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The Fairness Doctrine didn’t do 98% of the things you’ve fooled yourself into thinking it did.

freedom of the press

I’ll take the thoughts of the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute over your ignorant rambling:

www.law.cornell.edu/wex/freedom_...

A color photo of Eiser

A front page of the Spirit newspaper supplement, a cover to the Spirit comic book, a cover to PS: The Preventative Maintenance Monthly, and the cover to his graphic novel Contract to God.

Today is the birthday of Will Eisner (March 6, 1917-Jan. 3, 2005), one of the most influential American comic creators of all time.

Because the courts have long held that in general compelling anyone or anything to say anything violates their freedom of speech/the press.

There are narrow exceptions for a few things such as around speech trying to induce people into commercial transactions.

Lots of people in lots of states here were excited for Trump. How'd that work out? (I could have gone with a more Godwin's Law thing given P's beliefs.)

"The people of X are excited for Y" is a mindnumbingly stupid reason to vote for lying assholes and is damning condemnation of "the people of X".

Excellent thread.

Pretty sure you can have a draft even when there are no military actions happening at all. If Congress wanted to pass a law imposing the draft, for example, in order to keep the military at staffing level X they could.

Well, it could happen with the *right kind* of bombing campaign (we have an n=1 example of it at least) but I'm pretty sure no sane person wants that kind of bombing campaign.

What "TV stations" were Paramount and Netflix trying to buy?

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Card Sharks, The Price is Right, Match Game, Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud, Hollywood Squares. And then onto syndicated reruns -- Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, The Flintstones, Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie...

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Oh yes you did.
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Yup. You might be honest with the customer or something horrible like that and expose the myriad lies spewed by PM and sales.

What do the Platner-defenders who say there’s nothing to this one-Nazi-after-another flirtation with bigotry for the sake of Gen X dude yuks say to the explicitly antisemitic Platner stans who keep trolling folks who say “hey, guys, maybe you *don’t* need to fluff Nazis?”

I'm the only Democrat who has won a statewide race — not once, but twice — in the last 20 years.

Maine people know me. They know that unlike Susan Collins, I've got the backbone to stand up to the President, and that I'll always put them first.

Should we also repeal the double jeopardy provision or allow the govt to compel you to testify against yourself? I mean the govt is "us" and so couldn't possibly do bad things with those powers so why not!

And look who "us" has put in office. Hardly an endorsement for the dumb idea of giving the govt the power to decide what is or isn't "lies" and to censor those "lies".

King!

When? 1789.

I was kidding -- it was actually well before then.

The actual description seems less bad than the thing at first seems.

Still bad though!

Let's be even more concrete -- what would the FD require a station carrying Limbaugh to do?

Yes, we can all do AI summaries or read some potted Wikipedia quote too.

Now -- what *specifically* did over the air radio and TV stations have to do to be in compliance with it?

Whining about "pushing the center to the right" is the silliest thing.

pushing the center to the right + Dems getting control of the Senate >>> pushing the center to the left + GOP remaining in control.

And that's quadruply true for 2028 and the presidency.

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"Most airlines state that a passenger over the age of 5 can be removed from a flight for being barefoot. Had I known this, I would have started hitting the call button and complaining a long time ago."

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So I lost but at least I had the satisfaction of scaring him/making him angry enough to come in and dunk it for the win instead of nonchalantly sinking a long jumper like he did with everyone else.

Bird got the rebound, cleared it, and then because I assume he wanted no chance of losing after that, just drove to the hoop and slam-dunked it. Hard!

When it was my turn I took two big dribbles backward and launched a 22-footer over him, as it caught him off guard. It agonizingly rolled around the rim several times and spun out :(.

This being Bird he wanted to win even (especially? :) ) against kids.

Everyone would drive on him or take a stop and pop jumper. He would invariably reject the shot, collect the ball, clear it, and win the game on a swished 18-footer.