Subservience to the FCC and the administration is the excuse. The real reason is that David Ellison is afraid the dem might win.

The majority owner of CBS is Paramount Global, which itself is controlled by Skydance Media, a company led by David Ellison (son of Larry Ellison), following a significant acquisition of the Redstone family’s stake in mid-2025.

Either that or it’s exactly what it says on the tin. I wonder which is more likely.

Thank you. I was just thinking that someone needs to grab this, and it was going to be a pita if I had to be the one to do it.

(More copies are always welcome.)

And it’s a hell of a brave thing Colbert and crew are doing in speaking out.

They’re patriots at a time when speech isn’t free.

I mean, I generally agree with you, but like most things this isn’t black and white. It’s a nuanced thing that needs to be handled with care. I get it; Large movements are terrible at nuance.

While we’re two years out from the start of the campaign, we can certainly encourage the Dems to find an actual progressive.

Hillary was better than Newsom. It’s funny that California Dems are blasted as the most liberal, when they might be the most conservative Dems outside of West Virginia.

Yes, anything is better than fascism. That point was more important 18 months ago, and might be more important again 12 months from now.

It’s also important how you say what you have to say. Dems are absolutely not the ones to blame for all this shit. Not doing enough is not the same as directly causing the disaster.

On the other hand, this is a fine time for this conversation. We do have roughly a year to find a candidate that’s not fucking Newsom just because he could meme for a minute.

I don’t mind a few memes in our politics, but I do want there to be some kind of substance under the memes. And not the substance Magats have found under theirs, 💩.

They wouldn’t let her say “I wanna have your abortion.”

It blows my mind that with all our technological progress, it’s so easy now to make the world a better place, and yet…

He made a statement. That’s enough.

If we were all as brave and principled as this kid, this shit would be done right now.

Complicit

Some of that likely came out of him being a shitbag in various ways where he lucked into the right circumstances for that attitude.

The world isn’t black and white. He should get some credit for Tesla. And he should get credit for the current ways he’s dismantling Tesla and the US.

He did help push it forward in a couple ways that I don’t think others would have.

One is that he just didn’t give a fuck about regulation or established procedures. Two is that he did have a focus on affordability. Three is that he demanded a lot out of his employees largely driven (for them) by being for the greater good.

A lot of his success has come from employees who were dedicated to the cause. It’s why both Tesla and SpaceX had done so well, while Twitter and Tesla robots will flounder

What do you MEAN I’m out of the in-group? I was in the in-group.

For those smarter among us, this is why we want laws that apply fairly to everyone.

I don’t want a world where crimes are expected, and you just have to continually manage whose good graces you’re in in order to survive.

You’d think billionaires of the 1990s would agree, but they can 10x their money if they just avoid falling out of windows.

Granted. They weren’t giving out participation trophies for 12th though, sorry.

More likely the prosecutor just didn’t show any evidence. The prosecutor has so much influence over whether there is or isn’t an indictment.

It sounds an awful lot like you don’t want people to vote.

Oooohhhhh, you’re gonna get downvoted. (By one guy with 12 accounts.)

They use PLA in several tea bags and coffee filters now.

… of course I research and avoid those. I’m not super paranoid about plastic, but boiling it and drinking it seems insane.

I was slightly interested in getting into it. Youtube had some 15 minute sample of Sunday Ticket. So I figured I’d catch the end of the Bears game. Why not.

13 of the 15 minutes were ads and the demo ran out. Iirc it was exorbitantly priced to continue, and you wouldn’t get everything.

So instead I watch pro League of Legends. Not as relatable, but a hell of a lot cheaper to watch, and I enjoy it.