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Looks like we're getting a repeat panel from last season with Salman Rushdie (whom I greatly respect and enjoy listening to even when I seldom disagree with him), and Fran Lebowitz (who is just an awful vanity Fair bourgeois liberal who needs to take her own advise to Bernie Sanders: just go away). Once again, torn by the panel. And yes, I too was highly entertained by the weird Republican law professor. I did laugh when Bill turned to the New York Times columnist (who I thought was awesome) and said its "easy to pick on Trump" made joke after joke about him. Isn't that what the whole show is about now? Too bad the guy on the left was cut off while trying to talk about Switzerland's drug policy when Bill himself in the past said that drugs should be legalized and (like Michael Moore) used European countries as examples. Instead, he contradicted himself again, and made it look like it can never work here (like healthcare?) by brushing it off with "well, that's Switzerland...NEW RULES!"
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Gimmedaroot posted:Fran Lebowitz (who is just an awful vanity Fair bourgeois liberal who needs to take her own advise to Bernie Sanders: just go away). This woman is the absolute worst. She boasts about not having a cell phone without any self-awareness at all (in addition to her lovely political views). Her opposition to Bernie was solely because he's a man. lol
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Feb 10, 2018 15:32
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Painter falls off pretty hard for me given the gig that got him on the show outright all these times was being Bush's ethics lawyer---whoever keeps booking Bush folks is playing their hand a bit too cavalier. Schiff was pretty uninteresting at best, as lost to madness as the panel outright whenever Clinton came up on top of having no answer for the Dems inability to ever follow through with anything positive and be uncompromising. Hari guy on the end there was the closest to sane of the whole lot at least on some bits like the idiocy of the Drug War. OT was...something...with the equivocation of freaking Arpaio and Manning by that Weiss lady(took me a minute to parse who that even was...but the realization definitely achieved nothing positive as I'd been hoping the late guest would help salvage the ep at least somewhat) that Bill had on just to have somebody having his back on the metoo side of it. Next week should be a tad better, even with Fran, but that's not a hard feat given how miserable the panel has been the past couple.
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Feb 10, 2018 15:37
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The Republicans seem way too confident that they'll succeed in knocking out Mueller/FBI and with all their anxiety it almost seems like something earth-shattering will happen before the mid-terms. Are they just "playing along" with Trump and their voter base as a smokescreen coordinated with Mueller's team? Why tie the whole party down with Trump's inevitable downfall?
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Feb 10, 2018 19:04
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he should invite scahill and greenwald back on the show. lol
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Feb 10, 2018 22:01
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What was Maher going on about in New Rules? Books are still very popular: http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/09/01/book-reading-2016/
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Feb 11, 2018 05:55
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punk rebel ecks posted:What was Maher going on about in New Rules? something something everybody today stares at their phones instead of talking to each other    
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Feb 11, 2018 08:37
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At least those people are probably reading well-written articles by actual journalists and not circle jerking over likes on instagram.
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Feb 11, 2018 11:25
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Former Human posted:At least those people are probably reading well-written articles by actual journalists and not circle jerking over likes on instagram. Counterpoint, tabloids.
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Feb 11, 2018 17:15
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Former Human posted:At least those people are probably reading well-written articles by actual journalists and not circle jerking over likes on instagram. Hhahahahaha, no. Yellow journalism, pulp fiction books, penny dreadfuls, etc.
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Feb 13, 2018 18:02
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Former Human posted:At least those people are probably reading well-written articles by actual journalists and not circle jerking over likes on instagram. I'm guessing not.
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Feb 14, 2018 00:29
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WampaLord posted:Hhahahahaha, no. Yes, those things existed! Brilliant observation. Doesn't mean people on trains who were reading newspapers were reading anything you listed. I don't know how these articles are supposed to compare to people literally eating Tide pods on social media today
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Feb 14, 2018 09:36
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Just want to put this out there: if you are dumb enough to eat a Tide Pod, I encourage you to eat as many Tide Pods as possible, and follow them with a bleach chaser just to make sure the job is finished. Why are we looking at this as a bad thing?
