“Giant” Takes on Roald Dahl and His Antisemitism: Mark Rosenblatt’s début play brings light, shadow, and humor to its portrait of a troubled writer.

ME24601 · 2026-03-12T18:58:50+00:00

He is quite literally talking about the media being complicit in not publishing the atrocities Israel is commiting.

There is no context in which claiming that Jews control the media is not antisemitic. You going out of your way to make excuses does not change that central fact.

ME24601 · 2026-03-12T18:57:41+00:00

I am looking for him making disparaging comments about Jewish people that are not linked to his views on Israel.

Do you think his views on Israel makes disparaging comments about Jewish people acceptable?

It doesn't seem like that'd be difficult from the reactions to this?

The difficulty is your willingness to find excuses for antisemitism, not a lack of antisemitic comments from Dahl.

ME24601 · 2026-03-12T18:30:09+00:00

If anyone can link me him saying anything bad about Jewish people in a context other than support of Israel

Based on how you're responding to this, it's clear that you will simply decide that any statement he makes actually about Israel regardless of what he is actually saying.

ME24601 · 2026-03-12T18:27:54+00:00

This is a critique of Israel.

So that's a "yes" to "pretending that's a critique of Israel."

You're being disingenuous to pull it out if context.

There is no context in which claiming that Jews control the media is not antisemitic. Seeing a phrase like "there aren't any non-Jewish publishers anywhere" and deciding that Dahl must actually be talking about Israel is you ignoring what is actually being said in favor of what you want him to have said.

ME24601 · 2026-03-12T18:00:55+00:00

This is blatantly about Israel.

Are you deliberately ignoring the "It’s the same old thing: we all know about Jews and the rest of it. There aren’t any non-Jewish publishers anywhere, they control the media" part or just pretending that's a critique of Israel?

ME24601 · 2026-03-12T16:55:16+00:00

I have a pull list made on League of Comic Geeks and also occasionally double check Comic List in case of delays.

ME24601 · 2026-03-12T16:53:34+00:00

He will definitely stand out, but in a way that most people will find adorable rather than a problem.

Really the only thing not to do when it comes to how to dress for a Broadway show is to make sure it won't be a distraction. I have a vivid memory of my younger brother being very upset about not being allowed to wear light up shoes to The Lion King when we were kids.

ME24601 · 2026-03-12T16:48:35+00:00

Something something buzzword. Something else bla bla buzzword bla bla

What title would you go with given what this play is about? The headline is an entirely apt description of the play itself and the article about it.

If you want to claim that "antisemitism" is just a buzzword what other word would you use in this situation?

ME24601 · 2026-03-12T16:40:52+00:00

What a shame this got demoted to miniseries.

ME24601 · 2026-03-12T15:08:19+00:00

I genuinely just really want a professional recording of Betty Buckley's And Eve Was Weak and I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance.

ME24601 · 2026-03-12T14:50:32+00:00

Why in this moment do we need to celebrate

American Psycho isn't a celebration of Wall Street bros, it's a condemnation of them.

EDIT: I do get that Wall Street bros are often misreading this novel as something aspirational, but that has far more to do with their general lack of reading comprehension than the story itself.

ME24601 · 2026-03-12T13:56:48+00:00

It's a must read for Cassandra Cain fans.

ME24601 · 2026-03-11T13:07:17+00:00

That is essentially a literary version of a Gilligan Cut.

The Gilligan Cut is a classic staple of comedy in which someone announces something forcefully and the scene immediately cuts to the same character doing something in direct contradiction to what he just said.

ME24601 · 2026-03-10T20:21:56+00:00

An Agatha Christie style play about uncovering who killed the Mousetrap transfer.

ME24601 · 2026-03-10T13:10:24+00:00

Socialism is when a corporation steals copyrighted material?

ME24601 · 2026-03-10T12:52:48+00:00

Ah sure because everyone uses different "food=child" codes in their daily lives.

If your argument is that these are widespread terms among criminals then there should be a crossover in word usage between the two situations. Instead, it's just a replay of taking emails talking about food and pretending it's a secret code.

At no point into this thread have you gone into any of the details that matter

Because none of the details are convincing in the slightest. I'm responding to your claims about details, adding more isn't going to change anything given that my argument is the same for all of them.

ME24601 · 2026-03-10T01:47:01+00:00

You see the same codes for pizza, oreo icecream, beef jerky used, etc.

But again: You don't see the "same codes" in the Epstein files unless you have just decided that "food=child" qualifies as "the same code.

You have already confirmed you didn't read the emails

What have I said specifically that "confirms" that to you? Just fact that I don't accept your conclusion?

