I remember when the show didn’t really have a ‘message’, it was just about stupid crap like aliens putting a satellite dish in Cartman’s butt.

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This show is fun. The storylines and rivalries are right up there with wrestling. It has its moments where suspension of disbelief can be a little too much, but overall fun. I still laugh though on just how soap opera serious the characters take karate. Just wondering on how all these karate students in their little ga…

SP: BLU is an excellent movie.  That said, it’s not something I think they can repeat 14  (or even 2, honestly) more times.

“Why change a formula that was working?”

Its a pity. Around the time of BLU they seemed pretty progressive with jokes about racism in the armed forces etc. Then they started pandering to the Chan dwellers and edgy memesters. I still have affection for the series despite this stuff and it does seem a twinge of regret has set in with Matt and Trey, who are…

All good reasons not to watch. I used to enjoy the show, back when I was young and immature as it was. But I grew up. When they devoted an entire episode to defending their use of the f-slur, I realized that they wouldn’t.

It’s the general problem of comedians. They start out young and rebelling against what they disagree with, which was stuff that was largely pro-queer and anti-mainstream.
But as they got older, their views stayed the same and nothing challenged their worldview, so they drifted more to the center and more to punching…

I mean his portrayal half the time was utterly fucking boring monotone and understandably memed to death (“I don’t want it”).

“Unless he was referring to a pile of sticks, or trying to bum a cigarette in England a decade or more ago”.

What are you talking about?  People were criticizing him because HE HIMSELF said HE had recently been using the word and only stopped after a tremendous amount of effort by his daughter convinced him it was wrong, all in the recent past.  This isn’t the “court of public opinion” manufacturing outrage (unless you think…

Yeah, it’s important to remember that Biden was in the Senate for a billion years and the Senate has always been an insular, self-obsessed old (wealthy, white supremacist) boys’ club. Most Senate Dems could not give less of a shit if Mitch McConnell fucks them over politically, so long as he calls them “my…

After the Weinstein comments and the Project Greenlight mess, this is about what I expect from him - he is one of the best examples of why actors have PR people. I’m sure some would say, and are saying, that he shouldn’t be judged, but he’s the one who said all this ridiculous word salad in the first place.

“I’m tired of the circular fucking firing squad on “our side”.”

Sounds like they’ve gone and got themselves a de facto union. Best thing to come out of all of this - and hopefully an example to other workers at other companies. This is how you unionise. You just do it.

You make a strong point, but in my opinion “Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives” is one of the strongest Palm D’or winners of the last decades, rewarded for its vision, its patience, and its goal: to solve death itself. I personally find that its remoteness is not opposed to poignancy, but I get where those who…

Biden is paleo-bipartisan in the same way that, say Pat Buchanan was paleo-conservative. They insist that their way of doing things can still work, that their values are still relevant, etc., way after everyone else has realized the truth. What’s particularly irksome is that Biden watched first-hand as McConnell, et…

They will talk a big talk about progressive ideas but then abandon them the moment it effects “bipartisanship” and than appropriate grassroots progressive movements to soften their image for neoliberals.

So critique Stillwater. I have. I’ve had plenty to say about how it’s akin to NYT’s and WaPo’s “Cletus safari” stories that want to do anything but call a spade a spade when it comes to MAGA bullshit. I’m annoyed with director Tom McCarthy for straying so far away from his best film, Spotlight.

This is even worse.