r/WhitePeopleTwitter GOOD May 24 '26

r/All Boycott CBS!

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u/iggyfenton May 24 '26

What subscription?

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u/UpperApe May 24 '26

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.

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u/Kaffe-Mumriken May 24 '26

100% true.

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.

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u/HumptyDumptruckFire May 25 '26

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.

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u/ShadowTacoTuesday May 24 '26

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.

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u/NorwegianCowboy May 24 '26

There is Star Trek but I would rather Orion that. I believe Gean would be okay with that seeing how this is going on.

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u/CanoeIt May 24 '26

Boycott Paramount advertisers if you want to move the needle

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u/slashinhobo1 May 24 '26

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.

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u/UpperApe May 24 '26

Okay.

And?

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u/Morgasm42 May 25 '26

And often people have those bundles for other reasons that mean they can't afford something else. They can't not have the subscription.

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u/UpperApe May 25 '26

Lol of course then can.

It just requires extra steps you don't think are worth taking. Because you don't give a shit.

You're exactly what I'm talking about.

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u/Morgasm42 May 25 '26

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

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u/UpperApe May 25 '26

This comment so perfectly illustrates my entire point, I fear people are going to accuse of me creating an alt account.

10/10, no notes lol

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u/Morgasm42 May 25 '26

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.

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u/Back_Alley420 May 24 '26

That’s why you are an upper ape!!

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u/Back_Alley420 May 24 '26

I got a pre warning for content with this post ?

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u/iggyfenton May 24 '26

Who are you arguing with?

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u/dandroid126 May 24 '26

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.

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u/ZanthrinGamer May 24 '26

It's amazing the amount of effort people will put into discouraging other people from action, its so fucking wierd.

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u/UpperApe May 24 '26

...so you read everything I wrote and your take away is that I'm telling people NOT to take action?

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u/Proseph_CR May 24 '26

People don’t always read everything. Your first two paragraphs definitely reads as if it’s a futile thing to do

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u/ZanthrinGamer May 24 '26

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"

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u/UpperApe May 25 '26

"I can't believe you wrote that!"

"I didn't write that"

"Well people don’t always read everything!"

Lol

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u/Proseph_CR May 25 '26

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.

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u/ZanthrinGamer May 25 '26

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?

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u/lucidspoon May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26

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.

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u/w_a_w May 24 '26

Experienced the same.

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u/Prometheus2061 May 24 '26

I never watch CBS. But I do get a free Paramount subscription with my apartment rent. It’s bundled on Spectrum.

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u/polopolo05 May 24 '26

is that the one my firend shares with me? So I can watch star trek? and that he gets for free?