#narative — Public Fediverse posts
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Just got back into my oldest X account from my #crypto days 🤣 OVER 50% of #social media is #botted right now spinning #political #narative & lies. Ephesians 6:11:
"Put on the full armor of God, so that you can stand against the devil’s schemes." -
What is unfolding between Paramount and Warner Bros. is not just another corporate merger. It is a full-blown power grab led by Jared Kushner and Saudi investors who are now bankrolling the takeover. The idea of people this politically connected and this unaccountable gaining control of what Americans watch and read should set off alarms everywhere. The deal would give them influence over titans like CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. Pictures, Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel, and even streaming platforms like Max and Paramount Plus.
It goes far beyond entertainment. The Saudis have quietly pumped billions into global culture for years, buying into tech companies, sports leagues, and now American media. They are reaching into the heart of how stories are told, from CNN to DC Studios to digital brands like Bleacher Report and Max. The silence from regulators and politicians is unnerving. This is not healthy competition or free-market growth. It is something closer to cultural capture.
The financial logic is almost as disturbing. Paramount is buried under billions in debt and Netflix owes around fifteen billion, yet both somehow keep getting greenlights for massive deals they cannot afford. The money flows anyway, and the same global investors keep showing up. What is taking shape is not just media consolidation. It is a takeover of the national imagination by the people with the deepest pockets and the least accountability.
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What is unfolding between Paramount and Warner Bros. is not just another corporate merger. It is a full-blown power grab led by Jared Kushner and Saudi investors who are now bankrolling the takeover. The idea of people this politically connected and this unaccountable gaining control of what Americans watch and read should set off alarms everywhere. The deal would give them influence over titans like CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. Pictures, Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel, and even streaming platforms like Max and Paramount Plus.
It goes far beyond entertainment. The Saudis have quietly pumped billions into global culture for years, buying into tech companies, sports leagues, and now American media. They are reaching into the heart of how stories are told, from CNN to DC Studios to digital brands like Bleacher Report and Max. The silence from regulators and politicians is unnerving. This is not healthy competition or free-market growth. It is something closer to cultural capture.
The financial logic is almost as disturbing. Paramount is buried under billions in debt and Netflix owes around fifteen billion, yet both somehow keep getting greenlights for massive deals they cannot afford. The money flows anyway, and the same global investors keep showing up. What is taking shape is not just media consolidation. It is a takeover of the national imagination by the people with the deepest pockets and the least accountability.
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What is unfolding between Paramount and Warner Bros. is not just another corporate merger. It is a full-blown power grab led by Jared Kushner and Saudi investors who are now bankrolling the takeover. The idea of people this politically connected and this unaccountable gaining control of what Americans watch and read should set off alarms everywhere. The deal would give them influence over titans like CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. Pictures, Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel, and even streaming platforms like Max and Paramount Plus.
It goes far beyond entertainment. The Saudis have quietly pumped billions into global culture for years, buying into tech companies, sports leagues, and now American media. They are reaching into the heart of how stories are told, from CNN to DC Studios to digital brands like Bleacher Report and Max. The silence from regulators and politicians is unnerving. This is not healthy competition or free-market growth. It is something closer to cultural capture.
The financial logic is almost as disturbing. Paramount is buried under billions in debt and Netflix owes around fifteen billion, yet both somehow keep getting greenlights for massive deals they cannot afford. The money flows anyway, and the same global investors keep showing up. What is taking shape is not just media consolidation. It is a takeover of the national imagination by the people with the deepest pockets and the least accountability.
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What is unfolding between Paramount and Warner Bros. is not just another corporate merger. It is a full-blown power grab led by Jared Kushner and Saudi investors who are now bankrolling the takeover. The idea of people this politically connected and this unaccountable gaining control of what Americans watch and read should set off alarms everywhere. The deal would give them influence over titans like CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. Pictures, Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel, and even streaming platforms like Max and Paramount Plus.
It goes far beyond entertainment. The Saudis have quietly pumped billions into global culture for years, buying into tech companies, sports leagues, and now American media. They are reaching into the heart of how stories are told, from CNN to DC Studios to digital brands like Bleacher Report and Max. The silence from regulators and politicians is unnerving. This is not healthy competition or free-market growth. It is something closer to cultural capture.
The financial logic is almost as disturbing. Paramount is buried under billions in debt and Netflix owes around fifteen billion, yet both somehow keep getting greenlights for massive deals they cannot afford. The money flows anyway, and the same global investors keep showing up. What is taking shape is not just media consolidation. It is a takeover of the national imagination by the people with the deepest pockets and the least accountability.
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What is unfolding between Paramount and Warner Bros. is not just another corporate merger. It is a full-blown power grab led by Jared Kushner and Saudi investors who are now bankrolling the takeover. The idea of people this politically connected and this unaccountable gaining control of what Americans watch and read should set off alarms everywhere. The deal would give them influence over titans like CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. Pictures, Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel, and even streaming platforms like Max and Paramount Plus.
