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.
Free advice: Watch Baby Race now, before your baby is born. This episode is for the parents.
The episodes are only about 7 minutes long. It’s well worth the investment.
Based on your server name, your from the UK?
Shaun the Sheep is an excellent one for the kids, Bluey is as well.
Paddington bear is interesting, in that its a nice show for the kids to watch, but i notice its very British upper middle class with it’s approach.
Worse than not on, they remake shows with cgi and different voice actors.
Watching tv with kids is great. The first time I heard my oldest laugh was watching Shaun the Sheep with him. The last one we had moved into the time when everyone had their own idiot screens and it wasn’t the same which I regret. I didn’t know Bluey existed until she kept nagging me to play games. Bandit is a tough act to follow.
I can imagine Bluey and Bingo going out one Saturday with Chilli and Bandit and they arrive at their school slightly confused because it is the weekend. And there are lots of people there going into a hall. They find some friends and play with them. Bluey wants to see what the adults are doing so goes in with Bandit and watches him give his name to be checked on the electoral roll then he puts some numbers in boxes. She grabs a free pencil which she thinks is awesome. They get some sausages and all agree it was a great day out.
Then the American kids watch and ask their parents why they never go and vote like Bandit and Chilli. And their parents say they couldn’t be bothered and it doesn’t make a difference.
Not omly remade in bad CGI or Cartoon but horrible writing and storylines, like the thomas the tank engine cartoon they jist straight up bunnyhop between tracks and do backflips and shit like they are train shaped people.
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!
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.
horst wessel strategy ain’t working out so well for them, huh?
Good.
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.
The problem with the Westminster system is it does rather assume that all the parties are equally competent. When you have one party that’s utterly useless, it doesn’t really work as it just gives a free pass to the other party to do whatever.
UK Labour are currently swinging all over the place and it’s impossible to work out where they stand on anything. The issue been the Tories are so completely incapable of holding them to account. They have apparently decided that they are not keen on Trump, so at least they finally work that out.
No government system works well under FPTP, that’s the problem the UK has. If parties like the Lib Dems and Greens had been getting the seats they deserve over the last 15 years, the UK would be in a very different place, politically.
The US should be a lesson to all of us about what happens when electoral systems are left to wither and die.
We all need electoral reform. UK and Canada need a more democratic upper house with proportional representation and powers more like Australias. Once they are democratic they might as well be allowed to introduce legislation as well as review it.
Then preferential voting for their lower house.
Australia should do something about parties that consistently get far less seats in the lower house than their proportion of votes by introducing extra seats for them. Perhaps mixed member proportional or similar. So the two party system gets a shakeup and new parties can emerge when one is doing poorly.
@shirro @echodot we have an inequity built into the system in that each vote over, I think, 4% attracts around $4 for the party win or loss. This means a nest egg is created for the party. That same party does not have to declare where the big money came from until 12 months after the election whereas the newby must notify in near real time.
Feeling about what particularly?
In terms of large cultural events, we had some of the largest-ever protests in this country at the start of August, in support of Australian recognition of the Palestinian genocide. Followed up by some much, much smaller, nationalist, racist right-wing protests that were hijacked by neo-nazis at the end of August. Our Prime Minister is currently in the US for the UN general assembly, where he plans on recognising Palestinian statehood.
In saying that about the right-wing in this country, at our federal election earlier this year the main centre-right party completely collapsed under a landslide by the centre-left. Our Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, is pretty milquetoast in my opinion. But he at least seems steadfast in not allowing Trump to bully us into submission, so far anyway.
before kimmel, was colbert cancellation, so people were already incensed , but the MSMs quickly buried the story and we heard almost nothing from colbert issue for like a month.
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?
A strongly worded letter to the wrong media outlet, in the wrong country is sure to do the trick. Though if the education system in the US was even halfway functional Trump wouldn’t be president. Almost as if it’s by design.
Conservatism can’t survive once a highly educated populace reaches a certain threshold of average intelligence. They knew that, and they took it personally.
Ah this reminds me of a right wing demonstration in Turkey infront of the Dutch Embassy because of something bad Mark Holland had said about Turkey.
Wasn’t there a Chechnya/Czechia mixup a couple of years ago as well? (This comment was brought to you by Autocorrect, I couldn’t have done it without it)
Uh, I thought that was two ways of pronouncing the same country? C’mon lemmy, beat me up, but give me the skinny.
Well, it is dry, isn’t it?
Wait, so Jimmy, John and Stephen Colbert are all running for president with AOC?
Whaaaaa?
Talk about backfired!?
This is interesting… Dare I say…“hopeful”?
Any other crazy good candidates wanna lose their job suddenly to join up against evil? I think this is like getting a basket full of lemons and a bunch of people who just want some sweet lemonade.
America was happy last time in 1945 probably
“The poors” opinions don’t matter, duh. If you’re not a shareholder are you really even alive?
/s if it’s needed for you folks
