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What's this "TV" thing you keep talking about? Something from the 20th century?

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Patrick says

If Elon can buy Twitter, then the general public should be able to get together and buy a TV network to broadcast the truth on a mainstream channel.

Maybe it could be done if enough people got together to buy out an existing TV network.

It's not that difficult. OTA signals are easy to come by with a little money. You run into the problem of having content that pays for the fees to have the air rights.

It's simply easier online. No one under 35 has a cable subscription unless they're living with mom and dad. There's nothing stopping anyone from starting/purchasing public access air time. Local is the best bet. Going national or even regional is generally not realistic unless you devote 100% of your time from waking up to sleeping on it. Better off with a niche local station that's free.

And let's be honest. Does anyone really want to be a CNN or MSNBC? I'd say no. It's like rolling in pig shit.

You maybe might get a channel, but then who controls the airwaves? And then and if one was successful big money could sue you to oblivion and back for anything they say. And then who controls the judicial system that will decide the final outcomes? Maybe thats why it hasn't happened yet.

Television is dead. That's what we were aiming for with the creation of the Internet.

People who still watch television to get "news", you have to give up on them. At this point, after 4 years of "Russia hacked our election" to "You're crazy if you question the 2020 election" - if people are STILL listening to television news, they can't ever be woken up. Those are zombies.

SunnyvaleCA says

What's this "TV" thing you keep talking about? Something from the 20th century?

TV is still the most powerful weapon that the Deep State has for lying to the public.

Sad but true. I know a lot of people who watch TV and actually believe what the see, never thinking that "Sponsored by Pfizer" might impact the objectivity of the reporting...

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A nice thought, but would get banned instantly by iTunes, Spotify, and the rest of Homo-Globo Incorporated, because I sometimes use accurate terms like Homo-Globo Incorporated.

WookieMan says

And let's be honest. Does anyone really want to be a CNN or MSNBC? I'd say no. It's like rolling in pig shit.

Just imagine the same kind of set up, but with honest news, like:

"Deaths from the vaccine continue to surge..."

"Yet more evidence of the massive 2020 election fraud uncovered..."

"Federal Reserve caught depositing newly printed money into account of ADL..." (OK, I don't know that that last one is true, yet.)

casandra says

but then who controls the airwaves?

True, I expect the FCC is nearly as corrupt as the FDA and CDC.

richwicks says

if people are STILL listening to television news, they can't ever be woken up

I think there are quite a lot of those people, maybe most Democrats.

Patrick says

TV is still the most powerful weapon that the Deep State has for lying to the public.

Yes, it is.

Which is why it must be destroyed.

Patrick says

I think there are quite a lot of those people, maybe most Democrats.

Yes, perhaps but consider the progress that was made.

If in 1980, if somebody said "I never watch television" - they would be regarded as a snob. If today you say the same thing, nobody is particularly surprised by it. The ONLY time I see network news, is when youtube decides to take me to an example after a video finishes playing OR if it's pointed out that some talking head twat is OBVIOUSLY lying and I want to confirm it or archive it.

You would think if somebody saw this:


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They would never watch MSNBC ever again. The people who still trust network news, they aren't salvageable.

It's BEYOND obvious that our network news is just propaganda. 20 years ago, I strongly suspected it, but it was hard to voice it, because it didn't seem like anybody else suspected it. Today, 1/2 the country does.

Progress is being made, but we're approaching a limit. Some people are just too dumb.

richwicks says

Some people are just too dumb.

It's not stupidity, exactly. It's owning up to having been fooled over and over again.

That would make them feel bad about themselves, so it's a safe bet that honesty by Democrats is not going to happen. Too painful for them.

Expect incoherent tantrums instead, as the evidence of corruption, fraud, and mass murder by their beloved Democratic Party becomes overwhelmingly obvious.

Patrick says

It's not stupidity, exactly. It's owning up to having been fooled over and over again.

Are you sure this isn't stupidity?

I KNOW how humiliating it is to be shown to be wrong about something you have believed for years, especially when you've promoted what you were suckered into believing.

The problem is, you need to leave you ego at the door. This is even MORE difficult for people who rest their entire identity on being "an intellect". Don't rest your identity on being "smart".

I think we've pretty much maxxed out the number of people that can be awoken. 60% of people will never do anything or stand up for anything. They will live through carpet bombings and not change their attitude much.

It's the 40% that count. And half of them are iredeemably in the system whether for gain, pride/ego ("muh Education, muh Scientific Secularism! Don't be a Social Science denier!"), etc. I think we got most of the remaining 20%.

