Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Oh I see y'all are being serious in your retardation about Jimmy.

Fuck Disney and FUCK YOU

woah woah.. Jansen! Think of your health! I want you to stay safe 

Have a little Soda Pop.

[benji]

Oh I see y'all are being serious in your retardation about Jimmy.

Fuck Disney and FUCK YOU

They came after Gamers. Disney. Gamers. Disney.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

On 4 July 2025, several members of an antifa cell launched an ambush the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas.[124] All members were dressed in black and were equipped with ballistic Kevlar vests, two way radios, and AR-15 style rifles.[125][126] The group vandalized cars and launched fireworks at the facility in an attempt to lure ICE officers out of the building. At around 11:00pm, two unarmed correctional officers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security attempted to talk to the antifa members who were vandalizing cars. A few minutes later, a police officer from the Alvarado Police Department arrived in response to the 911 report of suspicious activity. After exiting his vehicle, a masked individual fired 20 to 30 rounds from an AR-style rifle, one of which struck the APD officer in the neck. Seven antifa members tried to flee the scene but were arrested.[126] By 7 July 2025, 10 people with connections to the ambush had been arrested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)

https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-arrested-after-ambush-texas-ice-detention-facility/story?id=123555164

Is Era really trying to say Antifa isn't real? That they are not fighting the good fight to stop ICE?

Fuck y'all, go out and protect your communities like brother Noodlesoup instead of disregarding the heroics of our good Antifa super soldiers.

[HaughtyFrank]

Maybe what RE is trying to say is that Antifa isn't one big organization and more like small individual groups who share the same philosophy.

[benji]

 thank you benji for the added information. Era should really be a banned source because they keep blaming ABC and I got confused.

They're looking in the wrong place, the networks would neutral-to-anti-Trump with their corporate parents (except News Corp) more neutral and wishing to avoid Trump.

The affiliates are where you would look, and they're not only more pro-Trump:
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?cycle=2024&ind=C2100

But they're explicitly pushing for something alongside other pro-Trump groups:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Over 20 conservative groups and individuals, led by Heritage Action for America, sent a letter today to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr supporting efforts to modernize outdated ownership regulations that negatively impact local TV and radio stations. The letter highlights the need to update “antiquated and harmful” rules that restrict local TV and radio broadcasters from reaching American households while Big Tech companies face no such constraints.

The groups urge the FCC to update regulations to allow local broadcasters to fairly compete with Big Tech, streaming services and social media platforms.

“Americans across the political spectrum agree that burdensome, arbitrary regulations are limiting local TV and radio stations’ ability to compete with Big Tech in the modern media landscape,” said NAB President and CEO Curtis LeGeyt. “We are grateful for the wide-ranging support to modernize these outdated broadcast ownership rules and echo the call for the FCC to level the playing field so local broadcasters can provide the most-trusted news, live sports and entertainment to every listener and viewer.”

Background:

This letter is yet another example of widespread support for modernizing broadcast ownership regulations that unfairly limit local stations’ ability to grow, invest in local journalism and compete for talent, content and advertising revenue. Recently more than 73 members of the House of Representatives, 22 U.S. Senators and several community groups sent letters to the FCC urging action on broadcast ownership restrictions.

Local TV and radio stations are cornerstones of public safety and trusted information, but outdated FCC regulations hold them back. Learn more at: NAB.org/ModernizeTheRules.

About NAB
The National Association of Broadcasters is the premier advocacy association for America's broadcasters. NAB advances radio and television interests in legislative, regulatory and public affairs. Through advocacy, education and innovation, NAB enables broadcasters to best serve their communities, strengthen their businesses and seize new opportunities in the digital age. Learn more at nab.org.

Disney only owns the ABC affiliates in like LA, NYC and a couple other places that are left over from a merger back at the turn of the century. These are considered the "flagship stations" and aren't normal affiliates. The other 90% of the population watches through the affiliates. They and Disney have completely different interests, especially now with Disney+ which directly competes with the affiliates.

The affiliates have always had this power to pull shows, they've outright killed shows in the past by refusing to air them. Do you remember the whole Conan/Leno kerfluffle? That was because the affiliates were pissed about NBC trying to change the schedule and destroy their local news stations which is where they profit. Jeff Zucker was trying to dictate to them and they made him choose between Leno and Conan rather than keep both because it was cratering the affiliates.

If you wanted to write a conspiracy back to Trump pressure it would be on the affiliate networks afraid Trump won't bother to change the rules for them finally. (I might suggest Trump could not be the main target of a Kirk defense, Vance might be if they're afraid the FCC will stay 2/5ths vacant until he gets a term.)

