In short:
The American Broadcasting Company has axed Jimmy Kimmel Live! for comments the host made referencing the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has received hundreds of complaints intended for America’s ABC about the show being cancelled.
The vast majority of complaints sent to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation contained expressions of dismay, with many citing concerns about free speech and the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
lol
We should start writing basic political education into Bluey, pitched at the level of 5 year olds, and start pushing it into the US via Disney+ so their kids, and perhaps some of their parents have the tools they need to understand the world around them. Because sure as shit they aren’t getting it from their own media and education system.
I’ve got a kid on the way and I’m going to have to start learning what all these programs are. All I can remember is Thomas the Tank Engine and Magic School Bus. I’m guessing they’re not on anymore.
Daniel Tiger is another good one. It’s pretty slow with very easy to follow lessons in each episode.
Hey me too,
I was hoping to just buy Thomas the tank engine DVDs or something and then tell the kid that’s all there is until they hit school.
My wife said that’s a bad idea, so 🤷
If your kid is into trains, go with Chuggington over Thomas. Dinosaur Train is also pretty great. Time-travel, Trains and Dinosaurs!
LOL. A strongly worded letter will save democracy. When are people going to wake up & realize they’re government is controlled by the same corporations they constantly spend their 💰 money to support?
Lmao; I was really confused reading that title in this comm, until I read a bit further.
Oh America 🤦
To be fair, America wasn’t really happy before this whole Kimmel kerfuffle (which is barely a blip on the radar at this point). And I’m not up-to-date on the emotional socio-cultural barometer of Australia. Anyone know how Australia’s feeling atm?
Well right now the barometer is running about 85 percent glad of our Westminster-style democracy, 10 percent secondhand embarrassment and alarm about the state of the US, and then of course there’s the omnipresent 5 percent who think that everything the US has done and is currently doing should be slavishly copied here.
That last 5 percent can generally defined as the opinions of the proportion of the population that, kindly speaking, have a few kangaroos loose in the ol’ top paddock.
On election day, I saw a man on a mobility scooter with Trump flags waving behind him. I’d say he had more than a few kangaroos loose…
At the last election day here there was a Muppet fully dressed like trump.
I live on an island in Redland Bay.
Population about 6 or 7000.
Sad fifteen minutes of fame.
And sadly I know lots of people that think that trump is great. One mate ( I rarely see him anymore ) said a few years ago that he should rule the whole world. This is a 66 year old builder. Sad indeed.
People who say that sort of thing tend to be the sort of people who have the political awareness of a sloth. When you spend 15 seconds talking to them it becomes very apparent that they haven’t got a clue what they’re talking about.
I’ve never met anyone (non-American) who seriously expresses support for Trump who isn’t like that.
Yeah, my beloved shitty football team also tried to have a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk, which wasn’t so silent since the entire stadium booed for the 2.5 seconds they tried to make that happen.
My countrymen are typically morons about all of this, so my apologies are extended when they can’t differentiate between the American and Australian Broadcast companies.
For @shirro@aussie.zone , we used to have civic education when I was a kid, but it was killed because it turns out that they intentionally want to keep the masses stupid.
Don’t feel too bad, there’s a reason 911 works here and people try to plead the fifth. Ignorance regarding such things ignores national boundaries.
