in fairness (and this doesn't really relate to trump's behaviour, or his lack of willingness to denounce white supremacists): i think most people have an incredibly shallow understanding of nazi ideology, and of what it means to be "facist" more generally - mostly because our common understanding of the evils of that…

40% of the film is a lot when you factor in CGI set-pieces that got locked in months before the film even started shooting (and that they couldn't change even if they wanted to).

yeah, I'd agree with pretty much all of this.

that line immediately before the therapist's monologue, where rick talks about how he's a scientist and therefore supremely logical or whatever dumb bullshit really annoyed me.

i mean, again: my point is, if you listen to this stuff in context, he's never* really actually arguing that the moon is made out of cheese, or that hilary wants to turn the damn frogs gay, or whatever. dude just works himself up into a hyperbolic lather while making points that, while still pretty unhinged, don't…

it's dumb but like: it's pretty clear that a lot of the stuff he does is just pure hyperbole/pro-wrestling style showmanship. that divorce proceeding thing about Alex jones just being a "character" is completely correct.

nah, i found the article - idk what "most binged" means in this context, but im sure all these shows have massive engagement compared with most of their original content

wasn't it their most watched new show ever? i think it got a big hate watch boost

to apply that logic to a maybe more grounded scenario: I think if you're a conservative christian and things like gay marriage (and maybe also drug reform and feminism) seem like an existential threat to you, it's conceivable that you'd support anyone who could hold off those changes for the next four years, no matter…

yeah man, if i had to pick towards empathy for disabled people or gay people or whatever and "people who just can't help saying slurs all the damn time", i'm probably gonna go with the former rather than the latter

it's a relatively minor thing, but I don't think anyone thinks using the word "fucker" is slut-shaming.

the moment you start saying "well, the onus is on the citizen to sift through the garbage and find journalism that is actually serious and well written", you have to accept that for a lot of people, that trade off isn't worth it, and that they won't do it - which is exactly why we're dealing with trump in the first…

im imagining they'll go with the ultimate venom origin - the symboite is man made, and is meant to bond w/ the host to help treat cancer, but the whole thing backfires

honest q, bc I can't remember the scene that well: does paul specify that varga is the target?

so: for me, the biggest black hole in relation to this discussion is the point of Ray Wise's character - it seems to me that if you accept that he is playing an angel (which is heavily implied), then that has pretty substantive ramifications when it comes to gloria and varga's "is the world inherently good/bad" debate.

honestly, as someone who isn't a lawyer: it is astounding to me that I can read page after page of discussion about this case without any meaningful explanation as to what they problem was with the outcome. gawker published a dude's sex tape without his permission - surely that's exactly the kind of speech we should…

what are the parallels between moses and superman? people say this a lot and I never quite understand it.

kraven seems pretty easy to adapt to me. it's basically "the most dangerous game", but instead of poor people it's a bunch of d-list spider-man villains.

gus absolutely already knows what's going on with nacho and hector. he gives nacho the weird suspicious look just as he hands the paramedic hector's original pill bottle - gus was standing by hector the whole time, and nacho clearly didn't stop to pick up and rebottle the pills that hector threw all over the ground.

this is the fucking weirdest comment i've ever seen