Starving in America? Sure that's hard. Becoming malnourished in America? Now that is very easy, and incredibly dangerous for your health. It's a large health problem among your (working) poor.

Except that teens and college kids are no longer seen as qualified for those jobs, so they won't get hired. This isn't the 1980's any more.

That's exactly the problem with South Park; it's 'hate heaven' for basically everyone, so no wonder you'll see people on all sides of the spectrum latch onto it. It's contrarian and plays that for the sake of laughs. Aka; it trolls. It's the most popular trolling show ever, so I'd say that the article has a good point.

"South Park" and "subtle satire" are not two things that should belong in the same sentence. That show is a lot of things. I laugh at it often. Smart, though? Not even remotely.

Don't you see you're proving my point though? I only ever tried to say that society as such doesn't value patient contemplation. Sure, I might value that skill, otherwise I wouldn't have pursued studies related to it. But just like the kinksters I move in the fringes of society, and I'll most likely stay there just…

Fuck, now that you mentioned it, yeah his age is weird as hell. 28 But probably in Iran around the Revolution for which he'd be like 23/24?! I can't believe that the CIA would station an operative in such a volatile part of the world at that age for a second. That, and the actor indeed does not look 28 in the…

You're still hellbent on the idea that this will turn out being some kind of wet dream for racists, despite nothing pointing toward that yet. Again; the last few times a work of fiction depicted heroes of the new right in control, the new right lashed out and cried that they were depicted as villains as I've already…

Well, maybe I lack exposure to this alt-hist scenario because I'm not American. That's probably why I'm hoping harder for this to work out, as it's not a scenario I'm familiar with.

Heh, well human societies, moralities and social values don't work according to abstract economic principles. When I say valued, I mean seen as important, seen as good and desirable. It's pretty obvious that instant gratification is seen as good and desirable in Western society these days. Patient contemplation? Hell,…

Black showrunners? African-American showrunners? I can use any hopefully non-offensive term you like, I'll edit it if it's not to your liking. But yes, while these two GoT guys might be standing in the spotlight, the team thankfully includes more people with different backgrounds, two of them are black. I hope their…

Of course you haven't seen any backlash from them yet, because there's jack-shit known about this other than a rough premise. Wait 'till we get trailers or a pilot episode. In the previous cases where their heroes are portrayed as victors or in control there was only backlash from the new right, not cheering. You…

A bad idea? If it's gonna make alt-righters as mad as Far Cry 5 did I'm all for it. I hope it will, at least.

Those aren't mutually exclusive things though, to have an alternate-history work like this and works that actually deal with the history of things (as are, luckily, on the rise lately). And you should be happy then that these GoT guys aren't the only ones on the team. Considering GoT I do hope that those other voices…

I see what you're getting at, but we don't know yet whether this'll be their 'wish fulfilment fantasy show'. We know next to nothing outside of a rudimentary premise. And considering the pattern of alt-right/new-right behaviour I think it's very likely that, once we have the final product, there'll be a backlash from…

Well, I definitely understand why it feels that way. And I agree that the risk of it being an easy cash grab is there. I realised the same risk was there when Far Cry 5 got announced a few months ago. Considering the conservative backlash against that though I hope that this show will have the same conservative…

Well, consider this. Here in Belgium there's a small but relatively politically respected party of actual communists. Back home in the Netherlands, the Socialist Party was one of the biggest parties a few years ago. Even our traditional right-leaning parties are almost leftist when compared to traditional US Democrat…

Come to think of it, consider another thing. A while back we got two new trailers for two new videogames. Wolfenstein: The New Order and Far Cry 5. The first portrayed the Nazis in the US hanging out with KKK members who walked happily on the street in their robes, the latter portrayed a violent religious cult taking…

Ahahah. I see what you did there. Funny. I'm actually most fond of the Japanese side of things, notably the dude who goes to our timeline, but I definitely find the story of that SS guy having issues with euthanizing his son interesting. It reminded me of when conservatives soften anti-gay stances it's often because a…

Inherently? I don't believe that, that makes no sense if the Confederacy in this show is gonna be portrayed as some horrible, isolated place. Which it might, we don't know yet. But I'll admit that it's one helluva fine line to walk. It still freaks me out how many people harken for Confederacy days over there. More…

I still find it odd that you call it bad on anything else than a conceptual level despite never having seen the show or apparently read the book. Anything else than the conceptual level means the writing is bad, the acting is bad, the casting is bad, the dialogue is bad, the camera work is bad, the list goes on. But…