[malfoyking]

I think all this shit stopped being funny a while ago.

[BananaBlast]

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Why in the flying fuck would they choose Ironheart over Iron Man?

That's dumb even for Jeff standards.... a bar buried deep within hell.

[benji]

SO how long now before all media coming out of the US is just fascist propaganda?

we're already there

Man... When we lost this election we really lost, like a lot. Hard to feel like any of this is reversible.

And I'm not just talking about the late night hosts, but I mean like. This ck shit as the reichstag fire is showing a lot of cards in their hand that I had held out hope they wouldn't be competent enough to play.

I look at what it took during the Civil Rights Movement and man… we don't have that fire. People were getting beaten, hosed, bitten by dogs, even killed. Just for the right to be treated equal. People have to be willing to put their lives on the line for these protests and they just aren't willing to do that.

If they think threatening broadcast licensees over political views is the dawn of fascism then I have some bad news about JFK and LBJ's administrations. Also that Fairness Doctrine they always demand should be brought back. 

[benji]

Paramount/Skydance. South Park is as good as dead after this season, if it even makes it that long.

Good, fuck transphobe Nazis.

[books]

The Man Show suffered under his watch. Bye bye.

[benji]

Canceled and then told my wife/son, they weren't happy but its happening.

If you cancel D+/Hulu make sure you select "Other" when asked why you're cancelling and write in exactly why.

I told them to stop caving to fascists. I wanted to say a lot more, but I'm probably already on a watchlist.

Didn't even get that option when cancelling, just a multi choice, no write in option

I just canceled a bit over an hour ago: Other was there and then you wrote a response.

I wouldn't be surprised if they are already editing that. If so, good.

I get Disney+ as part of my maintenance fee's mandatory cable sub, but fuck it, closing the account. All I ever used it for was Simpsons, if that.

Not getting the email w/ the confirmation code yet; hope that just means they may be getting hammered.

And now I cancelled my preorder of Tron Legacy 4K BR……god fucking damnit man 😫

cancelled my subs. This is beyond fucked and just an indication there is no turning back.

Keep cancelling those subscriptions

Like think about this yall. The best way we can do ANYTHING is to cancel fucking subscriptions....how many canceled subscriptions do yall think it will take for Disney to ACTUALLY rethink their overall mode of operation regarding shit like this, not just this specific event. This will happen again, people who canceled their subs will have resubscribed, and then we will cancel our subs again....Thats the "power" we have as Americans to "battle" the organizations how run our country.

That or risk your family starving. But we know even less people will do that than cancel a subscription. Buckle in yall. We've been here for a while and will be here for a bit longer.

If y'all aren't boycotting Disney...

Walt Disney was always a Nazi, but this is something else. MSM is fucked.

Damn it, my kids love Bluey and lots of stuff on D+...

Cancelled Disney+ and not giving ABC or Disney business if I can help it. Need to teach corporations the consequences for giving in to authoritarianism. If there's other actions that would be helpful, please share.

With this I can say Disney's transformation into the inside of a Hobby Lobby is complete. Like the inside of a remodeled mega church, truly it could only give off bad vibes at this point. Guess No Way Home (I think?) was my final Disney movie in theaters, well, there are worse ones!

Yeesh, just cancelled Hulu (don't have Disney or anything else). Feels like I'm spitting into a tornado heading our way, but doing what I can do.

Not even saying this as a "noble" thing to do, but the amount of opportunity for someone to develop some alternative to the networks fully licking the boot in recent times is extraordinary. IF Trump times ever end, many of us will never forget the extreme cowardice being shown.

Even if you just cancel for one month. I mean what are you missing out on? Dancing with the Stars?

Canceled Disney+. My kids will hate it but there's lots of other options.

I'm in Europe. My son loves Star Wars too. It's almost 3am here and instead of being asleep I'm once again pissed off after reading the news, questioning the world my kids will live in, and considering the hard talk I might have with them about canceling D+.

There will definitely never be another Andor, that's for sure.

Cancelled Disney Plus and Hulu. Frankly I think this was pretty stupid by ABC and conservatives as this will probably shift the narrative away from Kirk.

OK, gonna cancel my sub. I hope many do. Fuck them.

Cancelled my D+ bundle, started a recurring donation to WBUR. Been meaning to donate to them for a while now, perfect opportunity

The need for a general strike grows more and more every day

If people who have any ounce of care of people who live in this country and hesitate to cancel their Disney subs over this, we never had a chance. We really did not. Apathy has taken over so many people and are just numbed to everything it seems. I feel during Trump's first term there was more resistant. More noise and more push back. Now it's just crickets. I am not denying some of the large protests we experience the past year but I feel people were louder online during his first term. Media and yes even tech did not like Trump. Now everything is falling one by one.

