“Given Scorsese’s position within the industry, his comments aren’t one offs, it would be like POTUS or the PM casually brining up nukes...that shit bears weight.”

He doesn’t mention Marvel or DC. He’s talking about franchise films more generally, which would include Star Wars, Trek, Fast and Furious and their spin-offs, maybe Bond, I would imagine a lot of the Disney live-action remakes and probably half a dozen other paint-by-numbers cash grab entertainments built on…

You appear to believe that that Russia would decide that they want one of their leading weapons suppliers to have their focus pulled elsewhere, that that weapons supplier would do so even as they are negotiating with the US to unfreeze $6 billion of their funds, and that Hamas would invite a war with Israel in which…

Thank you for saying this. The whole argument is predicated on the idea that Iran would do Russia’s bidding, and Hamas would do Iran’s bidding to help Russia, because brown people wouldn’t otherwise act on their own and there’s no meaningful difference between one group of Muslims and another. It’s all so gross. Hamas…

According to the NYT, reporting on sources in US and Israeli intelligence, the Iranians did not know Hamas was launching an attack before it happened. I have no independent knowledge one way or the other. My felicitations to you if you do.

I’m just going by the NYT reporting on it, quoting US and Israeli intelligence. If you have different information, I’m sure they’d like to know.

Russia is relying on Iranian military supplies and does not need Iran pulled in multiple directions. Apparently, Iran had no idea this was coming.

I agree. Jezebel’s framing is the problem.

Already responded to Sourdoh, who made the same point: Heard’s discomfort with it is understandable, and it’s not clear from the bit quoted that she was talking about anything more than her reaction, rather than his intent.  Jezebel is nonetheless framing it like it was part of a pattern of hostility from Momoa.…

Absolutely. I should have been clearer - I was looking askance at Jezebel’s framing, not the original note.

I don’t think “dressing like Johnny Depp” and “dressing like Jason Mamoa,” (including favoring multiple rings), are different enough things that you can confidently ascribe malicious intent.

The part that it didn’t change was, as I said, was *the rest* of the point which was “People have been lining the boulevards of various capitals in the hopes of catching a glimpse of the local emperor, stage star, athlete or sexy lute player since time immemorial. It’s not new, and it’s not a teenage girl thing.”

He was famous for playing well, which was not what the people who paid a premium to see him expected to see, nor is it what they got. They just wanted to see him. But, point taken. Doesn’t change the rest of the point, which is that people have always gone out of their way to gawk at famous people. It’s not new, and…

“in this day and age”

I mean, they don’t vet any of the anonymous twitter randos they quote for half their stories either. If any given gift horse is willing to haul a narrative that will get easy clicks, Jezebel policy is to studiously avoid looking it in the mouth.

I mentioned this on the last article as well, but it’s also weird that they keep calling him a “veteran” like that earns him extra deference. Given his age, he volunteered to go to Vietnam, since he’s too young for anything else and too old to have been drafted. Are we lauding people who freely *chose* to bomb Asian…

Always depressing to encounter people young enough to not remember Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearing.

Why does it matter who they listen to or not? Like, they choose to not listen to someone for any reason, who cares? Cut the 1975 out because his being a dick affects one’s ability to enjoy his music. Maybe other artists, whose music means more to them makes the cut even if the artists are also not great: so what? Pure…

The fact that Minhaj is a liar means it’s a lot more likely that he is lying though. If you’re still taking his word over hers, that’s a choice based on your preferences, not his credibility.

“And not just accountability in terms of truthfulness from Minhaj about where he’ll draw the line between fact and fiction, but from the white, liberal, and affluent audiences who were hungry for stories like the exaggerated ones he shared. In a post-Obama, Trumpian era, these types of folks (many of whom I am…