Did you know Austria was once 30% Protestant in the late 1500s? Graz had a Protestant Seminary, almost half the nobility and towns were Protestant? Yet Austria become overwhelmingly Counter-Reformation Catholic. How? (Rhetorical Question)

We have to restore American myths and tamp down diversity greatly in order to preserve Liberty. Liberty cannot survive when a fifth of the population believes bullshit like "Free Speech doesn't mean Reach" and "Hate Speech should be illegal" and "Insulting the Prophet is Hate Speech" and "Criticizing the ADL which flagrantly advocates Censorship is Hate". How can we do it?

Libertarianism can only thrive and survive when the populace believes in most of the cornerstones of it. People will only believe in it if culture believes in it.

We have to make and consume Liberty Culture movies, music, etc.

AmericanKulak says

Did you know Austria was once 30% Protestant in the late 1500s? Graz had a Protestant Seminary, almost half the nobility and towns were Protestant? Yet Austria become overwhelmingly Counter-Reformation Catholic. How? (Rhetorical Question)

I was surprised to read that the situation in Poland was similar, but Poland is now ~99% Catholic.

I think the Jesuits can take a lot of the credit/blame, depending on how you feel about it.

There are two long term priorities:

1. Vouchers instead of public schools. A basic citizenship, numeracy, and literacy test for a HS Diploma by the State will take care of it. And get rid of the State Board of Education administering it: Let it be admin'd by the Department of Weights and Measures, with objective answers.

2.Creation of more Liberty Entertainment. I think we're doing good on politics, better on sports, the big gap is just general entertainment. Filming a new series of 80s Chuck Norris type movies is cheap and easy. Musicals are cheap. Remaking old classics in the public domain like Sherlock Holmes or Dickens or Brothers Grimm tales are easy too.

Patrick says

I was surprised to read that the situation in Poland was similar, but Poland is now ~99% Catholic.

The interesting thing about Poland is that Jan Laski was a major Reformed leader and produced quite a few Calvinist greats, yet today there is hardly a shred of evidence that Reformed was ever a thing in Poland. Both a warning and a blessing.

However, Poland did not go to the lengths Austria did. It was a slow burn. But Poland also did not have Icon Smashing freakouts like in the Empire.

Yes, a test to pass high school would be great. Objective measurement.

The problem with #2 is the domination of Hollywood by the far left.

Patrick says

The problem with #2 is the domination of Hollywood by the far left.

I don't think we need Hollywood. We have India, Turkey, etc. with their own studios for rent AND CGI is so amazing and cheap now. There are far more aspiring actors than Hollywood slots.

There's Rumble, Odysee, etc. for streaming. I we could get 10M people - or 1/8th of Trump voters, to commit to $9.99/month, there would be a monthly $100M budget to launch films or shows. Decent films can be made for a few million these days. Sitcoms, Musicals, or Physical ("Kung Fu") type action movies are cheap to make.

A key part of Postmarxism is: ALL TRADITION IS BAD, EVERYTHING NEW AND NOVEL IS GOOD.

This idea is so deeply set now in our culture, and the only way to fight it is with tales where the hero is one of a long line of heros, all of whom share the same fundamental beliefs. Think the original Gene Roddenberry Star Trek vibe, or Old Westerns. "Why Billy, just like Grandpa Joe fought the Rustlers and restored order as Sheriff, so do you have to take on the Biker Druggies."

I like it!

Want to found a movie company?

Ha, I would. There are so many damn 19th-early 20th Century serials and writings that could easily be brought up to date or backdated.

Sadly, money is tight. But I'm happy to help start a fundraiser or devote a few hours week for grunt work.

A Model should be Sound of Freedom, which was made for a song. If we got just 2M subscribers paying $9.99, we'd have $20M a month to fund a new "Sound of Freedom" every few weeks from top to bottom. Hell, we could do with less.

There are great stories from the American Revolution that could be both funny, cheap, and great. The story of General "Sit your fatass down, Harry" Knox for one. Knox was an Ulster Scot who lost his bookstore in the Revolution, having snuck out to join the rebels at Lexington and Concord. He was a colorful perosn. Or young George Washington with his journal and his adventures in Indian Country.

My kid watches "Teen Do" or something, it's basically a bunch of older teenagers/young adults with a couple of rooms and a camera and makeup, with silly skits. It's for kids, but it's as good as anything by PBS like the old Electric Comapny. I can't imagine it costs much to make, and they have countless episodes.

Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8qxnElieGc

Somebody today could do on a basic desktop and a couple of thousand in cameras and audio and makeup/costumes far better than this:

Motley Crue- "Looks that Kill"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMhoWiaL88Q

AmericanKulak says

A basic citizenship, numeracy, and literacy test for a HS Diploma by the State will take care of it.

