If HBO is on the AV Club comment section and gives a fuck about whether I, who don't even have HBO, think Bill Maher is an ass - then you might have a point. Instead, you're a paranoiac.

"fuck Bill Maher - here is why what he did was bad" isn't censoring or restricting his speech - he's the one with the fucking national TV show and I'm the one on a comment board of a barely read culture site. it IS speech. Is that clear? Saying "I think your speech is offensive and wrong" is ME exercising MY free…

Listen to those songs when you need some energy and you tell me, lmao

I don't know, as a black person myself, I'm not really into giving passes to people who otherwise have track records of being shit. It's not like this is Colbert - this is a bigoted ignoramus.

a lack of that "constant buzz" is how minor transgressions (which pile up and open the door for larger transgressions) become normalized. If people (who apparently don't care about oppression in their everyday lives?) can't tell the difference between "fuck Bill Maher for using a racial slur" and "fuck this person for…

Yeah it's so weird how the bulk of the "real hip hop" crowd rarely listen to the most cutting edge lyricists out there today. It feels like it's less about actual music preference and more about feeling like they're part of an in-group or something.

It's like, most of his music is bad but DAMN "Up Next 2" and "They Lookin'" kinda slap. That's my only takeaway

The thing is, they're not surprised. Nor do they seem to care. Yachty said several times in the video above that this criticism doesn't bother him at all. He's just having fun - it's not his fault that some of his terrible songs still get hella streams.

Yachty wouldn't be the first rapper (or artist in general) whose cultural influence transcended the actual quality of his music. It's not like his music is gonna change hip hop, it's his attitude. Rappers and "heads" today tend to have too much respect for vets who in hindsight made a lot of boring and same-y music.…

Have you heard anything but Broccoli? As far as making catchy songs with interesting, fun flows, Yachty and his ilk definitely have talent.

shit, even if it WAS a gate (which I've heard before in church) it would mean that it's impossible for a camel that's too heavy-laden to get through an opening that just big enough for the camel itself. Even under that interpretation it means you need to unburden yourself of your excess.

This joke in particular stems from the idea that someone sucking another person's dick whenever the latter person wants is suggestive of a certain power dynamic. It's awfully close to just saying "c—-ksucker" and the joke certainly wasn't funny enough for Colbert to risk homophobia, but I think it's a stretch to…

It was definitely homophobic. But this isn't that. The joke isn't "Trump sucks a man's cock and that's bad cuz it's gay." It was "Trump sucks PUTIN'S cock whenever Putin wants and that's bad because (1)Putin is the leader of a nation often hostile to U.S. interests and (2)the U.S. president is supposed to be the most…

Calling Trump, who is suggested to have colluded with Putin, Putin's cock-holster is not at all the same as generally calling him a "c—-sucker." The latter is specifically meant to denigrate male homosexuality. The former merely implies a power dynamic - it doesn't derive it's humor (not that it was that funny in the…

You can make literally anything seem shallow and stupid with that "sads" dialect.

I mean, certainly every full-time Youtube personality who makes the news for racism or child abuse is definitely a racist and most likely a child abuser, so at least you've got that

Perhaps none of the several segments of conservatism feels like it can mobilize enough people to win elections on their own, which is true on the national stage. There ironically seems to be a LOT of falling in line just because of how ideological diverse the Republican party is, so it just ends up being contradictory…

Nate Parker's acquittal doesn't mean he was innocent. Just like Affleck's out-of-court settlent doesn't mean he's guilty. I happen to believe both ARE guilty.

A whiny teen who wants to go drag racing would still at least REACT to seeing his burned out childhood home and the extra crispy corpses of the people who raised him. If he'd started LAUGHING it would've been a more believable performance than his mild, disappointed shrugging.

I think you're right, that's definitely a huge part of it. It's an under-told story about black history and in that sense was very important. But seeing it in the screening I went to really elucidated his character in a way that heavily tainted the story. He clearly has some classic misogyny that we saw hints of with…