[scottLobster]

Welcome to the return of history. This is hardly the first time or industry where the US government has forced compliance that wasn't necessarily in the public interest.

And the corporations won't fight this. They're in it for the money and they're willing to bring actual gold bars to White House to ensure it keeps rolling in. They know what they're doing is corrosive and debasing, the more conscientious of them probably want to vomit on the inside. But they mostly suck it up and do it anyway, for their investors will discipline them if they don't.

Either people run candidates and vote for the ones that campaign on stopping this, or it happens.

[inigyou]

> for their investors will discipline them

Worse: they'll be sacked and replaced with someone who will.

Like Trump's FCC chair was saying he'll revoke the license of stations that make republicans look bad. Those stations will then be replaced with more copies of Newsmax. CBS either toes the line or it gets shut down and replaced by a station that will.

[mmooss]

CBS is owned by Trump supporters. They aren't being forced against their will, they are acting on their own political motivation.

[mmooss]

> the return of history

The idea that somehow the current actions are 'real' history and what people were doing before is fake just feeds the claim of inevitabiility, a basic psyops maneuver - you can't win; our victory is inevitable.

People have made history for centuries of Enlightenment - the whole idea is that we can control our fates as individuals through reason and compassion (humanism), and we have done it. We have transformed the world. The only problem is people giving up - despite the incredible success of this idea over centuries - and accepting that they can't control their fate. Certainly MAGA-ish conservatives believe they can make history.

[scottLobster]

"The End of History and the Last Man" was a book written in 1992 about the end of the Cold War and how previous historical patterns no longer applied, and Western liberal democracy would sweep the world and usher in a world of peace.

The "return of history" is snarkily pointing out how historical trends have been reasserting themselves, and Fukuyama (the author) was, at best, overly optimistic

[mmooss]

Fair enough, but,

> historical trends have been reasserting themselves

Western liberalism is an historical trend, just like the others.

[harimau777]

The parent was likely referencing the idea that the end of the Cold War represented "the end of history".

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