I have a feeling that if Colbert or Stewart are removed, their audience will follow them wherever they decide to go.
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Regardless of whether you like Colbert/Stewart, I don't know how you can't find this absolutely chilling. It makes me think of Steven Fry's character in V for Vendetta.
Where are the free speech warriors now?
They already didn't renew After Midnight hard to believe thay is not related.
I believe that After Midnight wasn't renewed because Taylor Tomlinson was going back on tour and they decided to not continue without her.
That's correct, she said so on one of the episodes. A shame, but you can tell the last few months were stressful to say the least.
I found her personality on the show very unnatural. It was clear to me that she was doing and saying what she was told to, and everything was heavily scripted. She is not a fantastic actress. I couldn't watch more than a couple of episodes.
I'm pleased she is going back on tour, because that is where her particular wit and delivery really shine.
Yeah and she totally checked out - it's really obvious. She reads straight from the cue cards. She laughs contractually at the really bad forced jokes by actors who think they're funny. Clearly she hates the show now and feels it is a huge burden.
I can't blame her for not wanting to renew.
Personally I like that Ellison is going to lose all of the talent in this acquisition.
I haven't watched these guys since the Bush era ended. Any highlights or cool things I should know or what-have-you?
Locking thread. Not interested in babysitting it anymore. It's nearly a day old.
Can’t believe anyone still takes these guys seriously. Good riddance.
Can you list even one legitimate reason why they shouldn't be taken seriously?
Responsible for perpetuating a political philosophy that’s influenced a generation of smug know-nothing neoliberal trash that’s done nothing but continue the US down a trajectory of stagnation and will help usher in a century of humiliation and genocide.
You could have saved your time and just answered "no"
Probably would've been a good idea. Posting anything that goes against the accepted narrative gets your commented removed around here I guess. Oh well.
No, it's the being uncivil about it. I didn't delete your other posts.
I’d like to hear how you define being uncivil. You allowed plenty of people to pile on me and only deleted my comments where I defended myself. Making it even easier for people to continue flaming me. If that isn’t influencing the narrative I don’t know what is.
I've deleted one of the posts made to you that was provoking as well, if you look at the thread.
Thanks for deleting that one I guess…can I continue defending myself from the ones you didn’t delete? I promise I won’t call anyone an asshole again. Even if they deserve it.
Sure. It was the mud-slinging that was the problem.
Stwert, at least, has been pretty hard on establishment democrats, especially recently, though this has always been the case to an extent. I think you have an opinion that is based on a perception that isn't totally accurate.
These robots are beyond help.
Mark their names.
I haven't watched Colbert in a long time, just didn't much care for The Late Show being a more generic talk show. But I've been pleasantly surprised by how good The Daily Show still is with Stewart's return and the rest of the team, they've still got it.
Anytime I’ve watched Colbert’s show it’s clear that he is an egotistical holier than thou dude who doesn’t respect most of his guests. He doesn’t interview well.
On top of that, the format of nightly talk show means he’s always making the same or similar jokes, and always harping on the same things. It’s tiresome, even if I agree with a lot of it.
Edit due to post locked: I’m talking about The Late show, not the Colbert report. The Colbert report was funny, and he played a character.
Was I supposed to be taking comedians seriously?
Apparently Trump takes them seriously and sees them as a threat. Or maybe they just hurt his feelings.
I don’t think you were, no. I hope you didn’t. I know I didn’t, but it seems like a lot of people do. I hope they stop soon.
Do you hope Trump stops taking them seriously, or do you hope people stop taking the freedom of speech of comedians seriously?
Not everyone who disagrees with you is MAGA.
Your suggestion is unfounded and inflammatory. So that would lead me to believe you do think that way.
No, I don’t understand. You’re just confirming my original suggestion. All I did was disagree with you. Which makes me seem like a MAGA person to you.
There’s nothing nuanced about your accusation. It’s overly generalized at best and inflammatory at worst. Either way, that’s the opposite of nuanced. Wouldn’t getting comfortable with that be a bad thing from your perspective? If I were to do that based on your suggestion, then you’d be responsible for making me a MAGA person. If you really wanted to take a nuanced position, you’d realize that some people view these comedians as having right-wing imperialistic views that enable genocide and manufacture content for the American empire of death.
Thanks. Didn’t know I was so funny. Maybe a TV network will give me a comedy show next. I sure as shit wouldn’t invite Henry Kissinger on my show and kiss his ass.
What did I say that was ignorant? All you’ve done is attack me and not my argument. The exact reason @Skavau@piefed.social deleted a few of my comments. All good when people do it to me I guess. No double standard here at all.
Pratai, it's pretty obvious that @djsaskdja@reddthat.com comes at this from a left-wing position.
I have no dog in this fight, but he's not MAGA.
This argument then is going absolutely nowhere. I suggest you just stop posting replies to him if you assume he's lying to you about everything. I'll just note this response by him:
"Responsible for perpetuating a political philosophy that’s influenced a generation of smug know-nothing neoliberal trash that’s done nothing but continue the US down a trajectory of stagnation and will help usher in a century of humiliation and genocide."
A MAGA would not say this.
I'm really not interested in going down the rabbit-hole here on this with this user - but I have no reason to believe they're lying. I suspect I could probably look into this users posting history and confirm consistency here, but speaking generally - opposition to democrats/centrists/liberals (insert any other terms you like) also comes from the some of the left. Hell, if you're on Lemmy you must be well aware of this given some of its more controversial instances are full of them.
You might consider them useful idiots, or you might not. But they are genuine. But the broader point is that there's not much point going at it with a user who you think is just lying to you.
How about you engage with my arguments instead of accusing me of being associated with a hate group? Attack a person instead of their opinion is very MAGA of you. I can’t believe you’re secretly a MAGA supporter. Can’t believe I didn’t notice until now! I’m not being persecuted, but you are being a removed. And it’s bullshit when I’m not allowed to call you a removed when you’re clearly being one. That’s what I’m complaining to the mod about.
I was just pointing out how ridiculous your tact is. Oh I don’t like this person, better call them MAGA! Anyone can do that. What was it you said about a duck? Think that could apply here too.
Okay man think whatever you want. It’s clear your opinion doesn’t have much value anyway. Or you’re just a troll. I kind of hope it’s the latter because that’d surprisingly be less pathetic. It was fun though. Have a good night.
Do you expect me to get notified when a big slapfight takes place on a thread here?
If being accused of being associated with hate group makes me “triggered,” guilty as charged I guess. Uh, should I report this one too @Skavau@piefed.social? At this point I feel bad for dragging you into this in the first place. I didn’t realize this would stir up such a shitstorm. I’ll be sure to double check the instance of the post before commenting next time lol.
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