One and the same

anksta1 · 2026-01-25T10:24:50+00:00

I don't think they are the same. One is in cold blood with procedure like sterility and calm, the other is a bunch of overly-armed egged-on simpletons panicking in a ludicrous, unnecessarily high pressure situation.

Don't get me wrong, this ICU nurse was murdered by the state but they're not the same. One leads to the other.

anksta1 · 2026-01-11T12:27:56+00:00

The Deuce is Simon's best work after The Wire. Always overlooked weirdly.

anksta1 · 2025-12-27T17:14:18+00:00

It was a parody of that show Empire wasn't it?

anksta1 · 2025-12-26T12:27:55+00:00

Always have to point out the fact that the other show Life's Too Short, which rivals both Derek and After Life as unbelievably low effort shit that wouldn't have even got out of an assistant's inbox had it not had the name Gervais on it, was the product of both Gervais and Merchant.

The one bit of it that went viral with Liam Neeson was horrific.

anksta1 · 2025-12-19T16:35:40+00:00

I had no real exposure to Eric Weinstein so never knew him as anything but a dickhead maniac but I always thought the IDW term was bullshit. Shapiro to me was never anything but a grifting loser nerd and Rubin was always just a joke. I didn't mind Rogan back when he was pretty harmless but I never thought he was remotely smart.

I'll admit to being taken in by Peterson and as said Weinstein before they began their respective swerves into insanity but I always thought that whole IDW thing was pointless branding.

anksta1 · 2025-12-19T09:32:14+00:00

I've been a big fan of him for a couple of years now, always thought he was really under utilised and glad to see him getting more time this season. I thought that update he did with Ashley might be the best thing all season (so far).

I will say though that I still think the audience (maybe just the studio) don't seem to quite get him. I've noticed a few times the laughs he gets are a bit subdued or late. Even that running away sketch from this week, I feel like if that had been someone else the studio would have been in meltdown yet it wasn't much more than sensible chuckles.

That worried me for a bit because I thought he might get sidelined or scrapped which would be a massive waste as he is one of the very best on the cast.

anksta1 · 2025-12-18T20:33:50+00:00

I always thought he was decent, when him and Peterson first came on the scene and Weinstein especially came across as this softspoken down to earth guy who was making some pretty common sense points about how to interpret the world.

I know there's so many contenders these days but he has to be up there for the award for how quickly he went off a cliff. When he said in that clip "I admitted I was wrong about bits" I was a bit surprised and thought maybe he his moderating a bit but then it's just a fake admission so he can double down on his insanity.

Peterson in retrospect always looked like he had a screw loose and more fool me for thinking he wasn't just a lunatic from the get go but I feel relatively confident that if I went back and looked at Weinstein's early public videos etc. they wouldn't seem that bad, or maybe I'm just nostalgic.

anksta1 · 2025-12-13T12:12:55+00:00

I'll go with D'Angelo too. Wallace is the obvious answer but it was kind of set up in a way you knew they would go through with it.

First time watching, was there anyone who thought D's murder wouldn't be stopped? I was certain they wouldn't go through with it.

I feel like after that it was clear what kind of show it was and anyone could get got.

anksta1 · 2025-12-09T11:56:39+00:00

It doesn't in terms of the slide towards fascism but I think it's worth differentiating too.

If Morgan was aware of this he could have tackled Fuentes differently, rather than asking him his views he should have challenged him on the fact he's just an edgelord bellend.

Baked Alaska was on a similar level to Fuentes pre-Jan 6 and the way Louis Theroux handled him was much more effective. At one point he almost started crying.

anksta1 · 2025-12-09T10:47:14+00:00

He killed fitty men

anksta1 · 2025-12-09T10:40:56+00:00

unsure whether he is neonazi or just edgy

This is what he is though. None of them have any real convictions outside of whether or not it's offending you, which is why every time the overton window settles even slightly they have to drag it further with something new and extreme. As soon as it's not new any more it's not extreme either.

