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For the record, I think Bill Burr is hilarious. He consistently cracks me up. But how did we get to a point where dudes who will honestly present themselves as unqualified to be arbiters of public policy get simultaneously elevated to a position where a calving chunk of the electorate goes "Hey! He's gotta point there!"

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama (assigned to mentor new hire Barack at Sidley Austin LLC) all had pretty commensurate resumes before 2 of them were elected president. Burr's likely aware of this as he hacks a swath into the bulging circle of "I'm a team-less lone wolf!"

It's the ol' reluctance to be "well, akshully" guy vs "goddamn, there's a shitload of morons who think you have point" conundrum. 

Anyhoo, I can't stand it. Like reading an Ana post. 

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I'm kind of done with comedians. Not saying anybody else should be, but I'm done with them taking blood money, while both sides stepping issues because they want to get paid by everybody.  We've been dancing along the both sides line right into fascism, and then we'll start asking why people listen to comics about anything, when, after all, they're just clowns.  And while accurate, we have a stupid populace that is mentally malleable, and besieged by algorithms.  Clowns or not, comedians can present a perspective that can distill universal truths into digestible comic bits, which can penetrate even the densest skulls.  Most everybody is presented gifts and a crossroads.  

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8 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:

I'm kind of done with comedians. Not saying anybody else should be, but I'm done with them taking blood money, while both sides stepping issues because they want to get paid by everybody.  We've been dancing along the both sides line right into fascism, and then we'll start asking why people listen to comics about anything, when, after all, they're just clowns.  And while accurate, we have a stupid populace that is mentally malleable, and besieged by algorithms.  Clowns or not, comedians can present a perspective that can distill universal truths into digestible comic bits, which can penetrate even the densest skulls.  Most everybody is presented gifts and a crossroads.  

There's a fine line between comedians and just "ammirite" angry dude who never considers the answer is "no". 

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1 hour ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

There's a fine line between comedians and just "ammirite" angry dude who never considers the answer is "no". 

This is who we are.  It really stings.  We have all these superhero and war movies, where audiences cheer and fantasize fighting the good fight against all odds, defending honor, valor, Americanism, family, humanity, decency.  When, the reality is that too many would take the money from the hands that delivered a bone saw to execute and dismember a human being, a journalist, that was spilling the atrocities we pretend to fight.  The thought that a foreign entity could probably kill any one of us, and then pay to have a group of Americans perform for them is brutal.  Anne Frank gave a face to the oppressed, made them real. And we forgot.  Some kids are coming home, wondering about the whereabouts of their parent(s).  

Bill Burr has rationalized it- those performing all have.  It's sickening.  We're phonies.  The people that are marching, and risk being identified and pressured to lose their jobs or be arrested, and then god knows what.   They're the real heroes. Well, we get to march on the 18th, and protest in solidarity, as Americans, while some clowns sell out.  

 

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