As an Indonesian citizen, this law is really worrying. As stated in the regulation, the government may take down content that they consider “disturbing” (the words used in this regulation are very ambiguous) which can be interpreted as content that criticizes them. The privacy of online service users is also…

It’s just more sadness as another previously enlightened multicultural country (perhaps the most multicultural on Earth) follows the path of the US, the Phillipines, Poland, India, Brazil, the UK, Turkey, Tunisia, etc. into being a proudly stupid racist reactionary shithole where all the proudly uneducated people…

“how it stacks up against corporate jet use”

And if you had actually thought about it for more than two seconds you’d realize that no-one gives a damn how many of those flights she was personally on - they care about how many private jet flights she’s enabled that could’ve either a) not happened, or b) been commercial instead. And that number is... 170 and…

American Airlines. Hell no. All celebrities should have to fly Spirit.  It will humble them a bit 

That’s what BreadnMaters does. They make almost-bizarrely written posts and when you ask them to clarify, they accuse you of asking in bad faith and trying to “draw them into an argument.” And when you explain why you asked them to clarify, why their post wasn’t clearly written and could be interpreted in a different…

Trolls like SoftSack are bagging on Swift for topping the list this year like they’re making a point,

There’s a gap between “dumb hypocracy” and “the stunning hypocrisy of a vocal environmentalist indulging in the most extravagantly destructive behavior possible literally every other day because they’re too important to drive or fly business class”

That seems like a flawed approach. Taylor Swift’s response is more recent, so of course there’s going to be more active discussion about it on Twitter right now...

“hoi polloi” refers to regular folk like you and me, not the ultra rich.

To be fair, Taylor Swift taking a commercial flight would not end well for everyone involved. People lose their shit when they see c-list celebrities. An A-lister like Swift...not a good outcome.

Just to clarify, are you suggesting that she did not, in fact, take the most private jet trips this year, and that these bloggers are lying? Or, she actually did take the most private jet trips this year, but each of her 170+ trips was an attempt to escape this warzone you speak of, and each time she discovered,…

Maybe don't own a plane if your problem is you don't know where to keep it.

Uhh… isn’t that worse?

On one hand, Thompson has a point that half a century is a good run and maybe the show in it’s current form could be given a rest. On the other hand, there’s nothing inherently wrong with the show that a little trimming the fat in some places and tweaking it in other places couldn’t fix.

I guess you forgot the Whitney Houston “I will always love you” era.

I don’t see this happening with “Master Of Puppets”, but in the last few weeks “Running Up That Hill” has been getting piped over the PA in just about every public place I’ve been in that plays music. It’s wild how everywhere it is, I don’t remember an actual current pop hit being that everywhere at once.

Yeah, almost every time I read a story where an actor says a director is great, they say it’s a collaborative process to figure out how to play the character.

Hi, yeah, that’s not how a good director should be working with any actor, let alone children. This myth of directors and acting teachers needing to manipulate and abuse actors (to program actors to seek their approval and feed their own ego) needs to fucking die. It’s a bullshit, toxic environment that is utterly…

I really hope you’ve got more going on in your life than trying to earn stars on a pop culture website’s comments section with your “jokes.”