That conversation would be tangential to her case because her case (as a defamation case) is claiming it’s not true. If it is true, it’s not defamation, which is honestly the real reason her case is going to fall apart because Gadd gave Netflix all of the emails, voicemails and texts prior to the show going out.…

I’m not saying this woman has a case - I don’t know enough about the situation to weigh in either way - but I do think it’s worth having a serious discussion about how much effort needs to be put into making the subjects of “true story” entertainment anonymous. Should Gadd and people like him be able to tell their…

Sometimes I think a certain subset of people heard that aphorism “If you stay silent in the face of injustice you have taken the side of the oppressor” and extrapolated it to “You can never stay silent about any perceived Bad Thing, of any kind or at any level, or you’re also a bad person.” So hassling someone you…

Say what you will about young people though, they tend to avoid making phone calls. 

“The biggest lie in television history”

I’m well aware of the atrocities Hamas committed, but that can never justify committing atrocities in return. All countries are held to this standard. While some would have approved of the US indiscriminately carpet bombing, or even nuking, Afghanistan post-9/11 in an effort to eliminate Al Qaeda, that would have been…

Are you sure you’re responding to the right comment? I never said anything about “erasing” Israel. No sane person is under the illusion that Israel is going to disappear. “Does Israel have a right to exist/Does Israel have a right to defend itself” is a disingenuous red herring to toss into any conversation when…

All those are bad but right now the only one that my government I actively directly funding is the genocide of the Palestinians.

I wonder what else was Israel supposed to do?

“Does it not matter that Hamas is using those same children as human shields”

I mean no they dont , but also , maybe dont murder kids and bomb hospitals on the pretence that they’re hiding terrorists either.
As someone from Ireland as well I can tell you ‘whataboutery’ does nobody any good. And While Hamas are evil bastards the solution isn’t just ‘kill every Palestinian , and let God sort it…

Wait, someone can’t mention Palestine without reciting a litany of other global issues? That’s ridiculous. If someone wants to discuss Ukraine, I don’t demand they discuss Uyghurs. Belief that discussing one topic at a time is invalid is crap. So I agree that selective outrage is bullshit; it’s a bullshit derailment…

I’m Palestinian, you dumb motherfucker. I’m pissed about all the shit you listed, but I think I’m allowed to specifically be upset about ethnic cleansing and war crimes being committed against my people.

How many Palestinian children would you like to see killed to punish Hamas? Wha’s the number? 20,000? 30,000?

oh get fu©ked. Hamas’ anti LGBTQ+ stance is not, or ever will be, an excuse for the genocide of an innocent population. And you’re trying to use it as a justification by bringing it up here.

Marginalizing Daisy Ridley is totally on brand for Disney.

A while back they announced plans for a Star Trek horror series. Presumably based on the Gorn as depicted in Strange New Worlds.

Yeah. He was great on 30 Rock, and he was in some pretty good movies (The Hunt for Red October, for example). The “Always Be Closing” scene added to the film adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross wouldn’t have been the same with any other actor delivering that monologue. I also love his voice as the narrator of The Royal…

I wish that Romulans got the same lore treatment that Klingons eventually got, and it was revealed that they had some sort of Kim Jong type leader that they’re all trying to impress.

The thing I always loved about the Romulans was that it seemed like they had just one state sanctioned haircut.