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Apoplexy posted:Yeah, and as a white person who isn't a piece of poo poo, I loving loved the show as well. It wasn't perfect, but it was at least trying to cover things that are literally life and death for the majority of minorities in this country. It was like TDS and Colbert and LWT in that way. If only FX hadn't split off all its decent comedy shows onto FXX and then killed them for low ratings (Legit as well as Totally Biased) when the channel is completely unknown to literally everyone... If you're ever in LA you should check out Kamau's monthly-ish live show at Largo. I believe he does a regular one in SF too.
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Apoplexy posted:Yeah, and as a white person who isn't a piece of poo poo, I loving loved the show as well. It wasn't perfect, but it was at least trying to cover things that are literally life and death for the majority of minorities in this country. It was like TDS and Colbert and LWT in that way. If only FX hadn't split off all its decent comedy shows onto FXX and then killed them for low ratings (Legit as well as Totally Biased) when the channel is completely unknown to literally everyone... 
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Jan 11, 2015 02:14
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Speaking of John Oliver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1EtSBxm0S4 Between seasons his hair got a lot more gray 
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Jan 11, 2015 02:16
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I was referring to people who think that there's racial equality in this country, or even 'reverse' racism that makes it so that black people are somehow better off than whites, on the whole. Although that you felt the need to post that doesn't really help your case any, either.
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Jan 11, 2015 02:17
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bango skank posted:Glad to know me not liking a show makes me a piece of poo poo, I've been trying to nail down the reason for a while. Hey now, there are lots of reasons. I'm a little behind on the episodes, but I just watched the one with Allison Williams. I'm not totally sure what she was plugging (I think it was the newest season of Girls?) but she's really quick at the back-and-forth banter. I didn't realize she was Brian Williams's daughter before this, either.
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Jan 11, 2015 05:02
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Whoever moved Kamau Bell to, like, fifty episodes a week made a huge mistake. The show was already hit and miss, but pushing so many episodes out really forced everything to be spread way too thin.
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Jan 11, 2015 07:52
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Totally Biased was worth it if only for his supernova burn on Ben Carson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3f1PdfZzNU
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Jan 11, 2015 09:37
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raditts posted:Totally Biased was worth it if only for his supernova burn on Ben Carson. Having never seen Totally Biased, you're not exactly selling it by linking a joke that is on par with low effort flaming.
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Jan 11, 2015 22:51
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Totally Biased made me aware of Hari Kondabolu, so that alone justified its existence. Yeah Hari can sometimes get annoying with his moral high horse, but he's usually funny while doing it so I'm cool with him.
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Jan 11, 2015 23:00
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JohnSherman posted:Having never seen Totally Biased, you're not exactly selling it by linking a joke that is on par with low effort flaming. As a flaming expert I...
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Jan 12, 2015 04:03
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So was there a reason Obama and friends didn't show up for the French march thing, or is this something I'm just gonna have to deal with reading posts about on Facebook for the next couple of weeks? Ah, time for noted shitbag Rupert Murdoch's stance on the issue.
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Jan 13, 2015 05:13
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raditts posted:Totally Biased was worth it if only for his supernova burn on Ben Carson. He was too scared to straight up call him an uncle tom on the show. He said uncle Ben so it could be construed as the rice guy.
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Jan 13, 2015 05:39
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Probably because the host is clearly a huge Uncle Tom as well but whatever.
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Jan 13, 2015 05:40
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please dont say "uncle tom" mr white internet rapper it's blowing my loving mind
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Jan 13, 2015 07:45
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Fortunately for me I am not white and I'm actually the culmination of several generations of race traitors, leaving me with an extremely good immune system
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Jan 13, 2015 15:44
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Big Anime Fan Here posted:Probably because the host is clearly a huge Uncle Tom as well but whatever. Hot takes, watch out
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Jan 13, 2015 18:04
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Is it just me or is everyone seeing a huge delay between the audio and video?
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Jan 14, 2015 05:02
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I love crazy Florida stories.
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Jan 14, 2015 05:07
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Was "Blowtorch tattoo removal" really a thing that happened? I'm pretty sure everything else on that checklist was.
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Jan 14, 2015 05:09
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Ugh, double interview segment with a lovely Republican Senator. I'm done for the night.
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Jan 14, 2015 05:14
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Rubio is reaching way too hard for laughs here.katium posted:Ugh, double interview segment with a lovely Republican Senator. I'm done for the night. As much as I miss Colbert and am waiting to see what Wilmore comes up with, I'm glad I can turn off the TV early and not miss anything.
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Jan 14, 2015 05:15
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Remember when this guy was there next big hope, then everyone found out water boy wasn't ready for prime time?
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Jan 14, 2015 05:19
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Discussing corrupt, powerful, legislation blocking institutions, and he brings up Uber vs. Taxi. 
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Jan 14, 2015 05:22
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Demeaning fast food workers 
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Jan 14, 2015 05:27
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im gay posted:Demeaning fast food workers It truly is amazing to watch these people talk and how out of touch with reality they are out side of the country club. For instance when they get my order wrong I think to my self for 8 bucks a hour I wouldn't give a poo poo either and would just throw random poo poo in the bag.
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Jan 14, 2015 05:30
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At least it will be entertaining watching him pander to both sides of the Republican party with that stupid loving plan of his.
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Jan 14, 2015 05:35
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raditts posted:So was there a reason Obama and friends didn't show up for the French march thing, or is this something I'm just gonna have to deal with reading posts about on Facebook for the next couple of weeks? It takes weeks of planning for the President's security detail even when he travels domestically. When you neatly gather several prominent world leaders in one location, mere days after a major event, you are just begging to be a target and Obama would be the cherry on top.