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Feb 14, 2018 15:00
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Former Human posted:Yes, those things existed! Brilliant observation. Doesn't mean people on trains who were reading newspapers were reading anything you listed. Uh, people once used arsenic and radioactive water as health foods so...
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Feb 14, 2018 16:00
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At least people who drank radioactive water did so after being deliberately misled by quacks and advertising. Tide pods are advertised as tide pods. I guess some day we'll look down on smokers for being so dumb as to breathe fire into their bodies and be shocked that the tobacco companies lied to them about health risks. That day is 30 years ago.
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Feb 14, 2018 21:07
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doctorfrog posted:I guess some day we'll look down on smokers for being so dumb as to breathe fire into their bodies and be shocked that the tobacco companies lied to them about health risks. Literally no one ever thought smoking wasn't bad for you on some level. It's self-evident, it makes you cough, makes it more difficult to breathe, and affects the oxygen capacity of your blood. People smoke because it's enjoyable, and once you're physically addicted, not smoking is the opposite of enjoyable as well. Eating Tide Pods does not strike me as enjoyable on any level, so it really can't be compared.
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Feb 14, 2018 23:44
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it's definitely time for candy cigarettes with tide pod filling
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Feb 15, 2018 06:10
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LOL at people who believe in the "good old days" where people used to indulge nothing but the finest literature. That poo poo was always mostly only for boogie fucks. The average person always indulged trash.
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Feb 15, 2018 06:13
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PT6A posted:Literally no one ever thought smoking wasn't bad for you on some level. It's self-evident, it makes you cough, makes it more difficult to breathe, and affects the oxygen capacity of your blood. People smoke because it's enjoyable, and once you're physically addicted, not smoking is the opposite of enjoyable as well. Eating Tide Pods does not strike me as enjoyable on any level, so it really can't be compared. What? No. Doctors used to prescribe smoking, especially for weight loss.
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Feb 15, 2018 12:05
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The last decade is the only period in human history in which people have done things that are well known at the time to be risky/stupid/dangerous. Literally at no other time in human history have people, ESPECIALLY young people done really dumb things.
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Feb 15, 2018 20:06
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Slickdrac posted:The last decade is the only period in human history in which people have done things that are well known at the time to be risky/stupid/dangerous. Literally at no other time in human history have people, ESPECIALLY young people done really dumb things. Flagpole sitting, Dance Marathons, that game where you just jumped on your friends backs and tried to break each other, Russian Roulette... People have always been dumb, it's just easier to document these days.
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Feb 15, 2018 21:09
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I believe that was the point.
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Feb 15, 2018 21:20
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viral spiral posted:This woman is the absolute worst. She boasts about not having a cell phone without any self-awareness at all (in addition to her lovely political views). Her opposition to Bernie was solely because he's a man. lol And this time Fran said she simply hates Bernie. No reason, she just hates him. Ok. Other than that, what was her point on being a guest this time? Just as before, enjoyed Rushdie because he at least had something to say rather than just complaining about things he doesn't like. He also reiterated that older politicians need to step aside, mentioned lots of politicians, but was classy enough not to mention Bernie among them. I also have a feeling Cornel West is never going on the show again...
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Feb 17, 2018 06:27
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She was there, alongside Maher, to apply a fresh unwarranted knife twisting on Sanders(I mean, it couldn't be that there are many more important issues to deal with...no...) as they merrily play along with ginning up this latest chapter in the desperate Russia Saga narrative for cavalier saber rattling and to put in early/continuous work on trying to disqualify him, and anybody he endorses, which will probably amount conveniently to anybody critical of the Dem Establishment, for especially 2018 and even 2020---though for the latter I'm sure they'll come up with even more by then. Not unlike the idiots unbidden* that immediately worked to lay the Florida shooting directly on his hands. West will be back as he's too drat good not to, though the ongoing ridiculous excuse of the 2 person panel...which seems primed to yet again be a thing after the show comes back week after next...slows down the (already increasingly terrible) guest rotation churn on top of allowing for a curious happenstance where the unfortunate classic of 2 Idiots + 1 Exasperated Person trying to defuse their bullshit just comes down to solely the 2 Idiots.
