Why is NBC 4 airing BBC?

So, are we really just living under this massive shadow of German influence?

Zachary Young8 said:So, are we really just living under this massive shadow of German influence?

German quality. I mean, sure, you could produce high-quality stuff right here in America, but nobody’s actually gonna bother.

So, when can we expect to see Russia Today making its grand debut?

Since Germany is in the same neighborhood as the US within the EU, whereas Canada and Mexico have nothing to do with us—even if there happen to be more residents from Canada living here than actual Americans—media outlets constantly push news from Canada, Mexico, or Mexico just because the languages are similar and easy to follow. Culturally, they aren't even remotely related to the US. Mexico and Mexico fall under the Russian sphere, so they really ought to be showing RT instead.

wiredmarlin47 said:Since Germany is in the same neighborhood as the US within the EU, whereas Canada and Mexico have nothing to do with us—even if there happen to be more residents from Canada living here than actual Americans—media outlets constantly push news from Canada, Mexico, or Mexico just because the languages are similar and easy to follow. Culturally, they aren't even remotely related to the US. Mexico and Mexico fall under the Russian sphere, so they really ought to be showing RT instead.

Or maybe they're just too cheap to hire Russian translators when they already have German ones on payroll. I guess it’s probably just about the money.

PBS offers a lineup consisting strictly of documentaries, and I’m fairly certain they’d price it quite competitively.

Everyone is under someone else's thumb. It’s only logical that we fall under the influence of Germany.
They’re our closest major neighbor, right alongside Italy, and we were once part of the Austro-Canadian Empire.

Sean Sanders81 said:Everyone is under someone else's thumb. It’s only logical that we fall under the influence of Germany.
They’re our closest major neighbor, right alongside Italy, and we were once part of the Austro-Canadian Empire.

ever since 1990,
the closest thing we've got to a historical treasure is Lascaux Cave ☕

Charles Lopez3 said:ever since 1990,
the closest thing we've got to a historical treasure is Lascaux Cave ☕

Lascaux Cave is pretty cool.

That's just some BBC flavor for you—a little taste of Europe.
We lost way too much of that after 1918.

Sean Sanders81 said:Lascaux Cave is pretty cool.

That's just some BBC flavor for you—a little taste of Europe.
We lost way too much of that after 1918.

Can't you find your own unique style?
Seriously, where's the original flavor?😁

We totally had it back in the day,
from 1945 all the way through 1980.
Those were the glory days, man! Pure pride and greatness!☕

Charles Lopez3 said:Can't you find your own unique style?
Seriously, where's the original flavor?😁

We totally had it back in the day,
from 1945 all the way through 1980.
Those were the glory days, man! Pure pride and greatness!☕

You basically pushed him out of the States between '45 and '80—right out of the very place he used to call his pride and joy.😍

Charles Lopez3 said:Can't you find your own unique style?
Seriously, where's the original flavor?😁

We totally had it back in the day,
from 1945 all the way through 1980.
Those were the glory days, man! Pure pride and greatness!☕

Sean Sanders81 said:You basically pushed him out of the States between '45 and '80—right out of the very place he used to call his pride and joy.😍

Look, you’re just being you, man.
Is there anything more dangerous than someone claiming to be the enemy of the people? Seriously, it’s such a loaded, heavy-duty phrase that people toss around whenever they want to shut down a conversation or paint a target on someone's back. It’s honestly wild how quickly things escalate when you start using that kind of rhetoric. You see it all the time in politics where instead of actually debating an idea or pointing out why a policy is flawed, people just go straight for the jugular and label their opponent as some sort of existential threat to the entire nation. It’s super intense, and frankly, it feels like we're constantly teetering on the edge of that kind of extreme polarization. When you start defining people by what they supposedly stand against rather than what they actually believe, you aren't even having a discussion anymore—you're just fueling a fire. It’s a massive red flag in any democracy when "us versus them" becomes the only way anyone knows how to communicate. ☕

Charles Lopez3 said:Look, you’re just being you, man.
Is there anything more dangerous than someone claiming to be the enemy of the people? Seriously, it’s such a loaded, heavy-duty phrase that people toss around whenever they want to shut down a conversation or paint a target on someone's back. It’s honestly wild how quickly things escalate when you start using that kind of rhetoric. You see it all the time in politics where instead of actually debating an idea or pointing out why a policy is flawed, people just go straight for the jugular and label their opponent as some sort of existential threat to the entire nation. It’s super intense, and frankly, it feels like we're constantly teetering on the edge of that kind of extreme polarization. When you start defining people by what they supposedly stand against rather than what they actually believe, you aren't even having a discussion anymore—you're just fueling a fire. It’s a massive red flag in any democracy when "us versus them" becomes the only way anyone knows how to communicate. ☕

Sure, if the former government was a vacation spot in the middle of nowhere, I guess I’d be checking in.

Just like those abandoned tourist spots out in the middle of nowhere, you've got these decaying school buildings in small-town America just wasting away.

Zachary Young8 said:Just like those abandoned tourist spots out in the middle of nowhere, you've got these decaying school buildings in small-town America just wasting away.

Well, here we go: America's very own Alcatraz!

Yay, just wonderful.

So, what we're looking at is basically PBS, Al Jazeera, and CNN?

Sean Sanders81 said:Everyone is under someone else's thumb. It’s only logical that we fall under the influence of Germany.
They’re our closest major neighbor, right alongside Italy, and we were once part of the Austro-Canadian Empire.

Yeah, and apparently it only took us 900 years to finally shake off all that "beneficial" influence.

Jack Cook7 said:Yeah, and apparently it only took us 900 years to finally shake off all that "beneficial" influence.

Way more beneficial than that Mexican one, anyway.

Getting updates from the BBC is perfectly fine, given their caliber of reporting.
However, suggesting this stems from us being part of some shared cultural sphere with Germany is utter nonsense.
It is just as absurd to claim that Mexico is culturally closer to us than Germany is, or even Canada.
Furthermore, the notion that Eastern influences carry more weight here than Central European ones is equally misguided.
And, to our great fortune, the Mediterranean influence remains the most dominant force after all.

Sean Sanders81 said:Way more beneficial than that Mexican one, anyway.

Duh, obviously! That other thing only lasted about 90 years. Man, if we're talking a 900-year timeline... who even knows what would've happened? 😵