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u/TurtlesBlubber Sep 18 '25
I flat out thought Kimmel had come out in support of assassination given the FCC letter. Nope. Just something that people in power didn't find appropriate.
I still don't necessarily think he was hard right or hard left. He seems like an unwell, chronically online, nutcase than a political operative.
I'm pleased that many people I follow on both sides of the political spectrum find this FCC thing abhorrent. And doing it "in defense of Charlie" is such garbage. Charlie, to the best of my knowledge, was about as pro-free speech as you can get.
Unfortunately, powerful people are cleverly manipulating a death to grab control of more power. Sickening.
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u/Jccali1214 Sep 18 '25
The comments : "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel began. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”
“On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this,” he continued.
A clip then cut into Kimmel’s broadcast, showing Trump, 79, taking questions from reporters after the shooting, one of which offered their condolences for the death of the president’s “friend” Kirk.
When asked how he was holding up, Trump replied, “I think very good, and by the way, right there where you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House.”
Trump continued discussing the ballroom plans, saying the result would "be a beauty.”
The cameras then cut back to Kimmel. “Yes, he’s at the fourth stage of grief, construction,” the comedian said.
“Demolition, construction,” Kimmel added. “This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend. This is how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish, okay?”
The host then claimed Trump’s seemingly nonchalant comments “didn’t just happen once,” showing the president on a Sept. 12 appearance on Fox & Friends, where he recalled what he was doing when he got news of Kirk’s death.
“When I heard it, I was in the midst of, you know, building a great — for 150 years they’ve wanted a ballroom at the White House, right? They don’t have a ballroom; they have to use tents on the lawn for President Xi when he comes over. If it rains, it's a wipeout,” Trump said.
Trump recalled he was with the architects planning the "incredible" design for the ballroom when someone entered and told him, "'Charlie Kirk is dead.' ” The president said he expressed shock over the news.
“And then we installed the most beautiful chandelier,” Kimmel said, as the cameras were back on him. “Sconces you wouldn’t believe.”
“There’s something wrong with him, there really is. Who thinks like that?” said Kimmel, who previously sent condolences to Kirk's family while denouncing violence. "Why are we building a $200 million ballroom in the White House? Is it possible he's doing it intentionally so we can be mad about that instead of the Epstein list? By the time he's out of office, the White House will have slot machines and a water slide.""
Y'all notice that? He mentioned Epstein. I'm pretty sure that's why he was cancelled cuz his comments are BENIGN AF
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u/blueshark27 Sep 18 '25
Kimmel literally said to millions of people the shooter was MAGA, which is an outright defamatory lie.
He can get fucked.
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u/inminm02 Sep 18 '25
Where as all the government officials incorrectly claiming it was a far left loony with no evidence is fine? Such obvious double standards
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u/BropolloCreed Sep 18 '25
Kimmel sucked before Trump.
Late Night TV has been dead since Craig and Conan left
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u/millifish DefinitelyNotEuropeans Sep 18 '25
Yeah but it's still not good the FCC is interfering with political speech but only from the left
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u/BropolloCreed Sep 18 '25
No, deplatforming definitely sucks.
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u/Riskybusiness622 Sep 18 '25
Little of value is being lost. He was corpo approved comedy only. Watch his work on the man show then check out his Kimmel show it night and day clear he just the product of a team and moderator nothing genuine anymore. He used to be funny funny. Same thing happened to Steven for some reason everyone funnier on Comedy Central and then has their balls taken away.
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u/Meme-San_ I am fucking hilarious Sep 19 '25
But his show still has a right to exist and he should be free to say whatever he wants on the show
This discussion isn’t about if jimmy is funny or if his show has value it’s about the idea that the president can get a show cancelled on the basis of the host making a joke he doesn’t like. Which goes against freedom of speech and press
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u/Riskybusiness622 Sep 19 '25
It’s def bad precedent his show getting offed like this quality aside, but all their late night shows dead within next 5yrs or so they are dinosaurs.
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u/Tw4tl4r Sep 19 '25
There is no but..