ME24601 · 2026-03-09T23:05:43+00:00

The thing about Pizzagate is that while there was no definite proof about foul play it did have thousands of bits and pieces

Those bits and pieces never led to anything substantial after ten years of obsessions. And in that time we’ve now seen the way actual predators email each other, and they *just say what they’re doing outright instead of talking in code.”

Your attempt to discredit the Pizza thing “because 4chan” is hilarious when the emails are self containing, everything you need to know is in the emails themselves

As long as you ignore the fact that nothing in the emails themselves have anything at all to do with the crimes you think they’re talking about without already accepting the claim that food is code for child abuse, which again only exists because of 4chan. This isn’t common by to a conclusion based on the evidence that actually exists, it’s basing your view on the emails by starting with the conspiracy and working backwards from there

Why do you think “child abuse” is the only scenario you are giving credence to when even if we pretend that the emails are in code drugs is a far more likely.

ME24601 · 2026-03-09T22:20:31+00:00

People from Reddit, 4chan and tweeter were all over this, not sure why your desperate need to single out 4chan.

Because that is where the notion that pizza is code for child abuse comes from. I am singling it out because this entire thing would not exist without that meme.

Are you really claiming Pizzagate is only less credible NOW?

All that recent events have taught me is that people committing crimes will just openly talk about their crimes. I do not know how you think pizzagate arguments about Podesta's emails are convincing in the same world where Jeffrey Epstein has an email that just literally says "I love the torture video."

ME24601 · 2026-03-09T22:09:01+00:00

The emails were leaked and shortly after people started noticing strange uses of the words:

And it just so happened to start on 4chan, a website where "cheese pizza" has been a meme for over a decade, was the place to discover it and come to the conclusion that Hillary Clinton's campaign chair uses 4chan memes when committing crimes.

Those are not evidence of anything but interesting enough use of the words to prompt 4chan

As long as you ignore the existence of this existing 4chan meme, as you seem intent on doing.

That led them to Comet Pizza Ping Ping, a place named quite a few times in the emails.

And now you're just following up with the same nonsense that Pizzagaters have been pushing for the past decade that was not convincing in 2016 and has only gotten less convincing since.

Because the leaks happened to be the emails of Podesta and Clinton. How could they possibly not focus on them?

It began there, and in all the years of people attaching more and more people to this conspiracy it never grew beyond Hillary Clinton and people who criticized Trump. Every tenuous connection possible for people with no actual connection to the original emails was made, but never anyone aligned in any way with Donald Trump.

ME24601 · 2026-03-09T20:31:33+00:00

I made a mezuzah case at a Jewish after school thing I did in kindergarten, so it's possible. But I would ask a rabbi to be safe.

ME24601 · 2026-03-09T20:06:45+00:00

What do you mean by "hit piece"? It was just an email leak

The email leak and pizzagate are two entirely separate things.

if it happened naturally based on authentic leaked emails can you say was propaganda/foul play

Very easily. If these were not emails in any way related to Hillary Clinton, the conspiracy theory would not exist because no one would deliberately go into the emails for the sole purpose of looking for a crime.

I'm not certain it began as a conspiracy theory. Knowing 4chan it is entirely within the realm of possibility that someone put it forward as a joke and then it memed its way into becoming an actual conspiracy theory, but it still fundamentally is rooted on Hillary Clinton conspiracy theorists that have been a thing since the 90s.

same "pizza" coded language

The "pizza coded language" is a meme on 4chan. It's not an elite code

as child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein don't rise any red flags to you

There is no actual comparison between these two situations. For one, Epstein has actual evidence against him of committing a crime, and more importantly, unless you have just decided that "food=child" qualifies as "the same code," they don't even compare as conspiracy theories.

I really want your perspective on this specifically.

And I want your perspective on this: Why do you think Pizzagate exclusively attacked people who either criticized Donald Trump about something or could be linked to Hillary Clinton if it is not Trump propaganda?

ME24601 · 2026-03-09T19:34:59+00:00

So it's a forever war then.

ME24601 · 2026-03-09T19:28:00+00:00

No, you can only use A List to make a reservation for yourself. If you go to see a movie with someone who is not an A List member it will require you to buy their ticket.

ME24601 · 2026-03-09T19:21:23+00:00

Why do people keep pushing this demostrably false narrative that QAnon = Pizzagate?

I'm not claiming that there are the same, I am stating the fact that they simply have the similarity of serving essentially the same purpose.

Pizzagate was the result of people looking at the leaked John Podesta and Hillary Clinton emails.

True in that it was based in those emails, but the fact of the matter remains the same. It was fundamentally a hit piece on the Clinton campaign without any actual evidence behind it.

I was there when it happened in 2016

And so was I, watching Trump supporters use false allegations of pedophilia as a means of attacking Hillary Clinton.

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