Fun trivia: I think you’re right, and I thought so when I made this! But when I googled “Wendy’s Frosty” the google summary of the menu page said:

The huge disparity in sentencing seems pretty messed up. 

All I care about is : when will there be gluten free thin mints? I will spend $100 dollars a year on gluten free thin mints, no matter how they're sold. 

That’s super duper illegal, though of course getting to fight it will be a nightmare.

Heh. I immediately also thought of little moppet Hitler and his “struggle”.

Maybe Jimmy made some kind of off the cuff comment about that time Jerry was dating an underage girl, and Jerry took offense?

The thing Black Mirror doesn’t get its that bleak endings are unsatisfying as a general rule. And the more you invest in something, the more unsatisfying it is.

Not-Chik’n Soup. I’m sick. 

“Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos."

Again, though, I’m not seeing anything groundbreaking in that. I’m seeing “People like it”. Which is fine! But Reifenstahl would be nothing but a footnote if it weren’t for the fact that she pioneered things. I don’t see that for Allen.

I mean that might make some sense except A) it didn’t really mean he’s a genius, that’s just a career path and B) it’s also false. He did stand-up long after he was already established as a writer. And I mean, Mel brooks definitely had him beat even if that was true. 

Right, but the OP equated him to Leni Reifenstahl. The point is, even if he was good (and while it’s subjective, there *are* ways to talk about/convey the ways in which art is good, as you note when talking about books), I don’t see what was *amazing* or *unique* about him. What did he pioneer? What did he invent? Is…

Thank you for trying harder than the commenter I was replying to.

Thank you for at least attempting an answer, which is far more than the original commenter could manage.

“I should be able to make claims about subjects I admit I know nothing about, and if you ask me for even the *most elementary support* as is clearly expected when assertions are made in public forums, you’re just lazy”.

No, the problem is with you making assertions and trying to hide behind condescension when you can’t answer even the most elementary question about them. I thought you had some good faith, but it’s clear you don’t.

You don’t have to be a “maven” to have some idea of why he’s so important. If you knew George Washington was “important”, but had no idea why, I really wouldn’t expect you to be commenting about how people who don’t think he’s important really don’t know what they’re talking about, because you wouldn’t know what you…

Your condescension is rather foolish. I asked why he’s good, you could have just said “I don’t know”. Instead you gave multiple non-answers that amount to “watch his movies” and now “Google it”.

“But to assert that he isn’t a good filmmaker, as others have, flies in the face of both critical and popular assessment.”

Sleeper is a bad movie. Not the worst or anything, but definitely not a good movie.