He really understood what works on screen and on the page. It’s a rare trait to have mastered both as well as he did.

Read the novel if you haven’t. The screenwriter (William Goldman) wrote the novel as well, and it’s fantastic. It has depth to it that wouldn’t have worked in the movie.

Well that’s cool as hell.

Worth reading, though! I giggled the whole way through.

I should’ve given the full context - when I was a kid watching the news with my parents it was likely late in the Carter administration, or early in Reagan’s. So yeah, fully agreed.

And this is why the Left can’t win.

It’s too obsessed with purity and infighting to focus on the true enemy.

The fascists, on the other hand, focus on the true enemy, then focus on purity and infighting!

The gish gallop has gone mainstream.

What we needed, twenty to forty years ago at the bare minimum, were journalists who were willing to shut that shit down.

I remember being a child watching the news with my parents and seeing an oil company defender accusing the scientists of chasing profits.

Like what the fuck? How did that not end immediately with “And who is currently profiting?” is and always has been beyond me.

…I’m not sure that’s a great example of the gish gallop. Technically.

My point was that we now report the untrue claims rather than saying, from the start, “This candidate said something completely false and not worth repeating.”

For clicks, views, the algorithm, for profit. Nope. It was all to game the system in order to destroy it.

Sorry, this probably isn’t coherent but I’m tired and tipsy, and I’ve chosen to hit save.

Let’s be realistic, her manager didn’t have the authority to pay her if she couldn’t make it in and she needed the money.

As fucked as it is, they may have actually been helping to the best of their ability. The ‘manager’ may make $1.50 more per hour.

That guy is full of it.

All so that none of their tenants can afford any of those four things without constantly struggling!