Its a mistake to believe that this is an irrational or ignorant decision. These guys KNOW what the message of PBS is and there is a reason they don't want it to get to kids. They are making child soldiers and they don't want people giving them inconvenient values.

You guys are telling jokes while the other side is building an army. Maybe start taking this shit seriously.

It's really easy! If you imagine that a black person and a white person could never be friends or spend positive time together, and then you saw a show that had them together, you might conclude the show is trying to convince you something is okay that you know is not. Propaganda.

If you imagine that a gay person is inherently wrong, and that bad things deserve to happen to them as punishment for their choices, and then you watch a show where a gay person is happy and normal and respected, you might conclude the show is trying to push an idea on you that you already know isn't right. Propaganda.

It's sad, and dangerous, but it's not complicated.

Reality has a well known Liberal bias.

I can barely even understand how anyone could think PBS is propaganda.

Propaganda, that's how.

The Reich wing is infuriatingly effective at using projection as both a defensive measure and an assault.

I have an uncle who thinks anything to the left of NewsMax or OAN is "too liberal" (yes that includes Fox News). The indoctrination is real

Or maybe they did. Seaseme Street might go over the heads of maga voters. And Mr Rodgers messages of inclusion and empathy are far out of their mental grasp.

It's Arkansas, what did you expect?

"Think"

Arkansas

Heh.

If it's not their propaganda they think it is the other way... instead of ya know... just facts or basic learning.

Well, technically, anything that spreads a message or ideal is propaganda. If you think something isn't propaganda, it's because you already agree with the message.

It's just that in this case the message is "Be kind. Science is cool" and only a christofascist would think that is a bad thing to spread.

Most people are idiots and the bell curve isn’t as wide as you’d like to think.

How many children upvote this nonsense?

PBS is literally overt propaganda. The amazing thing is how people don't see it. We're so immersed in the hegemonic narrative, the droning voice of the state that we can't recognize the obvious overwhelming bias.

The most glaring recent example is their complete endorsement of the genocide in Palestine. But that's just the tip of the iceberg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

Arkansas ranks 45 out of 51 states in education.

So, let's say the kid gets up at 6am. PBS listings:

• 6:00 -- Pinkalicious and Peterriffic: Gingerbread House; Christmas Tree Trouble: "Pinkalicious" and Peter build a gingerbread house that attracts Sarafina, a holiday fairy
• 6:30 -- Curious George: George Digs Worms; Everything Old Is New Again: George's entry into the world of worm racing faces a giant hurdle when Mr Quint picks up the wrong lunch box; George learns about recycling, and sets out to recycle everything he possibly can.
• 7:00 -- Sesame Street: Elmo's Morning Routine: Elmo and Abby help Crystal the Ball invent a morning routine.
• 7:30 -- Milo: Milo the Decorator: Otto is needed elsewhere, so Milo and pals set to work painting Dame Delores's ballroom.
• 8:00 -- Work it Out Wombats: Zadie's Horrible Haircut; Zadie's Horrible Haircut; A Day Out With Babby: SUPER anxious about going to the barber, Zadie decides to cut her own hair. To fix this disaster, Zadie needs to face her fear of getting a haircut. When it comes to playdates, Malik discovers that smart devices have their limitations.

Golly such offensive content. The kids might actually learn something on Sesame Street!

I guess PBS hasn't been working then. Maybe it's their anti-science ideology in favor of capitalism, genocide, etc.

That book should be the US constitution.

The exact reason it has to go. Too much oversight, not enough pandering and way way too much science.

PBS is already funded.

By whom? Where do you think the propaganda comes from?

Keep pretending that the Democrats lost the election because of a conspiracy of online users further to the left of you, and not because they ran a botched campaign with an unelectable candidate.

bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe, WhY bOtHeR vOTiNg

Seriously, the fake "progressives" who refused to vote are the most detestable group in this mess. At least Trump supporters are brainwashed idiots. Fake "progressives" knew better and STILL helped Trump come back to power.

Blaming voters for how they vote is like blaming the weather when the forecaster got it wrong. We handed Harris an unprecedented amount of money and attention but her team made the wrong predictions on what would get people to vote. We can continue to blame misinformed voters and keep losing or we can learn a different lesson.

