Yeah, I’m aware of the context. I know you’re taking a cheap shot. I’m suggesting, gently, that we all could do better than that.

A bad comic writer can’t do that. Even a good comic write can’t do that. But Scott Adams is just so batshit that he can completely rewire you.

Apparently the comics have started taking the side of the bosses over employees who are now portrayed as lazy and entitled, which is a mindblowing reversal. It’s like if Garfield suddenly became a fitness freak who refused to eat carbs.

Not to be That Guy, but I don’t think it’s particularly helpful to link penis size to what kind of person you are. I’m sure there are complete douches who have big dicks, and really nice guys who don’t. In the end, it’s just another way to make people feel bad about something they have no control over. Is it any…

The other substance of the movie is fucking brutalizing the Chicago police. Most of the death toll in the original Matrix is cops (not Agents or programs, plain old cops).

The Joker stuff is nuts, but he certainly has a point on the Fox News and CNN comment. As somebody who grew up with the BBC (where both main political parties believe the Corporation is biased against them - a sure sign they are doing something right) being exposed to Fox and CNN has been pretty shocking. I watch CNN…

“...and when do we want it? ‘Now’.”

Because Scott’s figured out that saying dumb but pop-culturally relevant shit gets him clicks and airtime.

Your quoty fingers during protest chants don’t help, either. We end up standing around you wondering what you mean to say. Same for the sarcastic italics on your protest signs.

He also brings up The Matrix as powerful enough to continue to be talked about and influential while completely ignoring the fact that the whole “red pill” terminology is used exclusively by racists, MRAs and misogynists who ignore the fact that it was made by two trans women and that if there is any substance to the…

It’s possible to hold the following two opinions simultaneously without any sort of logical inconsistency: “The media that people consume can influence their views and even their behavior” and “anyone who thinks that a massive wave of protests against police brutality, coming on the heals of several high profile…

Yeah, but it flips up at the end.  Its cute.

I think so, Brain, but how are we going to get Scott Adams to watch Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood?

I would have to do some investigation to figure out which movies reprogrammed me from thinking that Dilbert comic is pretty good to not thinking about Dilbert for more than a decade to thinking that Dilbert guy is kind of a douche.

It’s basically just Lonely Island’s “Threw it On the Ground” only played entirely straight.

I thought that Joker was a good performance in an okay movie that’s built on the bones of better movies.

All of these protests are happening as the last major theatrical release was BLOODSHOT. In fact, if you pay close attention to the plot, it closely aligns with our current political movement. Brainwashing, gaslighting, weaponizing our own anger so we do the bidding of technocrats.

The best way I heard Joker described is, “Of course you’re gonna think a swimming pool is deep if you’ve never been to the ocean.”

Right? Despite being around 40 years old, both Taxi Driver and King of Comedy that Joker ‘tributed’ have a lot more of relevance to say about mental health and society. 

I finally got around to watching Joker last week and was shocked at how shallow and predictable it was. I couldn’t help but think “THIS is supposed to be controversial/provocative?”.