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  • Turret3857@infosec.pubtoMicroblog MemesPBS is "the propaganda"?
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    12 分钟前

    Okay so I’m assuming you’re ESL here because you’ve completely misinterpreted my original response. I was pointing out that the US also funds institutions in addition to PBS such as schools and libraries, yet our republican population gets up and arms about healthcare. It was adding your your argument. It was agreeing with your sentiment. A complimentary piece of information to back your argument.

    The part I’m not understanding is why you seemed to be attacking me for agreeing with you.

    If I had to choose between PBS and national healthcare, I would prefer to have national healthcare. However, this argument only works in a black and white world, a binary world, or an extremists only world. We do not live in that. You can have both. Your argument at that point is a what-about-ism that you really did not have to bring up.

    I never said PBS is “as important as healthcare” and my statement about why people are “stuck on healthcare” was saying “I do not understand why U.S. Americans (specifically, Republicans) are so quick to dismiss national healthcare as an option when we have other public services in the U.S that function without a problem.”

    Also, I’m not sure what your tirade at the end of “pay for a TV channel for a foreigner” is all about. PBS’s primary focus and audience is on the US. Other countries can consume the content sure, but any American could watch say, the BBC. Just because an American watches the BBC does not mean that American is somehow siphoning money off of the UK.

    So again, I have no idea why you’re attacking me when I am literally agreeing with your statement.


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    Im not sure what youre saying here. I think that healthcare should be government funded, and at the same time I dont believe PBS (The Public Broadcasting Service TV channel, government funded and nonprofit, not private) should be defunded. They’ve created countless television series that have aided education and acceptance of other cultures.

    I think that instead of taking from the US public infrastructure (Like PBS or Schools) to fund healthcare, we should be taxing corporations and billionaires more. Thats what most of the american left (the actual left not the practical right wing democrats) believe.

    I’m not exactly sure what your point is, but it reads as if you believe there are Americans who are anti-socialized healthcare, but also pro-PBS. I have never seen that opinion held by any american.