> Comedians have a responsibility to speak truth to power

LOL wut? Comedians have no such responsibility. What are you like 20 years old or some shit?

And I just hate how artless it all is. They’re really basically telling you, by abusing the rhythm and beats of comedy, to laugh at really horrible things. Not at JOKES about horrible things, mind you (which is a huge difference), but at the things themselves.

Unless they’re leaving for hell, and never to come back, I don’t give a damn.

But you were in the mood to write 7 paragraphs.

shitty for the corporate overlords, yes. shitty for regular people that are trying to get by in america, no. the greatest con in modern american political history is the GOP convincing their base that unions are the gateway to communism and ‘MERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's almost as if there's a lot about Tesla and Musk that is worth hating

Dude... You are putting way too much work into this pointless pedantry. Who gives a shit whether people are literally afraid of fat people or not? We all understand what the term means when we hear it.

I’m not really sure how to respond. Homophobia contains, but is not limited to, actual “fear”. Same with transphobia. Fatphobia is not a new term albeit it certainly has come more to the forefront.

Oh, don’t do that. Homophobia doesn’t literally mean scared of gay people. The phrasing is also used to refer to dislike or prejudice. This isn’t new, and you’re being disingenuous.

“But I guess modern avclub also has no standards because, yknow”

Do you feel uncomfortable wearing jeans cut so low you can’t bend over? It’s great, actually.

Oddest of all, I suppose, is the filmmaker’s own failure to see that.

Let’s hope Barsanti doesn’t come in and announce ““I have a message. Mike Vago’s plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors.”

Mike, thank you so much for these articles over the years. They’ve always been a highlight for me and I wish you well in your future endevours. Thanks for the laughs.

For me, the endgame is to ensure that people out there who have been hurt by that guys words and actions know that people still remember how harmful he was and that they continue to oppose that nonsense. Because his supporters aren’t going to shut up about it, that’s for sure.

Don’t let a person you never met influence your life, is how I go about it.

I get it. I really do. But I’m not there anymore. I tried to avoid the issue, but realized quite quickly that you simply can’t. I know too many people who’ve been hurt by the sort of nonsense that trump and his ilk perpetuate. And a large part of why I’ll keep rejecting his whole ‘thing’, is because I know that people…

Nope. If you want to insulate yourself from the attitude of trump and people like him, knock yourself out. But I’m not going to.

That’s nice and everything, but the day I’m not revolted about a man who’d do this (among so, so many other cruel, humiliating and debasing things) to another person: