Her replacement will be predicting a lot of Heil in the future
Summary
Meteorologist Sam Kuffel, who criticized Elon Musk’s “Nazi” salute on social media, has left CBS affiliate WDJT-TV. Her departure has sparked criticism from users who argue it infringes on her freedom of expression.
They should know that you can only infringe the “conservative” freedom of expression by moderating hate speech/ideas/beliefs, or by calling a Nazi a Nazi. Anyone Left of Nazi in the US has a narrowing window of “freedom of expression”.
Because as we all know, the founders were granting Freedom of Speech to Fascist, NOT ANTIFA, just like Jesus wanted. /s
Freedom of expression means that you are free from interference from the state. Never mind that we live in a de facto corporatocracy, freedom of expression does not prevent you from being silenced by private enterprise.
You’re confusing freedom of speech with the first amendment.
Cool = CBS blocked, I don’t support Nazi’s
CBS affiliate, which means its a local station.
I don’t split hairs, CBS is CBS.
I mean, you’re not wrong.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/leslie-moonves-donald-trump-may-871464/
It May Not Be Good for America, but It’s Damn Good for CBS
Wow…. It’s like he’s reading for the role of a 1980’s corpo-villain where a rag-tag group of teenagers have to use their movie-thematic skills to overcome his cartoonish villainy.
Coming soon to theatres near you: it’s C(eo)BS.
What’s even sadder is this was all the way back in 2016. They showed us who they are and whose side they’re on a long time ago.
Yup. They absolutely did.
It almost makes me want to see them lose the lawsuit Trump filed just out of karma. Almost.
Wisconsin is a piece of shit so that doesn’t surprise me
Probably owned by Sinclair
They’re not, surprisingly.
Speaking of Nazis, we don’t pluralize with apostrophe.
And many, many more are going to follow, as Americans learn that they’re no longer free to criticize those in power.
And the day will actually come when the notion of someone just being fired for criricizing those in power will seen quaint, since it will then be far more likely that they’ll disappear - sucked up into the ever-hungry maw of the corporate police state slave system.
I have been thinking I need to buy a gun, now that you mention it.
I’m not a gun owner. Never had even an ounce of desire to be one.
It’s time.
This is how you become a firefighter without going through vigorous training.
Or an assembly line worker.
Or, quite possibly, it just struck me - a fruit picker or meat packer or motel maid or any of the other jobs that have traditionally been filled by undocumented immigrants.
Wow…
Yeah, I hadn’t thought of that before, but that could well be why Trump is seemingly unconcerned about the economic impact of deporting the millions of people who have traditionally held the shitty, underpaid jobs nobody else will take - because the plan is to replace them with the new generation of private prison slaves…
The economic impact of the economy collapsing is that normal people will lose everything and the 0.1% will be able to buy it all up on the cheap.
Just like the subprime mortgage/Wall Street bailouts scam.
I doesn’t have to be this way. We could just acknowledge the two Americas overlapping and begin the Nazi Slaughter! Death to all Republicans!
If we can’t criticize them openly then we’ll have to use the other avenues made available via the Constitution. That will just eliminate the warning that negative public sentiment would normally give.
Are you referring to solutions that lie somewhere between the first and third amendment?
All whole numbers in the solution set would suffice…
This is the way.
Currently playing through Cyberpunk just to have some kind of preparation of what is eventually to come.
Cyberpunk future will look good compared to where we’re probably headed if history is any indication.
Yeah, we’ll get all of the surveillance, climate disaster and police state without any of the cool implants…
Same! Though, I really wish monowires existed in real life.
Monofilament wire is a real thing, it just doesn’t have the tensile strength to act like it does in fiction.
Be that as it may, I meant it doesn’t exist as it does in the game. It stands as my absolute favorite thing in CP 2077. It is- by far, the most elegant way to turn one big one into several little ones.
😀
(I’ve run a few monowire/knife only builds with no combat quickhacks. Probably the most fun I’ve had in the game)
By far my favourite time killer in cyberpunk is to use the monowire to control NPC cars like a chariot, stand on the roof and hit one side and the NPC turns the other way
ROFL! I had no idea that was a thing!!
If you like Mono-filiment whips you should read the Paratwa trilogy by Chrisopher Hinz… it’s about assassins that have 1 mind in 2 bodies, thus more eyes and coordination skills. They train from early childhood to use these Black eggs that extrude a monofilament whip… it take years to control them so they don’t whip about and cut yourself to pieces.
