July 2: Paramount and Trump settle bullshit 60 Minutes lawsuit for $16 million

July 14: Colbert criticizes the lawsuit saying it’s a “big fat bribe.”

July 17: CBS announces that Colbert is cancelled

Paramount is in the process of a large merger with Skydance Media, which must be approved by regulators (including those controlled/affected by the federal government)

It wasn’t as blatantly corrupt, but it was still corrupt.

I think it’s entirely possible that he was apolitical and just shitposting IRL.

His socials have been leaked, and there wasn’t anything in there.

I think it’s less of a clean split than you’re making it. The statements I listed show both. Sometimes leaders stress, “he was one of our own,” sometimes they stress how “this is not who we are.” Neither is pure ownership nor pure cowardice; they’re rhetorical tools for different purposes: unity, deflection, grieving, or political cover.

If anything, the very fact that they have to insist “this isn’t us” suggests they’re already grappling with the same discomfort you’re pointing out. It’s just a more polite way of saying “we wish it had been someone else’s problem.”

Either way, it’s not coded anti-immigrant language.

Uvalde, Texas - 2022 Robb Elementary School Shooting

“This was a young man that was from Uvalde. He was raised in Uvalde. This is not something that is—we’re not a big city. This is a city of 16,000 people. Most of the law enforcement, most of the people knew him… We’re a town that prays together, we’re a town that works together, and we’re a town that grieves together… It’s just hard to believe that somebody from our community would do this to our community.”

El Paso, Texas - 2019 Walmart Shooting

“We are Texans, and we will not be defined by this evil. We are defined by our love… This is not who we are. This is not Texas… We must unite against this evil. And we must remember that it is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to overcome our differences that divides us.”

Highland Park, Illinois - 2022 Parade Shooting

“I also want to add that we as a community, and I as a mayor, are reeling from the loss that we experienced yesterday. It’s a profound sense of grief. The shooter was from our community. He was a resident of our community. So we are all, as a community, grappling with the fact that this was one of our own.”

Dayton, Ohio - 2019 Oregon District Shooting

“The shooter was from Bellbrook. A graduate of Bellbrook High School. It is a very small community, very close to our community… It’s just so sad. The motivation is so confusing. And to have that kind of hatred in your heart, and to do that kind of violence in our community, is just a tragedy.”

Virginia Beach, Virginia - 2019 Municipal Center Shooting

“He was one of our own. And he turned on his own.”

Santa Fe, Texas - 2018 Santa Fe High School Shooting

“This is a local kid. He’s from our community… It’s just very difficult. We’re all feeling this. You know, these are our children. These are our friends’ children. These are our neighbors’ children, and it’s just a terrible day.”

San Bernardino, California - 2015 Terrorist Attack

“I think that after this, we have to look at the fact that, you know, this is a global issue. But it happened in our city. It was committed by people that lived in our city and in our region.”

Norway, 2011 attacks

“He grew up in our neighborhood, believed in the same God, and had the same skin color as the majority in this country. He was one of us.”

I’m an exmo as well, the gestures you’re talking about were removed in 1990, and it was never about vowing to spill the blood of enemies. It was about secrecy, framed in stark death-before-dishonor terms.

Your version is more metal and exciting, though.

It’s pretty normal for a governor to say they wishes an act of terror hadn’t been committed by somebody living in their state. I think this makes us look shitty.

I agree with you 100%, but that’s the general boilerplate reason they give for firing anyone in the Navy.

Mormons are more libertarian than they are far right in my book.

I think shit like Nick Fuentes and actual Nazis are far right.

I agree, but Nintendo usually gets away with legally bullying companies

That bothered me too

Can’t the mods of lemmy.world ban them from posting here though?

If you’re going to be the first to publish something consequential like this, you should have verified information from multiple sources, not a single phone interview.

I think it’s entirely possible they don’t have an ideology, and they were shitposting IRL.

The Trump costume is confusing because you don’t know if he’s wearing it to mock him, to support him, or if he just wanted to do it to trigger people.

Will do that from now on. Do those people get banned and taken care of if they’re found to be posting bullshit?

Sorry, I didn’t think people would think fake news could appear in here. That wasn’t something I was considering.

I’ve been using Fastmail for decades.

I think you’re suggesting that it’s misleading not to mention the initial “If they don’t take help” part of the statement, because it gives the impression that they want to kill everyone by default.

A more accurate title would be “Fox News host on mentally ill criminals who refuse help: ‘Just kill them’”

The New York Times and Louder with Crowder published the same thing.

In this case, he said the video of Kirk’s death is newsworthy given the fact that he is a public figure who was killed at a public event.

Saved you a click.

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