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What’s popular and “well known” is rarely, if ever, innovative. Established comics are always the most boring and hacky of their time. They may have been fresh and innovative once, but once they’re at the top, they just become tired shells of what they once were. The actual trend setters are the up-and-comers. That’s who define the era.

These losers hardly represent all of comedy.

Not as a slight against Jimmy but…of course he is. A roasted dog turd would beat that fuck in a poll.

I don’t disagree with you, but this is isn’t exactly “idol” level expectations, either. “Not selling out to horrific regimes” is basic decency I’d expect of everyone, not just those I look up to. Most of the names I see here make sense, but there are a few I expected to be better than this.

What an asshole.

Here we go with the purity test BS.

Do you think that you never bought an product from companies in problematic countries who are doing human right abuses?

If you don’t want to be called out for it, maybe don’t do it in the very same comment, yeah?

Also,

I welcome anybody who want to boycott any problematic country

So what? The US also did a lot of terrible things to other countries and we never boycott it

So which is it? People can boycott what they want? Or are they “hypocrites” for boycotting in ways you disagree with? For someone so concerned with “consistency”, you are all over the place.

And I’ll ask again, how is your condemnation of the boycotts beneficial to anyone being harmed?

Your “consistency” is bullshit purity testing.

Talking about double standard is not whataboutism

Please, enlighten me on how your claims benefit anybody other than those profiting from suffering? What tangible action are you promoting here?

Quibbling over why it wasn’t “good enough” doesn’t support your criticisms of other boycotts anymore than “but what about other countries?!” does. If that’s your metric, no boycott or action against countries/companies will ever measure up. So really what you’re arguing for here is complete inaction, which won’t make anything better at all.

Maybe that’s part of the problem, eh? Also, maybe skim a newspaper once in a while.

Whether it’s about me or others is irrelevant.

So what your saying is that the government shutdown is do to the Republicans inaction.

It is. Just clarifying why they didn’t just “do it again”.

Now they can. They couldn’t before the financial year rolled over as of today.

They already did that in July.

“We should be mindful of how disruptive our comments are.”

“You’re not really an optimist. You’re just deluded.”

What a reasonable and well meant response.

I figured the same, but now I’m of the mind we’ve once again given the fools too much credit. Maybe that was the impetus for the event, but this embarrassment is far from the test of loyalty many were expecting. As always, incompetence is their strongest characteristic.

Bringing up every connected possibility is not always warranted or needed. We don’t need to soil every attempt at optimism by bringing up every toxic alternative just because. Optimism is hard enough to hold onto already. We should be mindful of needlessly weakening that.

Just nitpicking optimistic comments for fun, then? As hobbies go, it’s not the best.

Eh, the situation in the comic is pretty clearly well meaning.

It comes from a place of love, but yeah.

That’s the thing with (human made) art - even something that’s arguably “the same” is still a product of another person’s effort and viewpoint, and will embody their personal approach to the same task as much as the original does of its artist. It’s a personal story of effort and care, unique to any that attempt it.

For example, music covers. I keep an eye on the youtube channel of Triple J, a radio station that regularly has visiting musical guests perform covers of songs of their choice, and the different approaches to taking on another artist’s music is so interesting. Some do more direct imitations that mirror the original, while others take radically different approaches that bring entirely new meaning. It’s all great stuff.