THEY ALL LIE.

Vs

There are numerous examples of the same phenomenon on the right wing. People like to make big points about how "the other side" is always doing one thing or another... and yet never actually viscerally seem to absorb that they're also participating in what perpetuates it, which is to keep people upset and campaigning for celebrities/politicians for free. These people are scored based on how many comments are written about them and obviously "hating on them" is not a deterrent, if it builds their profiles up, so they're encouraged to keep this pattern up to farm donations... I get emails ALL THE TIME in my spam mail acct from politicians when there is some event they want to politicize, that my "so and so" is being taken away—oh nooo, so they're demanding even more money from me.

[bots]

Originally Posted by Maru

If I'm honest, I think that's your own bias in coming to that conclusion. Broadcast media used to self-censor within very reasonable limits. Late night never used to go out of its way to insult half its market. In fact, late night used to be one of the safer options for avoiding dealing with the more difficult aspects of tough news topics so while yes, it was comedy, but it was very tasteful comedy within the tolerances of most Americans. Our media used to also sanitize certain material out when importing from other markets (across the world), including things that came out of the BBC. In the past decade or so a lot of that has changed to see what could be gotten through, so if anything, it's the media testing the boundaries.

i don't see how it's my own bias when i don't like and don't watch Kimmel

[Maru]

Originally Posted by bots

i don't see how it's my own bias when i don't like and don't watch Kimmel

It's not personal, bots.

[Maru]

How many people do we honestly think give a **** about Kimmel???:

Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings were plummeting before ABC suspended him for Charlie Kirk comments
https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/media/...kirk-comments/

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show was bleeding viewers before Disney-owned ABC pulled the plug and suspended him for his comments on Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Nielsen data showed sharp summer declines and a year-long slide that leaves him trailing late-night rivals such as Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld and CBS star Stephen Colbert.

According to monthly Nielsen figures, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” dropped to just 1.1 million total viewers in August 2025, down 43% from January’s 1.95 million. His August household rating of 0.35 marked the weakest showing of the year.

Now run that alongside ITV's numbers for BBUK...

[bots]

Originally Posted by Maru

It's not personal, bots.

Tell that to Kimmel

[Maru]

Originally Posted by bots

Tell that to Kimmel

**** that unfunny twat. **** all these people. **** the FCC chair. **** them all.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson played ‘Furry Shades of Gay’ video game online which features explicit images of cartoon animal characters engaged in s** acts.

The game describes itself as a game of “love, queer relationships, hot gay s** and slapstick humor.”

Robinson, who was dating his transgender roommate, played the game enough that he earned a prize, with the prize being an anthropomorphic cat character who dresses as a French maid.

Source: Daily Mail

[bots]

Originally Posted by Maru

**** that unfunny twat. **** all these people. **** the FCC chair. **** them all.

now thats the right correct attitude

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson played ‘Furry Shades of Gay’ video game online which features explicit images of cartoon animal characters engaged in s** acts.

The game describes itself as a game of “love, queer relationships, hot gay s** and slapstick humor.”

Robinson, who was dating his transgender roommate, played the game enough that he earned a prize, with the prize being an anthropomorphic cat character who dresses as a French maid.

Source: Daily Mail

I just want to know if one of them reached Stage 4 or not:

Youtube video

Seriously, just watch the first few minutes... it doesn't take long before you're too deep.

[Crimson Dynamo]

This is why Johnny Carson is THE iconic late-night talk show host:

“Why do they think that just because you have a Tonight Show that you must deal in
serious issues? It’s a danger. It’s a real danger. Once you start that, you start to get that self-important feeling that what you say has great import. And you know? Strangely
enough, you could use that show as a forum. You could sway people. And I don’t think
you should as an entertainer.”


https://x.com/LauraPowellEsq/status/1968483374382841945

[bots]

Originally Posted by Maru

I just want to know if one of them reached Stage 4 or not:

Youtube video

Seriously, just watch the first few minutes... it doesn't take long before you're too deep.

it's just another aspect of philosophy i think, but gone a bit ferel

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson played ‘Furry Shades of Gay’ video game online which features explicit images of cartoon animal characters engaged in s** acts.

The game describes itself as a game of “love, queer relationships, hot gay s** and slapstick humor.”

Robinson, who was dating his transgender roommate, played the game enough that he earned a prize, with the prize being an anthropomorphic cat character who dresses as a French maid.

Source: Daily Mail

The internet has made the world a very strange place

[Maru]

Originally Posted by bots

it's just another aspect of philosophy i think, but gone a bit ferel

I like how all the furpeople are all different kinds of animals like wolves and raccoons, and they're like "This is who we actually are"... then how come y'all aren't mauling/hunting each other.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by MTVN

The internet has made the world a very strange place

amen