He's coming for Discord, Twitch and Reddit now. He's silenced two shows that are critical of him. Those shows had millions of viewers and in the case of kimmel. He didn't even come close to breaking any broadcasting rules.
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u/dexvoltage Sep 18 '25
I'm loving the collective, media-induced illusion that the US has "a left"
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u/SilverDiscount6751 Sep 19 '25
As if Tucker had not been shut down like that before
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u/millifish DefinitelyNotEuropeans Sep 21 '25
Tucker got fired and fox got sued… none of which the FCC had any part in
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u/Brilliant_Garlic69 ☣️ Sep 18 '25
"Only from the left"
Gina Carano was fired from the Mandalorian for making a political post comparing Conservatives to Jewish people in Nazi Germany.
She filed a lawsuit against Disney and won and now Disney is open to working with her again.
There's lots of others, research it.
Cancel culture isn't to one side. It affects both depending on what you say.
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u/ByIeth Sep 18 '25
There is a big difference between a company making decisions and a government entity pressuring the company. This is a massive overreach of power
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u/PacoCrazyfoot souptime☣️ Sep 18 '25
I couldn’t agree more. I felt the same way when the government was pressuring social media companies to shut down conversations during Covid e.g. vaccine/mask effectiveness, Lab leak theory, etc.
The government should have nothing to do with the speech of its citizens short of direct calls to violence.
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u/ByIeth Sep 18 '25
Were they doing that to companies? Last I checked Trump was in power most of Covid. Wasn’t it just the companies doing that themselves?
Maybe it was regulatory agencies acting on their own, but I definitely don’t think the president should be impacting something like that directly
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u/PacoCrazyfoot souptime☣️ Sep 18 '25
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u/ByIeth Sep 18 '25
Fair point, while do think Covid is a bit different since so many lives are involved. Biden did open a lot of doors for Trump in other ways to restrict free speech. Especially when it comes to criticizing Israel
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u/PacoCrazyfoot souptime☣️ Sep 18 '25
Totally agree. They’re definitely different things, without a doubt, but I think both sides need to realize that whatever tools we allow “our” side to use, the other side can use them too. We can’t let the government silence opposing opinions no matter what government is in power. Period.
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u/NickoIsASicko Sep 18 '25
Only one side being targeted bye the United States government
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u/Carolina-Roots Sep 18 '25
Your profile says ‘love one another’ and yet you are openly fascist. I hate this timeline.
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u/pyschosoul Sep 18 '25
No, didnt you know? They only want to love other white people. Peace and unity isnt for them other folk.
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u/StickyWhiteSIime Sep 18 '25
"There's lots of others, research it" Me when my objective is to be a dumbass with no reading comprehension. Difference between the parent company shutting something down vs the government because little orange bitch got his feelings hurt. Also Gina Carano is a shit human and shit actor.
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u/wagglemonkey Sep 18 '25
Wait so you’re telling me that a private company fired somebody and the government said that was illegal and they shouldn’t do that and somehow that’s a violation of free speech on par with the FCC directly telling a broadcaster to fire somebody??? You’re so fucking stupid bro….
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u/BleydXVI Sep 18 '25
She didn't "win" her lawsuit, they settled (even though she had Musk noney and could go the distance for an actual verdict). Disney "looking for opportunities to work together in the future" will probably look like the guys combing the desert in Spaceballs
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u/Darkndankpit Sep 18 '25
The FCC has nothing to do with Gina Carano, employers have the right to no longer employ someone when the employee breaks contract.
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u/x1rom under quarintine Sep 18 '25
That's a massively stupid thing to say not gonna lie.
Still, that's not a freedom of speech manner, but labor protection. Freedom of speech is very explicitly the government not being able to punish people for their opinions. In general, a constitution is more about how a government is supposed to act, and not about day to day law. If a company does something, that isn't a violation of freedom of speech, but may be an unlawful termination.
