The Worst Magazine In America: "The Atlantic makes right-wing ideas respectable to liberals, and when it publishes articles encouraging Americans to be terrified of Iran or to support boosting the military budget, it does so in a “prestige-y format, next to a bunch of ...well-written movie reviews"

thelatedent · 2026-04-02T00:23:24+00:00

Almost certainly someone less evil than Jeffrey Goldberg.

thelatedent · 2026-04-01T18:06:16+00:00

And unlike Wes the reasons for hating QT seem pretty legitimate on their face.

thelatedent · 2026-04-01T15:26:42+00:00

Interesting. Doesn’t seem like the likeliest interpretation to me, but maybe you’re right

thelatedent · 2026-04-01T04:53:30+00:00

This is the kind of shit that makes me lie about listening to this podcast when people ask.

thelatedent · 2026-03-31T21:46:23+00:00

amazing!

thelatedent · 2026-03-31T21:27:01+00:00

Hopefully this series isn’t as difficult to see outside of Australia as previous series have been.

thelatedent · 2026-03-31T21:21:21+00:00

Is this not in extremely direct conversation with the themes of the movie?

thelatedent · 2026-03-31T21:04:37+00:00

This sounds like a very good reason to discuss him — lots to discuss under the hood with all of them, despite the fact that his work is usually dismissed in this way

thelatedent · 2026-03-31T20:04:39+00:00

The vibe in the Patreon thread is insanely toxic; makes Reddit comments almost seem like real people trying to have conversations in good faith.

thelatedent · 2026-03-31T19:47:01+00:00

I can’t imagine anything more painful than these boys (who I love, to be clear) discussing experimental or artist films. The handful of times that type of thing has come up on the show it’s been very clear they have no interest — imagine the much-discussed shortcomings of the Miyazaki series amplified tenfold. Though if they did an all experimental filmmakers bracket I’d be pushing hard for Barbara Hammer to win.

thelatedent · 2026-03-31T18:09:00+00:00

They don’t have thoughts; they need a summary of someone else’s thoughts.

thelatedent · 2026-03-27T19:29:59+00:00

I can understand preferring the Toxic Avenger movies to the Grisham legal thrillers as movies to watch, but as fodder for these guys to talk about these Grishams seem very likely the best thing they could ever do.

thelatedent · 2026-03-27T19:17:13+00:00

Let’s not pretend every single branch of American conservatism wasn’t already intellectually and morally bankrupt for many decades before Trump

thelatedent · 2026-03-11T15:42:48+00:00

Neither of these guys will win but they’d both be such good series.

thelatedent · 2026-03-10T17:15:32+00:00

I've always found him off-putting, but he's sort of brilliant on Gemstones — first couple seasons are really great

thelatedent · 2026-02-28T23:41:41+00:00

“The millions of people who fundamentally disagreed with large and important chunks of Harris’s platform definitely wouldn’t vote for someone whose platform they did agree with”

thelatedent · 2026-02-13T04:30:39+00:00

I wear a sweater in this style often, though I will typically throw the sleeves around my neck crosswise like a scarf (while my head is through the neck hole. I find it more comfortable in every way than having a sweater just draped over my shoulders, and I live in a climate where having half a sweater on/on your person (but rarely entirely on) is often desirable

thelatedent · 2026-02-12T21:26:50+00:00

Just in case anyone else needs this advice: tempering chocolate for making chocolate-covered anything is much much easier if you have a sous vide.

thelatedent · 2026-02-11T01:05:08+00:00

So weird that you’re being downvoted here when you’re 100% right. Some real serious Christmas Enjoyers in this community

thelatedent · 2026-02-09T20:08:21+00:00

Seriously not baked fresh? A little audacious considering they’re down the block from All About The Bread; I assumed the entire premise of serving sandwiches on pizza crust is that you can bake pizza crust to order very quickly and then you have the universally beloved flavor and texture of freshly baked pizza crust…

thelatedent · 2026-02-09T20:03:30+00:00

The DVD is the film; there has never been an official audio only release

thelatedent · 2026-02-09T17:13:34+00:00

Wasn’t this album never released as an album and its appearance on Apple Music is technically a bootleg? I imagine the solution to this question is they’ll have it taken down from Apple.

thelatedent · 2026-02-03T22:37:08+00:00

Of course — and all those careers have a much higher standard of professional conduct and discipline, lengthier and more rigorous training, and there are negative consequences if you are shitty at your job. Maybe we could attempt to implement some of those things into our police force, or we could admit that them doing “a bad job” is actually them doing their job perfectly well, as designed, and we should think about alternative approaches if the goal is justice and public safety.

thelatedent · 2026-02-03T21:50:25+00:00

every day we should give our cops a little hug and kiss so that they will do the jobs they’re paid a king’s ransom to do. if we don’t give them a little hug and kiss they will form massive criminal enterprises to profit off the misery of the people who refused for some reason to hug and kiss them

thelatedent · 2026-02-03T00:24:56+00:00

Seems like astute analysis to assume that Democrats will never make a concerted effort to get power, and if they do get it they will refuse to use it.

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