I'm disappointed that when talking about why DPRK citizens are scared of the US, Oliver chose to focus on LOL - they're so crazy and brainwashed! instead of the real, uncontroversial, actual reasons.

"every Bill Maher joke reads like something you'd hear from a stand up in the background of a 90s Law & Order episode"
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Imagine if instead of the ongoing still-in-denial-that-he-won energy of Russiagate was focused instead on how he completely sells out working people for the billionaire investor class every chance he gets.

I assume those details will center upon how his exposed genitals, like those of Roger Ailes, remind women of red uncooked hamburger

I'm just finished The Korean War: A History by U Chicago historian Bruce Cumings.

In general I wish people would stop saying that someone is or is not racist, like it's a binary dispositional thing or a personality type. People do racist shit. That racist shit can be really horrific or just kind of shitty and inappropriate. Bill Maher saying the N-word is an act of shitty and inappropriate racism.

Yeah, I feel like he thinks he's like "earned" the right to say that type of shit, like he's "earned" the right to be a total dipshit about Islam because he seems himself as having so much progressive cred.

"Progressive" comes from the Progressive Party, check the 1912 platform to see the origin of that term. It's anti-oligarchy.

Yeah, as a lefty I can say that he is not a lefty. He's a pretty standard pro-empire liberal I would say.

Sort of a weirdly unimportant thing to do investigative journalism on but this strikes a balance between "I'm a fan of Sedaris" and "Sedaris does not write nonfiction"

Of course assholes who kill innocent people are not "right." But your "humanitarian intervention" rhetoric is ahistorical and blinded by nationalism. We are not dropping Freedom Bombs all over the world.

The entire reason there is a conflict in Syria is US/Western intervention aimed at regime change, which has been the expressed policy since at least 2000 when Project for a New American Century proposed re-drawing the map that the colonial powers first drew in 1916. The US has been arming violent anti-Assad jihadists…

If we kill a thousand innocent people using expensive weapons, we get a pass because it's war and not terrorism? You think grieving family members catch the distinction between the dipshit who blew up 22 people using a cheap bomb, and when US or US-made jets and helicopters blow up 100 using expensive missiles?

Jesus Christ. In the last month alone, the U.S. has killed 225 innocent people in Syria - including 44 children. How insanely self-centered are people in this country. Sick.

When a new president takes office, they get a national security report. When Eisenhower took office he asked his National Security Council that same famous question "Why do they hate us?" Specifically (you can read the meeting minutes, they are now declassified) he said there was a "campaign of hatred" against the US…

After I had my first Icelandic hot dog during a 5-day trip, I had like 2 or 3 more from different locations around the island to make sure I wasn't just missing something. It's a fucking hot dog. They sometimes have somewhat interesting toppings. I came away with the idea that "WE HAVE THE BEST HOTDOGS IN THE WORLD"…

Yeah, what I got from Tig's statement is that it was this other writer/director who might have taken the idea. That person was aware of her short film and also worked on the sketch, while on the other hand she & Louis CK have not been in contact.

I have not followed this story at all because it seemed like such obvious bullshit right from the start - is this all just a 4chan prank? Because it seems like it's all just a fucking 4chan prank. Like, can we invent a scandal called "pizzagate" and get people really worked up about it.

Rosario has always been ahead of her time

This cop-hugging shit is peak white liberalism - fuck, if Coke releases a pro-Antifa commercial that shows some masked-up dude chucking Coke cans at cop cars I will totally start drinking Coke.