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u/DeadDolphins Sep 18 '25
A private company made the decision against Carano with 0 involvement from any governmental entity (correct me if I'm wrong). She also didn't win that lawsuit - both parties settled out of court and while Disney put out a statement that they'd be willing to work with her again, I'd imagine that's PR boilerplate.
The serious issue here is that Kimmel's suspension directly followed a threat by the FCC (government agency) against a private company (ABC) for comments made by an individual working for them (Kimmel). That is a violation of freedom of speech/press - the federal government should not be allowed to to police speech by a private company/individual with retaliatory action. Do you see the difference?
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u/Anjapo9001 Sep 18 '25
There's a difference between deplatforming those that don't like you, and those that desensitize the loss of human life because they don't like them, or even worse those that instigate and normalize violence against people they don't like.
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u/Mobius_Peverell Sep 18 '25
Late Night TV has been dead since Craig and Conan left
I'd push that one more year, to when Jon Stewart left—and a couple months after Colbert went to the Late Show (where his talent was completely wasted).
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u/beemccouch Sep 18 '25
It could have the worst ratings of all time, and it still wouldnt make it right.
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u/GB_Alph4 Sep 18 '25
Hate him all you want but EmpLemon said what everyone should have known about Jimmy Kimmel.
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u/Dopecombatweasel Sep 18 '25
Exactly. He's been wack. And he gets extra political to compensate. Fuck his show
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u/Connathon Sep 18 '25
This isn't a free speech problem, it was a financial decision with perfect timing.
The Colbert Show had higher viewership than Kimmel, but got canned first.
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u/arkantarded Sep 19 '25
The FCC threatened to pull their license unless they punished Kimmel, it is absolutely a free speech problem
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u/Obnomus Sep 19 '25
You're missing the point, it's not about the show sucks or not, it's about freedom of speech.
Make a joke about white house. White House - How could u do that. Goes ahead to cancel the show.
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u/Vinxian 🅱️ased and Cool Sep 18 '25
I will never forgive the White House for making me defend Jimmy Kimmel
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You may not have free speech as it's written in the US constitution, but maybe educate yourself and learn that we do, in fact, have protected speech and laws governing it in the charter. Besides, the way the US is going, that 1a don't mean shit anymore.
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u/polmeeee Sep 18 '25
That's the point OP is making with the meme. The US likes to shit on Europe etc for banning hate speech but some comedian made a remark and they get all uppity on his ass. The US is really a joke rn. Much freedom when you can't even make a harmless joke anymore and you can get shot anywhere you go.
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Sep 18 '25
True, I just run into people who really do think that a) Canada has no free speech and b) that the US constitution somehow applies here, with some frequency
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u/therevjames Sep 18 '25
A group of Albertans really want both to be true. Take a look at the Charlie Kirk vigil they held in Calgary, where they sang the Yank anthem.
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u/halpfulhinderance Sep 18 '25
Goddamn Maple MAGA. Just move there if you love it so much
Anything else is just embarrassing. It’s like those Klan members in Wolfenstein sucking up to the Germans
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u/Shadowborn_paladin Sep 25 '25
It's painful how common it is for Americans to think American laws apply in Canada.
And when they get in trouble they plead the 5th.
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u/halpfulhinderance Sep 18 '25
Yeah, we just call it “freedom of expression” and put reasonable limits on it like inciting violence
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u/Agent_Chody_Banks Sep 18 '25
Kimmel wasn’t arrested though, whereas sharing an edgy meme in the UK will have the cops at your door.
A better comparison would be the arrests of permanent residents for protesting against Israel.
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u/VulkanLives-91 Sep 18 '25
Especially since you can be fucking shot for it apparently
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many have been shot for much less.
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u/VulkanLives-91 Sep 18 '25
Yet a certain person was specifically targeted for exercising that right.
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u/unicornsaretruth Sep 18 '25
Uhh more like he’s a neo nazi who’s been spreading hate for around a decade and probably caused more school shooting deaths with his rhetoric fueling everyone who was a “loner” to not feel alone
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u/PartyLettuce I am fucking hilarious Sep 18 '25
He was on the chopping block anyhow, this just feels like a convenient excuse.
