I miss Jon Stewart...

I was watching one of those air crash investigation dramacutaries about the Lear Jet crash that killed Payne Stewart. The first action on the checklist for depressurisation was some troubleshooting. The pilots never got to action two, which was to put on their oxygen masks.

this actually makes me really mad. stewart and colbert have THE voice. they have the ability to reach the vast majority of people and the ability to change minds and they haven't using it. they're still playing the game and still playing it safe. they say everything up until the line of acceptability but refuse to cross it and what people need now is a voice that crosses that line of acceptability, of that idea that "well, it's equal but opposite". it's fucking not. the republicans are being destroyed by their own ideology from the inside out and the dems have nominated their version of richard nixon. stewart and colbert are both in a position to call this out for what it is and make no apologies for it but they refuse to. i think that is a massive act cowardice on their part and i find it incredibly disappointing.

i really love these guys but they're really dropping the ball here, in my opinion.

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So...basically what you admire about him he must then throw off in order for you to be happy with him? I am not sure you understand what morals and values are. As Jon Stewart once said of the Republicans, morals and values are not morals and values if you change them when the situation changes! Those are whims and fancies!

i LOVE stewart lee. genius.

Maybe you're terrified. I'm really not that concerned and the clip you posted is actually satirising that very attitude.

I accidentally posted the wrong Dara O'Briain clip, but please watch the edited one (it's very funny and relevant).

Here's Stewart Lee on the same topic

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First Contact has three unforgivable flaws.

1. The time travel plot makes zero sense. Why do the Borg need to go back to that particular time to assimilate humanity? Why don't they go back to pre-WW3, where there were a) more humans to assimilate and b) lower tech weapons? Why do they need to interrupt the moment of humanity's first contact with the Vulcans? Why do they give themselves such a tiny margin of error by only giving themselves a few days to assimilate Earth before the deadline? Why don't they send Borg down to begin assimilating humanity straight away? And the Enterprise conceals itself from the Vulcans by hiding behind the fucking moon.

2. The writers fundamentally ruin the idea of the Borg by giving it a figurehead it doesn't need. They are not a collective if they have a Queen; they are subjects.

3. Worst of all, Picard's characterisation is a complete volte face. Seven seasons of the TV show proved that Picard just isn't a man who stoops to revenge. Only a year or so after recovering from his own assimilation, Picard has the chance to cripple or destroy the Borg forever and he doesn't take it, because he's a man of balance and pragmatism, not of blind rage. His sudden change into Captain Ahab is lazy and it's unearned. Picard, like everything else in the film, is dumbed-down for the sake of the action, and the character as written undermines the work done over the course of the TV series, amputates him from Roddenberry, and is frankly unworthy of being performed by Patrick Stewart.

Star Trek: First Contact is fucking dumb.

Of course I have to concede to subjectivity and some of the action is very exciting (if still stupid; the "no firing at the deflector dish oh except when you do" incident is a prime example). But it's only possible to enjoy it as an action movie if you like your action movies to appeal to the very lowest common denominator.

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So glad that Stewart will be back on TV before the general election. We need this guy.

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Late addition, but I've seen something relevant recently.

Here's a link to a video that better explains what's up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72UPxDFPKDs

In short, the world cup for women is held one year after the world cup for men. So men have a boom year, then women have a boom year, then they each have a couple so so years. What has happened is that they have compared the earnings in a women's world cup year to give them something to stand on. Obviously this makes it seem like women earn more. They completely ignore the previous year, which shows men vastly out earning women, to a degree far surpassing the difference in wages. Completely dishonest propaganda. The Daily Show has really fallen far since the loss of Mr Stewart.