Oh that sounds interesting. Thank you! I’ll look into it!
you could also read Burning Chrome…
Well, the Swedes already invented nerve splicing IRL, so you can go chop chop on your limbs and get a prothesis that’s directly connected to your bones and nerves.
The Nazi police state is here.
Who could have guessed that?!?!?
I did my part 🫡
Sent. They won’t care, but I let them know how I feel about their Nazi support and my 100% blocking of everything CBS. I urge others to follow suite.
Same. Here’s what I wrote in case it helps anyone:
I’d like to express my deep disappointment regarding your firing of Sam Kuffel for posting on social media to call out Elon Musk’s egregious display during the presidential inauguration.
There was zero ambiguity about what Musk did – so little ambiguity, in fact, that media in Germany cannot show images or videos of the moment because his gesture is illegal there.
Your willingness to bow to this appalling display of hate is contemptible and, though I no longer visit Milwaukee regularly, when I do, I will be avoiding your programming. I will also tell my friends and relatives who still live there.
This is also a stain on CBS as a whole, and I will be avoiding all CBS programming in future.
Please consider how bad this makes you and your parent company look. It’s despicable for a media company to hold such little regard for free speech.
This is far more eloquent than how I said it, but it’s pretty much the same message.
I’m sure your message was just as good; we each have our own voice. Thanks for sending one. We all need to do everything we can. Sometimes that’s protesting, sometimes that’s sending letters. Every action matters.
I just wrote ‘thanks for looking out for my boy elon’ and signed it Hitler.
The laaaaand of the free 🦅
And freeze peach!
And the home of the ignorant.
Boy it’s great we don’t have a social credit system like they do in communist China!
Where are all the far right freezy peachers to protest this firing? Did they suddenly turn woke?
They’re too busy arguing that Elon didn’t actually perform either Nazi salute he very clearly performed on video.
And I’m not joking.
This is honestly really scary. Why should someone’s livelihood be ruined for calling something what it is?
Fascism.
He’s also on a list for when their squads start knocking down doors and murdering their enemies, I guarantee it.
He’s probably got at least another year before that frog is boiled enough though. Hope he enjoys it.
The Neoliberals too have been using exactly the same technique to crush dissent, since it gives them plausible deniability (i.e. they claim it was for some other reason than silencing somebody) which is the essence of how they apply Force (people aren’t violently made to do or stop doing something, they’re just pushed into a situation were they have no other option or see the example of what happens to others when they don’t comply)
A specifically Fascist method would’ve involved violent use of Force, for example arrest or her being violently attacked on the street, rather than indirect methods like this firing.
Let’s not leave the other Far-Right ideology of the hook just because their methods are are better PR-wise: their disempowering of the many and subversion of all the pillars of Democracy helped pave the way for the Fascists.
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They are less tolerant of their employee cursing than a billionaire spreading nazi salutes.
So why is CBS affiliate WDJT-TV in Milwaukee Wisconsin defending the speech of an apartheid-loving fascist who did a full-on nazi salute on national TV? And if that’s not what they’re doing, then why did they fire that reporter?
That’s the question that every real news outlet should be asking.
Because nobody wants their meteorologist weighing in on political issues
It was on her private Instagram story, she wasn’t even broadcasting it to the general public. You really want everyone to start thought policing? You gonna start snitching out your neighbours for being Jewish too?
Its Not political to call out this fucking obvious Nazis. Everyone should hate Nazis and this is in no way controversial.
“political”
okay
I do. Many of the people here do. So what the fuck are you taking about?
When the richest human in existence, who will have an official position in the White House for bankrolling the president, performs not one, but TWO Nazi salutes while standing behind the presidential seal during a presidential inauguration, I want EVERYONE, including my meteorologist to speak up on that political issue.
Look at his name. He’s a troll.
Wait not one but TWO!!
I retract everything
This being removed is weak as hell. If a comment is a joke and in favor of Good Team it’s just joking or snarking, and if it’s against Good Team then it’s trolling. Is my understanding, anyway.
It’s not about being right or wrong, you’re just an asshole.
rule 1
😭Oh noes I broke a rule that allows you to claim safe space when you’re trying to rile people up oh noes
You should retract your ego and get yourself a better education.
She probably believes in climate change too, so political!
Dear News Media. Your job is speaking truth to power, which means you’re going to make a lot of enemies. So unlike other big companies, the point of your legal department is to get you OUT of trouble, not to keep you from ever getting into it. Having principles in the business world isn’t cheap or easy. Nothing worthwhile ever is.
Your news media is just a propaganda organisation owned by the ruling class
Looks like team anti cancel culture can’t help themselves again.
Freeze peach.
