I believe there are multiple lawsuits occuring over the incident, some concerned with legal responsibility for members of the production over the woman's death and other separate but related lawsuits stemming from the statements many of those people gave publicly blaming each other in the immediate aftermath. So one…

Man, Hollywood people are funny. Standing on their artistic integrity while they slob the knob of any audience they can find. That’s why the first step to becoming a writer is to be a bullshitter first. Those kids in school, the ones who made up transparent, ridiculous lies about going to the Moon over the weekend? I…

Since this is a cross complaint I think the people named are also suing him at the same time so I’m not sure what else he can do if he thinks they’re purposefully tarnishing his name to shift blame from themselves.

Or it could be that morality is completely subjective or at the very least highly dependent on culture, time period and context. To the point that any people discussing it without previously having established rigorous definitions of what exactly they’re talking about are just playing word games.

I’m not sure that would have helped. I can’t think of any countries that were in the Sino-Soviet sphere of influence and are well-known for tolerance today.

Ah. If that was the point you’d think he would have hurled it through the door, maybe with some peons ineffectually trying to stop him. If you're going to take the sink part literally might as well turn it into a demand for entrance.

I still don’t get the point of that bit. The expression is “taking everything but the kitchen sink" and it refers to leaving a place, not arriving. I hope this isn't going over my head, it seems too dumb. Passing between my legs? We need a phrase for when the joke is too stupid to be intelligible.

People who want to hurt them most likely, although I’m sure some get caught in rampages that have nothing to do with identity.

This sounds like a slippery slope argument and those are fallacies.

Awesome. Now I can read all your comments with an internal Crocodile Dundee voice. That should make this a lot more entertaining. Thanks.

Probably not going to happen but what if it turned out that he was really an inventor, not a sorcerer, and all his magic is just illusions and technology?

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’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.