The reason the shit-storm started for Confederate is because they and some other people working on the show described it in some detail, and it was looking pretty gross - among other things:

“right-wingers would be attacking it as “woke propaganda””

If that’s what it was going to be. GoT fell away from its critique of medieval storytelling and power structures to instead focus on tits, gore and melodrama pretty damn quick. Now, there’s nothing wrong with that in the abstract. But to have the two white dudes who pointedly never focused on “the small folk” turn to…

So, if Elon Musk — a big fan of Iain M. Banks — chose to bankroll a series of Culture movie/TV adaptations I’d... still think he was a worthless human being... but I would still watch them (assuming no musky editorial interference).

No motivation?? An old man, whose wife dies, has nothing left to live for, gets an opportunity to become young again and go on space adventures to kill aliens??? How’s that for an elevator pitch?

This is the indeed the absurd thing. For $100B you could finish the Second Avenue Subway and extend the N train to La Guardia. You could build high speed rail connecting the Texas Triangle. With that kind of investment you could even get most of the way toward resolving the water crisis in the southwest. 

I actually kind of love the idea of him coming back with more and more outlandish suggestions, growing ever more desperate as they keep getting rejected:

A couple things: remember that the only profit model that makes investment on this scale reasonable is massive labor replacement. Whether that will actually happen or not is unimportant; it is what enterprise customers fantasize about and what Microsoft is trying to promise. These companies are literally out to ruin…

The challenge for the Left Hand of Darkness is that Genly is a misogynist. He is the sole representative of the gender-normative worldview through which the reader is challenged. Watching the protagonist struggle with distaste while saying that some of his genderless hosts are acting “womanly” is entirely the point.

and the sidewalk across the street from Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City

well.... Jeff Yass knows about how to make money; he’s got many billions.  He wants a president that would be _his_.   trump will sell anything about the presidency.   So... politics?  more like no IRS to tax billionaires.  That’s what ‘this’ is about.

“Why do I have to have a Marvel [movie] that’s all women?” Peltz asked the publication. “Not that I have anything against women, but why do I have to do that”

It was an unemployed homeless transgender athiest Muslim illegal immigrant homicidal rapist pedophile drug-lord kingpin from Mexico hired by George Soros, Barack Obama, and Bill Gates that was actually driving the boat.

Yup. And that’s worse.

I just deleted the app. We should just all start calling it Trump Tok.

As I said, there is no explanation for his behavior that doesn’t make him an asshole.

As an immunocompromised person, fuck this guy.

Conservatives have effortlessly jumped from, “Nobody should have the right to tell ME what I do with MY body,” to, “I should have the right to tell YOU what to do with your body!”

“I swear to DRUNK, I’m not GOD!”

I have Crohn’s disease and am on immunosuppressants. I wear masks everywhere. Even if I wasn’t sick, I might still wear them just because I would rather not get Covid if I can help it.

I got yelled at in a CVS once (in very liberal Santa Monica) for wearing a mask by some stranger. I don’t get why he cared. Me wearing…