I should really get notice of these articles.

Or perhaps the issues might go beyond things that are crimes.

Oh bullshit. He was President of the United States and she was a 22 year old intern. It wasn’t a crime, and it most definitely wasn’t anything meriting impeachment, but it’s an incredibly inappopriate power dynamic for him to exploit, and if he were capable of shame he would have apologized by now.

What will it take to convince you people!? I’ll go on a media blitzkreig, I’ll stay up all Krystallnacht making a list of my ethnic friends, I’ll do whatever it takes for you to see I’m all Reich at heart.

This totally rings true. I’ve heard of lots of people who get dozens of tattoos and then go to have one modified only to be diagnosed with Ronwell Dobbs Syndrome.

Goddammit he’s a garbage person. Let’s just hope he finds a way to make sure the the Poochie Clintons are front and fucking center in 2020, because god forbid they just go the fuck away and console themselves with the hundreds of millions of dollars they have.

If you’ll notice, I didn’t actually say the scene was like a video game. I was observing that the other person’s comparison to a video game wasn’t really an endorsement in my opinion.

Wait, you mean you might be able to find smaller-scale stories with real-life drama and tension on TV instead of in superhero and apocalypse movies!? Somebody let Vince Gilligan know!

I agree on Watchmen! It was the perfect project for him: proto-fascist “heroes,” nihilistic worldview, hyper-stylized, the story plays into his strengths perfectly. The problem is that fucking Superman is the exact wrong hero to put in that kind of template, but he only has one note so he’s going to play it as loudly…

Everyone has their preferences, of course, but for me “it’s like a video game” is not a complimentary thing to observe about a movie.

Which do you think is the case—that people really do enjoy the filmmaking of MoS as much as Avengers and it’s just a media myth that they don’t, or that people are wrong to not enjoy MoS as much?

It’s definitely one of mine. The fights at the end of Batman vs. Superman and Justice League are indistinguishable in my memory—just a combined hour of ugly blue-black slog.

One time I saw the end of a commercial for a movie starring someone I didn’t quite recognize. So I didn’t go to the movie.

Hey, don’t put yourself down. I care enough about what you think to have a conversation with you, even when you’ve tried to derail it several times with personal animosity.

Absolutely. That’s why I’m sick to death of it.

I’m most definitely neither blase nor above it all. I think it is a fucked up, horrible situation that is made permanent by fucked up, horrible people who have vested interests in it remaining so, and part of that is holding the rest of the world hostage to their pissant fight. If us trying to babysit these folks did…

This is the kind of shit that makes half the country loathe Trump and half the country love him even more, and it’s going to get him re-elected. His base gets the racist dogwhistle (and really, it’s just a whistle at this point) it wants AND the victim narrative of being accused of bigotry just because they don’t want…

And that endless black hole of false equivalences followed by whitewashing of similarities followed by laundry lists of very real grievances is what has been holding the world hostage for decades. Of course Israel is committing atrocities and has enormous amounts of blood on its hands. And of course Hamas is a fucked…

It’s a contest to see who can be the last person in their ring, and then they win a Dodge or a waffle iron or some other bullshit that isn’t worth having your spine all mangled to hell.

Actually I said “the whole region can go fuck itself” if we’re going to be pedantic.