That’s a good point. Like I said above, I didn’t know that was a thing, so, absent any context for the “making fun,” I have no basis upon which to say whether it’s what we would call metaphorical “punching”—but just being real, most making fun (especially of female celebrities) involves some punching, snark, and…

A comedian’s show could be the most nuanced take on hate speech ever, but if the comic announces how he’s “Team Anti-Semite” without any sense of irony or distance, I’m out.

Dont you bring Community into this

To be fair, I think that when OP said “broken” they were referring to emotional issues arising from a bad childhood or upbringing; Robin Williams’ “brokenness” (and I use that term here only because it’s literally what we’re discussing,) and resultant suicide, appears to have been attributable to Lewy body dementia…

I take Chappelle’s point more as: “My job is to be funny; I find X funny, and my audience finds X funny, so I’m gonna say X, regardless of whether it hurts anyone’s feelings.”

If one of the key elements to comedy is standing at the intersection of humor and truth[.]

I don’t know how Paul (an aristocrat and the product of a generations-long eugenics program run by a cabal of manipulative technocrats,) is a white savior if his ascendancy to power directly results in a galactic genocide and despoliation, followed by centuries millennia of authoritarian tyranny, misery, mass famine…

Then I would recommend also avoiding the source novels (in whatever form—i.e., print, audiobook, etc.) Frank Herbert was a sociologist and had a great deal to say about society, politics, and religion—the Dune novels were his magnum opus, and not a particularly subtle one at that. Ironically, he was an old white…

I didn’t know that was a thing (given some of the purposefully bizarre sounding names chosen by some recording artists today,) but accepting the premise of the question, my knee-jerk assumption would be that, for whatever reason(s), making fun of Eilish is seen as punching “up”, whereas making fun of Beanie Feldman…

I’ve seen a good number of reviews and takes that criticize this as a white savior narrative—and I don’t agree, but only because I’ve read the entire series (or rather, what Herbert completed of it prior to his death.)

This is basically a game of chicken at this point. The labor force on one side quitting in droves in search of green pastures; management, capital holders, and the shareholder class on the other, seeing how long before workers can’t hold out anymore, and have to return to shitty jobs for subpar pay. And the whole…

Ironically, it is actually colorblind.

Wyden’s plan would create a refundable $15,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers to use toward the down payment on a home. The other bill comes from Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) . . . would create a new program that offers up to $25,000 to first-generation homebuyers.

Chappelle’s issue doesn’t seem to be that people aren’t laughing—the man seems pretty beloved, regularly gets A-list turnouts for his projects, sells out shows, and clearly the people who go to those shows are laughing. I think what’s bothering Chappelle is that some people are so offended by what he’s saying that…

Thank you! The man is way in the hole financially, and has outstanding child support obligations, as well as unpaid judgments against him (including at least one from one of this victims.)

You’re conflating the thing not being “a real thing” with the fact that The Thing doesn’t do what it’s detractors claim it does (nor, for that matter, what its utilizers would like.)

Nooooooo, I like Shuri! She’s Tony Stark-level smart, and I’m looking forward to seeing her meet and interact with Riri Williams eventually!

Oh shit that’s right, she played Monica Rambeau’s mom. I mean, there’s absolutely no shortage of black female talent at the right age to play Shuri, so, I think my overall point is still sound. I guess I had Lynch on the mind cause of the new Bond movie.

Srinivasan was on Ezra Klein’s podcast at some point in the last couple of months, and it was a really interesting discussion. I think it’s important to note that Srinivasan is not saying people must change fundamentally what turns them on, or gets them off—I don’t think she claims to even know how to do this, or…

(Which, I mean, OK, Dave. It’s not even a real thing, but go off.)