Kennedy actively did nothing on healthcare, civil rights or the social safety net. But he did find time to give a massive tax cut to the wealthy.

You didn’t answer my question. How is you giving money to a streamer because you enjoy the content any different than someone who gives money to Pokimane because they enjoy her content?
Especially when the “content” is just watching someone play a video game. They aren’t juggling or acting or doing stand-up. Its…

It’s a personality cult based on a parasocial relationship. Or, not a relationship.

That’s not what I heard. And you won’t believe who I heard it from!

Except that’s true of any tantalizing media. No one thought Marilyn Monroe was going to go out with them when they went to Some Like It Hot. But they still wanted to see the show.

How is giving somebody money because you “like what they do” any different than giving someone money because you find them tantalizing?
Anyone giving money to a streamer is doing it because of an imagined, parasocial relationship. So either no one can see through that facade, or everyone does and does it anyway.

We’re all John Hinckley now.

There isn’t a single Twitch streamer, not one, who doesn’t solicit donations for simply existing.

People are going to be furious when they learn Marilyn Monroe was married to some writer guy when she made all those movies!

Tabloids about people who aren’t famous are the future.

Jesus Christ, you can get in with an SAT of 1350? Those are some Freshman level SATs right there.

When you commit a crime, defraud and lie about it to everyone you work with and then try to send them all to federal prison so you can profit off that crime, people tend to hold a grudge.

You’re not wrong. It would be, I think, more ambitious and introspective than the show is willing to be.
Like an episode of Law & Order where they try to dismantle poverty because that’s the real cause of most violent crime.

A sequel to The Night Manager would expose one of the big problems with The Night Manager. Jonathan and Angela didn’t actually stop any weapons smuggling.

My theory is that it’ll be on long enough to sync up with The Last Kingdom.

The sixth season just did like Elton John and edited pictures of Diana’s head on Marilyn Monroe movies.

transports audiences “not just to any house of worship but the working-class, Black, Southern temple of rural Texas.”

They should be.

He didn’t show honor or compassion to the 1 million Iraqis he killed, whose pain and humanity he didn’t care about.

I can’t think of anyone John Lewis would have liked to have seen less at his funeral than George W. Bush, a war criminal Lewis opposed at every turn.