No, what I'm saying is that everyone is in an intellectual circle jerk. No one wants to be challenged, just reaffirmed. What really irks me is that most arguments have to disqualify their opponents completely, and no one person or group can claim innocence in that.

Yes, that's why Trump won, because his opposition has no sense of humor, as evidenced by our new President's tweets.

Yeah, because only "liberals" are the ones who have been doing that, those fucking retards.

It's not like that hasn't become all the rage nowadays, with guys like Steven Chowder and Ben Sharpio feeling as though they need to talk down to comedians in order to validate themselves.

Or what if I think he's a dick, whether or not I might agree with what he's saying?

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When I first came across this video, I felt ripped off. Then I thought about it an hour later, and I was like, "…OHH I GET IT."

No worries; I usually try and be as level-headed as possible to communicate things. There is this hyperbolic form of exchange that comes across as very passive-aggressive in most instances.

I get where you're coming from, and by all accounts the plot totally justifies that perspective on things. I think this is just how I've come to process Spider-Man 2 over the years, where I can recognize it's a well-made movie, but some choices to the plot kind of rub me the wrong way.

Ideally, I would have preferred this movie as being a two-sided story, where we hear from both of them. But right out of the gate it stated it was a "boy-meets-girl story," so I am fine with how they carried it out in that sense.

I always felt (500) Days of Summer was pretty much the Ted-centric portions of How I Met Your Mother, but done right, especially with that face-palm finale in mind.

These points of yours are precisely why I have never been able to get behind the Raimi films, or at least the reverence toward Maguire's portrayal of Peter Parker. No offense to Maguire, more to the repetition in the writing, where Peter is almost always a meek, indecisive guy who can't commit to a choice unless the…

The Denis Leary Ghost Dad, to me, was right up there with D'Angelo's nitpick in the article above over how the "Expectation/Reality" framing stays around through the whole sequence. It conveyed a lack of confidence to the given viewer of the movie, like they could not process Peter's guilt unless there was a direct…

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are being hyperbolic in saying you "genuinely don't see the point in reboots." "Reboot" in itself is kind of a trivial way of phrasing a reimagining or an adaptation of a prior work, generally spoken in a passive-aggressive way toward remaking something mostly or…

Yeah, that's a fair point. It often feels as though "literally," "irony" and "satire" are on their last legs sometimes.

Yeah, I'm not even subscribed to Felix, yet I've been astounded by the bad luck he's had with media coverage over the past few months. Ethan hit the nail on the head here.

There was also this one:

So does that mean the future is going to be whiny, fanatical and will spread rumors about its enemies to bring them to ruin?

Or maybe he hasn't "gotten away" with anything, it's just that WSJ has been taking his jokes wildly out of context, and everyone including the author of this article as it seems has been getting on the bandwagon.

Look, I get it, AV Club is meant to be hyperbolic in order to get some laughs. But can't you do a little research first before you get on the bandwagon?