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conehead433

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ATT should be boycotted. How could a company in the USA be so anti democratic and pro American terrorists. You can turn the channel to avoid Fox News. You can choose a different wireless carrier if you have ATT. I don't have ATT, but I would surely be switching if I did.
 

VW MAN

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ATT should be boycotted. How could a company in the USA be so anti democratic and pro American terrorists. You can turn the channel to avoid Fox News. You can choose a different wireless carrier if you have ATT. I don't have ATT, but I would surely be switching if I did.
Agreed AT&T should be boycotted/avoided, but its not just the wireless carrier that makes up AT&T. Here is a list of all its holdings -

  • HBO and Cinemax, as part of Home Box Office Inc.
  • TBS, truTV, TNT, Studio T, and TCM, as part of Turner Entertainment Networks
  • Adult Swim and Cartoon Network, as part of the TBS, Inc. Animation, Young Adults & Kids Media (AYAKM) division
  • CNN and HLN, as part of CNN News Group
  • The websites Super Deluxe, Beme Inc., and CallToons
  • DC Entertainment
  • DC Films, including all of the “Batman” movies
  • Turner Broadcasting International
  • Turner Sports, including the website Bleacher Report and the rights to March Madness and NBA playoffs
  • The CW (50%)
  • Warner Bros. Animation
  • Hanna-Barbera Cartoons
  • Fandango Media (30%)
  • Warner Bros. Consumer Products
  • Warner Bros. Digital Networks
  • Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures
  • Warner Bros. Pictures International
  • Warner Bros. Museum
  • Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank
  • Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden
  • Warner Bros. Studio Tours
  • Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Warner Animation Group
  • Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
  • NonStop Television
  • New Line Cinema
  • Turner Entertainment Co.
  • WaterTower Music
  • Castle Rock Entertainment
  • The Wolper Organization
  • HOOQ
  • Blue Ribbon Content
  • Warner Bros. Television
  • Warner Horizon Television
  • Warner Bros. Television Distribution
  • Warner Bros. International Television Production
  • Telepictures
  • Alloy Entertainment
  • eleveneleven
  • Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
  • Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
AT&T had already controlled:
  • Ameritech
  • Ameritech Cellular
  • Ameritech Interactive Media Services
  • Ameritech Publishing
  • AT&T Communications (2017)
  • AT&T International
  • AT&T Originals
  • AT&T Alascom
  • AT&T Business Internet
  • AT&T CallVantage
  • AT&T Computer Systems
  • AT&T FSM Library
  • AT&T GoPhone
  • AT&T Information Systems
  • AT&T Intellectual Property
  • AT&T Intellectual Property I
  • AT&T Labs
  • AT&T Mexico
  • AT&T Mobility
  • AT&T Technologies
  • AT&T Wireless Services
  • BellSouth
  • BellSouth Advertising & Publishing
  • BellSouth Long Distance
  • BellSouth Mobility DCS
  • BellSouth Telecommunications
  • Centennial Communications
  • CenturyTel of the Midwest-Kendall
  • Cricket Wireless
  • Crunchyroll
  • DirecTV
  • Fullscreen (company)
  • Illinois Bell
  • Indiana Bell
  • International Bell Telephone Company
  • Michigan Bell
  • Nevada Bell
  • Ohio Bell
  • Otter Media
  • Pacific Bell
  • Pacific Bell Directory
  • Pacific Bell Wireless
  • QLT Consumer Lease Services
  • Rooster Teeth
  • SBC Long Distance
  • SBC Telecom
  • Southwestern Bell
  • Southwestern Bell Internet Services
  • Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems
  • Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages
  • Unefón
  • Univel
  • Unix System Laboratories
  • AT&T U-verse
  • Wisconsin Bell
  • Yellowpages.com
  • YP Holdings
source

AT&T is the world's third largest media conglomerate - thats not easy to effectively boycott, unfortunately.
 

m8d

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Progressivism is a racket and its base is the marks. They keep falling for the same old lies over and over again.

Hey we both can play the game. ;)
You have Fox News that has a vaccine mandate for all of its employees. Then you have its talking heads go on air saying vaccine mandates are bad. They are killing their base.
 
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ch33zw1z

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Nov 4, 2004
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You have Fox News that has a vaccine mandate for all of its employees. Then you have its talking heads go on air saying vaccine mandates are bad. They are killing their base.

to people like pcgeek, "no u" is a perfectly reasonable reply. reality doesn't apply.
 

brycejones

Lifer
Oct 18, 2005
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Going against the Status Quo isn't always a bad thing. Look at the status quo in say North Korea. Would going against it be a bad thing?

But I guess if you are on the left and they are going against your beliefs it would be a bad thing in your world.

Pretty subjective. His statement wasn't an admission of some type of wrong doing the OP is missing the context.
A channel that is explicitly conservative is by its very definition not going against the status quo. Conservatism is the very act of defending the status quo.
 

