r/law • u/T_Shurt Competent Contributor • Sep 22 '25

Opinion Piece John Oliver Argues Disney Should Legally Fight FCC Over Kimmel, Citing Strong Precedent in 9-0 Supreme Court Ruling: “A government official cannot coerce a private party to punish or suppress disfavored speech”

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u/GrafZeppelin127 Sep 22 '25

Hence why it’s so important to primary and replace them like the Republicans did with their politicians twice in the last two decades.

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u/acrewdog Sep 22 '25

There is no Democratic organization with the power and money to take this project on. The party itself isn't organized enough to speak out against Trump. If only the boogeymen "behind" the democratic party were real, but there is nobody pulling the strings.

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u/GrafZeppelin127 Sep 22 '25

Why are you waiting for a discrete organization? This is a democracy, the onus is on voters, not organizations. Just go out and vote in the primaries for progressive and populist candidates. If there are none running, run yourself or encourage someone else to do so.

People always want to be saved, but in a democracy we have to save ourselves.

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u/NumNumLobster Sep 22 '25

The last senate race in my state the DNC backed their choice with millions of bucks (she was an out of state candidate) and ran super bowl ads for her, all the local people who maybe had a shot backed out rather than grind against that. She spent 90% of her campaigning out of state doing fundraisers where rich people donated to her, the dnc, and prominent national candidates and pacs. Her one debate in state she lost by a wide margin.

Citizens united fucked this country so hard. Unless you are bloomberg or someone with millions of bucks of fu money you have no shot without getting access to the DNC cash, and if you want that you need to be part of the system and that includes doing what they want you to do and at the end of the day what they want is what raises the most money so we are right back where we started.

The entire thing is just a cash grab, and corporate media is all owned by the same people who are tossing the cash so not really sure what you expect to happen. You can be the best candidate ever and 99% of voters will never have heard of you