Well there have been murmurs about Aziz for some time, and as someone here pointed out he actually has something of a reputation in Hollywood for being a jerk, apparently. I wasn’t personally aware of too much of this, but it is what I’ve gathered since this accusation came out, and I don’t think it’s unreasonable to…

That doesn’t mean Aziz is irreplaceable though. I mean surely there are other people who are just as talented as him? And a lot of his place at the moment comes from the fact that he just happens to be the most popular Indian actor in America. If he does take enough of a hit from this (or quietly disappears)…

Well that’s just it, the U.S. empire in general is always troubling to you, so when you say that you were more at ease with Obama (hey, compared to Trump, I think pretty much everyone who isn’t a MAGA CHUD moron was, myself included), that’s speaking only relatively. You’re still talking about someone who posed a…

I really don’t think that’s true. If anything, the party kept hobbling itself by constantly insisting on really corporatist candidates whose war and economic policies barely differed from Republicans at all, which predictably has hurt turnout. It’s only in rare cases that these races have meaningful primary…

He started wars Bush didn’t even get us into. By no means will I argue the ones he started were quite as barbaric as Bush’s - he was smart enough to never sign off on any full invasions - but he bombed seven countries compared to Bush’s four. And to say he tried to get us out of existing wars is putting it pretty…

“That’s a societal standard by which all of humanity considers the subject to the degree that we can distinguish between killing out of self-defence and killing out of malice”

But see, there’s the rub, which you’re apparently still too dim to understand. Our wars that we are fighting are not wars of “self-defense.”…

I was referring to Obama, but it’s in context to the fact that A) I was discussing the Netflix Letterman show in which Obama is known to be the first guest (if it was Bush or Trump I would have used a similar epitaph, believe me), and B) comparatively to other recent presidents Obama made drone strikes a really…

The reason I don’t care about intent in this situation (as I’ve already explained) is that we are not talking about simple isolated accidents but ongoing policies, in point of fact illegal wars being waged for reasons having little to nothing to do with anyone’s “safety,” that are harming human beings, and the people…

Dude, I’m the one who made the President Drone Strikes comment, and even -I- don’t have an issue with Kal Penn. As Son of Mogh noted, he was in a fairly uncontroversial department that had nothing to do with Obama’s problematic foreign policy. He did a legitimate public service, which would have been legitimate…

Heh, I’m actually the guy who made the “president drone strikes” comment and I honestly have no idea what his point is. Kal Penn had nothing to do with Obama’s foreign policy.

I think one of the issues with Louis CK is that the co-creator of the show copped to the fact that at least one of those appearances after he knew about Louis’ actions, and he still cast him again for another appearance. That’s definitely a little shitty, and tarnishes the show in retrospect (though I give credit to…

There was a point not even all that long ago where Bill Cosby was extremely important to black Americans. In the 80s and to some extent the 90s he was one of the few really respected voices they even had on television and within the popular culture that the rest of America was really consuming and respecting.

I’m used to it over the years, but I honestly thought by now it would be seen as a fairly benign comment given that he’s been out of office a year and there’s no reason to get insanely defensive over him anymore. I guess not!

I didn’t intend to get into a big thing about it, honestly; someone made a comment about the David Letterman show on Netflix and I made what I felt was a pretty benign comment about someone who has been out of office for a year now. Normally I would only (if at all) argue about politics on an article actually about…

Alright, as I did with OS8 I’m going to point out that you apparently haven’t read what I wrote terribly carefully. It’s going to be the same message beyond this paragraph because it applies to both of you.

You realize I said earlier that in the event of a “lesser evil” race I often do vote for people I find to be…

Alright, I’m going to engage again to point out that you haven’t actually been carefully reading anything I’ve written.

You realize I said earlier that in the event of a “lesser evil” race I often do vote for people I find to be imperfect, or even noxious, right? I said nothing against that concept. It’s a totally…

Nah, not really.

Well, technically this is true since Bush, yes. However, sincerely think for a second about the fact that you read my comment and instantly knew who I was talking about. Trump is continuing Obama’s brutal streak (and then some), and Bush started the program, but Obama greatly expanded and it made it a truly signature…

Well I can’t speak for others. Personally I was disillusioned with him at least by late 2010 and (within a safe state) opted not to vote for his reelection in 2012. Even if I liked him a lot more than I did, to me the role of a citizen is ALWAYS to hold your elected leaders accountable, not to support and defend them,…

I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m talking about Obama’s (and Trump’s, incidentally) actions as a president, in terms of policies that significantly harmed other human beings. I don’t care for a second if a president has an extramarital affair or anything to do with their private lives (I care…