Where are the ex presidents?
This is all wild as hell

This country is absolutely cooked.

They may call us rats leaving a sinking ship, but fuck, we rats need to GTFO.

Over Jimmy Kimmel.

As always, hope to see y'all when it comes time to vote. No one gets to take that from you.

Tell that to Russia

Well… in theory.

Not sure about that. It's pretty unlikely that by midterms we will have a legitimate election.

Unless you're a minority. Then they can absolutely find a way to take that from you.

I don't disagree with you, but I feel like it's going to come to that. We are all going to have to fight to even vote.

it would take Americans protesting and shutting down infrastructure for weeks without end to even make a dent at this point.

If people are still at "I'll join a protest for one day on the weekend, or a holiday" then I think things are done.

I mean, I'm pretty sure they will take that from us.

Like let's be real, when the midterms come and only Republicans win, no one should be shocked.

That's the spirit.

If you didn't vote against Fascism you aren't my ally, the shit was clear as day. Everyone told you. They can take their ass outside.

 

As always, hope to see y'all when it comes time to vote. No one gets to take that from you.

Convicted felons can't vote in federal elections which is bullshit.

This isn't true... and... wait, I thought his brother or whatever was the murderer?!?  

Power isn't panicking. This is Project 2025. It's calculated as fuck.

Yep, thus is a movement like 40 years in the making and they finally got everything needed to pull it off.

Why didn't they do it all the previous times they were in power?  

Honestly, I dont think people like Trump think that far ahead. Its like most corporations doing stuff to juice their numbers this quarter that will clearly be bad in the long run.

 

If I was Kimmel I would get in front of a camera now if I had any sort of human feeling left in my body and record the video of my career, but probably not.

Where else would he even broadcast? With the Paramount+/WB stuff going on.

Twitch, You tube. A place to go ham without the bullshit. He could go live so many places. Old media ain't even nearly the only game in town. That's even if he doesn't just say fuck it and leave everything to Italy like he has suggested. Just saying, if he wants to speak to a large audience he can. Again though maybe he has a contract that wouldn't allow him to live stream in other places.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Paramount/Skydance. South Park is as good as dead after this season, if it even makes it that long.

Good, fuck transphobe Nazis.

[HaughtyFrank]

NGL, the Antifa thing seems like a bigger deal than Kimmel but you wouldn't know it on Resetera.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

NGL, the Antifa thing seems like a bigger deal than Kimmel but you wouldn't know it on Resetera.

not my heckin wholesome kimmel don't you remember the big chungus crying he did on air before?

[benji]

There's so many posts on those recent pages bitching about how apathetic Americans are against all this rather than getting in the streets. LIKE WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!?

[benji]

NGL, the Antifa thing seems like a bigger deal than Kimmel but you wouldn't know it on Resetera.

I think the even bigger deal is another white cishet male "ally" going mask off:

His statements make zero mention of the decades of Israeli occupation, siege, massacres, and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians that preceded Oct. 7th.

His claim about "1,200 innocent people" killed on Oct. 7th is doubly false: several hundred of those people were not innocent civilians; they were soldiers enforcing the siege of the Gaza concentration camp. Moreover, not all were killed Palestinian militants: some were killed by Israel's enactment of the Hannibal Directive.

Only by erasing and whitewashing Israel's barbaric occupation of Palestinians can you claim, as Bernie does, that Hamas "began this war" and that Israel has "a right to defend itself from Hamas" by bombing Gaza.

It took Bernie way too long to acknowledge that this is genocide. While I appreciate some of his efforts to challenge it, it's unfortunate that he still parrots some of the Israeli propaganda used to wage it.

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[Uncle]

There's so many posts on those recent pages bitching about how apathetic Americans are against all this rather than getting in the streets. LIKE WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!?

can you imagine you start marching in the streets

locals like "what are you doing?"

"I JUST LOVE JIMMY KIMMEL SO MUCH"

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

masks off now

can't even trust dems

that's it I'm never voting in an election ever again

sorry boredfrom, trump is here to stay 

[NeppyNep]

I think all this shit stopped being funny a while ago.

Yeah there’s genuinely nothing funny about this. An administration just got a show taken off the air because their fragile egos can’t take a joke. That actually is fascist as all hell.

[benji]

can you imagine you start marching in the streets

locals like "what are you doing?"

"I JUST LOVE JIMMY KIMMEL SO MUCH"

Mockery like this is exactly why we won't have a general strike to take back Disney from the oppressors.

[Boredfrom]

NGL, the Antifa thing seems like a bigger deal than Kimmel but you wouldn't know it on Resetera.

