Corporation for Public Broadcasting Formally Dissolves After Funding Cuts

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techblueberry

3d ago

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I think I know the answer to this question but curious of other perspectives - why is it that like 40 years ago, right-leaning folks wanted to conserve institutions, and now that's flipped.

it does I dunno explain or is correlated with why the political compass doesn't use the term liberal or conservative (it uses libertarian but obviously not the same thing.). It's kind of interesting that I think that maybe 10 years ago I would have said left / liberal / democrat and right / conservative / Republican were synonyms, and now I would say those are very different words with very different meanings.

jtbayly

3d ago

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Because the institutions have been rotted out by liberal insanity. Conservatives have no reason to conserve institutions that exist only to attack conservative ideals.

techblueberry

3d ago

Tell me how you really feel! I think I would make a different argument, that folks on the left or center-left are now conservative, and folks on the right are now sort of reactionary or maybe even anarchic(David Brooks said “Nohilistic” in this piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/rufo-yarvin-trump...).

Which gets to a weird point because you can’t create new institutions with nihilism (Christopher Rufo has said has much)

msie

3d ago

Oh, brother. Do you have any proof or are you parroting MAGA talking points? What ideals are you talking about? Conservative ideals have definitely shifted to the far right. I remember the Tea Party was at odds with other conservatives in the GOP and then they took over.

gnabgib

3d ago

Deadline (3 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46503906

Corporation For Public Broadcasting (4 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504496

Variety (6 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46505794

Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations (624 points, 5 months ago, 604 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44759382

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order (392 points, 8 months ago, 562 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43869546

msie

3d ago

Saddened at the dumbing of America.

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