Conservatives’ hysteria about “Cancel Culture” increasingly leads them to embrace people who don’t have any values you’d consider “conservative” in a traditional sense. Brand’s main conservative credential is that he is terrible, and thinks terrible people shouldn’t face any consequences for being terrible.  

Not only “if she says NO, it means NO”, but if she hasn’t said yes, or isn’t in a state to understand yes or no, then the status is NO.

Kicking nazis out of your club doesn’t mean you’re thin skinned. It means you don’t want to be part of a nazi club.

Ah, their one joke.

Imagine being so fucking thin skinned that optional pronouns bother you enough to download a fucking mod. These are the same chodes that will, unironically, call everyone else snowflakes for shit. Fuck these children, and good on Nexus for not hosting such a childish, dumb fucking mod. 

Imagine being such an asshole that you need to a mod to remove a choice for you and only you that you weren’t going to make anyway just to make yourself feel better. 

I’m starting to think he doesn’t really want us to take his wife. Even though he said please. 

Have never watched his standup, but are these just stories for his act or is he like, in interviews making the same claims? If it’s the former I don’t really care - if you believe anything a stand-up says on stage is literally real rather than a setup for laughs or a story, you’re an idiot - but if it’s a Steve…

Whataboutism ain’t an argument.

“I hope you’re never in the fucking position I’m in.”

That position being, refusing to protect yourself and others from a deadly pandemic, at the expense of your career, and then acting like YOU’RE the victim?

Thankfully, I will never be in the fucking position you’re in.

“I don’t think I’ve ever played a game that was more terribly written”

Yeah, I don’t think you can include Lost.

I actually agree with you. My biggest issues with Bush were 1) he was deeply uncurious and 2) inability to empathize with anyone whose experience was different from his own. I will note that on #2 I don’t mean he lacked empathy. I think he, as you said, was well-meaning and wanted to help people. But I think he failed…

I always got the impression that George W Bush is a very well-meaning man. I think he got out of his depth, but he genuinely gave it his best and cared about the job he was doing as the President — and I think he understood when he needed to ask for expert opinions.  I don’t think he made all the right calls.  Fair…

Here’s the thing: It’s true that this sort of toxic behaviour is par for the course in many industries. I’ve been working in one for almost two decades. And yet, I’ve always been treated respectfully when being given negative feedback.

I love how people take “I’d like it if my bosses weren’t outright mean to me” to mean “I want everyone to be my bestie and I want everyone to praise me every time I do or say something I perceive as great.”

It’s kinda funny you mention this because Ashoka’s duel with Marrok is about as classic “samurai duel” as it gets. 

Exactly right. People defend the show by saying, “It give you all the information you need!” And that’s kind of true. It just gives you information, in the most bland, schematic way possible, not even attempting to make you CARE about anything.

Thank you for supplying the point of the article.

“I’ve seen some complaints that this screws up the timeline, since he’s not part of the regular New Republic fleet in that show and it wouldn’t make sense for him to see this big ring and not mention it to anyone during The Mandalorian, but there’s no reason to think that this doesn’t take place immediately after…