I think the even bigger deal is another white cishet male "ally" going mask off:

His statements make zero mention of the decades of Israeli occupation, siege, massacres, and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians that preceded Oct. 7th.

His claim about "1,200 innocent people" killed on Oct. 7th is doubly false: several hundred of those people were not innocent civilians; they were soldiers enforcing the siege of the Gaza concentration camp. Moreover, not all were killed Palestinian militants: some were killed by Israel's enactment of the Hannibal Directive.

Only by erasing and whitewashing Israel's barbaric occupation of Palestinians can you claim, as Bernie does, that Hamas "began this war" and that Israel has "a right to defend itself from Hamas" by bombing Gaza.

It took Bernie way too long to acknowledge that this is genocide. While I appreciate some of his efforts to challenge it, it's unfortunate that he still parrots some of the Israeli propaganda used to wage it.

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What a scumbag.

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The Aaron guy, no Bernie.

[LoverOfCycles]

In the Ghosts of Yotoi thread, they said boycotting won't make a dent in sales, but now they are all cancelling Disney+?

The virtue signalling is out of control. Just enjoy whatever slop you want.

[Boredfrom]

I think all this shit stopped being funny a while ago.

Yeah there’s genuinely nothing funny about this. An administration just got a show taken off the air because their fragile egos can’t take a joke. That actually is fascist as all hell.

While censorship is not funny and the Trump admin are scumbags, it has pointed out that was probably a result of people complaining at their local tv stations than any genuine pressure from Trump. Even someone at ERA pointed this out before going full doominism yet again.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

There were no sexual assaults and sexual slavery either. Ask plagiarize.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

moms against kimmel won again

[benji]

moms against kimmel won again

Terry Rakolta's still alive, call her in:

Rakolta was prompted to write to the sponsors of Married… with Children after her children watched the episode "Her Cups Runneth Over" on January 15, 1989, in which Al Bundy and his friend Steve purchase a bra for Al's wife, Peggy. That same episode had also showed Al ogling at a naked model in a department store, but with her back facing the camera. Several sponsors decided to cancel their commercials in response.

Fox responded to the boycott by moving the show's time slot from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m. and toning down the level of "raunch" in the series, reducing the amount of sexual content and implied nudity. Fox also decided not to air a potentially offensive episode titled "I'll See You in Court", in which the Bundys attempt to improve their love life by having marital relations in a different setting. Known as the "lost episode", it was finally aired in 2002 on FX and was packaged with the rest of the third season in the 2005 DVD release. The episode has aired outside the United States as a regular episode of season three ever since the show went into syndication.

Rakolta made several appearances on television talk shows and news programs at the time, including Nightline.

While the boycott may briefly have affected the content of Married… with Children, it did little to no economic damage. A year after the boycott, nearly all the defecting advertisers had returned, and ratings improved.

Rakolta and her boycott were referenced in the Married... with Children Season 9 (1994–95) episode "No Pot to Pease In", in which a sitcom based on the Bundys' lives is cancelled because "some woman in Michigan didn't like it."

Rakolta later founded Americans for Responsible Television to fight against other shows that she deemed offensive, including shows by Phil Donahue and Howard Stern.

[Uncle]

I think all this shit stopped being funny a while ago.

Yeah there’s genuinely nothing funny about this. An administration just got a show taken off the air because their fragile egos can’t take a joke. That actually is fascist as all hell.

While censorship is not funny and the Trump admin are scumbags, it has pointed out that was probably a result of people complaining at their local tv stations than any genuine pressure from Trump. Even someone at ERA pointed this out before going full doominism yet again.

could also be "complying in advance" because they're terrified/spineless, but again, that would be their own decision to do that

maybe for non-public reasons kimmel was already down to the final straw and it wouldn't have taken much anyway

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

did his show even make profit or was it like a colbert situation where it cost more to run the damn thing and they got nothing out of it?

[benji]

We're supposed to be super cynical about the motives of corporations but we definitely shouldn't speculate that ABC is trying to get out of late night like CBS and saw a chance to make a big story out of things and maybe play both ways seeing if there's a big surge demanding Kimmel or just easier to use this as the means to put him down. No, no, we should always trust it was a straight forward transaction from the threat Brendan Carr made against ABC's license they don't have.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

We're supposed to be super cynical about the motives of corporations but we definitely shouldn't speculate that ABC is trying to get out of late night like CBS and saw a chance to make a big story out of things and maybe play both ways seeing if there's a big surge demanding Kimmel or just easier to use this as the means to put him down. No, no, we should always trust it was a straight forward transaction from the threat Brandon Carr made against ABC's license they don't have.

 fuck off nazi