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    Dave Chappelle gets cancelled into four more Netflix specials

    in The Performing Arts Centre

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    4 hours ago, Fizzzzle said:

    I was just thinking recently, how many comedians truly gracefully age? Some, like Gilbert Gottfried, are just playing a character. Others, like Jeff Foxworthy just got by on the same tame joke for decades. As far as comedians who do biting social commentary, it's like there's George Carlin and... ? Everyone else seems to become an out of touch celebrity that they used to roast or becomes the bitter old person screaming "get off my lawn."

     

    I think Marc Maron and Tom Segura will probably age well. I think it's because they both got big, but never like "sell out arenas" big." They're still somewhat in touch with real life that people actually experience.

    Segura is absolutely "sell out arenas" big. He's one of the most popular comics in the world. Being married to a comedian probably helps. I think his podcasts probably keep him grounded too.

    Dave Chappelle gets cancelled into four more Netflix specials

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    1 hour ago, stepee said:

    It’ll be extra infuriating because the specials themselves will 100% be ABOUT being canceled, all four of them, with mostly the same joke set-ups and punchlines with some slight ad-lib variations.

     

    And we will then have to hear about how he is being canceled like it’s all brand new each time one of them drops, and be expected to enter arguments about them on good faith, pretending the other side doesn’t know it’s all bullshit. 

     

    Honestly the real “PC” in America is not being able to call things and people what they actually are, and having to do this polite dance instead of just outright calling people transphobic, or racist, or sexist, etc. 
     

    Want to get people to try to cancel you real quick, publicly call them out on their shit and use the words and don’t qualify it. Nothing is more outrageous in this country than calling another person a racist.

     

     

    nah. there may be a jab in the 1st one, but he's too damn good to fall on that sword for 4 specials.

    Anyone ever watch The Leftovers?

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    3 hours ago, Fizzzzle said:

    I honestly don't know if I have the stomach to make it through the whole thing. I watch tv entirely for escapism. Something in the last episode I watched last night was a bit of a triggering event and I kind of had a mini panic attack.

     

    I deal with depression, I (think I?) cope with it. Having a character deal with insomnia is like a nail on the coffin. About six months ago I was close to committing myself. My insomnia was so bad I was starting to have trouble remembering what was real or a dream. I was literally losing my mind.

     

    So yeah... This show might just hit a little too close to home for me to enjoy it. At least for now.

    I really struggled to make it through this series. It's a really hard watch. It's a shame that people felt so burned by Lost that they didn't give this show a chance.

     

    It may not be the best show that I've ever seen, but it certainly is the one the affected me the most. 

    Update: James Webb Space Telescope discovers candidates for most distant (and possibly "youngest") galaxies yet discovered

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    On 12/25/2021 at 10:29 AM, elbobo said:

    the launch was the relatively easy part, the deployment has over 300 single points of failure mostly in the 

    Everything is successfully deployed!

     

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    The James Webb Space Telescope Has Reached Its Final Form - The Atlantic

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    The $10 billion mission is working...

     

    Official "Look How Insane and Shitty ALL GOP Officials Are" Thread

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    9 minutes ago, sblfilms said:


    People want punishment, which requires nothing of the offender and gives instant satisfaction to the offended. They want this even though reconciliation is the better outcome. It is a shame.

     

    Reading the text exchange it is amazing to see how quickly the man backed off his crazy pretty much just by the congressman being nice to him. And then the congressman turns around and throw the guy like a slab of meat into the tiger exhibit of social media.

     

    There is nothing positive to be gained by publicly outing the man, only more rage. How is that good for any of us?

    Restorative justice is incredibly efficient at curbing recidivism. He did that, and decided to throw in the punitive punishment as well. I get the impulse, but it's super counterproductive. 

    Official "Look How Insane and Shitty ALL GOP Officials Are" Thread

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    3 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

    Let's face the reality: the inevitable outcome will be violence.

     

    The sooner that sinks in and is accepted, the happier we all will be.

     

    The age of "reason" and "rationality" is dead and buried.  Embrace the new age of anger and vengeance.

    when my son was born, my wife and I both had good insurance. I've been rooting for violence ever since I got the $5,000 bill.

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