I have more: alienated young men who call everything cuck as a defense mechanism against the reality of their own boundless weakness; teens who rebel against the new dominant paradigm of feckless professional liberals, then never grow out of it

look straight black people, if you think you support moonlight that's great, but you're fabrizio

Even if the wage gap was illusory, I still think women organizing together to protest would be a net positive. It's very possible the wage gap is overstated, but that still wouldn't make feminism less of a worthy cause.

I would have some sympathy for the anti-indentity politics movement if argued the primacy of a new collective politics with the ultimate end goal of improving the lives of all oppressed workers (who are disproportionately minorities, and minority women, anyway). I still think there's a place for identity politics, but…

tell them about family court Bullock! Tell them about the activist judges running America's family courts!

the destruction of any sort of collective identity in favor of the cult of individuality has everything to do with the encroachment of oligarchy in the US. The American Libertarian party was founded by the fucking Koch brothers. Libertarianism is a PR campaign for oligarchs/corporations.

what podcast is this? this sounds like something i'd be into

ive been waiting for it to, but at this point I think he's too modest and disarming a guy to ever get it that bad. He's got the stephen colbert thing where he has enough humor and aw-shucks about him that it's hard to ever hate. I don't mind pretension, but Saunders has an ability to be intellectual with a bare…

im glad this is good, but i also am prepared to push back really hard against the idea that *this* is his masterpiece, as if short stories are a lesser art form

reloaded is a really stupid, really uncool movie. It's lame like Chronicles of Riddick is lame. In one movie, they managed to go from "so cool they changed the culture" to "embarrassing to watch." Truly, I think both Matrix sequels are very, very bad, and they do a lot to hurt the Matrix from being considered what it…

No, I think you're wrong. Pablo was expertly acted, and honestly, I don't think he was supposed to be this lovable, hyper-cool antihero. He isn't Tony Soprano or Walter White, but he's not supposed to be. We're not supposed to be sad when Pablo dies, even if he cares about his family. Fuck, you honestly shouldn't be…

I just binged both seasons, and am I the only one who thought Gaviria was kind of a ineffectual president? Ultimately, his Vice President had most of the ideas, and once he was gone, he just got pushed around by the whims of whatever the Americans or the generals wanted.

The issue isn't whether he outed someone. The issue is that he used his platform to publicly humiliate some poor student. It's fucking evil. I don't even care about punching up/punching down. I don't care about trans jokes, or any jokes.

I could make a point that using your logic the New York Giants play in New Jersey, and therefore aren't a New York team either—but I have a weird feeling you'd happily agree to that

It's not half as good as Anthony Atamanuik's impression is. Then again, Larry David's Bernie wasn't near as good as James Adomian's, but at least that had the (honestly pretty amazing) novelty of being Larry David.

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Honestly, the tropes bothered me here. The only reason I didnt walk out of the theater is because I have the steel will of an autistic boy

i just checked rotten tomatoes, and it's nothing of the sort. 91% fresh, the consensus being great performances all around. I don't know.

if he's far more miscast, couldn't that mean he was properly cast? It would be clumsy phrasing, but maybe?

I was a big Kumail fan years ago, and while I've been happy to see him do well, I also recently kind of lost interest in his work. I still watch Silicon Valley, and would watch any stand up special he puts out—I'm still a fan—but I stopped waiting for him to do something brilliant.