DaaQ

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Dec 8, 2018
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Agreed AT&T should be boycotted/avoided, but its not just the wireless carrier that makes up AT&T. Here is a list of all its holdings -

  • HBO and Cinemax, as part of Home Box Office Inc.
  • TBS, truTV, TNT, Studio T, and TCM, as part of Turner Entertainment Networks
  • Adult Swim and Cartoon Network, as part of the TBS, Inc. Animation, Young Adults & Kids Media (AYAKM) division
  • CNN and HLN, as part of CNN News Group
  • The websites Super Deluxe, Beme Inc., and CallToons
  • DC Entertainment
  • DC Films, including all of the “Batman” movies
  • Turner Broadcasting International
  • Turner Sports, including the website Bleacher Report and the rights to March Madness and NBA playoffs
  • The CW (50%)
  • Warner Bros. Animation
  • Hanna-Barbera Cartoons
  • Fandango Media (30%)
  • Warner Bros. Consumer Products
  • Warner Bros. Digital Networks
  • Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures
  • Warner Bros. Pictures International
  • Warner Bros. Museum
  • Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank
  • Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden
  • Warner Bros. Studio Tours
  • Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Warner Animation Group
  • Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
  • NonStop Television
  • New Line Cinema
  • Turner Entertainment Co.
  • WaterTower Music
  • Castle Rock Entertainment
  • The Wolper Organization
  • HOOQ
  • Blue Ribbon Content
  • Warner Bros. Television
  • Warner Horizon Television
  • Warner Bros. Television Distribution
  • Warner Bros. International Television Production
  • Telepictures
  • Alloy Entertainment
  • eleveneleven
  • Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
  • Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
AT&T had already controlled:
  • Ameritech
  • Ameritech Cellular
  • Ameritech Interactive Media Services
  • Ameritech Publishing
  • AT&T Communications (2017)
  • AT&T International
  • AT&T Originals
  • AT&T Alascom
  • AT&T Business Internet
  • AT&T CallVantage
  • AT&T Computer Systems
  • AT&T FSM Library
  • AT&T GoPhone
  • AT&T Information Systems
  • AT&T Intellectual Property
  • AT&T Intellectual Property I
  • AT&T Labs
  • AT&T Mexico
  • AT&T Mobility
  • AT&T Technologies
  • AT&T Wireless Services
  • BellSouth
  • BellSouth Advertising & Publishing
  • BellSouth Long Distance
  • BellSouth Mobility DCS
  • BellSouth Telecommunications
  • Centennial Communications
  • CenturyTel of the Midwest-Kendall
  • Cricket Wireless
  • Crunchyroll
  • DirecTV
  • Fullscreen (company)
  • Illinois Bell
  • Indiana Bell
  • International Bell Telephone Company
  • Michigan Bell
  • Nevada Bell
  • Ohio Bell
  • Otter Media
  • Pacific Bell
  • Pacific Bell Directory
  • Pacific Bell Wireless
  • QLT Consumer Lease Services
  • Rooster Teeth
  • SBC Long Distance
  • SBC Telecom
  • Southwestern Bell
  • Southwestern Bell Internet Services
  • Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems
  • Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages
  • Unefón
  • Univel
  • Unix System Laboratories
  • AT&T U-verse
  • Wisconsin Bell
  • Yellowpages.com
  • YP Holdings
source

AT&T is the world's third largest media conglomerate - thats not easy to effectively boycott, unfortunately.

Agreed, my In Laws, just purchased a new Ford vehicle, (I used to work for Ford) it comes with 3 months free AT&T wifi (cellular). My Mother in Law I am pretty sure will not activate it.

We have Verizon, but I suspect, it doesn't make much difference. Other than AT&T has shit coverage for our area.
 

Lezunto

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Oct 24, 2020
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You're right, it wasn't an admission. It was a bald-faced lie. The only status quo they were fighting was by pretending news and editorial are the same thing.

Excellent and succinct observation.
 

MrSquished

Lifer
Jan 14, 2013
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My sister, brother in law and mother are all on at&t.

Just messaged them about potentially switching.

I'd go to Verizon. Not like they are an amazing company, but helping create OAN? That's fucked up. Those people are sociopaths.
 
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pcgeek11

Lifer
Jun 12, 2005
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Lying is a #bothsides? Really? We had a Trump administration lie counter and it topped out at around 30K in 4 years.

People like you always bitched how left leaning the so called MSM is. "They didn't do a lie counter for Obama"

All these propogandist right wing media Fox News OAN, Newsmax, Brietbart, et al if they are doing their job have a chance to prove to people like you lying is #bothsides by starting their own Biden administration lie counter. Why didn't they? Too lazy? Can't make a conspiracy out of it? No fodder to brainwash their lemmings with?

Why don't you speculate with your intelligence why none of these media outlets have done so.


So you say the progressive / left never lies?
 
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pcgeek11

Lifer
Jun 12, 2005
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A channel that is explicitly conservative is by its very definition not going against the status quo. Conservatism is the very act of defending the status quo.

Your post is confused a "Status Quo" Could be anything.

Definition:

Status quo is a Latin phrase meaning the existing state of affairs, particularly with regard to social, political, or military issues. In the sociological sense, the status quo refers to the current state of social structure and/or values.
 

brycejones

Lifer
Oct 18, 2005
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Your post is confused a "Status Quo" Could be anything.

Definition:

Status quo is a Latin phrase meaning the existing state of affairs, particularly with regard to social, political, or military issues. In the sociological sense, the status quo refers to the current state of social structure and/or values.

Deep thinker you are not.
 

dank69

Lifer
Oct 6, 2009
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They're also lying about the number of actual lies. Check the list out sometime when you need a laugh.
Okay post up one example that makes you laugh. Strange you can't recognize a strawman when it's used against Democrats/progressives. Nope, just like it and move on with your carefully curated "reality."
 

dank69

Lifer
Oct 6, 2009
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So you say the progressive / left never lies?
If we took all the lies ever spoken publicly by every Democrat at the federal level since 1970 and subtracted that total from every lie told publicly by every Republican at the federal level since 1970, you'd reduce the Republican total by maybe 1%. Probably less.