There was a drama recently about a popular streamer getting caught watching deepfakes of his popular streamer friends. So, yeah, that stuff is already out there.

This.

For a moment I thought the guy in the middle of the header image was Steve Holmes, and I was like: ‘That guy’s pretty good at sex, no?’

Putting aside any thoughts on how the product itself might turn out... I’m just honestly bewildered by the choices they made in putting this trailer together.

The only marketing for this film I saw was during a 7-day period a few weeks ago, where every single ad for every single YouTube vid I watched turned into:

“But I think the most important thing is inclusivity and ... basically just fucking more women anywhere, anytime, all at once.”

You’re right, my apologies. I should’ve checked that part before typing it out.

The first 3 replies have more or less covered it, but just to spell out a few things: generally speaking, the BBC is pretty good. Journalistically, they’re among the most reliable news sources out there.

This was/is an absolutely atrocious decision by the BBC. But then again, when the new Director General is a Tory stooge, that’s to be expected. Glad the other presenters stood by him, they’re absolutely right to walk off and I hope this exposes Tim Davie as the hack that he is.

I agree with basically everything you said - including what Democrats need to do - but I don’t agree with the conclusion. Just because Dahm won’t back down from what he’s saying, doesn’t mean that he and his ideas can’t be made to look irrational or stupid - which I’d argue that Stewart achieved. That point where he’s…

Eh, after The Gray Man I’m not feeling super psyched about this. Think the Russo’s approach to the genre was perfect for Captain America 2, but taking the same approach with real-people spy stuff isn’t as exciting.

In a vacuum, I would and did say that Rock’s joke against JPS was pretty harmless. Calling a bald woman ‘GI Jane’ in a jokey way, at an event where some light ribbing is expected, could almost be interpreted as a compliment, frankly - especially if he didn’t know it was due to alopecia.

I don’t disagree. I definitely think that the right’s craziness is far more serious than the left’s, and I wouldn’t necessarily advocate for dialoguing with the kind of people you describe - unless, maybe, if there were more moderate people watching who might be persuaded to the left by your rationality in the face of…

Fair play, I appreciate the civil disagreement. To address your points: I think it’s far from a certainty that a single Jon Stewart video will be seen and engaged with critically in exactly the right way by exactly the kind of person who needs to hear it. But as a general point, I do believe it is absolutely a good…

No... he admitted that he’d rather progressivism have less support than have support from people he deems unworthy...

“like, the actual points that they’re making”

Your post is intelligent, and contains a lot of points that I’d like to respond to, but if I do then I think this reply is gonna balloon to a ridiculous extent. So I’m just gonna try and summarize what I think are the core disagreements, but that’s gonna take a bit of inference on my part. Just to say, if I’m missing…

Alliterator dismissed my final reply like a bitch, so I’m just gonna put it here instead:

Wow. That’s a lot of assumptions about what’s going on in the mind of these ‘idiots.’

If a “healthy debate” between someone who is clearly in the pocket of the gun lobby and a comedian is going to change your mind somehow, well, uh, I don’t really want you on my team, because that’s not a good look.