It always amazes me that the Confederate Flag, an actual symbol of secession that would lead to arrest or execution for treason against the state in many other countries, is something worth arguing about to a portion of Americans. These people don't realize how good they have it to even be allowed to openly display…

Why are you so hostile about this? It's weird that you say I was being condescending when your responses are dripping with a frankly unnecessary level of condescension. As I said in an earlier comment, I'm tired of the news cycle of "famous person says something about Trump", "Trump voters complain about famous person…

Other than whose saying it, there's really not much of a story here that couldn't be established by quick research from anyone else. That's ultimately my problem with this article, there's just not really anything here other than "famous person says something about Trump" which leads to the news cycle of "Trump voters…

I'm not a conservative and I'm not saying he's wrong, I'm just saying at the end of the day….who cares? Yeah, Trump makes money off of Hollywood and he's a hypocrite? That's not exactly juicy news. There's nothing really insightful or novel here other than Clooney being the one to say it and it ultimately doesn't…

I'm totally with you, I'm just saying this kind of article is what fuels that nonsense and why we all have to keep hearing that drivel.

As much as I like many Americans can't stand Overlord Orange, is Clooney really someone that should be lecturing anyone about society's "elites"? I get where he's coming from but it sounds incredibly tone deaf. These kind of statements are why the "average American conservative is tired of Hollywood telling them what…

I'm actually mildly impressed he didn't just pull the "liberal cucks hate me because of what I speak and my power" card that's pretty common these days when any of the alt-right/Breitbart crowd get called out on their shit.

If this ever happens, I hope he rips the green ranger costume off halfway in the match only to reveal the white ranger costume under it.

It's a favorite of mine too but I always feel self-conscious about it since people tend to look at it as just a "quirky indie romcom" and not as the deconstruction of the "Nice Guy" and "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" archetypes in the genre that it actually is. It's a movie that gets written off as hipster bullshit way too…

Dot Wiggin had a solo album from a project out a few years ago, it still has a lot of the spirit of The Shaggs and from what I remember, it was decently well-received. There's some legitimate but slight sense of musicianship in her adult work. Still not exactly competent in a traditional sense but closer than anything…

That's what I mean when I said objectively awful in every sense. It sucks by every quality that we can fairly judge music on. You're right that music can't really be objectively bad. It's poorly played, their timing is atrocious, their instruments aren't properly tuned, there's no traditional sense of rhythm or…

While this novel sounds fairly unambitious and blase, credit needs to be given for not going the Miranda July route of cloyingly self-aware pap about the banalities of modern life through a painfully quirky lens because she totally could have gone that route.

I feel there's a thin line between people who legitimately appreciate the lack of pretension in outsider music and people who treat it as a vaudeville-esque spectacle. The Shaggs, more than most, walk this line to me because the music is objectively awful in every sense but I do see how someone can find it fascinating…

Ryan Murphy might honestly be the last person whose perspective on Trump I want to hear and this is after i heard Mike Tyson's stance.

I'm not as into MBDTF as some people are even though I do think it was a great album, I tend to look at it as the ultimate example of a maximalist hip-hop/pop album. It's full of huge guest spots, plenty of confident and anthemic tracks, songs longer than they probably should be, memorable lines all around and Kanye…

I could make a counterargument that her perceived delayed activism being because of increased awareness after increased media discussion of race in a way reflects on her privilege that another commentor mentioned previously, which while it doesn't necessarily make her opinion less does hurt the universality of it…

I definitely see your point but something about it just still feels disingenuous to me like she's making a point in letting everyone know that she's taking a stand instead of just pursuing it and letting the results speak for their self. She's a diva first in my mind. I don't entirely doubt her motivations and you…

When it benefits album sales or can be used to spin a story in her favor, yeah.

Brenda Song is a really great example of it, totally forgot about how she was the Asian version of the "black best friend" for a time. You know, I didn't even stop to think about the fact that Sandra Oh isn't really in much in a major way but that's a damn good point. If Katherine Heigl can get starring roles after…

I'd half-seriously argue there's really no guy good enough to be cast alongside her where she wouldn't just dominate the role.