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27th July 2022, 08:01 AM | #1 |
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One America News begging liberals to help them
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27th July 2022, 08:02 AM | #2 |
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It's vital that OAN be given a soapbox by Verizon and that anyone mean to OAN be punished or else free speech will collapse.
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27th July 2022, 08:06 AM | #3 |
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How odd. The quote
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27th July 2022, 08:11 AM | #4 |
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Just wondering...
The video cuts off before Fascist Barbie gets to describe her master plan to "save OAN". Any idea what they were suggesting the liberals need to do? Letter-writing campaign to verizon? paying for subscriptions? Adopt a neo-nazi? |
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27th July 2022, 08:59 AM | #5 |
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27th July 2022, 09:06 AM | #6 |
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I think there's a unified effort among liberals already, to not give a **** if OAN goes off the air permanently.
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27th July 2022, 09:09 AM | #7 |
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Gee, the faithful aren't enough support or generous enough to save thier thought process?
To see them go the way of the dodo with Q, Alex Jones and the insurrection supporters is funny. |
27th July 2022, 09:12 AM | #8 |
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Well, I think this one is a little different. The dopes you mentioned all got suspended or banned from a platform.
In OAN's case, the businesses just didn't renew their contracts. I would assume because the risk of carrying OAN isn't worth the reward. The big question is what do they really want to be done by liberals? According to them we're all trash and, even if liberals were able to do\did something, OAN would just go back to ******** on them anyway. Personally, I'm pleased with the outcome. They're the ones that say the market will sort it all out. |
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27th July 2022, 09:23 AM | #9 |
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27th July 2022, 09:36 AM | #10 |
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I have no idea what the **** this means.
Morals aren't involved. Verizon didn't want them on their platform, they don't owe them the right to be on their platform, they didn't renew their contract. Nothing more, nothing less. There's no philosophical debate here. Businesses make this decision all the time. The only reason we're hearing about this one is because OAN is extremely partisan and is seeing their cash cow slip away so they're begging for help. **** 'em, I say. |
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27th July 2022, 09:37 AM | #11 |
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27th July 2022, 09:48 AM | #12 |
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27th July 2022, 09:59 AM | #13 |
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I'll pray for them.
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27th July 2022, 10:16 AM | #14 |
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27th July 2022, 10:19 AM | #15 |
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27th July 2022, 10:28 AM | #16 |
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27th July 2022, 10:42 AM | #17 |
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Sense of Privilege at it's most obvious at work.
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27th July 2022, 10:49 AM | #18 |
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27th July 2022, 10:56 AM | #19 |
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I think it's a kind of categorical imperative thing: if you must act at all, you need to act right, even if it does you harm. In this case, it would appear that this rule does not apply because there is no "must act" involved.
At least I think that's what is meant, but being long estranged from theoretical purism, I might have missed something. I would suspect that if liberals were to be so altruistically silly as to contribute to the maintenance of OAN, the best they could hope for is to be ratted out as hypocrites and gutless closet conservatives. When you hand someone your gun, don't leave it pointed at you. |
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27th July 2022, 11:14 AM | #20 |
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27th July 2022, 11:23 AM | #21 |
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In the case of the correspondent in question, I believe we already have a repeated assertion that results are not meaningful criteria in judging an idea. It would not be surprising if a pure enough theoretician could argue that a statement, like poetry, should not mean but be.
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27th July 2022, 11:38 AM | #22 |
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27th July 2022, 11:42 AM | #23 |
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27th July 2022, 12:12 PM | #24 |
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Here's their lawsuit against AT&T. They manage to whine about Dominion in there, and there's other CT material.
https://www.oann.com/wp-content/uplo...am_Kennard.pdf They filed this just in case the libs don't save them, I guess. |
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27th July 2022, 12:16 PM | #25 |
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27th July 2022, 12:19 PM | #26 |
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27th July 2022, 12:22 PM | #27 |
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It's a reflection of how deep they are into their lies: they see it as suppression of legitimate POVs. They don't get it that it's their damaging lies being suppressed.
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27th July 2022, 01:12 PM | #28 |
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"Hey, guys, you know how we called you all criminal anti-American Satanists who force children into sexual slavery? How about we let bygones be bygones and you help me keep my job?"
It wasn't mean for liberals. It was just so she can see "see, I tried to reach out to them but they ignored me". She's probably getting screenshots of all the people mocking her on social media. |
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27th July 2022, 01:32 PM | #29 |
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Why are OAN appealing to liberals? Why aren't they appealing to their target audience of redneck fascist oiks and Donald Trump? Or did they leave OAN in the dirt?
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27th July 2022, 02:52 PM | #30 |
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27th July 2022, 03:06 PM | #31 |
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We're the most persecuted news program in US history!
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27th July 2022, 03:51 PM | #32 |
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OAN is pretty new.
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27th July 2022, 04:09 PM | #33 |
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I don't remember any other commercial news network reaching out to ANYONE for money because their bandwidth supplier dumped them.
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27th July 2022, 04:17 PM | #34 |
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I'm sorry but every time I see your logo in my YouTube feed I think of onanism. I'm not sure why.
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27th July 2022, 04:20 PM | #35 |
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27th July 2022, 04:36 PM | #36 |
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They got...wait for it...OANed!
I'll just go... |
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27th July 2022, 04:42 PM | #37 |
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27th July 2022, 05:07 PM | #38 |
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OAN host Alison Steinberg makes an urgent plea to liberals to help save the network after Verizon dropped them. Here's some of Steinberg's 'journalism':
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27th July 2022, 05:09 PM | #39 |
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The good people at OAN should ask their Daddy Trump to help out.
After all, Trump is literally sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars that he has managed to scam his faithful followers out of since he became an Ex-President. |
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27th July 2022, 05:18 PM | #40 |
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**** these Radical Right bastards.
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