What is PBS?
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The dominant reason Republicans want to kill PBS and NPR is greed.
They absolutely hate the idea of parting with one single cent.
It's that simple. Psychotic, irrational, and odious greed.
The minor issue of influence on children is trivial, but is a concern to them.
If it was greed, they wouldn't be so incredibly happy to waste money on shit that supports their ideology. The cruelty is the point, not greed
And the point of cruelty is to extract protection money, every time.
Or to "teach a lesson" to everyone else.... Greed and cruelty go hand in hand.
MSB taught me it was okay to cheat in dunking contests.
The Magic School Bus was my first voluntary expositions to English. I grew up in Québec, in a town near the border with Vermont/NY. We didn't have cable and one of the ways for me to see more cartoons and learn English was to tune the TV to channel 57, PBS Plattsburgh, and watch some Magic School Bus. I don't know why, maybe because it wasn't cartoons, but I was not a fan of the other shows on PBS.
That's a whiplash inducing username
Yeah tankies are a hard thing to understand. Such a level of stupidity required to become one.
Tom Morello? Yeah that's a weird one.
Almost as weird as Islamic Peoples Republic of Kim Il-Sung Thought.
Look, if you don't want to listen to some random dude who thinks reading is cool, fair enough. But if that random dude also runs level three diagnostics on the warp core and can swap polarity on the main deflector dish with one hand tied behind his back? Yeah...you should probably pay attention.
True.
And even when he tried to pick up a warp astrophysicist, and fucked it up, he learned, and adopted a new strategy. Namely, sometimes, shit don't work out, so go the holodeck.
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I can't take anything serious from someone who unironically put NK flags and Juche in the username.
I entered kindergarten already a reader, thanks to PBS programs like Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow. Later, as a pre-teen my local PBS offered great British sci-fi Saturday afternoons featuring Tom Baker as the lead on Doctor Who , and The Tripods .
pbs was awesome i loved carmen sandiego every day after school (also late 80s and early 90s nickelodeon because mr wizard's world was amazing)
BUT
my favorite show was on wcvb in boston called a likely story:
the first episode is here: https://collection.oldfilm.org/Detail/occurrences/56856
I remember that theme song. I think there was a similar one on around the same time called CBS Storybreak-- you remember that one?
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