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Apr 8, 2019 07:48
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pwn posted:After 100 years of being trained to be consumers and not think critically, you can lead a populace to information but if it isn’t interesting enough they get distracted. Years of cultural baggage maybe honed this tendency but it's certainly not anything new. The side with a stronger the narrative usually wins public opinion. Providing a story that's both compelling and genuine is a big ask because it requires not only a lot of effort but also good faith on the part of the storyteller. I don't think Oliver is perfect at either, but I'm not sure I can think of anyone else in the mainstream who gets closer to the goal of being both critical and entertaining.
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Apr 17, 2019 04:18
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Anarcho-Commissar posted:Also, though, WTF was this episode? Amazing is what it was. They do dour deep-dives all the time; I'm happy to see take a week here or there to explore something that's weird and fun. Sucks that the Chiitan segment didn't go on their Youtube this week.
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Apr 24, 2019 11:44
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It's a small thing, but I like that John still reps The Bugle on his twitter.
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Apr 28, 2019 06:38
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Man, that has to be the longest walk to a motherfucker joke in history. Excellent episode, though I think it suffers from arguing in good faith towards people who have none. To use John's analogy, the people who support the death penalty are indeed motherfuckers. They don't care about being just or humane. Revenge and suffering is the point.
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May 6, 2019 05:49
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think the executioners currently prioritize keeping the body intact and minimizing cleanup. There might be some comfort in being able to have an open casket funeral, but I think mainly nobody likes cleaning up human remains. The chair is just the worst for that. John says this outright in the video when he mentions that our current executions "aren't about minimizing suffering for the condemned, but maximizing comfort for the witnesses."
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May 7, 2019 04:55
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Angry Bill Nye was very good.
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May 13, 2019 06:34
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Milo and POTUS posted:Oh you haven't seen nothing yet. Seriously. If you think it's this bad now just wait until 30% of states control 60% of senate votes.
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May 15, 2019 14:11
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Sorry, I meant 30% of the population. Within the next few decades, up to 70% of the population will live in only ten states, but those state will have the same number of Senate votes as they do now: twenty. The remaining 30% of the population will live in the remaining 40 states also with the exact number of Senate votes as they've got now: eighty. It will be a shitshow.
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May 15, 2019 14:39
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Momz In Da Hood to close the show. I'm not. That moment was a glorious carpet pull. They're usually so good at booking weird gimmick celebs (loving Lord Buckethead!) that it was a fun twist.
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Jun 4, 2019 00:16
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Wow, what the gently caress Mississippi?
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Jun 10, 2019 09:41
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Alan_Shore posted:Is that a serious question? Rhetorical but, like John, I tend to forget whenever I haven't seen the flag in a while.
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Jun 11, 2019 05:02
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Excellent episode tonight. You'd really hope that the medical field would be the one place in the world where racial and gender biases don't permeate but nope! The joke at the end about bringing a white guy is something I've literally seen happening in real-time where a woman's pain wasn't being taken seriously until her husband restated it verbatim to the practitioner.
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Aug 19, 2019 06:19
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One Nut Wonder posted:Jesus tap-dancing Christ. THAT was a finish to an episode. Probably a fraction of what they spent on the lawsuit.
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Nov 11, 2019 14:32
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SlothfulCobra posted:I wonder if ~10 years after the US finally claws out a true socialized healthcare system, other countries might start getting a bunch of idiots trying to privatize their systems since they wouldn't have America as the big example of why privatized healthcare is terrible to look at anymore. Nope! And 20 seconds after it passes interests in the US will start trying to rip the system apart. There's money to be made! Skippy McPants fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Feb 18, 2020 |
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Yeah, that's a good point, the tobacco industry too is cleaning up basically everywhere that isn't the US and Europe. Would not shock me at all if people started trying to export private healthcare to nations with a growing middle class.
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Feb 18, 2020 13:29
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John getting angrier and more cynical can only have good outcomes provided he retains the core of well-researched reporting LWT is built around. He has a huge platform, maybe not on par with The Daily Show at its hight or something like Joe Rogan, but he still has a massive following and the ear of many self-affirmed centrists or "apolitical" folks. Having someone in that position who is, if not left-leaning, then at least left-curious is a big deal.
