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This would be a federal crime, Ron. And if union leaders agreed to it would lead to the destruction of your precious 1%er union."Be careful fucker, be really careful", Ron Perlman issues a threat (laced with "motherfuckers") towards the fat cats who plan to drag on the strike until the hacks lose their houses.
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Well, except for the part where that doesn't make sense, Bob. Deliberately killing off cable and broadcast (a borderline impossible goal considering the penetration rates versus Netflix the largest of the streaming services who should simply eat the other services) would destroy the first-run source of most of the streaming services most popular content.
Neither of these idiots realize that broadcast and cable also don't disclose viewership numbers either. They're extrapolated from third-party participatory surveys. It's like everyone forgets the whole era like during the last big writers strike where everyone frankly admitted the Nielsen numbers no longer had any relation at all to the profitably of TV shows. Streaming was barely a thing, Hulu had just launched for example. DVDs alone had thrown the economics out of whack. The networks had been finagling the economics for decades already, subsidizing critically popular content with actually popular content and vice versa. This was the whole purpose of the network "slate" because there was a finite amount of time. Getting a bunch of people to watch one thing was no good if they didn't watch anything else, when you put shows on was important as what they were. Streaming has basically none of these considerations.