Jojo rabbit is objectively one of the most effective apologias for evil ever written, and if you were thinking objectively about the movie you’d acknowledge this. See how stupid it is to use the word “objectively” to lend support to your subjective arguments? Its end result is the resistance figure being put to death…

You are describing precisely what is wrong with the movie. It enables bad people - and to be clear, that is all of us - to pretend we aren’t really the bad guys, we are nothing like them, because the only real bad guys are the ones who are cartoon villains, which leaves practically all real bad people off the hook.…

Equating this to life is beautiful, a movie that had nothing in common with it besides being a comedy set in the same period, is particularly heinous because of where the movies’ sympathies lie. The appropriate analogy, as noted elsewhere in the comment section, is A Boy In Striped Pyjamas, but its understandable if…

That’s what’s so insidious about human culture, human psychology. Most of the people who produce evil aren’t doing so deliberately (even though, to be clear, they are responsible for their results, not for their [rationalizations of] their intentions). This is why we have a whole phenomenon right now of liberal…

your reaction is a demonstration of how apt the review was - you are so averse to it because you don't want to acknowledge the uncomfortable truth of its message about a movie that seduced you. If it were really a bad review you wouldn't have had such a strong reaction.

What an insult to the millions of people who grew up in that environment and didn’t buy in to the propaganda to try to normalize the ones who did by trying to pass off responsibility for their embrace of evil onto their society. Truth is, falling for evil propaganda is not something that happens to people, it’s…

Welcome to the post truth world, in which a decade can consist of only 9 years so long as that’s more convenient than admitting the majority’s unconsidered numbering system is wrong. In other news, 2 + 2 may equal 4 or 5, depending on popular opinion.

Nice kitty!

Somebody’s been watching Brave Little Toaster again.

He’s contemptuous of buttigieg (upstart mayor of an inferior town), he jumped in when buttigieg was trending up (and not when bernie or warren were trending up, so it’s not about opposing the party’s move left as it has been for other billionaires). Once he’s finished draining the lifeblood out of buttigieg’s…

Never believe anything anyone says before the word "but".

In a different conversation? You cannot be serious. When you were in school did you try to justify the lack of citations in your term paper on the grounds that you cited sources in a different paper on the same subject?

Wrong. Digging up some sources and presuming those constitute the argument your debate opponent is making is strawman fallacy, and if you dig up some sources for your opponent’s position and demonstrate how they are wrong you can expect to have that accusation thrown in your face. It is the place of the person making…

You wouldn't last five minutes in the spotlight, so you might want to be a little more circumspect about assessing situations you know you'll never have to deal with.

Tell us what you do for a living. I'm sure we'll all be impressed at how productive your life is.

“eight inches sometimes don’t make a difference”

If you gaze into the box, the box also gazes into you.

Yikes, that’s one helluva slippery slope you’re treading on. Any reasonable person would blow his own head off if he believed doing so would benefit his loved ones? You’ve just endorsed a whole lot of suicide, not just by disabled people. Are you prone to suicidal thoughts?

Because getting angry works, and they haven't been brainwashed into believing in the need to remain calm and polite.

He joins one helluva list. I was surprised to see it's the third most common cancer death in the US.