How’s the eSports class tho??

Mike Birbiglia

Thanks the lord, love me some Birbiglia. I’m really bummed Burr, Hannibal, Aziz, and some others are on that list 😞

Oof is right haha.

Listening to you talk, maybe it’s where I learned humility and how not to make sweeping generalizations that make me look like a moron but who knows? I’m just a brainwashed college educated drone.

Thanks for sharing, that article about the pope dropping an f-slur is wild. Imagine reading that and thinking, “Yup that’s my guy, that’s my spiritual leader.”

Exactly! Who needs access to trained professionals when you can “do your own research”! Am I right or am I right?

Pictures I can hear for sure haha.

Apparently showing the tiniest speck of empathy is grandstanding now.

George Floyd was murdered by police officers for allegedly trying to use counterfeit money. Charlie Kirk was killed for spreading violent racist rhetoric. Are those comparable situations to you?

Blind people?

I agree that a comparison of Kirk to Hitler is not apt but it highlights my problem with your philosophy. There absolutely are some instances of political violence that should be celebrated (Hitler’s death). I think to ask questions is the right approach, or at least more right than loudly uncritically declaring your joy but in my mind the world will be a better place without Kirk in it.

As far as the violent left claims are concerned, we’ve already lost that battle. They believed those things without evidence previously and they’ll continue to whether we give them ammunition or not. Kirk never came to argue in good faith, he was a propaganda/hate mouthpiece. Look at how he responded when backed into a corner, he would never change his mind and that’s why I take umbrage with the characterization that he engaged in dialogue. He was a monologist who used his words as weapons.

At the end of the day though I think you’re right. The world can always use more empathy and empathetic people and we should strive for that but we’re also imperfect and missteps should be met with that same energy.

I think it’s admirable to live your life that way and probably the most effective at actually changing minds. But I think you need to extend that empathy to the people who are happy he’s dead as well. I would never sit here and lecture a person whose kid died in a school shooting that we need to feel bad Kirk is gone.

The main problem with that philosophy is locking yourself into a binary. I’m sure you can admit that Hitler’s death was pretty much all upside right?

Just out of curiosity, do you identify as anything that Kirk has historically directed his vitriol at?

Absolutely, hypocrisy and hating yourself are core tenets of the conservative experience in America.

I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.

Sounds like they were playing by his rules? We both know there’s no evidence “the left” killed him but hey we all know how conservatives feel about facts right?

Hey Jimmy Kimmel, how do you like that marketplace of ideas? I heard conservatives sure do value that marketplace. Why can’t I hear you Jimmy?

You ever gonna thank Envy for the free lesson he dropped on you or what?

So you’d rather police grammar than provide something to the conversation?

Is that not how language actually works? How is telling people to follow made up rules not prescriptivism?

Yes, it’s a casual comment, a casual thought written casually. All of your assumptions here don’t apply. Why not spend time having a conversation rather than bringing it to a screeching halt enforcing made up rules? The only time I think criticizing grammar is warranted is if you’re genuinely confused about what they’re trying to say, and you can definitely be more polite when doing it.