Meh, you shouldn’t hold me up as a representative of the Progressive Left. I also never said anything about silencing anyone. You assumed that’s what I meant when I said promote expert opinions over non-experts. But I don’t think you have to ban anyone to slow the spread of misinformation. That said, I’m all for…

That is a such a good, logical, level-headed idea; it will never see the light of day.

The Middleman was a great show. I should go rewatch it. 

You can think the wrong thing all you want. I don’t really care what you think. I don’t care what you talk to your friends about. I do however care when you start amassing thousands of followers who begin to repeat your baseless conspiracy theories verbatim and ad nauseam. I become greatly concerned when the reach of…

Orwell predicted the rise of omnipresent surveillance technology like Alexa and Smart TVs. He didn’t have that much to say about social media.

But is there anything that has encouraged double-think, that is cognitive dissonance enhanced by an echo chamber, more than social media?

The free market of ideas doesn’t work…

Or like “pro-life”?

Did they put a thwip sound effect in??

We were going to have a full-blown crisis at some point. You can’t just remove all the gatekeepers for public discourse and expect everything to be hunky-dory. Turns out that giving everyone access to a public speaking platform regardless of knowledge or expertise wasn’t that great of an idea. So yeah, here we are. 

Supports the Constitution! Ha! Let’s get one thing straight, no one supports the Constitution. People only support the specific, cherry-picked parts of it that they like. Especially people like Alex Jones. 

ugh, I don’t know why Kinja disappears videos, whatever. I give up.

Well...she has personal experience with being treated crappily by a ‘studio.’ I’m sure it’s a bit of a sore point for her.

Ugh, I’m a little ashamed that I can do this.

“You know Shakespeare?”
“I had an expensive education.”
“Romeo and Juliet is my favorite play.”
“Why is that not a surprise?”
“I’m sorry?”
“Heartache, pining, blech. There are so many better things to read.”
“Like what??”
[cut to library scene]

I don’t know if I would necessarily…

You mean with the Beast? Those scenes were included in the ten-year IMAX re-release of the film. Belle has Beast learn to read using “Romeo and Juliet.” She’s a hard taskmaster. 

I’m losing to a bird!

He’s fine. It’s fine. It’s fine. Guys, he’s fine. See, look, it’s fine. He’s fine. 

God bless John Williams. 

Yes. I’ve said for years that my personal problem with “Watchmen” is that you couldn’t possibly adapt all of it in a film, it just wouldn’t work. So you have to pick and choose, and Snyder picked the parts I was less interested in.

But I think the way you’ve put it is much better. Snyder didn’t adapt the satire part,…

You can subvert a chaotic neutral character by making her lawful neutral. What a lawul neutral Catwoman would look like, I dunno. 

My parents are liberals, and for some reason still watch it.

They’re just sleeping. 

I think that’s Hush’s backstory.