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Stephen Colbert Revives Right-Wing Alter Ego to Rip Donald Trump on Free Speech
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Ah yes, the culture war of the US is of course "not a left or right wing thing". Except, that's the core of the US culture war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_war#United_States
I think you'll also find barely a news report goes by here on Lemmy (which is I think uncontroversially very left leaning) without people mentioning and highly upvoting "cool, now where the fuck are the Epstein files?" - so I'm not sure who this "we kinda hang out not talking about the Epstein files" is referring to.
You're just ranting like you're some enlightened centrist - you refer to the left and right as though you are part of neither. Cool, what's the enlightened centrist take? Disney (with zero government pressure) firing someone for: making dumb statements equating the left with Nazis, mocking trans people with her bio pronouns, spreading fake news about COVID, and pushing the fake voters & voter fraud narrative in 2020; is equivalent to Disney caving to pressure from the president. The same president who sued ABC whom they own and won $15 million from a biased court (ABC runs Kimmel's show), Trump & his FCC have also threatened to have l broadcasting licenses stripped from any stations that criticize him or that he doesn't like. These are the same?
Dumb take.
Don't take my work for it though - the ACLU said, "This is beyond McCarthyism. Trump officials are repeatedly abusing their power to stop ideas they don't like, deciding who can speak, write, and even joke. The Trump administration's actions, paired with ABC's capitulation, represent a grave threat to our First Amendment Freedoms."
Dumb fucking take.