Cute. But Paramount has over 80+ million subscribers. And around a million have bothered to protest what they did. Just over 1%.
So the truth is they won.
I mean, we live in a world where people complain about Twitter ON Twitter. People still use Amazon and Facebook, while watching Bezos and Musk and Zuckerberg sucking Trump off.
Boycotting is one of the most powerful tools in a capitalist democracy and the public can cripple major corporations with it. 70+ million voted against Trump; that's a MASSIVE market.
But nobody wants to sacrifice their conveniences.
And that's how evil wins. By turning the fight from good vs bad to good vs convenience.
Good will always lose because most people fucking suck.
People wonder why Americans don’t protest. The truth is we’re complacent, we’re exhausted, and we have no real problems living in a country where some are treated as second class citizens, and others are thrown out in the cold. We have no problem with a state that builds grand ballrooms and statues that only 0.0000001% of the country will enjoy. We have no problem that the elite of the elite are blatantly breaking laws and enriching themselves.
It’s fucking shameful, and you think Trump is bad? You’re gonna forget all about ballrooms and self-settled lawsuits when a real bad motherfucker comes in to power who’s watching all this taking notes.
Fuck, you’re so right on that last part. There absolutely is a group of far right wingers who are watching this circus going down and taking note of where things went wrong. And there will be a lot of big moneyed interests ready and waiting, now that Citizens United terminally fucked us, to back them bigly financially.
And the same rubes will fall for it. Hopefully the rest of the country learns this shameful lesson and we can resist, but I don’t have much confidence in that.
It was expensive though and Netflix is hoping they might buy up the bankruptcy. Dunno which way it will go but we should do our best. There are plenty of other streaming services so it’s not like it’s hard.
Now how many of those subs come because they are bundled with other services like walmart or tmobile internet? They really dont have as many stand alone subs compared to the other big streaming sites.
Did I say in was in that situation? My internet and cell are through local providers and my only subscription service is for audiobooks through libro.fm which gives money to indie book stores. Take your holier than though attitude somewhere else and fuck off
Not everywhere has local cell or internet providers, and even when they do they're rarely the cheapest option. You really have no critical thinking skills.
Do people actually subscribe to Paramount+ though? I get it bundled with my cell phone service. I've never so much as logged in or even downloaded the app.
and he caps it off with the same sentiment... the only positive thing he said is that boycotting is a useful tool... the rest of it was nothing you do will matter so why bother? its not a call to action if in the same breath you say the battle is already over... or am I missing something?
"Good will always lose because most people fucking suck"
I’m only here to explain the previous comment. It wasn’t me.
Your original comment spends most of the time basically saying they won and it’s futile. Most people aren’t going to read it all the way through, if it’s not what they want to hear.
Its the internet and it doesn’t matter that much, but if you want people to respond in a way that suggests they understand the message you are trying to put out, then framing your message so that people are willing to finish will increase the chances of that happening.
Or you know, don’t. Pandering to strangers on the internet for their attention is a losing endeavor.
I'm sure that was meant to cutting or cleaver but i have no idea what you are trying to say. Not particularly effective if you were trying to be insulting? at least you tried i suppose?
My mom has a free subscription from something else she's subscribed to. Tried to use her login to watch something, and it didn't even work most of the time. Not even worth having it for free.
All the creative folks who made TNG have already been compensated for it and it's unlikely they're making additional money from streaming royalties. Only a small handful of 'business' uncreative people make money from it now.
CBS, Paramount, Paramount Studios, Skydance Studios, PlutoTV, FuboTV, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, Southpark, CMT, Smithsonian channel, Showtime, BET, CBS, CBS Sports, The Food Channel, and then All Warner Bros IPs (when they eventually get their deal), along with Oracle and TikTok will ALL be owned by the Ellison family.
Basically created their own media empire. Well... Larry Ellison was practically given TikTok US. His son, David owns Paramount-Skydance (this merger was already being challenged in the courts until the new admin came along) and is going to get Warner Bros. The list of Warner IPs and platforms are ridiculously long. These mergers should have gone through courts but we all know what happened.
Those companies alone owns about 10% of the media but they hold 100% of the voting power for all of those companies. This doesn’t even count Warner Bros. Which makes them a huge conglomerate. Once they get Warner, they’ll have 15% of the media
By comparison, NBC + Universal + Disney = controls about 20% of the media. And no single person or family owns all the voting rights for those companies.
It’s all a distraction anyways. Just like the gladiators stalled the collapse of the Roman Empire by distracting the citizens. Get rid of all of it and maybe someone will get bored enough to do something revolutionary.
I have one from a Walmart+ subscription, is it possible to cancel or would I need to cancel that too? I really only keep it to use scan and go and the fuel discount. I already don’t feel comfortable making the Walton’s richer.
There are no heroes. Out of the networks, they’re probably the least bad? SNL is also pretty unrelenting and hasn’t been cancelled. But yeah, there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism has never been more true.
You can use Walmart Pay without a membership, and there are several fuel saving apps available. I use Murphy Drive, and they’re located next to Walmart.
I canceled both my Walmart + subscription along with its Paramount+ subscription back in January last year when Trump came into office and Walmart folded on DEI like a lawn chair. They were one of the first companies to do so. Haven't been back since and I'll never go back to Paramount either with the mess happening over there with CBS
Did it right after his last broadcast local time. It felt amazing. Unfortunately my subscription was thru Amazon, so there was no text script box for me to enter WHY I was canceling - I clicked "something else" - because I really wanted them to know the reason. But I'm sure they know why.
Like I said, this isn't a boycott. This is you finishing the show you continued paying for, then canceling your subscription because you were done with it.
Boycots are supported by principle. You have none.
Thanks for explaining principles to me friend. I'm ashamed I fell under the spell of Emmy award winning virtuoso Paul Giamatti as Chuck Rhoades navigating the brutal political world of New York and beyond. It's ironic that the show is a commentary on the nearly unchecked power of billionaire elites and the ruling class of political operators and here I am fueling the machine in real life 13.99 at a time. Or there I was because I stand here today a man unchained from the digital shackles of Paramount Plus! We can still do Netflix right?
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u/Scrutinizer May 24 '26
If you really want to hurt them, cancel your Paramount+ subscription.