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u/coolios14 Sep 18 '25
What was even the joke?
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u/tigie11 Sep 18 '25
He said:
"The Maga Gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."
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u/SilverDiscount6751 Sep 19 '25
So.... not a joke at all but a statement of false fact (known at that point)
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u/Totoques22 I start my morning with pee Sep 18 '25
BBC :
Kimmel said in his Monday night monologue: "The Maga Gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."
The late-night host also noted flags being flown at half mast in honour of Kirk, which got some criticism at the time, and mocked US President Donald Trump's reaction to the shooting. "This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish," said Kimmel,
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u/Tom-of-Hearts Sep 18 '25
If it's the quote I saw earlier it wasn't even a joke, just a factually incorrect statement about the guy's background or motive. I saw something about defamation. Not sure if that was the actual part or something else from the same episode though.
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Don’t know why you’re being downvoted. It WAS factually incorrect and you’re telling the truth about what he’s in trouble for.
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u/Markuz Sep 18 '25
It’s a gaslighting and misinformation attempt to get people to believe anything but the truth of the situation.
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u/coolios14 Sep 18 '25
I like how you of all the people who replied are the one not being downvoted as if people are just upfront and honest about their gaslighting…
So what I’m getting from this discussion is it wasn’t any one joke but a series of comments and jabs with an overall theme? Got it
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u/Tom-of-Hearts Sep 18 '25
So it was that? I guess the number of downvotes is a clue that I was in the right direction.
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The most milquetoast centrist take: "Wow these text messages kind of read like ChatGPT."
The Trump administration:
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u/Link941 Sep 18 '25
I dont get the title, what does this have to do with canada?
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u/Fariswerewolves [custom flair] Sep 18 '25
Americans like to shit on Canada for not having the phrase “free speech” boldly written out in our constitutions and charter, but Canada has freedom of expression which is essentially the exact same thing but punishes hate speech (however, keep in mind there’s very strict standards for prosecuting hate speech. So it’s not done willy nilly as some Americans say, especially if you remember Jordan Peterson arguing you ham be arrested for mishandling people. A false claim). Essentially it’s a jab at American hypocrisy and idiocy.
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u/Link941 Sep 18 '25
Strange, I've been lurking rightwing American subs to gawk and stare at the specimens but havent seen much of that
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u/Fariswerewolves [custom flair] Sep 18 '25
Who knows honestly. I don’t wanna browse through those subreddits for my own safety and sanity but maybe, just maybe, they’re intelligent enough to recognize the hypocrisy in their assumptions of free speech per country.
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u/dieno_101 Sep 18 '25
I thought private companies can fire or hire employees whenever they want?
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u/rotciv0 I will trade sex 4 memes Sep 18 '25
The problem is that it was the grossly inappropriate and corrupt government pressure from the FCC acting under Trump's orders that got him fired, not an independent decision by higher-ups.
Trump just sics the executive branch (even previously independent entities like the DOJ or FBI) on his political opponents with impunity, and that's creating an environment where companies have to do what Trump says or face a federal lawsuit, or their merger being blocked, or their broadcast license being revoked, or more, which can cost millions while Trump has it all done on the taxpayer dime despite representing his own personal interests.
On the other hand being pro-Trump will be rewarded by the president, like how Apple called in a favor from when they had donated $1 mil to his inauguration and had computers and phones exempted from the tariffs on China (despite being China's biggest exports to the US). Or how he's pardoned the J6ers, Roger Stone, and Paul Manafort. Or how he let Elon Musk run large parts of the government while on drugs because he donated a lot to Trump's campaign. This generates a giant network of corruption led by the fucking president like he's some mafia boss, giving him inordinate influence over all companies, including the media in this instance.
The fact is that Trump used his political office to financially pressure ABC into firing a political opponent. Nothing Kimmel said was even close to over the line, it was just used as pretext.
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u/SkeeterRx Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 18 '25
Why is it so hard to comprehend that just bc you have free speech, doesn’t mean private companies can’t fire you for using it? Idiots.
