And my critique of that was, "is anyone surprised?" People on here talk sometimes about how frustrating it is that we have no politics left except the politics of greivance and cyclical outrage, but then stan lefty owns of liberal media that are basically just recreating that same pattern.
If you're in the business of bagging on shit takes, I don't think it's such a hard thing to ask that the bagger contextualize why this person gets to make shit takes in the first place, not just offering a critique of the shit take itself. And if we're saying that this is a video aimed at peeling off libs from Maher's audiance, then that critique goes double. Is is better to foster a new understanding of media that gets into the material motivations behind Maher's shit-take industry? Or just to create a competing market of consumption - one which, frankly, needs Maher (and others like him) around making shit takes to sustain itself?
And my critique of that was, "is anyone surprised?" People on here talk sometimes about how frustrating it is that we have no politics left except the politics of greivance and cyclical outrage, but then stan lefty owns of liberal media that are basically just recreating that same pattern.
If you're in the business of bagging on shit takes, I don't think it's such a hard thing to ask that the bagger contextualize why this person gets to make shit takes in the first place, not just offering a critique of the shit take itself. And if we're saying that this is a video aimed at peeling off libs from Maher's audiance, then that critique goes double. Is is better to foster a new understanding of media that gets into the material motivations behind Maher's shit-take industry? Or just to create a competing market of consumption - one which, frankly, needs Maher (and others like him) around making shit takes to sustain itself?