Is Salon a troll site?

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Curb your enthusiasm is even more racist than Seinfeld iirc

D-4(y)0 (wins), Saturday, 25 July 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link

Well it mines the loosely autobiographical character's latent racism to ambivalent ends/painful laughs

Treeship, Saturday, 25 July 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link

Yeah maybe it's less racist than Seinfeld I'm having trouble calling any cye episodes to mind tbh

D-4(y)0 (wins), Saturday, 25 July 2015 17:27 (eight years ago) link

There's one where Larry adopts a german shephard named sarge and it always barks and growls at black people leading wanda sykes to tell him he got a "racist dog" and then accusing him of training it to be racist

Treeship, Saturday, 25 July 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link

sure and the black characters basically only exist to be involved in this kind of hilarious misunderstanding but istr there being proper Seinfeld-esque racism too

D-4(y)0 (wins), Saturday, 25 July 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link

six months pass...

great juxtaposition

http://i.imgur.com/dM9mRy7.png

Mordy, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link

three months pass...
two months pass...

Oh good:

According to sources, he discouraged staffers from writing about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and the 2016 election, saying there were too many “anti-Trump” articles on the site. Hoffner has also established a partnership with Carrie Sheffield, a conservative commentator who runs the website Bold, which is described as a right-leaning news and commentary site "centered on personal responsibility and conscious capitalism."

Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link

conscious capitalism? is that a code word for expecting everyone engaged in the economy to seek out and learn every obscure detail of every business they deal with, every product they buy, so they can make "conscious" decisions about spending and investing? bcz that's balls.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link

And look:

http://bold.global/author/carrie-sheffield/

Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

lmao wuuut? https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/13/salon-readers-choose-ads-or-crypto-mining/

rob, Thursday, 15 February 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link


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