I think it’s the easier path to name recognition nowadays. Previously getting on SNL was about the only way for a comedian to get national recognition. Stand-up sets, comedy albums, the occasional commercial with some but parts in TV and film wasn’t going to do it. But now that same recognition can be had with a…

Possibly because all members of the German Army were not Nazi Party members. And conscription was a thing back then.

The site's still up so at least we know he didn't try to write it himself and just push it out there.

You might not know of course, but how was this ever intended to be an “affordable alternative to hotels” like the CEO says? The host can’t possibly compete in the low end of the market, because of scale as you say, so the only thing the host can do is try for a more upscale experience and price accordingly. This model…

It’s funny how that general idea sounds fair in theory until you realize that it just guarantees legislative gridlock, which ensures that no major laws are passed, which fulfills the desire of one of the parties for nothing to change. Under the pretense of neutrality it’s promoting conservatism even outside of the…

I think one of Justin Roiland’s worst tendencies as a comedian is his wild riffs. They’re hit or miss and, for me, the one referenced in your username and avatar missed hard. Clearly you enjoyed it though. Opinions may vary but intentions not so much. That’s why when asking if something is a parody or a satire for…

I believe the stunt had some pop culture relevance at the time as I’m pretty sure that was in the middle of “Game Of Thrones”-mania when displaying severed heads on pikes and such was a frequent topic of public discourse. That’s what I thought she was going for. It probably would have been better worked into a sketch…

If the toad version is actually stronger than the synthetic kind Jesus Christ. 10 years or so ago I could get that stuff in quantity from China and from the dosage required it was pretty damn pure. It was the most powerful psychedelic experience I’ve ever had and I’ve had quite a few. Acid and shrooms of course but…

Why all the denials? Just go to the people with a bunch of wild accusations implying that everyone you spied on is involved in some nebulous conspiracy to destroy the country and that you were just protecting the people from this elite cabal determined to undermine whatever values the Greek people hold dear.

This is proof there's no such thing as a business genius, sometimes assholes just get lucky. I'm pretty sure rigging explosives to things and wiring them so they go off when certain conditions are met is something terrorists have been doing for years. At least when the right wing throws up another Unabomber we'll know…

You’ve really got to sum up your entire thesis in the first sentence and then elaborate. I read to the end of that but your average person will read the first few sentences then maybe skim the rest because your average person is a moron and half the population is even dumber than that.

He publicly called a man a pedophile for daring to suggest that one of Musk’s harebrained schemes was, in fact, harebrained and then doubled down on this when he mistook the fellow’s petite but fully legal wife for an underage Thai girl. I don’t know if that counts as terrible but it definitely happened and seems at…

It’s a terrible analogy though. Analogies should, stylistically, have more distance between their subjects of comparison. “This person doing something is like another person doing the same thing for a different reason” is lazy writing.

That’s correct. You can read historical documents where visitors and immigrants to the American colonies, when writing back home to Europe, explain that the people here descended from Europeans refer to themselves as ‘white’ in contrast to the African and Native peoples they lived along side. In a mostly physically…

I feel sure that Japanese people are talking shit about you behind your back but you’re right, it’s not because of your race. It’s because of your personality. You sound like one of those assholes defending Musk or Trump but you’re caping for a whole damn country, which is worse. For real, they’re laughing at you.

He can claim that the reference is actually to ass shots, where plastic surgeons remove and inject a person’s own body fat into their butt to reshape it. And that the association with her shooting was merely a double entendre and protected as a form of artistic expression. That would probably work in the US at least.

My first reaction was that he was trying to make a joke about her getting ass shots, injections to reshape one’s posterior, and unfortunately decided to intertwine it with her shooting as a way of making a double entendre. Otherwise the line isn’t near clever enough to get away with rhyming “smilin’” and “stallion”.

Furries? I see references to trans people here in the comments but I’m failing to see the link. I suppose it could be a weird form of analogy but it’s convoluted and illogical if so because furries do not believe themselves to be either animals or cartoons and do not expect others to treat them as such.

Reminds me too much of this:

My son’s school district sent us an email to make sure we knew that they were not providing litter boxes for furry students nor allowing costumes other than on designated days like Halloween. He prefixed it with something like “I never thought I’d need to say something like this in my capacity as an educator and…