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Feb 17, 2018 15:36
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I just can't see West coming back. He's pro-Bernie, he criticized Obama, his friend Tavis Smiley has been tossed in with the rest of the #metoo offenders (despite this week's final Rule, it won't influence guests), he's firmly against Israel's policies against Palestinians...the only way Maher has political opponents on his show is if they are Republican morons. Maher will make the excuse of not having West on because he's too far left. However neo-cons like David Frum are perfectly fine since they are teaming up with neo-libs in their mutual hatred of Trump. There's as much chance of having West back as there is bringing back West's friend and fellow progressive professor Richard Wolff. Lately positions that Maher used to take are being tossed to the side. But we love pot, "ruh-li-jun" is bad, and Trump said something stupid again this week, so that's enough to fill out an hour show every week.
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Feb 17, 2018 23:51
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viral spiral posted:Like seriously, I don't want to watch assholes like Frum and Rick Wilson spew their bullshit as well without getting called on it. it's loving tiring. trump is the physical embodiment of the southern strategy he's not some aberration.
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Feb 18, 2018 01:16
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Gimmedaroot posted:I just can't see West coming back. He's pro-Bernie, he criticized Obama, his friend Tavis Smiley has been tossed in with the rest of the #metoo offenders (despite this week's final Rule, it won't influence guests), he's firmly against Israel's policies against Palestinians...the only way Maher has political opponents on his show is if they are Republican morons. Maher will make the excuse of not having West on because he's too far left. However neo-cons like David Frum are perfectly fine since they are teaming up with neo-libs in their mutual hatred of Trump. There's as much chance of having West back as there is bringing back West's friend and fellow progressive professor Richard Wolff. There was the whole thing where Cornel West went loving nuts and attacked Ta-Nehisi Coates, so maybe let's not pretend there aren't some very good reasons he should be excluded.
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Feb 18, 2018 05:31
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PT6A posted:There was the whole thing where Cornel West went loving nuts and attacked Ta-Nehisi Coates, so maybe let's not pretend there aren't some very good reasons he should be excluded. holy poo poo. Please explain vox: https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/20/16795746/ta-nehisi-coates-cornel-west-twitter E: To me, Mr. West is, among other things, the guy who calls everybody brother/sister. To parse a nuanced argument about things that a large, white American male can never truly understand, is something left to my betters. Vox will suffice. Solvent fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Feb 18, 2018 |
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Feb 18, 2018 06:53
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It'd be cool of Cornel West could use fewer than 50 superfluous words per sentence.
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Feb 18, 2018 07:14
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Super Deuce posted:It'd be cool of Cornel West could use fewer than 50 superfluous words per sentence. he's a great american. we have the ability to talk the legs off of a chair.
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Feb 18, 2018 07:59
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west is mostly right in general but attacking coates in particular was stupid.
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Feb 18, 2018 13:56
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I reckon the Coates thing is down to more mounting exasperation leading to Not Good notions on handling their at times vehement disagreements than most other bits. Besides, if the Real Time crew is down on attacking icons, the recent and repeated Donna Brazile jaunts kind of flies in the face of that given they still take every drat chance they can contrive and then some to stomp for Hillary and on Sanders. The last thing West needed was yet another reason to get shunned, rightly or not, considering the apparatus he is arrayed against. Not entirely dissimilar to how it became known that West had broken with Obama solely over tickets to a big event for some folks to become largely a media pariah as opposed to, you know, the many terrible things/Bush escalating things that Obama proceeded to do that most decided to wink over as West lost his poo poo and folks like Moore became lost to desperate delusions of somehow being able to "coach" him into doing the right thing despite it all. While West is pretty out there, I do think there's at least of a bit of a concerted hope to wait out the final clock on him here in these most pivotal of times---his infectious optimism tinged with indignation spiced liberation really doesn't jive with the direction this country has been increasingly hurtling towards nor does he have any noted successors to continue to get the message out just so. He is the first person in a long time that they can't wait to either leave in the dust bin of inconvenient history like a Hampton that managed to actually make it to old age or begrudgingly rewrite in post-mortem to be more palatable and pliable like King.
