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    It’s good to reach out to WDJT-TV (DJT huh?) and tell them they are cowards. It’s also good to reach out via her public social media and let Sam Kuffel know that what she did has support.

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        The position people tend to see as “criticized” is that which they directly or indirectly get from the Press, and the Press is bought and paid for and has been working as a Propaganda arm of a subset of the population rather than as Journalists, for decades.

        IMHO, the Consent for “Billionaire openly making a Nazi salute during Presidential Inauguration of Far-Right populist multi-millionaire” has been Manufactured and the acceptance of this by many and feeling of impotence about it by many others was never the product of natural Tolerance.

        PS: In fact, the very events on the article the OP posted - that somebody in a public-facing position in the Press was fired for being a dissenting voice - give weight to the point I’m making.

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    We need more people in these positions calling out Musk as saluting like a nazi; I just feel bad that they are loosing their jobs

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    It takes a lot of courage to speak out against fascists in power. Not enough Germans did it and look what happened.

    If you’re a good person, you probably don’t want to work for a corporation that enables fascists. Hope this person finds a better employer.

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    Oh man, those poor folks still on X, fighting and hoping that they still have the freedom of expression. Have they not seen any WWII movies? Just sitting around won’t do anything to stop the hate and what the President and his crew are up to.

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    many wisconsin stations are downsizing and consolidating, closing local news operations and studios, etc. one ownership group (different than this one) is actually getting rid of local weather persons and outsourcing their weather to the weather channel or some bullshit like that. which will work real well when localized bad winter weather hits, or tornado/flood seasons.

    at any rate, this station (and others) are probably on the constant lookout for a reason… any reason… to shed someone from their staff, and if replaced–will replace for less money.

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      Joke’s on them. Project 2025 plans to dismantle NOAA and gut/privatise the National Weather Service.

      Who will pay for their weather forecasting once nobody will give them that data for free (under zero government funding)? They could just stop doing weather entirely, I guess, but millions of people rely on local weather reports to know whether to go to school or work. How do they plan to pay for that data?

      I can’t believe how short-sighted some CEOs and mgmt types insist on being.

      e: phrasing

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    This just in: Members of the news no longer allowed to report on the news. Stay tuned as this story devel…

    … wait, where are you taking me?

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      Fascism.

      He’s also on a list for when their squads start knocking down doors and murdering their enemies, I guarantee it.

      He’s probably got at least another year before that frog is boiled enough though. Hope he enjoys it.

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        The Neoliberals too have been using exactly the same technique to crush dissent, since it gives them plausible deniability (i.e. they claim it was for some other reason than silencing somebody) which is the essence of how they apply Force (people aren’t violently made to do or stop doing something, they’re just pushed into a situation were they have no other option or see the example of what happens to others when they don’t comply)

        A specifically Fascist method would’ve involved violent use of Force, for example arrest or her being violently attacked on the street, rather than indirect methods like this firing.

        Let’s not leave the other Far-Right ideology of the hook just because their methods are are better PR-wise: their disempowering of the many and subversion of all the pillars of Democracy helped pave the way for the Fascists.

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    So why is CBS affiliate WDJT-TV in Milwaukee Wisconsin defending the speech of an apartheid-loving fascist who did a full-on nazi salute on national TV? And if that’s not what they’re doing, then why did they fire that reporter?

    That’s the question that every real news outlet should be asking.