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FUCK SESAME STREET!
NPR is a dumpster fire, but I credit it for helping me leave the left behind.
I'm driving my first Mercedes around, an old diesel beater. Has the original radio, even the original speakers. I could only listen to classical and talk radio, because the speakers were so dry rotted, any bass at all made them fart out.
So I start listening to NPR. Muh very cultured, oh so intellectual NPR. Let's see what it's about, why not? Always hearing about it.
I noticed after awhile, aside from it being very much late 00s hipster soy flavored, that despite the constant rattling of the change cup begging for donations, it was not at all publicly funded. Not really.
I tuned out when they announced sponsors because it's basically advertising and I don't fucking care...wait, get the fuck out of here!
"The next hour of programming is funded by ExxonMobil. "
So, the oil oligarchs are sponsoring programming? That means they have leverage over the programming direction.
Then one day I notice the absolute dealbreaker, and I lost a lot of the small amount of respect I still had for leftists that day.
"This hour of prgramming is spinsored by Monsanto." Yes, the corporate fuckheads messing with our food supply and undermining independent farming with Roundup Ready GMO seeds Monsanto.
Did Halliburton sponsor airtime for NPR? Dunno, wouldn't be surprised, though.
That was the day my hot rodded version of typical 00s liberal perspective began to unravel. Jon Stewart would do his part, too, sunce all of a sudden when the Gay Nigger In Chief came online, the hard hitting questions and political fastballs were replaced by dick riding and underhand softballs, and a very obvious "you're racist if you question Barry Sotoro" tone.
Fuck NPR and fuck Sesame Street. The latter just teaches White children to hate themselves and fetishize browns, and I wonder if it was always so, just with a more subtle subtext.