Well, that comment aged poorly:

Film is a visual medium. It can be manipulated in ways that are not 100% realistic in order to be more interesting. More to the point, that was already done in the original animated version, which this film appears to be copying shot for shot while not adding anything other than a LESS appealing look. Kinda makes…

I predict this will be every bit as good as Gus Van Sant’s Psycho.

It was a topical news satire show, I think that was enough for them. I’m not sure they were looking for a 1:1 replacement anyway (otherwise they would have just done another panel show like Maher’s). It was more that they had this hole in the schedule and thought it would make sense to try another show loosely in that…

The oral history of The Daily Show book does make it explicit that Comedy Central commissioned the show as a replacement for PI.

I like John but I always find myself wishing that he would make the leap from understanding individual areas of American decay to recognizing that capitalism itself is the problem. He has so many good structural analyses but then his proposed solutions are always center-left stuff that just aren’t enough.…

Yeah the working poor and young people living with crushing debt should be thankful for all their “opportunities.”

Everyone loves the original trilogy. Being a fan of something isn’t inconsistent with disliking the later output when it declines in quality. Just ask any fan of The Simpsons or The Rolling Stones. 

There are other allegations against Ansari floating around. I’m sure Schur knows about them. But this is the guy who hired Rob Lowe despite everything we know about him, so don’t mind me while I’m completely unsurprised.

He came back with bits about how social media outrage is bad (which might be true, but like, consider the source) and didn’t address the elephant in the room otherwise, so I don’t think he’s done much reflecting. I’ve also heard other stories about him that are worse than this. They haven’t been journalistically…

I believe Omar just came out in support of BDS actually. And Tlaib has cautiously towed that line. I don’t know if you’re trying to criticize them, but this does feel like a group that could be pushed in that direction, genuinely. 

I said this in another comment, but I think the biggest difference is that now the lower standard of living is actually happening in substantive reality (or at least, to a greater degree than it has before). The millennials are not kids after all. A big chunk is in their thirties. It’s no longer just a scaremongering…

The difference is that now it is substantively happening in reality. Bear in mind millennials are not kids. A large chunk is into their thirties, and tracking well behind their parents (at equivalent ages) on home buying, savings, wages, etc. I appreciate that the rhetoric was always there. But it’s not comparable.…

Millennials absolutely have it worse than Gen X. The Xers were screwed, no doubt. But the millennials are on track to be the first generation in American history to be actually worse off than their parents, and the problems you mentioned are simply exponentially worse for millennials than for Xers. They’re not…

I think that there’s nothing we can do for some of them, that our actions only make the likelihood of civilian casualties higher rather than less, and that in any case the parties at play (the military industrial complex, the two corporate political parties, etc) don’t actually have any interest in such humanitarian…

Nah man, not playing this game. We should be out of all of those wars, full stop. They are wars of aggression and from our end are only being fought for economic ends, nothing to do with any humanitarian purpose. They increase terrorism and the threat of it to the west, not slow it. And while it sucks that pulling out…

I mean, I’m just not sure I take the data points about lowered civilian deaths at face value (journalists have generally found that the government is lowballing those figures substantially). I also think there are other factors to consider, including reports that children in those countries no longer want to play…

If there was a better or more progressive candidate in that race I see no issue with that whatsoever. She campaigns for lots of more progressive candidates in primaries. I mean...running a campaign like that is literally what she’s known for. How you think this is some kind of gotcha is honestly a little baffling.

AOC has been quite busy actually, campaigning and engaging the public on issues. Also, she isn’t a racist piece of shit.

I can’t speak for how busy Crenshaw is, but his politics are abominable whenever he does speak, so the original comment was more than fair.

Eh. I’m not with the OP as far as trying to shut down criticism of troop guy. But “we bombed a bunch of weddings, but fewer Americans died!” is a really dreadful excuse. At least the American soldiers chose to be there. Those kids who were exterminated by drone missiles weren’t. And Obama bombed more countries than…