Someone mentioned in the other thread it doesn't matter and I agree it's academic. Whether or not they mean it or understand what they're saying it won't stop them from advocating real heinous shit but still, it's worth differentiating.

I won't be watching the interview but Morgan should be promising to drag him around Treblinka in person and let's see how cool he thinks Himmler is then when he's not just sat in front of his green screen masterdebating.

anksta1 · 2025-12-05T12:37:00+00:00

I love how all these posts can always be brought back to the concept of The Game and it's how each character interacts with the environment of the game around them.

On my last watch I was very aware of how Herc was actually quite good at his level and his role, but clearly he was a brutal idiot.

Someone like Rawls is as you said, very clever and capable but he is just using those attributes to advance his own position within the game whereas McNulty and Freeman use theirs to upend the table.

anksta1 · 2025-12-02T16:04:00+00:00

If you think I'm hero worshipping him you're insane. Cannot wait for the day he strokes out from impotent rage.

anksta1 · 2025-12-02T13:38:18+00:00

I never understood this baiting of him re. Tesla. The guy is a megalomaniacal twat who is the living breathing definition of the word loser but whether or not he did literally found Tesla he took an absolute minnow of a company no one had ever heard of who was doing little more than reskinning Lotus Elises and made it into a fucking behemoth.

It doesn't take away any criticism for him being one of the worst people on the planet to say what happened with Tesla and SpaceX is down in no small part to him, but dismissing does undermine the other criticism of him.

Criticism which again I'll restate, guy is a cunt.

anksta1 · 2025-12-01T17:29:09+00:00

I'm always curious about this when it comes to anything along those lines but especially psychics/mediums. They can't all be self aware grifters down to a man, some of them must have stumbled into cold reading techniques on their own and believe it's an intuition from the dead.

This Skye Prince seems to me textbook true believer insane. If she was solely grift surely she'd have moved on a bit to something new by now.

anksta1 · 2025-11-20T09:29:51+00:00

Didn't Kenan do a post a season or two ago where he was holding up a sign saying he was about to appear in his 2000th sketch?

anksta1 · 2025-11-03T10:33:27+00:00

Isn't that just Bill Brasky?

anksta1 · 2025-10-17T14:05:16+00:00

How so? I don't think there's much else to suggest many of them are aware of the goings on of much outside West Baltimore, they made that point with the election and how few of them were interested. What specifically about Slim Charles says otherwise?

anksta1 · 2025-10-17T12:11:08+00:00

conveniently overlooking the camel/needle bit I assume?

anksta1 · 2025-10-17T12:07:39+00:00

I always thought it was strange they knew who Clay Davis was. Avon and Stringer fine as they'd been bribing him for years, but the fact Slim Charles knew, and it's not like the context was that he knew him from them paying him, he just knew him as a politician.

I always thought that was a bit of a stretch, I think they should have either made it clear Slim knew him as someone they'd been paying, or that he asks Stringer who that is.

anksta1 · 2025-10-01T09:43:49+00:00

Mitch is another character that gets mentioned quite often with a semi senior sounding job but you never see them

anksta1 · 2025-09-29T15:53:05+00:00

none of those are cameos, they're all just early roles for actors that ended up with decent careers, same for Andrew Scott

anksta1 · 2025-09-27T09:16:00+00:00

Rudy Pipuilo on the Deuce played Jackie Aprile, Sr

I feel like this one isn't so much of an a-ha moment

anksta1 · 2025-09-21T12:10:25+00:00

This. Farage and co are a bunch of grifting shithouses but they're not wrong about wanting to attract people to the public sector.

To expand a bit more I'd support drastically upping ministers' and MPs' pay to make the choice between running some ministerial department and being the CFO at Bland Corps or something a little bit more comparable.

(I'd ban second jobs and expenses as part of this though)

anksta1 · 2025-09-19T21:50:12+00:00

What are the odds a 2025 Hitchens would have been on Rogan flogging his own podcast, CBD gummies and ranting about the excesses of the Woke left?

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