Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman

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  • It reminds me of something only semi-related.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20200727091104/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/business/media/04hulu.html

    Dec 3, 2009

    As she prepared her daughter for college, Anne Sweeney insisted that a television be among the dorm room accessories.

    “Mom, you don’t understand. I don’t need it,” her 19-year-old responded, saying she could watch whatever she wanted on her computer, at no charge.

    That flustered Ms. Sweeney, who happens to be the president of the Disney-ABC Television Group.

    You’re going to have a television if I have to nail it to your wall,” she told her daughter, according to comments she made at a Reuters event this week. “You have to have one.”

    Like Disney-ABC in 2009, these fucking dinosaurs of companies plan to just use institutional dominance and money to force themselves into the position they want to be in. I suspect it will work about as well as Sweeney’s efforts to nail a TV to her daughters wall. (You want to use screws for that anyway, you fucking dipshit, Sweeney) Sweeney was so confident in this approach that she related this story and what she said at a press event. This is how fucking stupid these people are, they’re willing to relate a story like that as though it shows strength and not shortsightedness and ignorance.

    In other words, I don’t expect it to work out very well at all.




  • runaway, uncontrolled, corrupt capitalist

    I would actually argue that the only word I disagree with here is “uncontrolled” because it was very tightly controlled for a long time, which allowed the relative stability that let America be a big bully on the world stage, force the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, and lead trading partners to believe we were bullies but mostly trustworthy and would follow through on international deals we made.

    Now we are truly entering the “uncontrolled” territory, and that’s why faith from other countries in the US being a reliable partner is faltering.





  • I mean I don’t know a lot of people actively wanted to kill others because they decided it was a fucking hoax and some of them literally went to their deathbeds while risking doctors’ and nurses’ lives via exposure to them.

    Something emboldened the stupid to be monstrously pig-headed and arrogant about being stupid, and guess what, the people with an education are absolutely sick of their loser ass bullshit.

    You don’t negotiate or play nice with idiots whose stupidity can and will fucking kill you and your loved ones and even the ones doling out medical care to the idiots. Nah, this is the world they asked for. Done pandering to pansies who can’t face fucking reality because it makes them feel stupid. Guess what, you are stupid. Get used to it, nimrod, or get a fucking education.