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aggie08

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  1. No one's "mad" at you. I just feel like I'm getting told how widespread something is by Helobious explaining how many "top commenters" on Reddit are responding.
  2. If this is "some of the funniest shit you have ever seen" then, for the sake of the gene pool, please do not reproduce.
  3. No one here would have had the slightest clue about this "controversy" had you not started this thread. Please stop giving instigating morons extra clicks and views.
  4. Thanks for the reminder that we should all try to recognize and phase out the anonymous rage bots the algorithm tries to prop up and send our direction.
  5. Yeah, man, if you think you're coming off any better on the this thread than the most deranged, obsessive, annoying, "piece of shit" cloak room posters, I've got some news for you.
  6. I particularly like that they had to very blatantly CGI a golf ball slowly rolling towards the hole on a chip shot. I mean, no possible way to recreate that with practical effects.
  7. Oh good. Just in time. People still definitely care about this story.
  8. I'd argue that CEOs getting caught red-handed in a hilarious, unstaged fashion has more staying power than white trash reality stars doing white trash reality star things. To your point though, no one is going to care who these two people are in a year (they barely care now), but that freeze frame isn't going anywhere.
  9. I understand this is a fun story for you for obvious reasons, but at least try to be honest about it. You keep throwing around a 1M viewer reach like it's gospel. Colbert's monologue at the beginning of every show pretty consistently gets 2-4M views on YouTube. I imagine a decent amount more through Paramount+ and Hulu. Every other late night show--including ones on Fox News--would absolutely kill for those numbers. People watching shows live hasn't been the be all end all in years. The format is dying (no one gives a shit about stock celebrity interviews anymore) through no fault of his own, and this was inevitable (though likely sped up be certain external factors), but he'll land on his feet in two seconds. Not my cup of tea--I've found him to be too safe and non-controversial since leaving Comedy Central--but he's obviously still incredibly popular.
  10. As a cultural zeitgeist, not as some piece of television mastery.
  11. Yeah. It's a real hoot.
  12. Yeah, really hard to imagine a worse sport to translate to a low effort All-Star game than WNBA basketball.
  13. Yuuup. The guilt has crept it's way in, and I feel entirely powerless. No clue how to actually help. I think we were all holding out hope that the judicial branch would put up something resembling a fight. I feel like Colin Firth's character in Conspiracy. Sure, I'm ultimately a piece of shit with no power standing by while heinous things happen to keep myself out of the target reticle...but I feel really, really bad about it. Now we're just waiting until November '26 in the hope that having the majority of Congress critters shift ever so slightly will be able to stop people from being disappeared?
  14. The internet has been the cause and unfortunate solution to a vast majority of isolation and loneliness. Bro (probably) wouldn't have found dozens of like-minded, sympathetic conspiracists in a bowling league.
  15. I almost respect those cheering it on more than those applying selective ignorance to pretend they had no part in straight up fascism and cruelty. At least they're being honest.
  16. Well, they're not paying him to be LeBron. They're paying him to help out a bench unit for 20 minutes a game.
  17. People keep saying this. Why? Dude's much more corporate and milquetoast than the Colbert Report made him seem. He's not John Oliver, who seems to take pride in daring people to sue him. He'll take his shots, maybe even drop the occasional bleeped out word--as he has been for 10 years to an agreeable audience--but he's not going to do anything to jeopardize the remaining paychecks for his staff. Not that I blame him, but it will continue to largely be the same song and dance in an antiquated format that it always has been. The timing is certainly suspect--and probably not coincidental--but expensive late shows coming to an end is an inevitability.
  18. This. It surrounds morons with an agreeable audience that amps them up. In a world where talking loud, repetitively, and fast means you "won" the argument. Sure, smart people get to sit back and point and laugh about how fucking stupid and crazy these people are. But these idiots--and those like them watching--get power in feeling like they just owned some intellectual, annoying lib. What's the point? Get them one on one and dismantle their whole belief system without other racists to back them up.
  19. Uh huh. Sure, they'll bitch and moan (louder than normal) for a couple months about not getting their military tribunals. Then what, Marge? What are you loonies going to do then? You'll rationalize that it still beats the alternative and keep marching right along.
  20. Gee, sure would have been awesome if young people--who grew up on the internet and should be less gullible to scams and blatant disinformation--realized that they were being played around oh, I don't know, November of last year.
  21. Innocent people who were black bagged and tortured now returning home to tell their stories being completely slid under the rug my mainstream outlets is pretty par for the fucking course.
  22. I don't know, an Oasis concert sounds like the perfect activity to book with a sidepiece who's complaining that all you do is hook up and you never take them in public. >50% chance the concert is cancelled before your date arrives, and you get to say, "Babe, I tried."
  23. Isn't he going to jail soon? Or already has? I thought the pardon didn't cover everything. Like any sane person, I lost any and all interest in him after his dad was no longer President.
  24. Yeah, I've always hated the "if they aren't offended, why are we" argument. I'm quite certain there are plenty of Native Americans you could find who don't mind the mascots and plenty more who don't care enough to formulate a negative opinion. But it's like asking a black person about the lack of representation at the Oscars during Jim Crow. They've got bigger fucking fish to fry. Life in their communities and on the rez doesn't warrant itself to caring much one way or the other what our multi-billion dollar pro sports franchises are wearing on their jerseys these days. Doesn't mean we can't do better--ever so slightly--as a country.
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