The primetime showings aren’t for people who are interested in the sport of it. If you’re a luge head, you’re watching that shit live. The primetime sports are for the people who like the olympics as human interest pieces/jingoistic entertainment, and you can find plenty of that elsewhere.

Right, he referred to himself as a “$65M company,” so it would be like Microsoft opening a B&B and a coffee shop and Satya Nadella crowing that he’ll pull his $2 trillion company out of town if they let more gross poors live there.

Even harder to believe it needs a new restaurant and comedy club.

It is entirely possible, it’s just incredibly unlikely unless Chappelle has some sort of rapid onset cognitive disorder that is making him suddenly bad with words. Because the objection he raises in the video makes it sound entirely like his wishes should be obeyed because of the amount of money he spends in the town.…

I would also love to see the data that actually supports that he’s bringing a $65 million-a-year company into Yellow Springs. Because I’m calling bullshit on that. I cast a big side-eye at the idea that a restaurant and comedy club in Yellow Springs is going to generate that kind money. I’ve been to Yellow Springs.…

Chappelle’s claim that the town council was trying to making him “audition” is the kind of smug peevishness that seems to characterize his personality these days.  By “audition,” he meant that the town council did not automatically give him what he wanted, and instead treated him like he was one of many citizens of…

It’s rather rich that of the $65m-a-year he’s apparently pumped (or is planing to pump) into Yellow Springs, apparently none of that has gone (or is going, from these reports) towards affordable housing, but instead businesses that stand to financially benefit him.

It’s one thing to be opposed to developments that will…

Yup. Quite obviously now, we’ve seen how new strains are vaccine-evasive. NY has statewide vaccination rates of about 75%. Didn’t stop us from getting absolutely hammered by Omicron. 90K+ new infections a day for about a week.

I genuinely think “Who asked for this?” is one of the worst modern day criticisms of media, and it’s everywhere. It’s an extremely thin criticism to begin with, but it’s also incredibly solipsistic.

i dunno man, who was asking for a fresh prince sitcom 30 years ago? he wasn’t even a good actor until like season 3!

He took a plane. In the pilot episode, the opening theme is played in it’s entirety. There’s a section of the song that explains how he flew first class. He doesn’t take the cab until he gets to California.

I see this response in every single article about the show. Morgan Cooper shot a short film with this concept himself a few years back and posted it online. It got a ton of attention and a lot of positive feedback - Will Smith saw it and loved it as well. That’s why this show is being made.

Yeah, what would it even mean in practice for the article or the series to “examine” the undoubtedly true premise that a woman of color could not have pulled off the same scam with the same level of success, and would likely have been punished more harshly for trying? Were they supposed to show a woman of color trying…

Agreed - it was fun to watch, and occasionally very funny, but it was so dollhousey that I didn’t feel a single emotion for any of the characters... not in the way that I was legitimately moved by the tragic helicopter crash in Life Aquatic or by Royal realizing he’s lying to his family because he loves them.  

I thought The French Dispatch was beautiful, but definitely the least connected I’ve felt to Anderson’s characters and stories. I still was expecting it to be a shoe in for nominations though.

Jews don’t really fit into the American concept of race. We sure fit into Europe’s. 

During the discussion, which branched out into the also undeniable fact that Donald Trump-worshipping racists are feeling like it’s safe to crawl out from underneath their heavily fortified hate-holes all across America, Goldberg veered into trouble when she asserted, among other things, that “the Holocaust was not…

As an Aussie, it very much shits me that US version of racism - or anything else - is often treated as the default version, if not the “correct” version.

And to be clear, white racial hierarchies and antisemitism were/are very much a thing in the U.S. Recent Irish, Italian, Slavic, and Jewish immigrants weren’t ever considered “non-white,” precisely, but they were definitely considered to be a racially inferior version of white relative to the established Protestant…

Romani people would probably be surprised to find out that they qualify as Aryan according to Nazi doctrine.