His irrational defense of Israel is another reason I stopped paying much attention to him. I can’t speak to the rest because frankly I don’t care enough about him to go verify everything you said. I remember him make fun of foodies a long time ago but I’ve never heard him do the vegan health thing. I have also heard him say the left needs to stop the weird fetishization of body coverings for women in many Muslim societies, which I agree with.

He constantly tries to get Republicans to disavow Trump on his show. He used his show to practically beg people to vote for Biden even if they didn’t like him, just to get Trump out of office. People here may not like everything he does, I certainly don’t, but the guy will never support Trump, I’m willing to state that unequivocally.

I’m pretty sure he was vaccinated. He did criticize the piss poor messaging during Covid, i.e. claiming the vaccine would keep you from getting the virus entirely, which was never true, and harmful to the effort to get people vaccinated. He made a lot of fun of incoherent mask rules. If you watch his documentary, Religulous, you’ll see that he’s actually anti all religion, not just Islam. As far as being a transphobe, I’m not like a huge fan or anything, so I don’t see his stuff all that often, but he doesn’t seem like the kind of person to care from what I’ve seen. That said, his fawning over Elon in particular made it impossible for me to take him seriously, along with his compulsive shitting on millennials and Gen Z.

We should have people living on the moon by now.

Definitely. I knew one guy who was an EMT. He was very casual about it unless he was drinking.

Bad America, no!

I’m guessing the whole world has been doing some hard mulling since 2016…

Might take a little longer than a month to figure out what to do if your next door neighbor who also has the biggest military the world has ever seen goes full fascist.

Probably not but it would be funny.

I say we let him build up a huge satellite fleet and then force him to sell a huge chunk of it under antitrust law.

They just need to try and land on one, that’s the trick.

It’s only a matter of time before we get crocs on crocs on crocs. Bet no one thought of that already.

Yeah, I guess that’s fair enough. I’ve just run into way too many people who seem to think it’s the only music worth listening to or something. I can agree with what you said pretty much.

Actually I said sort of the opposite: what’s been done since then is just as good as what was done back then, which therefore is overblown by people who claim it’s somehow better. No contradiction.

Sorry, I’m just used to hearing how much better music used to be in the 60s from people my parents’ age.

Well, if that’s your comparison, sure… Music changes, and musical tastes vary, so I’ll avoid trying to give examples or make comparisons, I just don’t think music of that era was particularly better than music since then. It’s a weird fluke of history that we developed decent recording and playback technology right as the 60s bands were coming up. That probably explains why it holds such a grip on culture. But personally I think there have been some incredible musicians since the 60s.

Okay Boomer.

Well, I drive a Kia Soul, so I’m probably not one to be throwing stones.

For real. I love those ugly things.

60s…? With the stinky self-righteous hippies and overblown music? I have it on good authority that the 70s were actually where it was at.