I don’t think the government has a “probably” explanation right now.

Perhaps everyone who is not the absolute worst storyteller is “one of the greatest”.

BBC is government funded, so no need for commercials. Everyone pays a license fee for owning a television.

A show that already ran for five seasons (one of which aired last year) adapting an ongoing series of novels will now get a sixth? Stop the presses, what enormous news.

What did he do with Michael Mann?

Game of Thrones is a special case. There were more than 4 books (though unfortunately not enough to contain the ending), and nobody would have accepted just ending with season 4.

True Detective no longer has the same showrunner. Nic Pizzolato is now making some western series for Amazon.

I don’t think it even qualifies as that. Actually denying something puts you on the record about a factual matter. But you can boycott someone without actually denying what they’re saying. If someone admits to a mistake, and then I just won’t shut up about said mistake and harp about it constantly, someone could…

The government has started talking about them more openly, and I don’t think it’s because they’re about to burn some witches.

Pacific Islanders? Merle Oberon was part-Asian even if you don’t count Maoris though.

Merle Oberon, a nominee in 1935 for The Dark Angel, did not publicly identify with her Maori heritage

Literalism is a deliberate choice.

And you have evidence of that via getting me to waste time talking to you? Or is being a commenter at the surviving husk of the AV Club at all sufficient for that?

[M]y feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance. I feel myself more akin to any European country, no matter which. Everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it’s half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?

I think you vastly overestimate the power of therapy. There are some people who were convinced they were subjected to Satanic ritual abuse as children even in physically impossible situations, but the patient has to be willing to go down the rabbithole of fantasy with their therapist. If Milo has a positive regard for…

It’s part of navigating life in capitalist society, but NOT a refutation. When former fans of the Dixie Chicks got mad at them for speaking out against the Iraq War and decided to boycott them, did that “refute” their point about that war?

Oh, I don’t think they are “two sides of the same coin” which is why I called it a “rough comparison”. Milo’s normative belief about underage sex is informed by his own life experience, just as Davis’ is about the justice system, but that’s not sufficient to make them the same.

It’s perfectly legitimate to spend your money as you see fit, but it doesn’t “refute” anything but claims about how you spend your money.

Not giving a fuck and not losing sleep are quite different from saying anyone should die. The latter would require actually doing something.