• IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee
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      Air America was not allowed access to the airwaves after they were bought up. That’s just fact.

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        Which has nothing to do with the Telecommunications act and everything to do with how radio stations are handled when they go bankrupt.

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          It has everything to do with the TCA. Air America was a SYNDICATED SHOW.

          SYNDICATED.

          That show was simply denied air time in favor of alt right and christofascist shows.

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            Air America was a station not a show. They went bankrupt and lost their license. When they reformed they could not gain a new license because of the previous bankruptcy and the costs of getting a new one.

            At no point were they a syndicated radio program. They were a station unto themselves.

            You have no idea what you are talking about on any level.

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              You’re also the asshole who said I claim the US joined WWII to fight communists so you can fuck right off with your arrogance. There is an entire 8-part radio series about the TCA and Air America that I am 99% sure is more accurate than anything a fascist defender such as yourself is.

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                You did make that claim which many called you out on. This thread has a ton of replies to that bullshit claim.

                Air America went bankrupt because they overestimated how many people wanted left wing radio in the USA. Mark Maron has talked about it over the years.

                Zero surprise the Marxist doesn’t get businesses failing for market reasons

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                  The “market” you refer to is the Lowest Common Denominator wanting to hear assholes scream and bitch like feckless pussies for three hours a day. It’s also why Fox News stayed at the top the ratings for so long. But guess what?..this happened when the ability for any other voice to be heard WAS CENSORED. Calling it “the market” doesnt change the fact that it was censored. The law was literally put there for that purpose: to eliminate leftist voices. It was a decision to let peiple with money decide what you were going to hear because you morons actually think that money makes you smart.

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            With responses as stupid as this to my previous post I guess we can see why you are stupid enough to think the USA joined in WWII to fight communists despite siding with the USSR.

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              Jesus fucking christ are you having an episode??!

              Where the fuck did you get ANY idea I would think such a thing??!

              Seriously EXPLAIN IN DETAIL

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                Your very first post suggested the USA joined WWII to fight communists and even mentioned the trade US businesses did with Germany.

                That’s where I got this. Stop being disingenuous as multiple people called you out for it.

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                  IBM and Ford Motor Co. definitely did work with the Nazis, along with other I cant remember off the top of my head.

                  The US and Russia became de facto enemies AFTER WWII. That was the Cold War which led to the Cuba missile crisis. The US was consumed with the anti-Soviet Red Scare propaganda in the 1950s, primarily after finding out in WWII that Russia was a formidable foe who was winning the science and technological races. And they had nukes.

                  I have never said the US was fighting Communism in WWII. The CIA spook squad didnt even exist then to invent the scare.

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                    That is entirely different from suggesting the USA joined WWII to fight communists when we sided with the USSR. You stated this literally.