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And fhere are so many great educational YouTube channels that are partly funded by PBS, that's awful..

Ex:

• Be Smart
• Space Time

What's really insane is they don't even want the knowledge. They just want knowledge in any capacity to go away.

Keep them just smart enough to work the machines, but too stupid to coordinate uprising.

~ George Carlin, paraphrased

dismantled

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/13/1250902337/npr-cpb-public-radio-funding-101

Today, NPR receives only about 1% of its operating budget directly from the federal government.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/business/media/npr-pbs-funding-cuts.html

Will NPR and PBS survive?

Yes. NPR gets about 2 percent of its annual budget directly from federal grants, including from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; for PBS, that amount is about 15 percent.

It'll be a hit for PBS in particular, but it's not gonna end NPR or PBS.

makes being ~~alive~~ American worthwhile

FTFY.

We deliberately don't get news about it, but China is making entire cities for the well-educated looking to return to China from the US. They are "taking the solar system" right now according to some experts, and are on their third space station among multiple lunar missions. ESA and other countries have also taken grand steps into space. International science and medical research forges ahead without us. There are countries effectively expanding their social safety nets and other than US involvement in Israel/the Middle East broadly, the world is at an all-time peak of peace and personal safety.

You are being fed a cultivated image. This entire "free speech" catchphrase that we've been taught to scream at any offence is an illusion, a lie reinforced by every branch of media, which are in turn branches of the corporations that have long since nailed the coffin closed on actual democracy.

Remember Dead Internet Theory? Dead America Theory. We died around Reagan, the country has been running on momentum and money. We won't feel it until the money runs out and that's why this current administration is a pile of bottom-feeding bilge rats scraping off whatever they can from taxpayers. They know the value of the American dollar is about to start plummeting, and climate change and other technological changes to the global stage will be the final flush of this toilet we've been trying to pretend we're not spinning around.

Our progress and species will go on, just not without America leading the way. Even if we got a "perfect" president and administration tomorrow they wouldn't be able to undo this reverse-snowball that's currently evaporating out of control.

When fascism works it makes everything boring and bland as fuck.

Thats a great idea! We should evangelize that. That woukd be a great movement. Cancel one od your streaming services to suppport seasame street

They also educate and inform people. That's a problem for the GOP. They don't want the American people, ESPECIALLY low income people, to have access to free education and information that PBS and NPR provides. They need to ensure the population is stupid thus easier to control.

So America they've taken your medicade, they've taken the ability of a good portion of your country to be able to eat, they're taking immigrants, tourists, or people that they don't agree with to camps, they're taking your education, they're taxing you with tariffs, they have a gestapo, and they'll be taking away more rights from Women and POC. I have to ask...how much longer until you start to get a little bit violent?

Wrong Elmo, they'd probably do better with this shotgun-wielding version:

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What's sick is that they are a fraction of this country. But thanks to their money and their platforms, they can constantly repeat the lie that "most people are conservatives".

No, the kind of weird perverted freaks that dream of killing funding to NPR and PBS are definitely not normal and not the majority. But yeah, thanks to a lot of various things, they get what they want....it's sickening.

These people are a cancer, and the world will be better when they are dead and forgotten.

They don't want the country to be impoverished, and it's ridiculous to suggest that.

They just want the bottom 99.9% of the population to be impoverished. They're already most of the way there.

Democrat answer: Filibusters are 'not a good look'. We want to be seen as the party of reasonable adults who honestly want to work across party lines to help our constituents. We won't vote to end the practice as it has a long history and tradition blah blah blah

Honest answer: We don't give a single fuck about our constituents, the only people we are beholden to are the lobbyists who line our pocketbooks. It's easier to control the narrative when all of the media corporations are owned by billionaires.

Rescission packages aren't subject to the filibuster, only a simple majority is needed. Expect more of this.

You spelled 'not having slaves' kinda funny there.