I respect Monroe's personal stance and his right to vote his conscience but I wish he'd kept it out of his work. I miss the Dixie Chicks for similar reasons. XKCD is tainted for me now. Entertainment is a fragile thing and when it ceases to entertain it is lost.
It just goes to show that "being smart" doesn't mean you aren't ideologically ignorant. Trump is objectively the correct choice for the majority of America's people (i.e. anyone that doesn't benefit from the current status quo).
But if you're voting for him because you are a Republican or because you hate lefties and not out of rational self-interest, you are no better than the ideologue who draws XKCD comics.
Very true, voting based on ideology simply perpetuates the problem.
I consider voting to be a mix or rational and emotional factors for most people.
As much as I dislike the idea, voting for Trump just to watch the chaos is acceptable to my ethos.
Not that I am, Jill Stein for all her faults is my top pick from a sorry bunch.
Over the last few weeks there are many people I've lost all respect for: Colbert, Maher, Stewart, Oliver, Springsteen, Moore... so many media people who I thought were above it... most, I saw it coming.
Didn't say I agreed with them, only that I knew of and respected their talent and work ethic.
Being ignorant of their very real contributions to our culture and the ongoing debate within it, or forming my opinion of them based on only what other people told me would be the real indicator that I lived in a bubble, wouldn't it?
TrevorLahey ago
I respect Monroe's personal stance and his right to vote his conscience but I wish he'd kept it out of his work. I miss the Dixie Chicks for similar reasons. XKCD is tainted for me now. Entertainment is a fragile thing and when it ceases to entertain it is lost.
MetalAegis ago
Two more boycotts in 2 days, first the youtube channel "minute physics" for his video on why we should vote for cunton, and now this.
Optick ago
Seems like everyone has sold out nowadays
SilverBanana ago
How is it a conspiracy?
VictorSteinerDavion ago
For a person that presents themselves as 'being smart' he dissapoints me by endorsing a proven warmonger.
If the shit hits the fan I hope he has the courage to volunteer for the front line of the war he voted for
tchouk ago
It just goes to show that "being smart" doesn't mean you aren't ideologically ignorant. Trump is objectively the correct choice for the majority of America's people (i.e. anyone that doesn't benefit from the current status quo).
But if you're voting for him because you are a Republican or because you hate lefties and not out of rational self-interest, you are no better than the ideologue who draws XKCD comics.
VictorSteinerDavion ago
Very true, voting based on ideology simply perpetuates the problem.
I consider voting to be a mix or rational and emotional factors for most people.
As much as I dislike the idea, voting for Trump just to watch the chaos is acceptable to my ethos.
Not that I am, Jill Stein for all her faults is my top pick from a sorry bunch.
herbert_west ago
Never forget.
srgmpdns ago
Over the last few weeks there are many people I've lost all respect for: Colbert, Maher, Stewart, Oliver, Springsteen, Moore... so many media people who I thought were above it... most, I saw it coming.
But...Monroe?
Feels bad man.
Tallest_Skil ago
Only in the last few weeks? Cuck.
Sol481 ago
If you've been watching them then you've been living in the lefty bubble for too long
srgmpdns ago
Didn't say I agreed with them, only that I knew of and respected their talent and work ethic.
Being ignorant of their very real contributions to our culture and the ongoing debate within it, or forming my opinion of them based on only what other people told me would be the real indicator that I lived in a bubble, wouldn't it?