August 1Aug 1 Popular Post I happily support PBS with a small monthly donation. I regularly watch many shows and have since I was old enough to watch TV. My understanding is that PBS only gets about 15% of its funding from CPB. The quality of PBS shows could easily generate enough revenue to make up the difference. I didn't support the current president, I stay out of CR, and I'm not a fascist nut job. I am okay, though, with PBS finding private ways of supporting its programming which it already does in large part.
August 1Aug 1 Popular Post 2 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said: I happily support PBS with a small monthly donation. My PBS station is KAMU Edited August 1Aug 1 by SimonBolivar
August 1Aug 1 Popular Post Sadly… more and more people who identify as libertarian in reality and in practice just means they have a high tolerance of authoritarianism to me. Edited August 1Aug 1 by YChang
August 1Aug 1 Can we just fast forward to the part where the only programming available is Fox News or a handful of Russian funded podcasters? I feel like we're wasting time.
August 1Aug 1 Popular Post 2 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said: Borderline Libertarian here. You have to be a very obtuse dumbass to not notice the last 2 decades have proven libertarian bullshit doesn't work. This isn't the 1820s wild West frontier. We are a global society that relies on vast networks of systems and people to maintain our modern standard of living. To still call yourself a libertarian in 2025 is peak retardation.
August 1Aug 1 Popular Post 2 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said: Borderline Libertarian here. I figure that 60ish years of public money is enough to figure out if there is a real market demand for that they are doing. Yeah, let’s just shutter everything in America that isn’t a profit generator. That’ll work out fine, I’m sure
August 1Aug 1 Popular Post Sesame street. Really maga? Really? Yall are some fragile bitches. Trade sesame street for a trump ballroom. Good call cucks. Lulz
August 1Aug 1 2 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said: Borderline Libertarian here. I figure that 60ish years of public money is enough to figure out if there is a real market demand for that they are doing. This utterly misses the fucking point.
August 2Aug 2 58 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said: I happily support PBS with a small monthly donation. I regularly watch many shows and have since I was old enough to watch TV. My understanding is that PBS only gets about 15% of its funding from CPB. The quality of PBS shows could easily generate enough revenue to make up the difference. I didn't support the current president, I stay out of CR, and I'm not a fascist nut job. I am okay, though, with PBS finding private ways of supporting its programming which it already does in large part. This. I am not a bomb thrower or a troll. I never engage in ad hominem attacks. I support this site, the Burnt Ends, and the football tailgates. I am on a first name basis with many of the leaders here. I simply don't know why taxpayer dollars needed to be spent on this and i am pleased that they will no longer be.
August 2Aug 2 Popular Post 5 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said: This. I am not a bomb thrower or a troll. I never engage in ad hominem attacks. I support this site, the Burnt Ends, and the football tailgates. I am on a first name basis with many of the leaders here. I simply don't know why taxpayer dollars needed to be spent on this and i am pleased that they will no longer be. 535M annually. About $1.50 per capita. cf. the $16.5B bump DHS gets this year or $50 per capita. I think any outrage is misplaced. Edited August 2Aug 2 by TwiceHorn
August 2Aug 2 Popular Post 1 minute ago, DalTxHornFan said: This. I am not a bomb thrower or a troll. I never engage in ad hominem attacks. I support this site, the Burnt Ends, and the football tailgates. I am on a first name basis with many of the leaders here. I simply don't know why taxpayer dollars needed to be spent on this and i am pleased that they will no longer be. That’s the same shit every fucking MAGA tool spouts. Since that specific thing doesn’t personally matter to you, then good riddance. As long as you get yours, right?
August 2Aug 2 Popular Post because the idea that free markets bring the best solution or even a solution to every problem is fantastical silliness. the government has a role in promoting the public good. Edited August 2Aug 2 by Celery Man
August 2Aug 2 1 hour ago, Js1 said: Massive trolling alert. Just report him and move on. Hes not going to seriously engage you. He’s a “libertarian” which is code for boot licking red hat wearing fascist Don’t forget pedophile.
August 2Aug 2 6 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said: This. I am not a bomb thrower or a troll. I never engage in ad hominem attacks. I support this site, the Burnt Ends, and the football tailgates. I am on a first name basis with many of the leaders here. I simply don't know why taxpayer dollars needed to be spent on this and i am pleased that they will no longer be. You may not be a troll but you are a shortsighted pos. I am sure you will welcome the leapards when they come.
August 2Aug 2 Popular Post It’s weird that people want to sell public land, kneecap public education, and silence public broadcasting. Those are some of America’s great successes. Hobbling them will not be a harbinger of good times, that much you can be sure.
August 2Aug 2 2 minutes ago, Degenerate Gardner said: It’s weird that people want to sell public land, kneecap public education, and silence public broadcasting. Those are some of America’s great successes. Hobbling them will not be a harbinger of good times, that much you can be sure. None of those things benefit them, until they do, and then it’ll be someone else’s fault they don’t exist anymore
August 2Aug 2 Popular Post Well, that’s the thing though. Those do benefit them. They’re just too dumb to recognize it.
August 2Aug 2 Popular Post 22 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said: This. I am not a bomb thrower or a troll. I never engage in ad hominem attacks. I support this site, the Burnt Ends, and the football tailgates. I am on a first name basis with many of the leaders here. I simply don't know why taxpayer dollars needed to be spent on this and i am pleased that they will no longer be. you don't see a need why the govt might need to subsidized programming for large rural areas where private companies won't because it's not profitable? did you eat paint chips as a kid?
