Jon Stewart hasn’t changed, and that’s the problem. As far as his comedy, no notes. He’s undeniably funny. But his politics just leave a sour taste. His enlightened centrist voice of reason shtick hits different now.
He’s defended people like Rogan and Chapelle. And I get it, they’re his buddies. He doesn’t see them as public figures, but as flawed individuals. And that’s a valid perspective, just a rarefied one.
His first guest upon his return was the editor of The Economist magazine who gushed about Reaganomics and Thatcherism. She framed the rise of right-wing politics in the West as first and foremost a threat to the neoliberal world order as Jon nodded along. And we all know that progressiveism is just the other side of the horseshoe to people who think this way.
I’ll be watching Stewart, and I really do admire him. But never meet your heroes I guess.
The biggest problem in the states is your polarisation. Lots of internal idiots and external governments causing that.
If you want to fight against it find the centre.
Here’s some truth for you:
- People on either side of politics generally mean well
- 99.99…% of Republicans arent Nazis
- 99.99…% of Democrats don’t want to turn your kids trans
- Both sides generally have at least a few fair points about any given topic.
- Compromising is the best answer
I’m sorry but this makes no sense - there are NO democrats that want to turn anyone trans against their will (this discussion makes my head explode). That would be so unethical I can’t even imagine it happening in another dimension. There are many diseases we know not enough about because the patient would have to be surgically opened in order to see what’s going on in there, but changing someone’s sex against will makes sense to those asshats? I hugely doubt dems employ agency by the name Doctors Mengele and Frankenstein and Associates as their medical consultants.
And if 99.99% of republicans aren’t Nazis then how in the hell there are Nazis? Republicans are the only ones who can vote this people out or destroy their support, as liberal arguments obviously do not work on those who use “liberal” as a slur and “woke” with a different meaning than in sentence “I’ve awoken in the morning on the wrong side of the bed”. Center would be way easier to find if one could see republicans actually protesting or criticising the problems within their own side of the political spectrum. Meanwhile all we see is the bad agents running amok, and the, as you said it, 99.99% doing what? With that number they would be able to crush this nonsense. Centrism is not suppose to be about meeting two sides of wrong. Now it’s no longer about pro-life and pro-choice but anti-life and pro-choice and the center looks like
Cons ============MIDDLE== Libs
And for sure it’s not libs fault. How is it that it seems like Libs are attacking Cons AND Libs but Cons are attacking only Libs (and telling a person they are not Republican enough is not criticism but self-congratulation)?
I can’t possibly know if they mean well if there is no proof in form of actual action.
You can’t cross the same river twice. That’s because there’s a troll over there and he clubs anyone who tries.
I think in the age of one-liners (Twitter, tik tok, etc) people have gotten so fucking stupid that they have lost their ability to digest a nuanced take. If it takes more than two sentences for a fox news host to say any liberal position is 100% and perfectly undeniably the worst thing in the world, they’re “going woke” (the brain-dead MAGA catch-all for any position they don’t like but can’t actually articulate why). If a liberal merely explains in good faith a right wing position that they’re going to argue against, they’re “enlightened centerists” (the brain dead left wing catch-all for any discussion that isn’t ** immediately** a shrill cry of fascism)
To be extremely clear, Jon is still the smartest guy in the room, and it’s just that you’ve gotten a lot dumber in the last 10 years on your diet of twitter.
A whole lot of people lack critical thinking skills and only half of them vote GOP.
