It would be disturbing enough if Kimmel's show had been pulled (at the FCC's behest, no less) for speaking ill of Charlie Kirk.
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It would be disturbing enough if Kimmel's show had been pulled (at the FCC's behest, no less) for speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. But the monologue wasn't even about Kirk. It was about the hypocrisy and opportunism of those using Kirk's murder to advance a right-wing narrative.
Comedy can be a sharp weapon, but this was, frankly, hardly the stuff of Lenny Bruce.
We are living in very dangerous times.
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It would be disturbing enough if Kimmel's show had been pulled (at the FCC's behest, no less) for speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. But the monologue wasn't even about Kirk. It was about the hypocrisy and opportunism of those using Kirk's murder to advance a right-wing narrative.
Comedy can be a sharp weapon, but this was, frankly, hardly the stuff of Lenny Bruce.
We are living in very dangerous times.
Gilligan's Island - hardly the first thing that comes to mind when talking about edgy social commentary - named the shipwrecked boat the "Minnow" as a direct dig at then-FCC chair Newton Minow. Minow had famously referred to TV programming as a "vast wasteland", and this was their way of thumbing their nose at him.
Someone needs to name something similarly small and feckless after (current FCC chair and comedy critic) Brendan Carr.
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Gilligan's Island - hardly the first thing that comes to mind when talking about edgy social commentary - named the shipwrecked boat the "Minnow" as a direct dig at then-FCC chair Newton Minow. Minow had famously referred to TV programming as a "vast wasteland", and this was their way of thumbing their nose at him.
Someone needs to name something similarly small and feckless after (current FCC chair and comedy critic) Brendan Carr.
It is, of course, utterly fitting that the mascot of ABC's parent company is a mouse, the rodent that symbolizes cowardice and timidity.
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@onli nice find! thanks a lot!
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@ArtBandini molto fico, sì
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @ciccillo @Yaku quella c'è già sul lago di como, ad esempio qui: osm.org/go/0Ck7t_Dbi?m=
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@foosel
I have one of those too on my balcony. I called her Clotilde (it's a she, the male ones don't grow so big). 😁
Sometimes I catch her having a snack or fixing her net.
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Ma anche una rampa stile Hazzard, tra una sponda e l'altra, creerebbe migliaia di nuovi posti di lavoro e risolleverebbe le sorti dell'industria automobilistica 🤣
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@Yaku @ciccillo comunque opinione controversissima: un ponte di quelli “butta N pali sul fondo e mettici sopra un rettangolo di cemento” sarebbe effettivamente brutto (oltre che probabilmente impraticabile sul lago), ma una di quelle belle opere da ingegnere slanciate verso il cielo potrebbe pure starci bene
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@rms Putin probably wants to divide Europe countries one from another and also inside. He knows that a lot of countries face extreme polarisation of internal consensus. He will be able to win anything against democratic countries, since he knows the knobs and levers of this game.
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It's sort of sad to think about the many academics, engineers, designers, manufacturers, and coders whose work is encapsulated in a pair of display glasses that nobody should wear because the corporation has betrayed its users at every opportunity.
There's just so much thought and effort in that product. It's tragic that their leadership is rotten.
