It’s funny how sensitive you people are to people who don’t fully stan for your shitty heroes. 

I like the show, because I think it’s funny, but there are no lies here. I think they are very funny, but they have mixed politics (at best). 

If you want to take that claim at face value, fine (although I should say it is unlikely the actual vaccination rate is 90%), I don’t think it negates the argument in the article, if you understand how vaccines and numbers work. 10% of 100,000 is 10,000 unvaccinated people. And since there will inevitably be…

“Even assuming that…” is a way for a person making a particular argument to signal that, even if they concede a fact you think is a critical counter to that argument, that actually their point still stands. Maybe they’re casting doubt on whether that fact is true or not, or maybe they just have no way of knowing the…

What is the meaning of “slur” that I’m equivocating about?  This is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone suggest that whether a word is a “slur” depends on whether it is being directed at someone at that particular moment. 

Like I said, we can all do these rhetorical things to pretend we’ve “won” the argument.  Everyone reading this cursed thread can compare the things might Damon actually said (“I retire the f-slur”) with what you’re claiming he’s saying that is consistent across both statements (he has never used a slur) and decide for…

That’s not what a slur is. I’m a fan of the Washington Football Team, and when I’ve used their former name in the past, I was using a slur! When I sang the song, I was gleefully and joyfully singing a slur! I have a lot of shirts and gear with a slur printed across them. Just because I wasn’t directing it at any…

I mean, we can all engage in all the rhetorical posturing we like to try to “win” the argument, but everyone can see what Matt Damon actually said (“I retire the f-slur!”) and compare it to what you are claiming he said (“I never used it as a slur”), and decide for themselves who is right and who is wrong.  Show,…

He doesn’t say “I have used the word, but never directed at anyone, and never as a slur.” He says “I have never called anyone a ‘f*****t’ in my personal life” and “I do not use slurs of any kind.” “I actually have used that word, but never as a slur” are words YOU are putting in his mouth, it’s not a thing he said.…

No. The original interview and his subsequent statement are not contradictory, and he’s not trying to weasel out of taking responsibility. He admitted to (volunteered it, in fact) having used the word in the past, but now in his subsequent statement he’s claiming that he has never used the word as a slur directed at…

What is overblown about criticizing Matt Damon for defending the use of homophobic slurs just a few months ago?

Yes, he admitted it. Then he took it back and said he didn’t do it. You can see how “I actually didn’t do it” in response to a backlash isn’t “freely” admitting anything. It’s conditionally admitting it. He only “admitted” so long as he thought he wouldn’t face consequences.

So, he’s actually not freely admitting anything, because this story is about him DENYING the thing he previously admitted.

Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. I’m not even sure what it means to be a “bad guy.” He’s pretty clearly clueless and tone deaf, and has that white man thing where he spends more time telling everyone within earshot how committed he is to listening than he does actually listening to anyone, as evidenced by the fact he…

What are you talking about?  People were criticizing him because HE HIMSELF said HE had recently been using the word and only stopped after a tremendous amount of effort by his daughter convinced him it was wrong, all in the recent past.  This isn’t the “court of public opinion” manufacturing outrage (unless you think…

Rather than dunking on the guy because he’s a clueless celebrity or assuming the worst about him—that he didn’t realize until 2021 that it was not okay to use homophobic slurs (I mean, c’mon, that was obviously not what he was saying)

Who are you talking about here?  Who are you lecturing?

Yeah, if I walked into a bar or frat party or something.  In a professional setting, especially a profession where “penetration testing” is actually a term of art (of sorts), I would expect most people to practice some forbearance with regard to pointing out the double entendre.

A vendor attaching a penalty charge to a quote and a gross incident at a satellite office in Eden Prairie, MN, schlepping the dregs of Activision’s output, is decidedly not Blizzard/Anaheim,

I don’t really care one way or another if someone wants to spend their time studying astrology, and I’m not averse to learning about it (even if I would frequently be tempted to roll my eyes). But I also can’t recall ever having met anyone who has ever believed in astrology seriously enough to let it dictate anything…