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bigheadtales

@bigheadtales@mstdn.party

Veteran of the media wars from broadcast to cable to streaming. Equal parts outrage and argument.

Terms of Service: We Don't Serve Nazis or Bots Here.

Come for the outrage, stay for the occasional pithy comments!

I apologize in advance for going on a bit and saying mean things from time to time.

#BigHeadTales

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juddlegum, to random
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UPDATE: It's been more than 24 hours since Musk pledged to release the censorship demand he received from the Turkish government

NOTHING has been released.

Which is exactly how Erdoğan wants it.

bigheadtales,
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@juddlegum Musk will post it right after Trump posts his tax returns and the Republicans unveil their Obamacare replacement.

jace, to random
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All of the outrage over the redesigned Canadian passport is just more culture war bullshit, and our media is just feeeeeeeding into it. Tell me, how many times have you actually sat there and stared at the passport like it was some art book?
Seriously people, fuck right off with the bullshit that the rage farmers want to feed you.

bigheadtales,
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@jace
I read about this and thought the same thing.

Who cares what’s on the pages in a passport? Who even looks at the pictures? They’re there for fraud prevention.

I honestly have never looked past the info page to r possibly at an entrance stamp.

mcnees, to random
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If someone comes at you on here with “actually, Nazis were socialists,” just block them and don’t look back. Do yourself this little kindness.

bigheadtales,
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@mcnees Exactly! There’s no point in arguing with Nazis about the finer political points of Nazis.

tzimmer_history, to random
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It’s really hard to overstate how acutely dangerous this is: All strands of the Right - leading Republicans, the media machine, the reactionary intellectual sphere, the conservative base - are openly and aggressively embracing rightwing vigilante violence.

bigheadtales,
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@tzimmer_history The American fascist forces believe they need to embolden their terrorist Brownshirt squads in advance of the 2024 election if they are to end US democracy and raise their dictatorship.

bigheadtales,
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@tzimmer_history The American fascist forces believe they need to embolden their terrorist Brownshirt squads in advance of the 2024 election if they are to end US democracy and raise their dictatorship.

TonyStark, to random
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40 years, never came up with anything, so....yeah....let's just take a couple of days and fix it.

Republicans have nothing on border security. Never have, never will. It’s more ridiculous signaling and it’s separate bills.

Republicans want the economy to crash.

https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/05-12-2023/tying-border-to-debt/

bigheadtales,
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@TonyStark
don't want to fix the immigration situation. The issues at the border are a perfect excuse to stoke the hatred and racism of their gullible base.

It worked for Hitler and the Nazis, the is following the same playbook.

bigheadtales, to random
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Studios like Disney, Universal, Paramount, and Warner are slaughtering their workers at the alter of Wall Street billionaire greed.

Watch for studios to stumble in the next year as the loss of skilled workers and loss of employee trust and morale drag efficiency and profits.

Studios Sold Wall Street on Cost-Cutting. Will Unions Buy In? - The Hollywood Reporter https://apple.news/ANsPBxcCHR32I5tsyW2MpBg

StillIRise1963, to random
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Let me repeat myself ONE MORE TIME. I'm a 59 year old BLACK WOMAN. You have a lot of fucking nerve attempting to tell me about the impure Dems. I've been voting ALL MY LIFE for the lesser of TWO evils. This time, you are voting for your OWN FUCKING SURVIVAL. If you don't get that by now, don't talk to me anymore. I'm tired of your privilege to even say SHIT like that out loud.

bigheadtales,
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@meredithw @StillIRise1963
Exactly! Like it or not, in the United States, it's a binary choice. One or the other. As much as we may prefer this weren't true, it is.

Voters need to pick the one that represents their interests more closely.

bigheadtales, to random
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I understand how upsetting images and video of the regular events in America are.

But, perhaps, we should be broadcasting the images. Keep the flood of images in the public eye day after day, mass shooting after , until the populace becomes so enraged that there is no alternative but for to stop perpetuating the in service of .

Make it impossible to turn away.

Burn their phony to the ground.

rbreich, to random
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RT @rbreich
“We can’t afford to pay our writers more.”

Meanwhile, media company CEO pay is through the roof:

Netflix CEOs: $51M & $50M
Nexstar CEO: $39M
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO: $39M
Comcast CEO: $32M
Paramount CEO: $32M
Walt Disney CEO : $24M
AMC: $24M
Fox Corp CEO : $22M

Hello?

bigheadtales,
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@rbreich
Meanwhile some of these companies, like , are slitting the throats of their workforce.

