/rolls eyes

Creators of the show. No one -- including Emma -- is implying otherwise, and you are smart enough to know that. 

I mean, the show is a huge success. He is the creator whom all the stars still want to work with...so good idea?

The cause doesn’t allay the harm, but I think it’s relevant in how we react to people causing us harm. Someone accidentally misgendering someone can be forgiven, while deliberately doing so would call for a stronger response. Frankly, I’ve long since become accustomed to most people being stupid, but it’s harder for me…

Then will someone please get me some working masks? I’ve been wearing masks since at least 2021 and the people around here are less woke than ever.

And they say liberals are snowflakes. JFC.

There were lots of stories in 2020 about masked people being berated and/or assaulted for wearing a mask in public

When these hardcore anti-maskers have to get surgery, do they insist that their doctors and nurses also not wear masks? Do they insist on the medics not scrubbing up first, for fear of coddling their immune systems? Because it seems like that’s a logical consequence of their stated beliefs.

2020: Wearing a mask is a choice! You can wear a mask if you like; but you can’t make me wear one.

2024: I cannot be forced to sit next to someone wearing a mask! You wearing a mask is an attack on me!

The ABC’s of conservatism:

He seems to be implying that if the person was wearing a mask, they must have a communicable disease and so he felt unsafe sitting next to them. He himself seems bound and determined to make himself as susceptible to communicable diseases as he possibly can and assumes it is everybody else’s responsibility to keep him…

I am really, REALLY curious how someone else wearing a mask affects him.

Anyone that is that insistent that they aren’t drunk is absolutely drunk. In other news, what an utter child. 

Why in god’s name does this movie cost 200 million dollars?

“They didn’t care enough to make it, why should I care enough to watch it?”

I don’t think that was it either. As I read the scene, he absolutely knew it was Mariko. He was taken aback when she claimed otherwise, but understood that she didn’t want to (or wasn’t in a position to) openly acknowledge what happened.

That is a really bad description. Hes not inherently buffoonish or dumb-the original series makes a big point about how intelligent, principled and brave he is-most people dropped into a foreign country with no knowledge at all of the language or customs wouldve done a lot worse.

Americans wouldn't watch it if it were set in Britain. 

Isn’t part of his point that, while the setting is current, America isn’t all that exceptional when it comes to this sort of thing? That civil wars occur, for the same sorts of reasons, all over the world because humanity shares an inherent tribalism that’s always looking for an excuse to rear its ugly head?

I bet he did that to avoid people projecting simplistic, modern day politics on it. Especially if he was interesting in talking more about the function of a free press in a democracy. If he made it Texas and Florida, or California and New York, then the President would automatically be the other side and people would g…