*gets in angry argument with I don’t have a login over an incredibly specific point that nobody made*

Clearest would probably have been “it’s always been this easy”, and leave at that, because while rephrasing helps make it more clear, I could still argue the rephrased statement either way. But we’ve now reach the point where I’m annoying myself with how pedantic I’m being, so I won’t be doing that.

In actual real life, right this second, I’m making the “jerk off” motion to your comment because it seems like the most appropriate response to this non sequitur bullshit. Wookietim was right to disengage with you, and I’m an idiot for even wading into these waters.  

“As easy as it’s ever been” is a difficult statement because it can mean both “easier now than then” and “the same level of easy now and then” depending on context. The statement before seemed to imply that it was easy before, but there was no additional followup connecting the concept of how easy it was once to how…

FFS, it’s like speaking to someone from another planet. I guess go ahead and keep fearing the big, bad Progressive and Communist boogeymen, then. I’m sure they’re just right around the corner, waiting to steal your guns, force you to gay marry, and take away all of your personal possessions, which they will then…

Here’s yet another post that I’m nearly certain I’ll regret, but let me just jump in here and back up the other commenters - you don’t really seem to know what you’re talking about. It would appear that you’ve maybe googled these topics, selectively read about a few of them, and then decided that your mind is made…

I suspect I’m going to regret this, but....isn’t that exactly what the article said? That it’s now easier to edit images with software than ever?

I dunno, they all look like straight shooters with upper management written all over them, to me. Why, they just look like some, good, hard-working kids, right there. So bright and shiny and full of verve, you know? Just good, reliable people...the kind of people you wouldn’t mind if your daughter (or son!)…

Scouring all cow flesh from the earth with fire: just a Tasty Genocide, or Tastiest Genocide?

Look, I really wish all of you would quit calling Tom Lauren, Ralph’s brother, a woman. He’s not! He doesn’t even work for Fox News!! FAKE NEWS!!!!

Yeah, I’ve read some of her other work, and I guess I just don’t understand her perspective? She honestly reads like a Slate-circa-2005-columnist in that whatever her opinion is, it’s always the exact opposite of everyone else’s. Contrarian for the sake of being contrary...

Sure, its a useful tool. What purpose were you using that tool for? Certainly looked like your whole objective was “I disapprove of this thing so I’ll reductio ad absurdum the argument with some bullshit about college kids being nazis”.

I am implying that Jerry Seinfeld is “choosing” to not play colleges because colleges are not in any way interested in him. Not because he’s offensive, but because he’s basically unknown to their student body.

You know what does scream “Jerry Seinfeld”? 18-22 year olds who are probably only familiar with his seminal work from late-night reruns on TBS.

Just because the first time you encountered the concept was Jon Stewart, that doesn’t make it either his shtick nor does it make the overall concept one that he has any ownership over.

I suppose you could take it to that extreme. Of course, doing so would ignore all reason, and would make you an absurd person. Are you an absurd person? I certainly try to not be, which is why no where in my post did I mention or even hint at such a thing.

I think (not know, just think) that your real purpose for doing this is because its fun to rile up white people. Which, it absolutely is, and if this your purpose (don’t tell me because that would ruin it), I’m in full support. Don’t expect any positive outcomes, however. We’re really, really good at rationalizing…

Well, there’s punching up and punching down, and a lot of the comedy people find offensive is punching down.

It does, and I love Chris Rock almost to a fault, but let’s be honest with one another, Chris Rock’s routine has always been about being offensive. He’s definitely of the “say offensive thing to get people on edge, then deflate that offensive thing with a punchline because the juxtaposition is funny” school of…

Yeah, I read that piece and found it very short on anything approaching actual evidence. So, Caitlin Flanagan went to a sparsely-populated conference in Minnesota on the subject, and then spoke with a few comics on the circuit.