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Jan 14, 2015 16:24
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Winkie01 posted:It truly is amazing to watch these people talk and how out of touch with reality they are out side of the country club. For 7.25 an hour I just hope they didn't rub their dick on my burger.
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Jan 14, 2015 17:20
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Apoplexy posted:Yeah, and as a white person who isn't a piece of poo poo, I loving loved the show as well. It wasn't perfect, but it was at least trying to cover things that are literally life and death for the majority of minorities in this country. It was like TDS and Colbert and LWT in that way. If only FX hadn't split off all its decent comedy shows onto FXX and then killed them for low ratings (Legit as well as Totally Biased) when the channel is completely unknown to literally everyone... I'm sorry but you can't be white and not a piece of poo poo. Please edit your post.
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Jan 14, 2015 18:58
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Jan 15, 2015 05:13
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That was the most combative I've seen Jon in an interview in quite a while. In fact, the entire show from start to everything before Moment of Zen was a big gently caress You to Flordia and Rubio
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Jan 15, 2015 05:25
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Boon posted:That was the most combative I've seen Jon in an interview in quite a while. In fact, the entire show from start to everything before Moment of Zen was a big gently caress You to Flordia and Rubio 
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Jan 15, 2015 21:16
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I was surprised Rubio's dumb counter-argument to Jon bringing up seatbelt laws as an analogy for the ACA was "but that's a health issue!" instead of something like "putting on a seatbelt doesn't cost taxpayers anything." It would have been somewhat valid and wouldn't have left him wide open for Jon mocking him for not thinking loving health care is a health issue.
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Jan 15, 2015 21:35
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The loving south.
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Jan 16, 2015 05:14
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This second segment is  as all hell. What the gently caress Alabama.
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Jan 16, 2015 05:22
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I just found out a friend of mine is anti-abortion-rights.  Ironically she volunteers at a rape crisis center and is fairly pro-feminism. She's just pretty naive and her dad is a typical bigoted religious South Carolina conservative. I don't want to belabor the issue but I keep trying to figure out how to explain to her that being pro-choice has nothing to do with "pro-abortion," it's about giving women access to have the procedure safely instead of severely risking their lives when they do it anyway.
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Jan 16, 2015 05:39
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I can understand the pro-life position. I just cannot understand why the gently caress those same people want to limit access to contraception. That's where the argument goes from "you're taking a life!" to "Keep your legs shut, slut."
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Jan 16, 2015 07:14
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Jessica Williams made that about as bearable as possible.
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Jan 16, 2015 10:42
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Narcissus1916 posted:I can understand the pro-life position. The problem with the pro-life position is that it ranges from "none of your goddamn business" and "total hypocrisy because they typically don't give a poo poo about the Innocent Life once it's out of the womb," as the guy in that interview so clearly demonstrated.
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Hazo posted:I just found out a friend of mine is anti-abortion-rights. This gets particularly grating for me. Now, its not impossible to see where the conflation comes from, but its one of those annoying 'correlation implies causation' arguments. The fact of the matter is, if a woman solidly, no doubts whatsoever, wishes to keep her pregnant child - whatever the circumstances in which it was created, as every person reacts to these things separately - then it wouldn't matter whether or not abortion is available, she is gonna have that baby (though this can get into issues of what rights the potential father should have in such discussions, but that's a point for another time). The people who primarily want the option open to them are those that are actually considering it anyway, because they are the ones who otherwise have their choice actively suppressed. And, you know, of course people when presented with the choice they have desired for so long will act on it. So the notion that pro-choice 'encourages' people to have abortions, rather than simply consider the matter freely, is like saying having the option of going to university 'encourages' people to seek higher learning. There are circumstances around it that may do so, but the option simply existing is not the actual cause (the perceived effects, both adverse and beneficial, are). Narcissus1916 posted:I can understand the pro-life position. raditts posted:The problem with the pro-life position is that it ranges from "none of your goddamn business" and "total hypocrisy because they typically don't give a poo poo about the Innocent Life once it's out of the womb," as the guy in that interview so clearly demonstrated. Chalk this up to Abrahamic fundamentalism in most cases, mixed with the imagery of the innocent babe, and a very nebulous grey area as far as science is concerned. In this particular scenario (common throughout America, though with equivalents in other nations and religious cultures), you start with two base notions - that sex is for the purposes of procreation and the union of a couple, and that until discounted by way of a sufficiently dreadful crime all life is sacred. So in that perspective, the idea of having sex without it being explicitly to have and raise a child with your spouse (however much the critics may themselves indulge) is itself sinful. And because we have yet to precisely pin down what exactly it is that makes life tick and develop a consciousness out of chemical impulses, the interpretation is left open enough that many will take the easy option and just say that life begins right from the first step. So a potential mother has not only sinned by having a child she did not necessarily intend to have (again, whatever the actual circumstances surrounding that), but she'll be digging her hole even deeper by trying to abort it, and thus as 'good christians', people will try to stop them. Really though, its because its an easy high horse to mount I think, that gives it a certain appeal to some. There's no necessary commitment to 'preventing' someone getting pregnant in the same way you might try to get people off smoking or alcohol. It doesn't really require financial or physical investment like say, assisting the poor or participating in community welfare programmes. They don't have to travel far or gather in truly massive rallies - just pop down to the local clinic. They get to be heroes standing up for the children by just saying 'no, you can't have abortions', rather than, you know, acting on what the rest of their faith tells them to do. Shorter version: "I like your Christ, but not your Christians."
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