It’s not about entertainment.

It’s not about creativity.

It’s not about the audience.

It’s only to curry favor with billionaire Wall Street investors.

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Wage growth being good for workers but bad for the Fed tells you everything you need to know about who bears the pain when interest rate hikes are used to combat inflation.

Inflation is slowing.

There’s no need to punish workers by increasing rates to drive unemployment.

RT @nytimes
U.S. wage growth picked up in April, good news for workers but bad news for officials at the Federal Reserve, who have been hoping to see a steady modera…
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1654477325910568961

bigheadtales,
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@rbreich
The Fed only protects the interests of Wall Street billionaires, not regular Americans.

TonyStark, to random
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Thank you, President Biden and Democrats for your calm and steady leadership in the wake of multiple crises.

And this even as Republicans in the House are doing everything they can do to not just kill the recovery but the national and international economies.

2024 is too far away to make a lot of economic predictions, but I will still vote for Democrats because without democracy, it doesn't matter if I have a job or not.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2023/05/05/labor-market-adds-253000-jobs-in-april-unemployment-rate-ticks-down-to-34/

bigheadtales,
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@TonyStark
Just wait, with media and tech companies cutting throats to please Wall Street billionaires, it’s about to crash the economy.

TonyStark, to random
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The number one killer of children in America is gun violence. Where is a Republican doing something about that?

The Republicans in NC described this bill as “pro-woman.” I can’t think of anything more NOT pro-woman than restricting their bodily autonomy in any way and interfering in personal medical decisions. The GOP again show they don’t GAF about anything other than being in control or life.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/north-carolina-republicans-introduce-12-week-abortion-ban/story?id=99038311

bigheadtales,
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@TonyStark will do anything to perpetuate the endless in the name of Gun Industry profits as long as those fat envelopes keep arriving.

bigheadtales, to random
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Fully support the strike.

Disney and NBC Universal both reported $28 billion in profits last year, yet Hollywood is awash with the bloodletting of layoffs.

They don't care about "telling stories". They don't care about the creative and technical workers that make their blockbusters.

All these behemoths care about is making billionaire Wall Street speculators even richer.

Fight for the fruits of your labor, don't back down.

SecurityWriter, to random

Say it with me again:

Layoffs aren’t ‘efficiency savings’

They’re peoples lives - and a failure of management.

bigheadtales,
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@SecurityWriter
This is what happens when businesses are run to please billionaire investors and Wall Street gamblers.

Disney made $28 billion in profit last year but is cutting the throats of thousands of employees to please billionaire investor Peltz and Wall Street speculators.

Disney is no longer about guest experience, art, or entertainment. It’s all about pleasing the filthy rich who believe $28 profit isn’t enough without destroying thousands of lives.

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The Republican Party is only committed to maintaining its own power. Nothing more, nothing less. It is rapidly becoming the American fascist party.

Montana House Republicans' silencing of Zooey Zephyr is just the latest example.

RT @ap
Transgender Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr was prevented from speaking on the House floor for the third day, prompting many of her supporters to bring Monday's session to a halt.

Seve…
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1650925641095585804

video/mp4

bigheadtales,
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@rbreich @ap The party is well past the “becoming” fascist, they are becoming the .

rbreich, to random
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Elon Musk lost $13 billion in 24 hours on Thursday, and he’s still the world’s second richest person

Don't tell me billionaires can't afford a wealth tax.

bigheadtales,
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@rbreich
The filthy rich are destroying the lives of countless working people. They garner almost unlimited power while suffering no consequences for their unstable actions.

Just ask any of the tens of thousands of tech workers at Amazon, Meta, and Disney being burned by filthy rich CEOs to make billionaire shareholders happy.

stux, to random
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20 years of pickup truck design progress in one photo

bigheadtales,
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@stux
I guess progress is a relative term.

Today's are the height of form over function in the same way Detroit's 1970s land yachts were.

bigheadtales, to random
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There are no good Republicans.
There are no reasonable Republicans.
There are no moderate Republicans.
Republicans don't reach across the aisle.
Republicans aren't the party of law or morals or security or fiscal responsibility.

The GOP is the new American Fascist Party.

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