Actually, though, I think that would do it. If they could convince themselves it wasn't fake news.

The W had an ODB verse recorded from prison. I'm not even sure ODB had more than, what, two verses on Forever?

Not Songs in the Key of Life, tho.

Ugh. People like you make me jealous. I grew up out west, so Wu-Tang was "White boy skater music" and listening to them was just another reason people would try to beat me up.

Yeah, but he and Esoteric play off of each other quite well. Czarface is right up there with RtJ as my favorite Hip Hop act right now.

This take is bullshit. LL Cool J has been far more influential in HIP HOP than you're giving him credit for. He's a genuine pioneer and even though he's been a sell-out for twenty-some-odd years now, he was just as influential as any other 80s rapper or rap group. Is he my favorite rapper from that era? No. I think…

My comment wasn't about you or social justice or whether American Conservatism was "right" or "wrong."

If you say so.

I would be skeptical of Singh's argument if there wasn't a strong White male conservative thread that ties many of Nolan's movies together. The Dark Knight trilogy is nothing if not a vaguely conflicted apologia to American conservatism.

Well… not necessarily. The reasons why individuals pump themselves full of drugs and feel like being muscular or good at riding is bicycles is some sort of sign that they're great people is basically the same reason why Russian continues to think doing well in sports is a sign that it's a great nation.

*shudders*

Yeah, I have a creative writing degree (Jesus, the self-loathing…), and it was hell. I remember one of my favorite stories I wrote in the program was a riff on Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" where a bunch of idiot high school kids get stoned and decide to go look for a chupacabra, get chased by a crooked, lunatic…

Ehhhh. I mean, I think you're right that quality is more consistent these days. But I also feel that we actually used to get GREAT movies. And now even the really good movies are just really good. Like there's been a trade-off, but I'd rather have more shitty movies and more great movies than a bunch of movies that…

I'm a hip hop head. Have been my whole life. All of pop music is somewhat misogynistic. Hip hop takes it to a whole other level.

I think the argument here is that people aren't really misinterpreting South Park.

You can't say everything raised trolls. You can't say grunge raised trolls. Grunge music, for example, is usually dealing with some kind of emotional reaction to something. The whole crux of South Park is that feeling strongly about anything is dumb and useless and worthy of mockery. That certainly wasn't grunge's…

This is dumb. Nobody's blaming SP for anything.

Yes. But shows like South Park help justify the blaming of the "PC Police" or "Immigrants" or "Vegans" for the problems instead of, you know, who really is responsible.

It's both a driving force and a reaction.

Eh. An artist shouldn't be held accountable because people are too dumb to understand the work. That would prevent all kinds of awesome and useful art. Hell, there are people out there who think THEY LIVE is an anti-Zionist movie. Should we blame Carpenter for that?