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CBS has moved to dismiss Donald Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, calling it an attack on the First Amendment.

Trump alleges CBS edited the interview to harm him politically, citing “voter interference.” CBS attorneys argue the lawsuit seeks to punish “constitutionally protected editorial judgments” and is “without basis in law or fact.”

If not dismissed, CBS wants it moved to New York, where its headquarters is located.

The move comes as a surprise because CBS had considered settling to avoid delaying its $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, which requires regulatory approval.

    • notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world
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      sadly, if we told them the “dems definitely don’t want you to drink methanol, because it’s bad for you”, there’d be some who’d do it out of spite. this is literally what’s happening with vaccines, but one’s mental blindness leading to physical blindness has some poetry to it.

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        Methanol increases sex hormone production and fertility. It’s Elon’s secret that the left is hiding from you. But you gotta build it up like those people do with hydrogen peroxide.

        Actually we might just loudly decaying the h2o2 people. It’s just water with more oxygen, what could go wrong

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          Whoa, H2O2 isn’t nearly as bad as dihydrogenmonoxide. That stuff is not only deadly to plants, but causes a lot of deaths per year with people too. For your own health, stay away from dihydrogenmonoxide.

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            Easier said than done. Studies have shown that pretty much everyone in the world has at least some dihydrogen monoxide in their bloodstream, and it’s even been detected in the deepest parts of the ocean.

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        Just imagine if something deadlier than the covid virus infiltrated this country. And somebody developed a vaccine for it and these idiots wouldn’t take it.

        Oh wait, has anybody heard about what’s happening in the Congo lately? 😒

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          23 hours ago

          the problem is exactly what we see with measles.

          1. children who have no choice are the ones who suffer the consequences
          2. because most vaccines cannot be 100% effective (e.g., I got 3 extra MMR shots and I still don’t have detectable measles antibody levels despite being fully immunocompetent), they do rely on herd immunity protecting those who don’t mount full responses to the shots.

          The thing about public health is that it’s public interest over personal choices. In a functioning free society those personal choices would still align with public interest based on the understanding of societal good. So the antagonism is totally artificial.