• Greyghoster@aussie.zone
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    17 hours ago

    This joker is responsible for upholding the constitution. Given that what he is saying and I assume doing is unconstitutional, will he being going to jail?

    • MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world
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      The median annual income for incarcerated men prior to prison is roughly $26,000, and $18,400 for women.

      The net worth of Brendan Carr is reported to be between $1.1 million and $2.3 million, with third-party wealth-tracking sites estimate his broader net worth up to $5 million when factoring in unlisted personal property or real estate.

      You do the math.

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    Exactly as predicted years ago. Project 2025 is still being followed, and they’ve accomplished over 50% of their stated goals in less than two years, with more to go.

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    The only people who still vote for them are watching network television all day, every day while their brain matter slowly drips out of their ears.

  • TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club
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    2 days ago

    Its like the US is saying, yeah 1930s Germany, let’s have some of that shit and none of you are doing anything about it.

    • CascadiaRo@lemmy.zip
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      none of you are doing anything about it

      Considering that there have been multiple large scale protests, efforts towards economic blackouts, major shifts in political elections, and organizations working through the legal system to combat what is going on - I’m somewhat curious to know what your version of “doing anything about it” looks like.

      Tap for spoiler

      It’s violence, isn’t it?

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        The US is literally a country born through and sustained by violence. You really can’t just get around that when it’s most poignant.

      • TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club
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        You know, I’ll take it back. There are some definite changes going on. I hope the rest of the country sees sense in the next few months.

          • Carl@anarchist.nexus
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            2 days ago

            And the genocide of the Native Americans. Hitler used that as the inspiration for the holocaust.

          • TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club
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            Consider me TIL, though I believe Nazi Germany was more into Nietzche’s ubermensch theory. He was Hitlers favorite philosopher and where the idea of the Aryan race was galvanised. From an outward perspective looking in, to me it seems the US are trying their own new mix of that, this “Jim Crow Law” and an extreme capitalist society. The US is using race as a means to invoke fear into their supporters who are currently in an abusive domestic relationship and are the ones taking the hits.

  • Dookieman12@piefed.social
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    This isn’t new. It’s always been this way. He’s just finally saying the quiet part out loud.

    The FCC has always asserted governance over the airwaves on the basis that only so many frequencies are available so regulations are required to ensure their limited availability goes toward the advancement of the public good.

    Because the airwaves are freely available to anyone with an antenna, one of the ways the FCC “ensures the advancement of the public good” is regulating what’s allowed to be shown and said on television under the basis that children are watching at home.

    The FCC has a long and varied history of enforcing censorship on the airwaves. It used to be that women’s periods couldn’t be mentioned, it used to be that actors had to keep one foot on the floor so they didn’t show “a man and woman in bed together.”

    Violators have always been subject to fines and revocation of their license. Corrective action has always been at the sole discretion of the FCC. The only thing that’s changed is how openly aggressive the FCC has been wielding their authority.

    Historically, the FCC has always been regarded as having too much power, but they’ve always managed to avoid regulation by wielding it responsibly and conservatively and generally not pissing off the public to much. The current administration is highlighting why this has been a mistake.

    • cecilkorik@piefed.ca
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      It hasn’t always been this way. They haven’t always been able to say the quiet part out loud. In the past, if that had happened, they would’ve been punished for it and an example made of them, there would be public outcry and eventually some semblance of consequences. Nothing else substantial may have changed, they might have continued the exact same behaviors afterwards, but they stayed quiet and they were at least kept in check by the systems above them. This prevented others from seeing open corruption being tolerated and created a chilling effect on open corruption to put limits on it. It’s not ideal: Keeping it quiet obviously doesn’t eliminate it, but it does help control it.

      Being able to say the quiet part out loud now is an escalation, and it will lead to even more severe escalations as more and more of the corruption and rot moves into the open. This is not a good sign and is not simply a sign of an organization or administration being too conservative and having too much power, this is not just being behind the times of social progress, this is something far beyond that, and it will continue to escalate.