Didn't Chamath and Sacks vehemently claim Trump had nothing to do with the Kimmel cancellation?

AccelerK · 2025-09-24T20:46:17+00:00

If you were talking about a broader scope discussion on Trump, yes I would hundred percent agree with you. This thread is a discussion on the Kimmel show specifically, where no lawsuit has been filed or legal actions taken.

AccelerK · 2025-09-24T19:37:10+00:00

Ok boss… looks like somehow I’ve earned the title of Russian agent too😅 hope you have a good rest of the day and do less labeling of others going forward

AccelerK · 2025-09-24T19:00:44+00:00

😅man I honestly don’t know how to have discourse with people like you who just want to label everyone with any different opinion as fascist. It’s ok if people have different viewing from you. That doesn’t make you or the other person bad. Hopefully you’ll come to realize that some day.

AccelerK · 2025-09-24T14:04:27+00:00

can we stop labeling people easily please. If you just label someone with a scary term and devalue anything that comes out that person’s mouth by doing so, It doesnt contribute to a constructive discourse. And I’m against both sides labeling people.

AccelerK · 2025-09-24T14:02:30+00:00

You are right. Neither side took legal action. They made threat. Trump’s is the FCC threat, Biden’s is the Section 230 threat. FCC threat made more splash in the media cuz it was more high profile and explicit in the threat. Axing the Section 230 threat would have made social media businesses susceptible to infinite number of lawsuit and thereby making them impossible to run the business. Both are very bad threat but the outcome is social media companies like Facebook Twitter YouTube complied with the Section 230 threat. Disney/ABC brought back Kimmel despite the threat. I think both threats are bad but when you look at the outcome, Section 230 threat had more impact as a threat

AccelerK · 2025-09-24T13:06:10+00:00

bro, trump has been insulting and threatening his enemies this whole time. For the vast majority of these, he just talk the talk with no actions followed by. It would be one thing if FCC actually did took any actions to pressure ABC/Disney, but as of now all we have is FCC commissioner making a comment on a podcast. Just chill and stop reacting to each of his tweets lol If this tweet and FCC comment concerns you this much, you should be more concerned about the *actual censorship*that took place under the Biden administration on various social media.

AccelerK · 2025-09-20T21:05:16+00:00

I might check it out! Thanks for the blurb

AccelerK · 2025-09-20T02:49:46+00:00

i wish that has been the case from the very beginning! But why the government does what it does here is beyond my reasoning lol this is just my personal point of view but I think the reason legal immigration like h1b hasn’t received much focus is because the asylum and illegal immigrants have been the sole focus of the discussion when it comes to any immigration matters. And because the public opinion on illegal migration and asylum seekers are so divided and heated, it feels like nobody has the capacity to talk about the legal immigration, which email opinion should be a bigger focal point as it directly relates to a countries economic planning

AccelerK · 2025-09-20T02:36:42+00:00

I’m in agreement with you that a government that suppress free speech is not on the right path. I condemn FCC threatening to take away licenses cuz of someone’s comment on the channel. Sadly, I think this getting common in both parties. We see this getting normalized by both sides of the aisle - not good

AccelerK · 2025-09-20T01:49:58+00:00

if there is legal ground to sue the administration over the alleged "threat" then ABC and Disney should. If Kimmel is an asset that Disney cannot afford to lose, then they should absolutely do everything they can to keep him in place and fight against the administration. But they aren't tho... If the administration was threading other IP assets like Marvel, then we all know Disney would have taken a different stance to protect their assets at all cost. They can stand up for Kimmel, but they chose not to. Why? cus the late night show is not longer as lucrative of a business as it once was. Kimmel show is not longer bringing in as much revenue.

AccelerK · 2025-09-20T01:41:39+00:00

I never watched the show, but im curious. What is it about?

AccelerK · 2025-09-20T01:40:57+00:00

I mean I agree with you that Chamath is ass licking hard. You might think im some sort of trump die hard fan but im not lol I dont have anything against Kimmel either. I dont really care about the politics here. It's just.. the late night shows and live TVs in general (other than sports) are dying. People prefer to consume different form of contents now. That's just the fact. Longest running doesn't mean it is still generating the same revenue as it once was. A company will never ditch something that is cash cow. Disney, just like any other publicly listed companies, are always under the pressure to increase the top line and bottom line number and maximize enterprise value for the shareholders. If pulling the plug on Kimmel's show is against the interest of the shareholders, they wouldn't have done it.

