Make Ghosts Real Again

Oh I know, I agree totally with this article's sentiment, I just find myself for once thinking a hit piece is way too merciful. Jeff Sessions' policies are not only not okay at all, they're the policies of a heartless sadist. Fighting drug policy is the hill I'm going to die on so it's personal for me even as a…

The snark here is funny and reassuring in a cynical sort of way but the drug war is the evilest thing that the American public has been subjected to in a long time. Drug prohibition—ALL drug prohibition—is an ethically indefensible means of justifying state violence against harmless members of society. If Jeff…

With all due respect, I think you are misinterpreting what I said as if I am claiming that the AV Club is somehow just as bad as Breitbart or somehow equal to it in some way, I'm really not. That isn't what I meant and it isn't what I said. I said that it uses the same techniques. Essentially every online media…

The principles of gaining readership are the same even if the political goals are opposed. You wouldn't say that I made a false equivalence if I said that both Hitler and Roosevelt used military force.

They *want* to take the bait, and Milo knows it. Media outlets that share stories that generate outrage under the guise of "exposing/fighting hate" exist not to actually do so, but because no emotion produces more shares or comments than outrage and hate.

Maher knows his own limitations too much for that. Any line of serious questioning that he couldn't be smug and holier-than-thou during, he never follows. For all of his "shocking" content he actually stays within a personally safe zone of behaviors.

Ya bby ;^)

Wow, you held on longer than I did. I stopped taking you seriously when you flat out told me you'd like it if Mike Lazzo approved a show because of the sex/gender of the creator.

Ah, the 'threatened privileged class,' the boogieman of people who believe in quotas.

Yes, there is a considerable comprehension gap if that's all you're getting from my posts. It's sort of like if I were to look at your posts and immediately assume that you thought the only way to stop sexism was to by imperial decree force a 50/50 split for everything ever. It has nothing to do with anything you've…

The only cure for a lack of content is content creation.

As I understand it, to you, it's less about the show and more about who makes it.

I would be delighted to watch a well-made, funny, engaging show made by a woman. A lot of stuff Steven Universe has done impresses me in terms of character development and what's possible to air story-wise. I enjoy how realistic a lot of the characters' relationships are, and how clever it can be. I know for a fact…

As a cis man I am completely unable to pitch and then produce a show made by a woman, no matter what responsibility I am told I have. How is it that any man would be able to do that? It can't be done. Mike Lazzo personally has the ability to give his personal approval to a show, but he is under no obligation to…

To the contrary, I am saying that it *would* be good to see more good and marketable ideas from women that get in front of Mike Lazzo. I do think there is sexism at play here, but I am not convinced how much of it is Mike Lazzo's. Based on his comments which he already admitted were stupid (albeit with a handful of…

Okay, cool, has a female show creator come to Mike Lazzo pitching a good show?

So if Adult Swim is so unfunny, and its audience so unpleasant and generic, and they only have one good show… Why is this an issue?

Mike Lazzo didn't apologize? Good. Mike Lazzo doesn't have to apologize.