No love lost for NPR but PBS is a kick in the teeth. The kids programming is excellent, diverse, and most importantly safe, and my kids enjoy it immensely. You can turn a kid loose to watch PBS kids in a way you can’t with private services or god forbid YouTube. It was also one of the only free sources of streaming entertainment for low income folks who rely on this content more than anyone.

In the grand scheme of empire horrors my kid not being able to watch Molly of Denali is not that big of a deal, but for sure is one I will feel personally. But that pales in comparison to the impact on indigenous kids in Alaska who will lose perhaps their only instance of representation.

Shit sucks.

Not to mention the loss of funding for local public radio stations that are the only source of critical information in many rural areas.

What a cruel and evil place this is.

I love the burger brain consensus on this

Apparently it’s deserved because they’re not self sustaining and require government funds to operate

But the MIC isn’t self sustaining and neither is freeway widening yet everyone’s quiet

Fuck this country lol everyone got the intelligence of a boiled peanut

You see what a society truly values with stuff like this. It is not simply that our society does not value safe and educational children’s entertainment. Our society values the opposite. It values their undereducation. It values their underenrichment. And the quantity of that value will appear in certain bank accounts following these cuts. We could track it all down and attach a very real price tag, if we wanted. That we paid. To deprive children.

Awesome society great job

Next on the shut down list: viewers like you.

I demand that my children be indoctrinated into the cult of consumerism every 3-5 minutes (and if the “content” could also be selling things that would be great). And besides, without Ad companies’ unerring moral compass dictating what they see, how can I feel comfortable leaving my children unsupervised in front of a screen for hours at a time?!

Fucking grim. This is kind of the final fall of any concessions the capitalists made to the proletariat in the face of the existence of the USSR and the threat of socialism at home. They’ve decided we’re not a threat and there’s no need to placate us. This isn’t even a case necessarily of making the line go up by stripping the copper out of the walls as most people with money will subscribe to a streaming service or cable anyways, as it’s free. It’s paid for with unlimited US dollars which can be expended at no meaningful cost. Next up libraries I’m sure. We’re going back to workhouses. And I can’t help but feel some of this is part of a push to have an uneducated, indoctrinated, poor, desperate population that can be pressed without much resistance into signing up for war with China as a soldier as a chance to escape the spiral of poverty and pain. And as I’ve said I don’t think the war with China will be anything but a world war. It won’t be US troops marching into China. It will be US troops attacking the Sahel states and toppling them to install a comprador loyal to western capital. It will be them doing piracy on the high seas against Chinese shipping under an “embargo” and fighting the PLA there if they resist. It will be a wide-ranging conflict that could be low or high intensity.

dude this fucking sucks

Had to check if this was c/fakenews