He’s overrated, and he’s largely done that to himself. He would rate closer to where he actually is, if he was more gracious. But when he continually throws the rest of the industry under the bus in order to promote his own work, people aren’t going to cut him slack or overlook his flaws.

Re: “celebrities are damned if they do and damned if they don’t,” the thing about this column is that it’s explicitly about what celebrities do, and what Jessica Chastain did was thoughtlessly give more credibility to the term “alt-left” via a tweet to her 575,000 followers (many of whom called her out of them), only…

So, let’s boil it down like this: Say the rations they legally purchased got ruined by the flooding. After all, evacuating is a privilege, not a right. Many city dwellers rely on public transport and don’t have cars they could have escaped with.

go fuck yourself, you goddamn monster. People lost their homes, are without power or water or shelter, and you think they should just starve or suffer? They’re living through the worst storm in Texas history, they can take what they need to survive, you fucking scumbag

Did you adjust your fingerless gloves and fedora before typing that?

Have fun stoically starving when whatever disaster eventually befalls your town

What if you are the owner of that supermarket?

Horseshit like this is why people hate libertarians.

people who did not prepare, buy supplies in advance, or evacuate

If you’re the owner of that supermarket, you’re covered by insurance and whatever goods those people don’t take are going to be a biological nightmare by the time you reopen the store. What, you thought they’d restock shelves with food that floated around in raw sewage?

I hope you drown in a highly localized flood.

We probably should not be humoring your idiocy, but what exactly is the supermarket going to do with those goods? Are they going to sell old bread and milk when they reopen after the flood?

Holy shit, you suck.

so let’s divert emergency resources from rescuing people to arresting people for trying to feed themselves.

If I owned the supermarket I would have insurance and I wouldn’t sell flood damaged food. What if you didn’t have the means to evacuate or prepare enough supplies for the storm?

Yes, it is okay that victims of one of the worst flooding disasters in the nation’s history are finding food and water where they can. If I’m the owner of that supermarket, I’m not going to whine about a few thousand dollars worth of staples coming off the shelf. That’s probably why I have insurance.

you are a shit person and if there is any good in this world you don’t hold an ounce of authority over anyone or anything

Holy crap is this a nuclear take. Does it occur to you, oh paragon of the Free Market, that a supermarket has already written off its entire stock? If the power’s out for as long as it has been the entire damn inventory is no longer able to be sold, it would be thrown out either way. But hey someone somewhere is…

Have you always been a piece of shit, or is it something you’ve worked towards?

Get off the computer Dad. I heard this already when Katrina hit.