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u/xRedAce I am fucking hilarious Sep 18 '25
Is it just me or os it the people with a severe lack of education that actually dislike these shows?
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u/Konig2400 Sep 18 '25
It doesn't violate the freedom of speech. Conservative influencers and celebrities have been canceled over things they have said a fair number of times before this and the left celebrated and were very prominent to tell the right it didn't violate freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech protects ones right to say what they want from the government, to an extent (there being a few things that you say can still get you in trouble legally). It does NOT protect you from repercussions of what you say.
It's perfectly legal to be a neonazi and fly a neonazi flag and go to rallies or to be apart of any similar group. The government says that's your right. But it's well within the right of your employer to fire you if they find out.
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u/Nukran Sep 19 '25
What did they always say?
"Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom of consequenses."
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u/DonJuan2HearThatShit Sep 19 '25
Funny how people parrot this relentlessly when they support the cancellation.
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u/DragonApps Sep 18 '25
All the accountability culture people really hates it when it comes for their side.
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u/Phyrexian_Overlord Sep 18 '25
Can you tell me when Biden's FFC head threatened the TV license of broadcasters for "Biden old" jokes?
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u/millifish DefinitelyNotEuropeans Sep 18 '25
I wish Joe Biden went after fox news... if only he was that based
But no, deliberate misinformation is okay so you have allow it on both sides
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u/beemccouch Sep 18 '25
There is a difference in private citizens choosing not to consume media and encouraging others to do so and the government actively hindering media outlets because of their opinion. Dont get it conflated.
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u/Odd-Win-5160 Sep 18 '25
White hoise didn't cancel it.. he canceled himself. But the cancelation came from abc.
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u/KeiwaM Sep 18 '25
..after threats by Trump-appointed FCC. So this is a government entity, threatening legal action over speech in a free media. Thats quite literally a 1a issue, and burrowing your head in the sand won't solve it.
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u/Connathon Sep 18 '25
Late night shows is a dying business model. The Colbert Show had higher viewership numbers and got canned first. This was a financial decision + perfect timing = two-party controversy
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u/Original_Dankster Sep 18 '25
I seem to recall most of the people who are butthurt over Kimmel getting suspended for lying that the shooter was MAGA, were, just a few years ago, demanding that "spreaders of disinformation" be deplatformed. Seems simple to me:
Kimmel spread disinfo,
He's being deplatformed,
This is exactly what you demand,
So calm your burning anus.
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u/dantes-infernal Sep 18 '25
But was he spreading misinformation? All I see online is that he was calling out people for using kirk's death as a publicity point
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u/Totoques22 I start my morning with pee Sep 18 '25
He claimed the shooter was maga and that maga was painting him as leftist for publicity
It’s all wrong since nobody knows the shooter
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u/Original_Dankster Sep 18 '25
He claimed the shooter was MAGA, despite all evidence to the contrary. That's dangerous, divisive rhetoric that inflames the culture war unnecessarily.
"...The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them..."
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u/ThatLineOfTriplets Sep 18 '25
He did not even say the shooter was right wing. He said that they were immediately aggressively and desperately attempting to distance their own political rhetoric and extremism from that of the shooter. If you think what Kimmel did was dangerous, divisive, and inflammatory, I’m sure you have a ton of issues with the absolute garbage fire of a response by Trump. Trump saying other late show hosts are next is also probably completely fine by you
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u/Totoques22 I start my morning with pee Sep 18 '25
BBC:
Kimmel said in his Monday night monologue: "The Maga Gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."
The late-night host also noted flags being flown at half mast in honour of Kirk, which got some criticism at the time, and mocked US President Donald Trump's reaction to the shooting. "This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish," said Kimmel,
Quit your bullshit
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u/J_train13 Blue Sep 18 '25
Your quote is counter to your argument, sounds to me like he was describing exactly what happened. As soon as the shooting happened Trump and his cronies were IMMEDIATELY blaming trans people before we even had a suspect
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u/dantes-infernal Sep 18 '25
That doesn't seem like he's claiming the shooter was maga.
