He's a comedian. There's literally no chance he could have swayed the election (if he could, we'd have President Sanders right now by the way, not Hillary) to begin with. Otherwise the vast media consensus against Trump would have been worth a damn. There are definitely tons of valid criticisms of him but "didn't…

Well there is plenty among the rest of the trove that I think Americans should know about as well. Legal doesn't automatically mean valid. The government is overly secretive anyway and in that context, the more transparency the better. (I do think that sometimes Wikileaks isn't careful enough with what they release -…

I think that vesting yourself in society and hoping to benefit from it, and also wanting it to be better, are not separate things. What you are engaging in is the "Mr. Gotcha" argument:

You've had, what, seven years to Google this? The Intercept (which for the record, is a perfectly fine source and one of the few doing real muckraking these days, but anyway) is not the first to report on those crimes. In fact, the article linked to is mainly a summary, sourced from numerous other sources over the…

Okay, but A) I think what Manning did was absolutely the morally right thing to do, whatever the law might be, and B) I have never once seen someone who calls her a "traitor" or whatever the fuck else actually express even the slightest bit of concern about the wrongs that Manning exposed, only the ones she supposedly…

"Treason" might have a legal definition (she wasn't found guilty of that by the way; the judge expressly rejected that claim) but ethically it is completely meaningless on its own. Treason can only be defined as good or bad depending on the specific circumstances. Committing treason against a tyrannical government is…

I just don't really see why that's relevant here? I mean yeah, we all know that shows like Seinfeld or Sunny took a while to find either their audience or their creative voice (or both). They also had something inherent in them that warranted giving them a longer chance. Even Parks and Rec had a couple decent episodes…

She also tried to go to big papers like the New York Times and was ignored…Assange is definitely a complicated figure (to say the least), but I think it's really the case that she didn't have anywhere else to go in order to out that stuff. And it's ultimately better for the world if those things got out, whether or…

Somehow I'm more concerned about the soldiers that committed war crimes and killed those Reuters journalists and other civilians, as opposed to the person who merely exposed their crime.

She was a hero to me well before she came out as a "she." Also, fuck off.

Yeah that's my go-to as well. Also my favorite scene in the movie. I dare say that's the best action sequence in any movie.

Nah this whole score is great. It's one of the all-time great scores, and not just for a few of the more recognizable themes.

When it usually works though is when it's not as simple as just "they're different and they have to be around each other! Laughs ensue!" but rather when there is an actual developed relationship between them. Even, like, buddy cop movies (the better ones) try to establish an actual relationship and dynamic between the…

It stunk and it had 22 episodes to find itself. Who cares. Most shows that took a season or so to get going also had actual promise in the beginning and quality that the audience hadn't yet picked up on. This was just a generic sitcom.

After Comey got fired like every single one of these shows made a "Trump fired Comey for making him president" joke and they were all basically identical. Andy Borowitz did one too. (Please don't make this about Trump, I'm just critiquing lazy comedy writing.) https://twitter.com/AdamFri…

Yeah, I love Colbert but it was definitely a homophobic joke and it was annoying how everyone sort of on the left just seemed to unanimously decide that it wasn't offensive despite many LGBT people saying that it was offensive to them. Almost certainly well-intentioned, and good on Colbert for recognizing afterwards…

Definitely worth looking him up if only because it makes the jokes a lot funnier. More specifically, definitely look up the phone call he made to some terror expert who badmouthed him on TV (and later Twitter) which is basically what the Adomian impression is based on.

Deray's podcast will be as big of a gamechanger as Verizon.

He stands for all the same things Trump does. He certainly speaks to those things in blunter terms. He may very well turn out to worse in his enactment of them though really that remains to be seen (though I have no doubt Trump will rack up a zillion war crimes by the end of his term, as it stands here in May 2017,…

Nah she's not. Her show exists only to provide a PR platform for celebrities. She's another empty vessel like Oprah.