What happens to people who don't pass? Executed? Sent to some foreign country?

Maybe people who don't pass wouldn't get to vote. Sadly, the vote-harvesting situation has moved the system even further in the opposite direction. Now people who are so unmotivated or uninformed that they can't figure out how to show up at the polls on the right day are able to give their vote to someone else.

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AmericanKulak says

1. Vouchers instead of public schools. A basic citizenship, numeracy, and literacy test for a HS Diploma by the State will take care of it. And get rid of the State Board of Education administering it: Let it be admin'd by the Department of Weights and Measures, with objective answers.

Let me show you something:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ5x_2u3WOw

So what he explains is that school isn't for education. It's to test if you will just repeat whatever bullshit the teacher says.

We all thought we were getting an education in school. For college maybe we did, but history is entirely propaganda in high school and lower, and even the books we're given to read for English is about indoctrination. Just accept it.

SunnyvaleCA says

What happens to people who don't pass? Executed? Sent to some foreign country?

Like any thing else, they get another attempt to pass.

I wasn't aiming for restricting the vote based on passing but:
SunnyvaleCA says

Maybe people who don't pass wouldn't get to vote. Sadly, the vote-harvesting situation has moved the system even further in the opposite direction. Now people who are so unmotivated or uninformed that they can't figure out how to show up at the polls on the right day are able to give their vote to someone else.

Sounds good, you can't vote until you pass, and schools that produce too many non-graduates on the first or second take lose their ability to take school vouchers. But you're right, everything is going so much the other way.

Fortunately, I'll be in a position to make sure a lot of Elderly voters get their chance to vote in 2024.

SunnyvaleCA says

What happens to people who don't pass?

That's all, they just don't pass, don't get HS diploma.

SunnyvaleCA says

Maybe people who don't pass wouldn't get to vote.

I wouldn't do that. Heck, literacy it not a requirement for voting even now.

SunnyvaleCA says

Sadly, the vote-harvesting situation has moved the system even further in the opposite direction. Now people who are so unmotivated or uninformed that they can't figure out how to show up at the polls on the right day are able to give their vote to someone else.

This is one good reason for same-day, in-person voting with ID.

richwicks says

We all thought we were getting an education in school. For college maybe we did, but history is entirely propaganda in high school and lower, and even the books we're given to read for English is about indoctrination. Just accept it.

The solution is to take control or they will. The best defence against system wide control is distribution as far flung as possible, anti-centralization. Imagine how damned awful things would be if School Boards didn't exist, State Legislatures didn't exist, and the Dept of Ed could dictate Transbathrooms in every Elementary School along with Transpropaganda and Drag Queen Story Times and mandating "Queer" on all 6th grade reading lists.

But the opposite is true: If only Teachers Unions/School Librarian Associations/EduAdmin Pro Groups de facto ran school curriculum, we'd have the same outcome. So we need that balance of local democratic control.

By the way, this guy is great on WW2 history, I've watched his videos before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLHG4IfYE1w

Patrick says

The problem with #2 is the domination of Hollywood by the far left.

Haha. The Writers Strike has been going on for more than 3 months now.

Nobody cares.

Nobody cares about Hollywood. They are far less relevant than they were just 10 years ago.

AmericanKulak says

The solution is to take control or they will. The best defence against system wide control is distribution as far flung as possible, anti-centralization.

You just contradicted yourself. We don't need to take control, we have to disperse control as wide as possible. I have watched many people get kicked off from YouTube, Twittter, Facebook, and they keep going, keep moving.

AmericanKulak says

But the opposite is true: If only Teachers Unions/School Librarian Associations/EduAdmin Pro Groups de facto ran school curriculum, we'd have the same outcome. So we need that balance of local democratic control.

Federal government should be abolished, or at minimum cut WAY back. There should be no department of education, and if I was 15 and saying this I would be appalled. "Oh no, older me, why if Kentucky decides to allow Creationism taught in school instead of evolution???" - "Well stupid young me, who cares? Let me show you this awful thing called common core math that has been mandated by the federal government..."

AmericanKulak says

By the way, this guy is great on WW2 history, I've watched his videos before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLHG4IfYE1w

Haha, that's funny. I just stumbled across him today through this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ5x_2u3WOw

In that he's like "well, your kid has to repeat bullshit, too bad!" It's better to know it's bullshit going in rather than having to unlearn it all a decade later. I believed all the bullshit I heard as a kid from a teacher. Took YEARS to undo that, to resolve it. I hate my history teacher to this day. What a fucking pathetic fat piece of shit, filling kid's heads with that garbage. If I had the Internet back then, I would have fought tooth and nail, against it.