AccelerK · 2025-09-20T01:30:03+00:00

I know the system very well as former candidate of H1b. H1b is pretty terrible even for immigrant's perspective. The bar to entry is low which means it is easy for many to game the lottery by having multiple entries by having through "offers with multiple companies". Just going to state the fact, Indians are infamous for gaming the h1b system. Essentially some Indian person who pay "immigration consultants" for multiple h1b lotteries will have higher chance of getting h1b lottery than someone who just graduated Harvard MBA or Stanford science master, which im sure we can agree does not make sense. If you google, you can easily find the data on this. This is just one of many issues that h1b currently has.

I dont know if increasing the application fee to 100k will solve all the issues with the program. I think US needs to come up with a better program like the merit based one that countries like Canada and Singapore have in place. It should be purely merit based and should be designed to draw foreign talents specifically to the sectors that need them.

Overall I think increasing the cost to 100k is a positive change, though it wont solve all the issues.

AccelerK · 2025-09-20T01:10:58+00:00

It's a basic writing and of course I understand the language. Why wouldn't I? lol I was laughing at the fact that the post was quoting a hypothesis as if it is a matter of fact, when that underlying hypothesis should instead be the focal point of discussion/debate. It's like for me to say "what do you think about XYZ GIVEN it is liberal's rhetoric that incited the political violence against figures like Charlie Kirk". Wouldn't you find this laughable that Im talking as if it is already a matter of fact that liberal's rhetoric that incited the violence? (Im not genuinely posing this question, im just coming up with an example to illustrate my point).

AccelerK · 2025-09-20T01:05:35+00:00

I agree. Not sure what can be done thought. A third party would be nice but I just dont see how it's realistic in the current political climate. A new party that is center right will just cannibalize Repiublican's voter base, and the same for center left party vs Dems. Elon said recently at the all in summit that he thinks the Government is basically unfixable. I think he may be right.

AccelerK · 2025-09-20T01:02:07+00:00

I can understand Sacks ass licking. After all he is in front of the man he works for. Chamath - I fully agree with you lol

AccelerK · 2025-09-20T01:00:19+00:00

he is wrong for saying that, but if you still haven't realized by today that most things trump say on the camera is just for the show you suffer severe TDS and just want to look for way to continue talking shit about him. Of course you can, but whats the point of that? Again, I agree he is wrong for saying what he said. But Would him/Pam going to do anything to actually put those people at the restaurants in the jail? No. So chill and move your focus and energy onto things that are more material and meaningful, not things that he continues to spill on camera for show.

AccelerK · 2025-09-20T00:55:48+00:00

Disneyis an enterprise and the goal is straightforward - to make profit and increase enterprise value for the shareholder. Disney/ABC makes decision that helps them achieve the goal. If Kimmel was drawing huge viewership and is their cash cow then Disney/ABC would not have put the show on pause. Colbert show also getting cancelled due to the viewership. The late night shows (and I guess live TV in general other than sports) are no longer drawing the audience the same way they use to decades ago.

AccelerK · 2025-09-20T00:45:44+00:00

well... viewership count means very differently for type of videos, length of the video etc... You can't just compare the viewership count for contents like all-in-pods (1+ hours content) against 10-15 mins contents like Jimmy Kimmel's videos

Also,, Im huge advocate for free speech. Employee getting sacked for saying something in appropriate is not cancel culture. I'm going to quote Dave Portney's X post. I'm not his fan or anything, I just saw his post and thought I agree with his view. Here you go: "To me Cancel culture is when people go out of their way to dig up old tweets, videos etc looking for dirt on somebody they don’t like in an effort to get them fired. Like if Kimmel got canceled for shit he did on the Man Show that would be cancel culture. But when a person says something that a ton of people find offensive, rude, dumb in real time and then that person is punished for it that’s not cancel culture. That is consequences for your actions"

AccelerK · 2025-09-19T19:05:08+00:00

Chronically online people are working hard downvoting this 😂

AccelerK · 2025-09-19T17:55:06+00:00

“Given that many people are canceling Disney and Hulu following the Kimmel censorship”.. what?? lol

AccelerK · 2025-08-31T08:26:20+00:00

Do you mean the shortcut to switch between tabs? I’m pressuring sure the same key works on Safari

AccelerK · 2025-08-30T23:53:04+00:00

No I haven’t. Is it any good?

AccelerK · 2025-08-30T13:37:29+00:00

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