I don’t know anyone who shits on Eminem at this point. He’s had legend cred for like a decade now, and he’s one of the most talented rappers ever, whether or not you think his subject matter is corny. I guess i’ve heard people call him currently irrelevant in the last year, but the same way they shit on Nas and Jay Z…

is this a documentary about Walking on the Moon, or Eternal Sunshine? I really want an Eternal Sunshine doc

jokes are fine! Trust the viewer’s intelligence.

Also, the whole bit works even better if you dont admit at the end that you just edited a bunch of shit. Everyone knows you did that. The lie is funnier. It’s still a great bit, but this is potentially as funny as an Onion Sports article, except you bail on trusting the…

Look at what Corbyn is doing in the UK by throwing away all these stupid rules about being pragmatic and never going too far left. It’s not a coincidence that our third way-era overlaps with the US falling behind the rest of the world in social services. The American “left” has neutered itself for far too long, to no…

at least pretend to be volcel

they shouldve let the players who want to protest, protest. Unity is not the same thing as protest. By putting it all under one umbrella, it neuters the kneel of it’s radical message. If you want to all kneel and say “this is against institutional racism in the United states” that is also ok. But they knelt for unity.

Yeah, sure the alt-right doesnt perfectly square with libertarianism, but libertarianism doesnt perfectly square with itself—what about personal liberties infringed upon by the employer, in a society where you have to work or starve?

The alt-right is basically about being an alienated white male in a declining…

it’s not satire, the admin got trolled until he closed the group

for me the problem is that it’s such self-aggrandizing nihilism. I can deal with real bleak Cormac McCarthy nihilism, or even extinction-wish True Detective-style anti-natalism. But don’t do this insufferable “nothing matters, except the people smart enough to see through the bullshit, like me”

no you’re right, communists are way better than liberals

I’m not conflating libertarian with alt-right. They’re overlapping circles in the venn diagram. When you have a political philosophy that is (theoretically) based on the primacy personal liberty, it’s not a coincidence it’s very attractive to people who believe…

If there was anything funny or novel about the exchange I’d have no complaint. I just think monologues about how truly smart people cant be happy are kinda hack.

The reason all the other stuff bothers me is because it’s not like that stuff is even good

“Am I evil?”
“Worse— you’re smart.”

This was followed by one of the most terrible edgy monologues about how stupid average people are. This is why Harmon has attracted a fanbase of fucking libertarian neckbeards. I didn’t realize R&M was now taking their dialogue directly from r/iamverysmart.

It’s falling back on this…

I’ve seen this bit multiple times in R&M comment sections—including having typed it myself. Strong detail-oriented fanbase. Probably really into systems. And trains

I understand having immense reservations about the portrayal of female violence, but we do live in a misogynistic culture, and any accurate period piece (be it Deadwood or 70's New York) is going to have women being treated pretty brutally.

I think, to choose a Dvid Simon vehicle to attach this complaint to would be…

Great work, as always.

Teti, I dont know about those white frames, man.

Rick and Morty sometimes parodies the dark hyper competent anti-hero trope of the last decade—Rick can be a heightened version of Walter White, genius asshole. As toxic as WW fanboys were, Rick fanboys are even worse, because they’re idolizing a comic exaggeration

It was a good episode, if not a classic. But it was immensely better than the last interdimensional cable, which was outright horrible. At least they took the time to write stuff this time.

This was so much better than the last interdimensional cable. I was dreading another one of those. Improv is fun live. For a TV show with 10 episodes every 2 years, please just do the work and write it

Not calling him a republican is far too kind to the party who nominated him for president and got in line behind him. His worst policies are still Republican policies. He mostly just adds a new level of clumsiness to the racism and Islamophobia. Don’t let Republicans off the Trump titanic by giving him the independent…

I also think soccer is a lot more technically diverse than baseball. Soccer has so many different ways to arrange your players, so many formations and ways to attack. A baseball manager decides batting orders and when to bunt. He chooses the best player for each position. A soccer manager decides what the positions…