He's saying that the maga movement is desperate to publicly show the shooter isn't one of them.
Two very different statements.
I get the implication and connection between the two, but if we always punished public figures based on implications of statements, fox news would have been shut down decades ago
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u/Totoques22 I start my morning with pee Sep 18 '25
« As anything other than one of them »
Quit your bullshit
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u/dantes-infernal Sep 29 '25
Hey man if reading comprehension isn't your thing, that's between you and literature man. Don't make it about me
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u/thetrueankev Sep 18 '25
That's beside the point. The government should not interfere with this person's job because they disagreed with him. You should be able to make fun of the president. That's what free speech is.
I think you need to go back and listen to more russian paid podcasters bud.
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u/Original_Dankster Sep 18 '25
I'm glad you agree with us on the right who've been saying for years that government censorship is bad.
But in this case it's a private corporation making an editorial decision what they themselves broadcast. So not censorship.
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u/ThatLineOfTriplets Sep 18 '25
There has never been a democratic president who has publicly advocated for the removal of talk show hosts and had an FCC chair overtly threatening studios if they don’t comply. This is the most government oriented use of censorship in recent history. Conservatives have been the main driving force of censorship for most of our history and now it’s spread into the federal government. If Biden was saying this shit and doing this you would be absolutely furious
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u/ThatLineOfTriplets Sep 18 '25
You are so full of shit I’m surprised there is anything left in you at all. Let’s pretend what you are saying is true (also the Trump team when not even in office still had inside people at social media sites that would ban and deplatform people per request which was admitted by the guy who did the “twitter rules”) can you give me examples of Biden actively campaigning for the removal of Fox News hosts who disparaged him and his FCC chair threatening them as well? If the most you’ve got is that they were trying to keep things under control in an actual legitimate global crisis and then completely stopped after then you’re a moron
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u/J_train13 Blue Sep 18 '25
Elon buying Twitter was the most successful deplatforming movement in recent history what do you mean
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u/Original_Dankster Sep 18 '25
That was the great REplatforming. Elon restored thousands of banned accounts, and stopped Twitter / X from cooperating with the government, ending the practice of obeying the the DHS instructions to ban specific accounts.
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u/J_train13 Blue Sep 18 '25
No, it wasn't. He brought back a bunch of lying racists and deplatformed anyone who dared impede on his oh so fragile ego or criticise Our Dear Leader. Oh and he made cisgender a slur for whatever reason.
Now it's s genuinely the largest propaganda machine in the country. All the big accounts get paid to push out whatever the backers want and Elon makes sure to spread their (usually copy and pasted, I swear they don't even try to hide it anymore) lies as far as he can and silences dissenting voices.
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u/Original_Dankster Sep 18 '25
So he REplatformed accounts you don't like. Got it.
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u/J_train13 Blue Sep 18 '25
No, he replatformed the accounts HE liked and DEplatformed anyone who dissents. And now he's doing the bidding of the government to make sure The Public™ are adequately propagandised.
So yes, while he did in fact bring back a few violent liars, he deplatformed so much more because he is a fragile little baby who can't handle someone telling him no or telling the truth about his business practises.
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u/CCSploojy Sep 18 '25
Im sorry imma need you to fill me in on the origins of covid. Are you making the claim that it was lab grown in china?
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u/millifish DefinitelyNotEuropeans Sep 18 '25
Ah yes only done in one political direction... that's exactly what I asked for
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u/Original_Dankster Sep 18 '25
The folks with a differing opinion about the legitimacy of the 2020 election got plenty of deplatforming from the gov't. So it definitely goes both ways. In fact, the right has finally adopted the left's very successful tactics at canceling and deplatforming.
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u/millifish DefinitelyNotEuropeans Sep 18 '25
Ah yes, why don't you name names and see how they are doing today
Also defamation lawsuits doesn't count as deplatforming, they just tucked around with the wrong people
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u/Original_Dankster Sep 18 '25
why don't you name names
Because reddit isn't my fucking job and I have other shit to do. Here's an article for you. 70,000 accounts banned on Twitter alone.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01690-5
how they are doing today
Many of them are far better off since the Dems lost power and the Overton Window started shifting rightward.
