Sensitive subjects.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6745228

TLDR: Apple wants to keep china happy, Stewart was going after china in some way, Apple said don’t, Stewart walked, the show is dead.

Not surprising at all, but sad and shitty and definitely reduces my loyalty to the platform. Hosting Stewart seemed like a real power play from Apple, where conflict like this was inevitable, but they were basically saying, yes we know, but we believe in things and, as a big company with deep pockets that can therefore take risks, to prove it we’re hosting this show.

Changing their minds like this is worse than ever hosting the show in the first place as it shows they probably don’t know what they’re doing or believe in at all, like any big company, and just going for what seems cool, and undermining the very idea of a company like Apple running a streaming platform. I wonder if the Morning Show/Wars people are paying close attention.

    • @LitanyEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      POTUS should be a job filled by people with regular careers who serve their term, then return to their careers afterwards, if they don’t wish to retire.

      A POTUS who is a farmer will have unique insight on how to improve the lives of farmers. Then they go back to being a farmer too. Rinse and repeat for every other job. Doctor, college professor, cybersecurity professional, engineer, astronaut, etc, etc, etc.

      Instead we just get career politician after career politician, usually with a background in law, or maybe finance.

      There should be term limit reforms that also restrict ex-office holders from continuing careers as lobbyists* and other Capitol Hill creatures. Go back to your old career after holding office, or retire.

      • @[email protected]English
        -1•1 year ago

        Sorry to burst your bubble but POTUS is a management position. You oversee millions of jobs as the head of the Executive branch.

        It is a job that the vast majority do not have the skills or temperament to manage with any degree of competence. The plantation owner who oversaw the hundreds of jobs/slaves of the past might have been able to be the head of a smaller and weaker government but the modern farmer isn’t going to have skills that transfer to POTUS.

        The reason why it’s finance, politicians, and lawyers that end up in the job is those are the fields whose skills actually do transfer.

        POTUS isn’t an entry level job. You should have governmental experience and a history of managing large organizations.