I'm wary of jumping on the I Hate Zack Snyder bandwagon as others here seem to be doing in view of his daughter's recent suicide (yes, I know we're objectively speaking about art here and trying to separate the art from the artist, but a little humanity wouldn't go amiss), but yeah, despite the impressive technical…

Is there any industry that doesn't have this problem?

"At least say about Reagan that he could maintain the illusion longer than Trump"

Oh don't get me wrong. I appreciate that the UK is very much the junior partner in the 'Special Relationship', and that you guys have far more relevant concerns as far as your own democracy goes right now. I'm just wondering how it's playing, even if it's far from a priority in view of Comey's testimony.

I apologise for being so humourless. I honestly did recognise the previous comment as a joke. :)

Well, there is a German election at the end of the year…

Many people before the election genuinely believed that May would obliterate the Labour Party and thus give her a thumping mandate to push through her (vague and unbending) version of Brexit. Even I, as a proud Labour Party member and campaigner feared this possibility.

True. However, I was a big backer of Ed Milliband, but he lost seats whereas Corbyn, who isn't half the intellectual, won them. Maybe what we need is people of integrity who nevertheless have the human touch.

That's not Corbyn, thank goodness.

The only way Corbyn is like Trump, is in defying the assumed wisdom and a wholly partisan media, and doing surprisingly well in the election by running a populist campaign that engaged with ordinary voters.

I hope Bernie Sanders and his supporters will be inspired by this result, as we in the left of the UK Labour Party were by The Bern's impact on US elections on this side of the Pond. Yes, Corbyn didn't win, but he significantly undermined the Tory Party's credibility, seeing as they were supposed to crush Labour, and…

I'm making a distinction between rape with malicious intent and rape with reckless intent. The first is an entirely separate category in which sex is used as a means of intentionally violent subjugation, mostly towards women. But I'm referring to those instances where a man who otherwise likes sex, believes he is…

Agreed. Also, there are many, many white men less progressive than you and I, and sometimes if you want to win a national election you have to appeal to those guys too (which doesn't mean pandering to sexism/xenophobia/racism, but does mean offering some more universal policies in addition to ones that specifically…

Speaking as a white man, it's not really my place to resent the emphasis on identity politics by the Clinton campaign, but I do think, objectively speaking, it would have benefited her campaign immeasurably if she'd focused a bit more on populist economics, a strategy that helped both her husband and Obama during…

Dare I say it, but it seems that the film was like a precursor to the election. Alt-right misogynists made such a big deal about an all-female Ghostbusters and likewise a female Presidential candidate, that both Sony and the DNC felt they had to define their respective campaigns by dismissing all alternative…

Fair enough. I'm simply saying that Ghostbusters is far better than a lot of acclaimed comedies from the same era (some of which I've seen praised on both this site and The Dissolve), and that its politics are far more innocuous than Back to the Future's, assuming either films' politics are especially offensive.

Ghostbusters 1984 is clearly more original than the reboot, and although I guess it's a matter of taste, I certainly think it's much more credible and grounded than a lot of fantasy-comedies of any era. That's one of the reasons I felt the original film worked much better than the reboot; the characters, for all…

The above 'joke' specifically stigmatised Hispanics.

So, is rape culture a mainly Hispanic thing in your mind? Because that's the point Schumer seems to be making, and apart from unacceptably stigmatising minority men it arguably gives white men a pass.

My problem is that whenever anyone dares say "I don't find Amy Schumer that funny" someone inevitably pops up to argue that one must be a 'sexist' for voicing such an opinion. If certain people are going to attack Schumer's critics on PC grounds, I think they have to be prepared for her to get the same flak when she…