Hey, that’s true. Boy, I guess you really clenched that argument.

And if you insist you know what people really mean every time they express a position you don’t like or agree with, it becomes a very convenient way to demonize absolutely everybody who offers a similar take, or merely finds flaws within your own. And now you get to be right about everything, and never have to hear a…

No, it’s impossible to argue in good faith when you insist the other side isn’t. A good faith argument will engage with their words as spoken, and their meaning as explicit. When you approach it any other way, all you do is create boundaries to reasonable positions (maybe not your position, maybe not a position…

It’s hard for me to call foul on this one, and I’m all about being a referee. The fact is that as it’s phrased in the article, it’s not even suggesting boycott. It’s exclusively, “Would you please remove this channel we don’t like?” with no “or we’ll such-and-such” attached. This is merely a different group of people…

You want to get your kitty the best bed in the world?

I think we should engage in good faith discussions with people, even the really stupid ones like you get from the typical 2nd Amendment zealot, and not assign motivation based in what you think they really mean. There are plenty of weaknesses and logical failings to exploit in this conversation without having to…

Awesome catch. I would never have thought there’s a way for that to get funnier.

Hi, I’m an AV Club reader, and I would like to officially request that you stop using phrases like “racist dog whistles” on your website immediately.

JJ Abrams has a loose, sloppy mystery box.

I read this review and thought, “I’m always up for a deeply personal sci-fi boondoggle; let’s queue this up so I can see exactly how off-the-rails it goes.” And with a logline like this “a silent, wood-whittling Amish lug as he tries to find his missing Iranian girlfriend in near-future Berlin without the help of a…

Yes, please continue to tell me how I feel about things. I cannot function without you to act as Sherpa through the peaks and valleys of my emotional journey.

Nah, hopes and prayers are clearly useless, but I have been looking into some promising voodoo rituals...

Fair enough. If people want to hope or pray or wish or whatever that NRA zealots get shot, that’s fine by me. I wasn’t calling out that aspect, and I’m not upset by it. I wasn’t upset by any of what was said. I just found it amusing that this person seemed to be saying, “Get a load of how paranoid this person sounds…

And the thing is, I really wasn’t Offended or Disgusted or Outraged!, or even mildly upset, by the original comment. A person can hope and pray all they want that someone gets shot; hell, if somebody here wants to pray that a piano falls on my dick, go for it. I hope and pray that Donald Trump will fall down an…

You mean thinking? No, thinking doesn’t make me tired. If thinking makes you tired, you may want to look into your diet.

I’m calmer than you are, dude.

I’m sorry, but what’s my “bad take” here? To quote an important voice for our times, MisterPiggins, from earlier in this very thread, “It’s called a joke, Francis.” I mean, it admittedly lacks the nuance and penetrating insight of “I pray that more children get murdered,” but the leading statement contained an amusing…

Right back at ya, buddy!

So you’re going to deride this person as a lunatic for suggesting a civil war is coming, yet you actively hope people start shooting the families of your political enemies.

I predict he will either win this or receive a sizable ‘undisclosed settlement,’ because as much as we might like to put it in this sort of language, getting fired and terminating a contract aren’t really the same thing. Tavis is a smart dude, and I’m sure his lawyers are smart people, and unless there’s very specific…