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The way they were talking when DOGE was a thing was that they would be shutting it down. Hows that going? Are stations closing around the US? Is PBS gonna go out of business? Or like every operation is it having to make adjustments.

I believe they are shutting down the Corporation for Public Broadcasting which is upstream of them.

I don’t know if the individual stations will be shut down or if they just have to stand on their own.

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80 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 9h

Oh really? Interesting. Well... many business shut down every day. No one in culture mourns them broadly. Yet, when something is government backed it is headline news and we are all suppose to be concerned and worried. Its so odd and telling.

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Well, yeah. This is a threat to our Democracy (rule by Democrats), after all.

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80 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 8h

Every once and a while Trump will say something that sticks with me. A while back he said, in passing something about them calling themselves the Democratic party and not the Democrat party. Subtle but regardless of facts its interesting and makes sense to me.

Democracy is just a pretense to allow people to justify using force for things they want that others don't. Its a scam really.

I've been watching the new season of Fallout and a line from one of the corporate villains surprised me. It surprised me because usually popular culture doesn't touch this type of thing. Guy says something like the ultimate democracy, people buying our products. Its something I agree with but of course in this case its the bad guy and his company benefited from political favors I'm sure.

Free choice and trade is actually the real democracy. But as will all forms of it... its not always good because humans aren't good.

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80 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 8h

Since I neither trust Trump nor the Internet on this I'm not sure if he's right about Democrat vs. Democratic but I'm inclined to think he's right about the insinuation but wrong technically. Believe the actual name has been Democratic since the split with the Republicans.

Leech party is really what they should be called.

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