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Feb 18, 2018 15:08
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I think his criticism of Coates was pretty even handed and West gave him lots of credit in the piece when he felt he gets things right. Coates just overreacted to it even though he’s had several overextended takes himself
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Feb 18, 2018 22:26
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PT6A posted:There was the whole thing where Cornel West went loving nuts and attacked Ta-Nehisi Coates, so maybe let's not pretend there aren't some very good reasons he should be excluded. Holy poo poo are folks still mad about Cornel critiquing a fellow academic on their blindspots?
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Oh Snapple! posted:Holy poo poo are folks still mad about Cornel critiquing a fellow academic on their blindspots? Huh? No, I was drunk posting and it just seemed out of character for him to feud with anybody. Maher is a poo poo who makes purposefully inflammatory comments, like the one about how the government doesn’t need to fund the arts to the well spoken lady at the beginning, who’s HBO special I’m now considering watching, since her opinions stated on Real Time were about as easy to agree with as any I’ve seen. Fox seems like a clown. I saw him make the taco bowl joke on that Comedy Central Colbert spin off, and this seems like more of the same shtick. Maher’s final thought or whatever the gently caress it’s called after new rules was about what I expected. loving kids and their yaya music/liberals and their outrage. I’ll keep watching, but the show seems really shark jumpy since last season.
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Feb 19, 2018 01:03
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Solvent posted:I’ll keep watching, but the show seems really shark jumpy since last season.
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Feb 19, 2018 01:06
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Well. I mean, that’s probably true. It’s pretty hard for anybody I know (in person) to keep their political bearings in this news environment. It’s super fun to hear that Bernie was backed by the Russians too, anybody but Clinton and all, but I can’t say I was “frothing at the mouth” about her. My real problem with her is the racist dog whistle ads from the 2008 primary, in which I voted for her (who the hell is Barack Obama?) in the early California primary, before I had heard about them. Made her seem to me like the accusations of her being a principle less political tool had some grounding in reality. Maher said something that I’ve been saying for months now too, that Trump is a traitor, though he left out the part where I say that him and his whole treasonous family should be hanged for said crimes, but hey, at this point I’m just as disturbed by the thought of President Pence (who is clearly just as complicit as anyone else, at best). Also, am I trippin, or is it that since the election this administration has created a bubble of distance around Pence? As if to say “he had nothing to do with the nothing that certainly didn’t happen with the collusion and all”.
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Feb 19, 2018 01:27
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Solvent posted:Well. I mean, that’s probably true. It’s pretty hard for anybody I know (in person) to keep their political bearings in this news environment. A reporter recently called him out about that when the Porter scandal broke. Pence waffled with his usual "I just heard about that this morning," deflection and one of the pool reporters shot back something like "this is the fifth or sixth time that you have found out about major events from the news media: why are you so consistently removed from the center of power and the flow of information?" They obviously wanted to put Pence in a box and isolate him from the rest of the administration, keeping him in the pocket for a possible impeachment, but unfortunately the gamble has essentially backfired since the investigation has now taken so long that Pence just seems like a dupe who got sidelined.
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All the Parkland kids are great and I hope we are still hearing from them for years into the future instead of people like the Tiger Mom.
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Keyser_Soze posted:All the Parkland kids are great and I hope we are still hearing from them for years into the future instead of people like the Tiger Mom. I had no idea Tiger Mom was still relevant today.
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