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After everything, I do still generally respect and like Jon Stewart, but even I found his piece this week on the Daily Show to be some real weak ass shit. I try my best to keep ahold of myself, not run away too much with assumptions or conspiratorial thinking. But you don't have to wait for them to do 100% fascist shit to start calling them fascists.
This. This right here. They are screaming their intent at us and we don't need to wait for them to do it to respectably call them fascists. Like to be clear I guess he can do this but the way he did it is potentially incorrect? Regardless, that's not what I want to hear you say when you do it to a 22-year veteran of the department.
I'm glad you brought this up because I've noticed the tone change in all the media as well. I don't blame them and understand. They spent months or years screaming and calling out Trump after spending years during his first term pointing out everything wrong.
Everyone's burnt out, you can hear it in the jokes and the incredulous chuckles that come out from segments now. They all tried their best but it didn't change the outcome, that has to make you take a step back. I honestly would probably do the same, you can't keep bombarding people with multiple items a day and expect them not to tune it out eventually. They know it's time to switch to a better long-term strategy than what they've been trying to do calling out all the bullshit with intensity.
What's this everything you refer to?
I think Jon Stewart has been a pretty stand up guy unlike his liberal/conservative flip flopping friend Stephen Colbert.
I can’t tell if this is satire or not
I actually worked with a guy that really hated Stephen Colbert. He was disgusting in many ways, early alt-right. One day I realized that he wasn't mad about Colbert mocking conservatives, he actually believed it was an honest conservative political show. He loved The Colbert Report. He took it at face value. So when Colbert "came out" as a liberal it broke his heart. He thought the guy turned his back on his ideology for money.
I could not convince him that the Colbert Report was satire. These people really exist.
Oh wow, that’s wild. Funny but sad.
Neither can they.
The tone he had on Monday's Daily Show was, "let's not start throwing around the word fascism yet". He apparently still has faith in the courts? https://archive.org/details/COM_20250128_070000_The_Daily_Show
There have been growing criticisms of him coming from the left for a bit now on how some of his tendencies to diffuse situations learns more towards liberalism than leftism. This isn't an outright attack on him or to say he's moving rightward overall. I need to watch this video again but I think this is the one that touches on a bunch of the points, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hCxHvogsTY
From a comment on the video, "Jon Stewart made me a liberal as a child, adulthood made me a leftist."
If you like Jon Stewart I'm not trying to say you shouldn't. But as someone who has continually been moving left, I do feel more distance from him than I used to is all.
He's absolutely moving right.
Hes not moving right hes always tried to work across the aisle something leftists could learn a thing about
Thanks for the information but leftists are increasingly making me more liberal anyways so I'm not too worried about it.
Is your political stance based off of policy or the individuals that make up the constituents of politicians that claim to be left? I don't understand how some rhetoric from "lefists" have changed your views on policy. Might want to step off of political discourse online if you're being swayed by "personalities", it's exactly the kind of discourse bad-actors are trying to implement.
Leftist are as flaky with their policies as they are with the people they choose to lead them.
They’re not a unified front right now so there’s no reason to back them.
At least the liberals get in power quite often.
Hey, fair. I know the overall political left has always been plagued with infighting and purity testing. I'd like to at least do my part in bridging the gap between leftists and liberals by not getting in your face about not panicking over this shit if you'll still allow me the same space to entertain my concern without calling me hysterical. Deal?
I don't call anyone hysterical I abhor the historical connotations of the word.
Only thing I can remember bad about Jon Stewart was that he didn't say who owned the Wall Street building during the occupy Wall Street movement. But even that is minor since you generally keep family stuff private.
I remember him fighting for the 9/11 firefighters more than anyone.