August 2Aug 2 It is amazing what you can do with a constant barrage of messaging for 20 years. It is almost too easy. Folks that grew up watching this cpb programming, visited the parks, and were taught by public education can turn against the very thing that shaped them. Everything was great back then! Now we have a con man telling them let's make everything great again! Back when you were a kid! Proceeds to get rid of everything from your childhood, waving a shiny thing (immigrants, poors, genders, whatever other red meat) and they open wide while relaxing their throats. All that money "saved" gets sent to billionaires or directly to an orange pocket. Cool cool.
August 2Aug 2 1 minute ago, HOOKEM4 said: It is almost too easy Especially easy to dupe pedos, it seems.
August 2Aug 2 4 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said: you don't see a need why the govt might need to subsidized programming for large rural areas where private companies won't because it's not profitable? did you eat paint chips as a kid? OK. So there is an ad hominem attack. Thanks for proving my point.
August 2Aug 2 1 minute ago, DalTxHornFan said: OK. So there is an ad hominem attack. Thanks for proving my point. No. It was a question whose answer is in doubt.
August 2Aug 2 1 minute ago, DalTxHornFan said: OK. So there is an ad hominem attack. Thanks for proving my point. You need a bucket and a brush?
August 2Aug 2 1 minute ago, SquishMitten said: It’s not ad hominem if it’s true He said with no proof!
August 2Aug 2 Just now, SquishMitten said: It’s not ad hominem if it’s true It's also not just an ad hominem attack. He'd have a point if I only said he ate paint chips as a kid but decided to just skip over my question. The fact he didn't address it confirms my paint chip suspicions.
August 2Aug 2 It’s almost as if capitalism run amok in the media and the church has created an environment where millions of people look to an atheist rapist of children to learn what Jesus wants them to do. But at this point sure let’s do this and continue free marketing the schools, get real weird with it.
August 2Aug 2 39 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said: This. I am not a bomb thrower or a troll. I never engage in ad hominem attacks. I support this site, the Burnt Ends, and the football tailgates. I am on a first name basis with many of the leaders here. I simply don't know why taxpayer dollars needed to be spent on this and i am pleased that they will no longer be. You’re a commonsenseatarian. It’s easy to see why segments of posters here lose their mind over such things. Edited August 2Aug 2 by Anastasis
August 2Aug 2 1 minute ago, DalTxHornFan said: And this pedo stuff is beyond the pale! And yet you voted for him for president
August 2Aug 2 2 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said: And this pedo stuff is beyond the pale! Personally I’m against it.
August 2Aug 2 1 minute ago, Hmbre97 said: It's also not just an ad hominem attack. He'd have a point if I only said he ate paint chips as a kid but decided to just skip over my question. The fact he didn't address it confirms my paint chip suspicions. I mean, I gave him two well thought out responses and look at how he responded. He does not deserve any serious consideration Edited August 2Aug 2 by Sawbonz
August 2Aug 2 2 minutes ago, Anastasis said: You’re a commensenseatarian. It’s easy to see why segments of posters here lose their mind over such things. oh look, another paint chip eater has entered the fold. Edited August 2Aug 2 by Hmbre97
August 2Aug 2 1 minute ago, Hmbre97 said: oh look, another paint chip eater has entered the fold. Your avatar suggests you’re doing more than eating paint chips. What’s wrong with y’all.
August 2Aug 2 1 minute ago, Anastasis said: Your avatar suggests you’re doing more than eating paint chips. What’s wrong with y’all. aww, do my memes trigger your charmin soft feelings?
August 2Aug 2 I deny paint chips and pedo. Remind my why I should be paying paying for PBS for other than that sweet tote bag that i got with my pledge?
August 2Aug 2 8 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said: I deny paint chips and pedo. Remind my why I should be paying paying for PBS for other than that sweet tote bag that i got with my pledge? Public broadcasting was captured by one end of the political spectrum and other ideologies and people are shocked that others don’t want to fund that stuff with their tax dollars while we drive off a debt cliff. Radio and tv are old and dying media. They take donations. Send em guys. You know you might as well be lighting it on fire but do you. You will all offset the government funding with ease. That all said, balance the content and take their current funding and double it offset by with cuts to DoD. I’m good with that. You want to talk science and arts, all for it. But some of y’all burned your “in this house” science signs a long time ago and arts has some interesting expressions. Edited August 2Aug 2 by Anastasis
August 2Aug 2 6 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said: I deny paint chips and pedo. Remind my why I should be paying paying for PBS for other than that sweet tote bag that i got with my pledge? for the overall betterment of American society? are you really trying to convince us that funding for public broadcasting serves no benefit to our country? you that hard up for your $1.50/yr?
August 2Aug 2 1 minute ago, Anastasis said: Public broadcasting was captured by one end of the political spectrum and other ideologies and people are shocked that others don’t want to fund that stuff either their tax dollars.
August 2Aug 2 2 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said: Everyone stands and applauds when you speak in auditoriums. We know.
August 2Aug 2 5 minutes ago, Js1 said: Ana saw the pedo libertarian bat signal and came running Very weird stuff Js1.
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