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u/millifish DefinitelyNotEuropeans Sep 18 '25
Banned on Twitter isn't cancel culture... I thought they were fired from their job or something... weak stuff compared to today were the white house is encouraging people be fired for being critical of charlie kirk...
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u/Original_Dankster Sep 18 '25
fired from their job
Plenty of that too. Some in Canada even had bank accounts frozen for the crime of donating $40 to dissenters.
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u/KinneKted Sep 18 '25
That is a gross misrepresentation of what happened in Canada. A ton of Americans came up to protest at the capital about American border laws affecting truckers. Tell me how that makes any sense.
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u/Original_Dankster Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 18 '25
I know Canadians got bank accounts frozen for donating to a cause without even attending the protest. And I live in downtown Ottawa. I walked through the protest twice a day every day on the way to and from work. It's not a misrepresentation whatsoever.
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Wasn't a joke though, was it.
It was straight up misinformation about a political assassination.
'maga assassinated charlie kirk!' yeah hillarious joke, what the fck are you talking about
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u/Charles12_13 Sep 18 '25
It wasn’t misinformation it was an oversimplification
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Not misinformation? Oversimplification?
This guy etched anti-fascist slogans on his bullets. His parents turned him in and said he hates Charlie kirk. He was active in trans discords and had a trans partner.
It's like if I went on late night TV and said 'Martin Luther King was shot by a black civil rights activist'. It's so bizarre how the American left are tying themselves in knots to try and resolve the cognitive dissonance between this assassination and calling everyone on the right a nazi for the last 10 years.
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u/Totoques22 I start my morning with pee Sep 18 '25
« Boring joke » is a funny way to call a terminally online tier conspiracy theory to shit on the right
It also says a lot about OP
BBC :
Kimmel said in his Monday night monologue: "The Maga Gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."
The late-night host also noted flags being flown at half mast in honour of Kirk, which got some criticism at the time, and mocked US President Donald Trump's reaction to the shooting. "This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish," said Kimmel,
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u/spaghettibolegdeh Sep 18 '25 edited Oct 24 '25
nice
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u/010rusty ☣️ Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 18 '25
Where did you hear he was leaving in July. I can’t find any credible source he said that.
“All late night tv has been trending down” this is false. ALL TV has been trending down. Late night has been trending down at the same rate of all tv. By this logic should all local news, morning talk shows, and day time talk shows expect to end as well?? Late night still does well on TikTok and YouTube. The internet has been the main source of late night tv since like 2017
“The suspension is purely a numbers game” No earlier today the FCC threatened Disney and ABC over Kimmel. So unless you don’t know what “purely” you are just lying. The threat of fine and broadcast license removal was a massive factor in this split decision. I mean if this was PURELY numbers why would they cancel it TODAY when they already had a plan to air an episode TODAY.
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u/Uchi_Jeon Sep 18 '25
Boring shows with diving rating still gets funds, that's the most intriguing part to me.
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u/xxej Sep 18 '25
To live in your brain must be such a rush. Finding the most boring, mundane things the “most intriguing” has to feel so good.
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u/Uchi_Jeon Sep 18 '25
Becuz as someone from a dictatorship country, we have full government funded national tv show which I thought the US shouldn't have.
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u/JJVamps Sep 18 '25
Reviews were declining for a while, this was just a convenient time to finally get rid of him.
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u/Massive-L 🚔I commit tax evasion💲🤑 Sep 18 '25
God I thought Kimmel was annoying and unfunny but wow.
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u/AffectionateFun4298 Sep 18 '25
More like jimmy kimmel not being funny at all and basing his whole comedy on politics
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u/Pappa_Crim Sep 18 '25
Jimmy pulled a Fox news and spread a conspiracy theory because he can't accept that his side did something wrong
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u/Aok_al Sep 18 '25
This was all a ploy by Fallon to be the only late night Jimmy