• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    DespiteBecause of his public call to “just kill” unhoused people, Brian Kilmeade continues to host “Fox & Friends.”

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    It used to be that advertiser boycotts sometimes worked. They even worked on Fox News in the past. In 2009 all it took for a boycott against Glenn Beck was for him to say that Obama was racist. That resulted in a huge advertiser boycott, which then resulted in them cancelling his show. In 2017 advertisers pulled out of Bill O’Reilly’s show, but it wasn’t his hateful views that resulted in the boycott, it was the sexual misconduct allegations. Tucker Carlson’s show was cancelled eventually too, there were some advertiser boycotts, but it really seemed like what hurt Fox was that they lost a defamation case that he caused and it cost them nearly $1 billion.

    OTOH, often boycotts don’t work. The boycott against Laura Ingraham didn’t seem to work. Her show is still on the air. She was forced to apologize though. Jeanine Pirro was lightly punished with her attacks on Ilhan Omar, but her show was never cancelled. It stayed on the air until she became (and it’s hard to believe this is real) the US Attorney for DC.

    It seems like sometimes a loss of money works. But, it seems to work better if it’s a defamation suit vs. an advertiser boycott. Still, an ad boycott might help.

    Here are some lists of who advertises on Fox News:

    https://whoadvertiseson.org/foxnews/

    https://www.trueusa.org/boycott

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      Fox News is able to survive advertisement boycotts more easily than other outlets because they charge a higher rate to cable providers to carry their channel. They know their viewership will sign up with the company that has their channel and not the competitor that doesn’t. So all providers need to have it because their audience is huge. So they collect a larger percentage of their revenue from these companies than other channels do.and because of that, they don’t need as much money from advertisers and can more easily absorb an advertiser boycott.

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    he’s still on the air because he’s a fascist on a fascist, pro-state news channel

    the country is run by fascists

    “despite”

    the USA is a fascist empire this is normal in a fascist empire because this (a pogrom against the unhoused) is already occurring

    for fucks sake outrage is very 2000-late, you’re the fucking VOLK

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    Someone should make a bot that responds to all of his socials with that clip for eternity.

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    But Kirk or that United Health CEO or a politician or a business leader are all off the table. Calling for the killing of masses of undesirables is fine but don’t dare suggest that for the people who decide to actually kill those masses.

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    I think we should really put numbers to this and highlight the severity of his statement. According to numbers reported in The 2024 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, he casually suggested killing around 771,480 people. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf

    That’s close to the population of Seattle. https://www.seattle.gov/opcd/population-and-demographics

    Near the death toll of the American Civil War. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

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    As an aside, is unhoused really a better term for homeless? It sounds like a meme censor thing like unalive.

    They are without home, they are homeless. There’s nothing wrong with that surely.

    Or have the social censor extended their iron grasp to this too?

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      “iron grasp of the social censors”… I don’t know what politically correct society you’re living in buddy, but this sounds like crying about woke shit to me

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      I think the nuance here is that lacking a house doesn’t mean you’re lacking a home. A home is a much more complicated idea that involves family or community for many people, whereas a house is just a thing by contrast.

      That said, my understanding is that most people find the terms roughly equivalent, and I’ve never been either, so I might be misunderstand it.

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        The rate of people living on the streets is not a constant across even all capitalist societies, ‘homeless’ describes a state without implying a cause. ‘Unhoused’ properly implies that people could have shelter, but the society they live in has failed to make houses available to them.

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      I was gonna joke someone should write the Brian Kilmrade Bill that does just that and put it in front of Congress for a vote but now I realize it might actually pass