AETN was the affiliate there, they cut ties. State is taking credit cause racing to the bottom is Arkansas to a T

we also fund public libraries and schools. Im not sure why healthcare is what gets people. (i am it's the constant propaganda and people want to defund libraries and schools)

PBS is a remnant of an older America that attempted to improve things. It's mostly funded by donations just like national public radio. Both are highly politicized because they have a history of apolitical pursuit of truth and that made them boogeymen of the right. The right has also done some capture of them because of that (much like the bbc).

Also universal healthcare is something we're actively and intensively propagandized against. Despite that it's still more popular than our politicians would have you believe.

I always wondered about this actually. Why the two radically different pronunciations of "Kansas" between the two states so close to each other.

PBS provide contrary content to right wing, that is why its a threat to them.

It has nothing to do with money.

They still have online and broadcast service.

Why in the world would you have thought that PBS is no longer broadcast over the air?

i think this poster thinks "public television" means "available for viewing by the public" rather than "available for use by the public"

we have become a nation of consumers. not of makers, maintainers, or even owners. just consumers. the public broadcast system is in many places the only network where you can see a documentary made by your neighbor. but people who think like this, like pbs and voa are the same, would never think to make a documentary, or to learn more about their local community. these people really buy into the "there is no two americas, there is just america" propaganda. the reality is that there are 13 american nations based on cultural identity, and within those, another 3 based on access to services thanks to class based identity, meaning the 2 americas line of thinking introduced by jimmy carter could get most people closer to understanding the empire we live in, but there's really 39+ americas.

cutting funding to pbs means that there will be no exploration anymore of Arkansas' identity. they will now be subsumed into a national identity that does not care about Arkansas. no one will be able to speak truths about what it means to be from the farthest reaches of greater Appalachia to people living in new york city.

these people think they've told the coastal elites to shove it, but they've silenced only themselves, and have chosen to only consume content made by and for those very coastal elite. they have willfully chosen to enter into their own modern dark age. and they celebrate it, gleefully, because they haven't the education to understand what it is they've done

I'm guessing it's gonna be something out of the Prager propaganda machine.

Nah. PBS is "objective reality" to people who have no idea what propaganda is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

People who think this didn't go, so it's a black box. Person goes in ignorant like them, comes out with more left-leaning views. Clearly it's a lefty training camp. The missing variable for them is that exposure to diversity and exercising critical thinking ability naturally lead people to tolerance and a better understanding of the world around them. Reality has a leftwing bias etc etc

I don’t understand how one could think this.

Have you ever been to college?

i've seen this a couple places, but what does it mean? i know what it means to be ratioed, but not l+ratioed

ill fucking notice, asshole

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This is devastating to me, as an 8yo I was already reading medical textbooks. I can't imagine what it would be like to not have such foundational knowledge, but if I were to assume then it must be a rather dull and boring lifestyle, perhaps even dangerous whenever there's warning signs that don't use symbols.

if PBS was state propaganda...why would the state want to get rid of it?

Ahh, the overt propagandist takes made by the likes of shows such as zaboomafoo and sesame street. Soon we'll all be indoctrinated into thinking we're big bird.

You're not making a very strong point. That link doesn't help illuminate things either. I'm assuming you're pointing at PBS saying something pro-America or teaching American history in a way that makes the country appear more sacred, which, sure, is probably true. But it'd help your point to specifically point those things out and actually state why they're harmful, instead of being vaguely hostile while defining civil religion. As an aside, there are significantly worse offenders than PBS when it comes to espousing America's civil religion.

Idk I like it simply because it pisses conservatives off. The more conservative tears we, as a nation, can extract, the better. We need more PBS’s

Are these the new words you read on the whiteboard, in the data center in St Pete's? With your breakfast vodka's, Yuri?

Now now people let's calm down. Techocrit is obviously new to this and is unaware of how to seed subversion without outing himself in such a blatant manner. Let's all just agree that at least he tried, and say better luck next time.

Perhaps some subtlety, and some actually believable anacdotes are needed? Or perhaps you should start off with a dumber audience, like Facebook for example? Your handlers clearly didn't prepare you properly for this assignment.

Unfortunately, with all that said, I would not be doing my duty without also saying: Fuck off dickhead, try hopping into a bath with a live appliance.

is this sarcasm??

It’s like when you strip the bark from a tree and find it rotted from the inside.