Ah, Rob Scheinder. The man just won’t quit.
Ah, Rob Scheinder. The man just won’t quit.
Fucking crazy. So sad. I’m happy I got a chance to see them many years back while still in high school.
Is this one of those “don’t hate my hatred” things? Or, “tolerate my intolerance?” That’s a logical fallacy, especially when considering what you’re suggesting: that, somehow, that misinformed view is equal to and as valid as an argument from fact (or at least, some semblance of reality). It’s a moronic argument and it’s a tool designed to sabotage positive conversation. Sure, my use of “moron” may be ad hominem in nature, but considering the subject (willfully ignorant people proudly displaying it as a virtue), I feel that sort of editorializing is warranted.
This is why American comedies are so bad. No one plays a real person who can laugh at themselves, rather they play static caricatures that are SO SERIOUS BUT NOT REALLY LOL. As if making silly faces and winking at the audience was “relatable.”
I’m aware of all those conspiracies you listed, and yes, the government (and others) have perpetrated those. But those conspiracies are often exposed and researched thoroughly. This is because the government isn’t a monolithic, opaque, singular institution but a bureaucratic mess of complex interactions and smaller institutions and organizations. I do not doubt that there are covert operations at hand and that they may or may not be ongoing, but with so many exposed, it’s hard to buy that ultra-secretive “conspiracies” that looney conspiracy theorists espouse actually exist. If anything, those extreme fantasies take away from what’s actually going on, and I do not see Alex Jones fighting against that. He’s inhibiting focus from real issues by asserting importance on non-existant ones. It’s a business of misinformation, and he’s in on it. Is it part of a much larger issue? Possibly, but probably not. Chances are, Jones believes his own hype. It’s just coincidental that it’s good for his business of misinformation.
Conspiracy theorists are a funny lot. This is especially true when you consider that they’ll never get the answers they want; mainly because the answers to their questions aren’t what they want to hear. If there were a conspiracy, no one would ever own up to it. Because the answers they want don’t exist, the answers they get inevitably end up as “part of the conspiracy.” It’s a never-ending logical conundrum and a narcissistic philosophy to boot.
My friends and I were convinced that Mo and Mike O’Malley (mostly Mike O’Malley) were stoned out of their gourd for those tapings. They would often look high as shit and giggly. To further implicate it, when O’Malley was hosting “Guess The Picture,” he once came back from commercials laughing and eating a sandwich at his podium, where he read out questions to the kids with his mouth full of what appeared to be a very delicious sandwich. I can only hope that, if true, they still smoke together.
Being against homosexuality is like being against the existence of pine trees or people with red hair. In fact, there just may be morons like that out there who are, indeed, against those things. Nevertheless, they’re against something that happens quite often (and naturally) in the human and non-human animal world alike. Yeah, they can argue from their silly religious beliefs or their privilege, but ultimately, they’re against something they can’t change, will never change and will always be a part of the human species. Like hair, or noses, or eyes. It’s all apart of our evolutionary history and will continue to be.
we all knew this would happen: the dancing baby gif has become a real person..
You can tell when Jimmy Fallon’s being funny because he makes sure we notice.