Viking_Hippie @ Viking_Hippie @lemmy.world

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PlayStation Portal(?)

PSP actually stands for PlayStation Portugal.

Gives a whole new meaning to "Oceans 11" 😁

To be fair, many of the Bible's authors are highly unreliable narrators due to being high, drunk, or just actively psychotic at the time of writing 🤷

On the one hand, probably the best time ever to get the fuck out of India if you're not Hindu, what with the Hindufascist Modi government and all.

On the other, one of the worst times ever to migrate to the US (whether illegally or legally) if you're not a cishet white Christian man, what with the incoming christofascist Trump government..

If that was true, it would probably be a good idea for Hezbollah to triple their security around whomever they put in charge of negotiations, just in case the IDF decides to put a stop to it via murder again..

I don't know falls to his death

When they're not too busy fucking monsters, of course.

Just like they did when they wrote glowingly about that German fellow with the funny moustache. The NYT REALLY loved him at first.

This is the way.

This you?

I'm not defending anyone, I'm explaining how it works. It's not my fault that you're being an unfortunate combination of dense and inexplicably hostile 🤷

No one is putting a gun to their head and forcing them to discus the orange man. It's a choice.

Their job is literally to make topical jokes and interview people. In order for people to laugh at topical jokes, they need to know about the thing being joked about.

Talk show hosts COULD make their monologues about better topics than Trump, but if Trump is all anyone is talking about, people aren't going to get any of the references and the whole thing will fall flat.

This can't be argued

You're right. It's nonsense. I've explained how it workers and why it works like that now, so if you still cling to your pet hypothesis about all comedy writers being lazy hacks who love writing about Trump, I'm not going to waste any more time and effort. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you.

Have the day you deserve.

No need to bootlick talk show hosts

If that's what you think was going on, I hesitate to read the rest of your comment.. 🤦

There is always plenty going on in the world

Yeah, but talk show hosts have to stay relevant. They have to make jokes about what people are talking about.

What people are talking about is mainly determined about what legacy media covers and what goes viral on social media.

If both are dominated by whatever bullshit the Mango Mussolini is doing, the talk shows gotta talk about what the Mango Mussolini is doing.

To say that's all they could talk about is gross hyperbole

No, it's exaggeration for simplicity to make a point without getting bogged down in irrelevant details

They choose to discuss him every night.

THAT'S hyperbole, though. Hypocrisy too, by the looks of it.

They are lazy. The writers are lazy

More hypocrisy with your lazy and narrow minded jumping to conclusions 🙄

I was right. I shouldn't have read on.

Because it was all they COULD talk about for 4 years. He monopolized the media landscape, pushing out much better material left and right.

Besides, being funny about something that's already both a joke and a tragedy is NOT anywhere near as easy as you might think.

Especially not when millions of people will send you death threats if you go to far and millions of people will stop watching if you go too easy.

And that's not even mentioning the real possibility that he might make mocking him illegal.

you use liberal like ia slur when you don't know what it stands for

Nope, I use it accurately because I DO know. It's not my fault that an accurate description of the ideology is inherently unflattering.

Your posts read like the same astroturfed Russian comments meant to sow division

One of the many reasons why I don't get along with the worst liberals: the eternal "the Left is Russia" bullshit you use to avoid taking any constructive criticism to heart.

Thank you! I owe it all to the Kelloggs corporation and their anti masturbation flakes!

(Disclaimer: the above is fictional in every way possible except for the fact that Kellogg's corn flakes was invented to combat masturbation)

Nobody said she had to be a GOOD guide dog to count 🤷

make sure you don't filter out posts about melons

Yeah! Gotta have your melon news! That's what we're all here for, am I right??

(I get what you mean and you're right, your specific example just tickled me 😁)