It goes far beyond entertainment. The Saudis have quietly pumped billions into global culture for years, buying into tech companies, sports leagues, and now American media. They are reaching into the heart of how stories are told, from CNN to DC Studios to digital brands like Bleacher Report and Max. The silence from regulators and politicians is unnerving. This is not healthy competition or free-market growth. It is something closer to cultural capture.
The financial logic is almost as disturbing. Paramount is buried under billions in debt and Netflix owes around fifteen billion, yet both somehow keep getting greenlights for massive deals they cannot afford. The money flows anyway, and the same global investors keep showing up. What is taking shape is not just media consolidation. It is a takeover of the national imagination by the people with the deepest pockets and the least accountability.
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@lavaeolus @histodons Yes, I agree. Developing a "grand scheme", believing in it, and making inference based on it, is part of what makes us human. For that we need language, more than for anything else. It also boosts tool usage far above what can be observed in any other social species: all technologies are grounded in their own minor scheme of things. I've the link below as an example of what I mean.
#history #technology #narative #anthropology #wehaveneverbemodern
https://austhrutime.com/food_preparation_poison.htm -
@lavaeolus @histodons Yes, I agree. Developing a "grand scheme", believing in it, and making inference based on it, is part of what makes us human. For that we need language, more than for anything else. It also boosts tool usage far above what can be observed in any other social species: all technologies are grounded in their own minor scheme of things. I've the link below as an example of what I mean.
#history #technology #narative #anthropology #wehaveneverbemodern
https://austhrutime.com/food_preparation_poison.htm -
@lavaeolus @histodons Yes, I agree. Developing a "grand scheme", believing in it, and making inference based on it, is part of what makes us human. For that we need language, more than for anything else. It also boosts tool usage far above what can be observed in any other social species: all technologies are grounded in their own minor scheme of things. I've the link below as an example of what I mean.
#history #technology #narative #anthropology #wehaveneverbemodern
https://austhrutime.com/food_preparation_poison.htm -
@lavaeolus @histodons Yes, I agree. Developing a "grand scheme", believing in it, and making inference based on it, is part of what makes us human. For that we need language, more than for anything else. It also boosts tool usage far above what can be observed in any other social species: all technologies are grounded in their own minor scheme of things. I've the link below as an example of what I mean.
#history #technology #narative #anthropology #wehaveneverbemodern
https://austhrutime.com/food_preparation_poison.htm -
@lavaeolus @histodons Yes, I agree. Developing a "grand scheme", believing in it, and making inference based on it, is part of what makes us human. For that we need language, more than for anything else. It also boosts tool usage far above what can be observed in any other social species: all technologies are grounded in their own minor scheme of things. I've the link below as an example of what I mean.
#history #technology #narative #anthropology #wehaveneverbemodern
https://austhrutime.com/food_preparation_poison.htm -
#SouthAfricanRainbowAlliance (#SARA) #president #rebukes #LGBTQ #rights and #indecent #uniforms in #schools in #SouthAfrica
#Gauteng #Premier #Candidate and #SARA #leader #ColleenMakhubele has been accused of driving a #homophobic #narative.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #SouthAfrica #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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#SouthAfricanRainbowAlliance (#SARA) #president #rebukes #LGBTQ #rights and #indecent #uniforms in #schools in #SouthAfrica
#Gauteng #Premier #Candidate and #SARA #leader #ColleenMakhubele has been accused of driving a #homophobic #narative.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #SouthAfrica #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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#SouthAfricanRainbowAlliance (#SARA) #president #rebukes #LGBTQ #rights and #indecent #uniforms in #schools in #SouthAfrica
#Gauteng #Premier #Candidate and #SARA #leader #ColleenMakhubele has been accused of driving a #homophobic #narative.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #SouthAfrica #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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#SouthAfricanRainbowAlliance (#SARA) #president #rebukes #LGBTQ #rights and #indecent #uniforms in #schools in #SouthAfrica
#Gauteng #Premier #Candidate and #SARA #leader #ColleenMakhubele has been accused of driving a #homophobic #narative.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #SouthAfrica #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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#SouthAfricanRainbowAlliance (#SARA) #president #rebukes #LGBTQ #rights and #indecent #uniforms in #schools in #SouthAfrica
#Gauteng #Premier #Candidate and #SARA #leader #ColleenMakhubele has been accused of driving a #homophobic #narative.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #SouthAfrica #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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"Without professional historians, history education will be left more and more in the hands of social media influencers, partisan hacks and others unconcerned with achieving a complex, empirically informed understanding of the past. Take, for example, Bill O’Reilly’s 12-books-and-counting “Killing” series — the best-selling nonfiction series of all time, according to Mr. O’Reilly’s publishers"
#history #usa #america #slavery #race #crt #identity #narative #WhoWeAre #NYT today.
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"Without professional historians, history education will be left more and more in the hands of social media influencers, partisan hacks and others unconcerned with achieving a complex, empirically informed understanding of the past. Take, for example, Bill O’Reilly’s 12-books-and-counting “Killing” series — the best-selling nonfiction series of all time, according to Mr. O’Reilly’s publishers"
#history #usa #america #slavery #race #crt #identity #narative #WhoWeAre #NYT today.