Maybe you should just say to them, if you're that concerned about workers being fired by their companies for voicing their beliefs, why not join a union and campaign for more stringent labour laws? That should get an interesting response.

Or Alec Baldwin when he was fired for... saying something homophobic. Strange how the conservatives were silent about the evils of the PC gulag when that one happened, eh?

You are on fire today. How do you know so much about penguins when you live at a different pole?

Shorter Lena Dunham: "There's a time when all this judgement and criticism has to stop, and that time is when it backfires on me."

I was talking with a friend recently, and we both agreed that if we married into royalty the first thing we'd do the morning after the wedding would be to think "Finally, I can kill a swan." I mean, not that we want to or anything. It's just nice to know the option is on the table, you know?

Seriously! Just imagine how much better Girls would be if it was Don Cheadle having unsatisfying sex with Donald Glover.

So you can only dislike someone's movies if they're personally unpleasant? That seems exactly backwards to me; I'm capable of liking somebody's work despite their personal flaws, but if the work itself doesn't come up to scratch, I don't care how passionately geeky they are or how hard they're trying. Bad is bad.

By that logic every single piece of criticism that's ever been aimed at somebody successful is down to jealousy. You can't possibly believe that.

Odds/under on the amount of time that will pass before a socialist website/blog gets 'accidentally' caught in the coalition-approved spam filters? Remember that Cameron is the shameless piece of shit who tried to ban unions from donating to political parties because he knew it would nigh-on-exclusively harm Labour,…

LOL. Now include all the other parts of that conversation that completely undermine your shitty, reductive point.

I don't know how you got that from a list which included "their fathers".

I used to be fascinated by 9/11 truthers, and they did exactly the same thing. Every single Truther who said something horrifically bigoted and/or obviously delusional was disinfo, a plant, a government stooge, etc. etc. The thing they never realised was that the movement's pariahs weren't much crazier than the…

“We never, ever judge someone on who’s going to heaven, hell. That’s the Almighty’s job. We just love ’em, give ’em the good news about Jesus—whether they’re homosexuals, drunks, terrorists. We let God sort ’em out later, you see what I’m saying?”

Let me guess: A+E have violated his First Amendment right to be on a reality show?

Because he's a great actor who gave the best performance of 2012. Why should we hate him for a prank he pulled? I've seen people get incredibly angry about that, and I don't understand why. It's not as if there's some sacred bond of trust between celebrities and people watching chat shows.

See, that's your opinion. My opinion of Zack Snyder fans is that they're people who can overthink a bad movie until it looks good.

I completely agree: what I enjoyed the most about it is how advanced Malick's visual grammar is at the moment. That one cut between Affleck walking through a field to Affleck walking through the same field covered in heavy machinery - any other director would spend ages belabouring that point, showing what a…

I've got your back on Primer. The thing is, I have no problem with a complicated movie, but in Primer the complexity is all it has - I had no problem whatsoever following Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, for instance, because I loved these characters and I loved the world they were in and I wanted to pay close attention to…

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You've got to remember that some people on this site don't really live in the real world. The most commonly cited 'plot hole' in Elysium is that the super-rich don't give away all their gadgets to the poor for funsies. Just like in real life!