Within the next year we’re gonna hear a lot about Paramount selling off assets, studios, and rights to a lot of IPs cause they went into a massive amount of debt to buy another company with a massive amount of debt all to sacrifice a news network at the altar of a dying pedophile
Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.
"Growing up in Palestine, this is something that I'd already, that I always thought was possible... I definitely expected it would happen to me in the West Bank, in Palestine, not in Vermont."
"Why do you think he shot you?"
"Systematic dehumanization."
The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision.
The longer the AI psychodrama goes on, the more it’s clear we are dealing with a conventional business bubble. What’s different this time is the lengths to which the companies will go to put off the reckoning, up to and including telling insane stories.
This is why no one trusts Democrats right now, they will criticize what the Republicans are doing, but never use their power to actually stop it or even curb it in any meaningful way.
What is even the point of having a government if they aren't gonna do anything?
This is where homeschooling fails. Going to a place you don't want to be, to do things you don't want to do around people you don't always like is an enormously important skill.
Holy shit!
The title DOESN’T do this justice it should read:
“Susan Collins took Bribes; Trump FBI covered it up”
-Scott Reed (of the Collins super PAC) raised money from a government contractor illegally via a shell company in exchange for offering government contracts.
-He assured the contractor that Collins was aware of who the donation was from.
-Kao (the contractors CEO) told the entire scheme to the US attorneys office hoping for leniency.
-He provided a ***50-page document*** of details, including emails.
-In document he named other GOP staffers and members of Congress who he had bribed via this donation scheme.
-Trump had the FBI and US attorneys office drop the investigation.
We are in 30s Germany.
We have concentration camps (stopped reporting detainee deaths months ago) and Gestapo and now we have gov media
When things go bad, I want us all to go back and look at moments like this where nobody did anything and the citizens just blinked
The whole point of blocking the merger is that the films would be produced by *different studios*. Now we’re just gonna get 30 right wing pro-Israel films a year