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Mar 2, 2020 13:19
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emanresu tnuocca posted:I was so giddy at the Claire from Bon Appetit reference. Dunno why. A whole lotta people love those segments. Modern processed food is the product of countless hours spent innovating and iterating by some of the best food scientists in the business. Watching poor Claire try and reverse engineer decades of work in a few afternoons is good fun.
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Mar 3, 2020 16:09
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Rat erotica was the highlight, no doubt, but I was also a bit shocked to see that Judy Kudlow is a decent painter.
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Apr 13, 2020 09:35
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John using his vast resources for inane bullshit continues to be the best thing about this show.
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Apr 20, 2020 05:30
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Another note on tonight, John is starting as acclimate to this different format. He's doing far fewer of those pauses for non-existent applause.
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Apr 20, 2020 08:07
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There was a segment about her last week. Remember, the talk show host who's streaming from home and gives zero fucks?
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May 4, 2020 08:28
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Sorry, the week before last. Whenever they last did an episode.
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May 4, 2020 08:31
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Depressing episode tonight, but I did enjoy the Martha Stewart, Queen of the Wine Moms segment.
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Jul 27, 2020 08:32
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Show is off until Jan. 27th? Man, that is gonna be a pretty lurid before and after picture no matter how the next few months unfold.
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Aug 31, 2020 07:53
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One Nut Wonder posted:September 27th. Ohkay, that makes a lot more sense!
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Aug 31, 2020 13:33
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Nah, the next leader of the alt-right isn't anyone in Trump's coterie. A narcissist can't tolerate the presence of anyone they think might mistake for a peer. As a result, everyone around Trump is legendarily incompetent and a black hole of charisma. Trump might want it to anoint Ivanka, but she doesn't have that greasy magnetism which is the essence of a life-long huckster. She won't have the same draw.
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Sep 1, 2020 12:39
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I'm glad John got his poop processing plant. He deserves it. In other news, I'd completely forgotten that Trump was planning to ghost the WHO because this loving hell 2020 has been a million years long.
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"You're saying we can only prove we need asylum if we turn up dead?" "Even then it's not the right reason. It's not protected." oof
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Oct 26, 2020 10:13
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I look forward to the 30-second long exhale that will begin this week's show.
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Nov 8, 2020 06:20
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:I hope he takes 10 seconds and then reminds the audience that something like a hundred thousand Americans will die from COVID before the inauguration, we still have a network of concentration camps filled with innocent people, hundreds of family separations, a crisis of police brutality, lead in the water, and a long list of other problems that probably includes our crumbling infrastructure somewhere. I hardly expect this show, of all shows, to lose its focus on the myriad complex troubles of our ailing republic. That said, I don't mind if John wants to take between one segment and one episode for a deep breath and a small celebration of a good thing happening.
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Nov 8, 2020 08:21
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Hah, I guessed the time!
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Nov 9, 2020 07:38
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It is beyond astronomically unlikely. Someone else used the analogy of being struck by lightning three times in a row, on a clear day, while sitting in your living room. And it's getting less likely by the day as his legal cases continue to fail (0-12 now I think?) and GOP officials back slowly away from him. It's worrying in a lot of ways that he is even attempting a coup in broad daylight, but there's no real chance if it actually working. Edit: don't feel bad about feeling that way though. After four years of gaslighting and steady trauma, it is very hard to suss which fears are well-founded.
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Nov 10, 2020 15:42
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Hmm I like it when John does these stupid bits for charity. But I do not like anthropomorphized brand engagement. Calling this one a wash.
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Dec 9, 2020 06:17
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That was quite the segment. John doesn't say anything about Tucker that folk here wouldn't already know, but seeing him signal boost the laundering of white supremacy through a major media talking head to his wider audience is still something.
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I dunno, "economists don't know poo poo about how modern economies work so why should we listen to them?" seems pretty self-evident at this point.
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Apr 6, 2021 15:11
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It's up there. The fact that it isn't relegated to the humanities has always puzzled me. No matter how much bunk math they try to stuff it with, it is far from being a "hard science."
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Holy poo poo that gator twist. What the gently caress?
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