One side’s narrative is what actually happened, and another side’s narrative is designed for a very specific purpose. Both sides are not the same.

It does not matter what “side” he was on.

A lot of people seem to be missing the point that this shooting was an example of right-on-right violence. The shooter wasn’t old enough to have voted in a presidential election before, but he was a registered Republican. Any rightwinger claiming that they are under attack from outside forces is lying. The shots are…

Myers has the best quote I’ve heard from anyone on the topic to date!

The same people who say “get over it” when classrooms full of children are slaughtered are now combing through social media posts to make sure everyone thinks this specific instance of gun violence is the one we need to burn the Constitution over.

I don’t think you are paying attention. He’s been threatening political violence for years now.

Especially given how deranged the MAGA folks are. That said Biden is also right that we need to cool down politics, there is NO room these days for a calm honest discussion it’s very much if you say you like hamburgers, well why do you HATE hot dogs.  It’s all absurd and stupid.

https://www.vox.com/politics/360812/democrats-replace-biden-trump-shooting

If somebody killed Biden, Trump’s comments would be on the lines of “see, that’s what you get!”

“Even President Joe Biden had to apologize for his metaphorical remark that it was ‘time to put Trump in a bullseye’”

I think both Seth Meyers and Colbert grappled with it pretty well.

D’Arcy was predominantly a stage actor before HOTD; even the most famous stage actors aren’t particularly easy to spot in public. And even after HOTD’s first season aired, they mentioned that they could still mostly go about unrecognized due to the pretty drastic difference between in and out of costume (they’ve even…

The overwhelming majority of actors are unsuccessful, but they still act anyway. It’s the sort of thing that a lot of people do for the sheer love of it, while working regular day jobs.

BS. There’s no reason to hold back. The more political credence we give these events, the more we encourage their repetition.

I think there were far fewer non-terrorist portrayals of Muslims or Arabs in media at the time. Nowadays it seems like a quaint complaint about True Lies, since there are a lot of depictions of those demographics that are something other than terrorists.

“Is the scene humiliating for Helen? For Jamie Lee Curtis?”

I saw True Lies late—whenever it originally came out on home video—and was pretty startled by how the movie treats Curtis’s character, compared to the fun reputation the movie had. The strip scene may scan as empowering and funny to some, but she’s manipulated into it by her own husband, and not just to “give her…

Though the xenophobia hasn’t gone away

Art and culture is kind of essential to a society continuing to function, and if the arts are inhabited only by the wealthy you get art that doesn’t understand over half of the society it comes from. 

To me it’s not so much a non-issue as a symptom of a larger problem- that is, it’s harder than ever to try to make a living in the arts/entertainment unless you have enough money that you can afford to be unemployed for a while or work jobs that have flexible schedules so you have time for auditions and such.