Do not ever, ever pay Paramount+ for their service. Fuck all of them.
Anyway, what's this article about?
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Fucking cowards, all of them.
Literally forced one of their longest tenured show runners to retire, over the Harris 60 minutes interview nothing burger.
Every time The Daily Show goes on break I wonder if they'll be back because of this garbage, because it's only a matter of time before they go after them and others that don't lick the boot.
*seems like entire world is taking the same approach, what a disgusting time we live in
They are just encouraging this kind of behavior from him.
One man's extortion is another man's bribery.
Two sides of the same coin.
I feel like this thread is somehow interpreting the "bribery" payment as malicious on Paramount's part. If a corrupt cop is going to arrest you for made up charges unless you grease his palms, you're not being malicious or unethical, you're not somehow getting something out of the exchange that you otherwise wouldn't have, you're just being extorted by a corrupt cop.
Except that the company wants another merger, not simply to exist. They wouldn't go to jail, they just wouldn't pad the pockets of certain execs and/or shareholders
Paramount being capitalist is a red herring. That would have been the case regardless of trump being corrupt. Settling the extortion payment had to happen for them to stop being harassed. The fact that they want to stop being harassed....so that they can continue doing the same capitalist bullshit they would have done regardless is irrelevant. It's not the flip side of an extortion coin, it's a completely separate unethical practice to try to confuse and divide criticism. This is step one in fostering a "both sides" argument.
I guess I should've been more clear: Going to jail and earning less blood money are both extortion, but they're not comparable
This is simply how the GOP raises money now.
So, just another Republican donation, will they also be part of the Big Bill of Garbage now that they've sponsored fascism?
I wonder what Trump would say if he found out Paramount paid Matt Stone and Trey Parker $900 million.
Pls hush
Same with Iran, that was not the time for TACO
Edit: also lol, yeah, you can hear the pp deflate from its already formidable baby Portobello stature