Matt Walsh / The Matt Walsh Show

[Skylavijas]

You bold that like it's some kind of gotcha

Never implied it as a "gotcha" moment, just something really weird that came about with really poor timing. If anything, I was very generous by claiming that it could've just been a marketing stunt gone wrong. Also, when it comes to politics, anyone can become a lolcow in certain groups for having certain opinions, I don't think that's much of a radical observation.

Don't have much to disagree with anything else, except for...

There's nothing hypocritical about it at all

No... just... no...

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Also, when it comes to politics, anyone can become a lolcow in certain groups for having certain opinions, I don't think that's much of a radical observation.

Maybe I just don't understand lawlcow shit, but if a guy like Walsh can be one, we all are.

No... just... no..

Go on.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

he himself literally supported child sex and marriage

This is a lie and you are a liar. Matt Walsh said nothing at all about child sex or child marriages. He was talking about teenagers, 16 years old and over. No one else in the world thinks that a 16-year-old is a child. Only you Americans have this strange fixation on a 16-year-old being a child. Is a 16-year-old a fully emotionally mature adult? No. But that doesn't mean that 16-year-olds have not been getting married for all of history, in every country in the world, including today. No other society considers a 16-year-old to be a helpless child. This constant infantilization of teenagers is frankly puzzling.

 

[Cheeseknife]

Maybe I just don't understand lawlcow shit

Afaik, you need to have a substantial following and you say or do a lot of cringe shit. If you can be milked for lols, you are a lolcow.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

This is a lie and you are a liar. Matt Walsh said nothing at all about child sex or child marriages. He was talking about teenagers, 16 years old and over. No one else in the world thinks that a 16-year-old is a child. Only you Americans have this strange fixation on a 16-year-old being a child. Is a 16-year-old a fully emotionally mature adult? No. But that doesn't mean that 16-year-olds have not been getting married for all of history, in every country in the world, including today. No other society considers a 16-year-old to be a helpless child. This constant infantilization of teenagers is frankly puzzling.

I mean, they're not really quite adults yet either, but yeah, it is disingenuous to call them children, lumping them in with little kids. It's an optics strategy, he's obviously just trying to paint Walsh as a pedophile, which is ludicrous even if someone disagrees with him.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

, they're not really quite adults yet either, but yeah, it is disingenuous to call them children,

Yes, exactly this whole sentence

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

I don't hate Walsh. He's maybe one of the most prominent anti-troon hardliners (which I'm all about) and I appreciate him leaning into the flannel + grill slightly henpecked but okay with it persona.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

No, that is the whole point. Any time somebody calls him out on a statement being blatantly false, he and his fans can dismiss almost any criticism with "it was just a joke".

This has literally never happened. Not one time has there been anything that was not very obviously - to any sane reasonable person - a joke, that Matt has then had to try and cover for. Absolute fucking bullshit.

 

[anustart76]

I don't hate Walsh. He's maybe one of the most prominent anti-troon hardliners (which I'm all about) and I appreciate him leaning into the flannel + grill slightly henpecked but okay with it persona.

I think he's insufferable with a lot of his topics but sometimes he finds something that bugs the shit out of me and manages to make a pretty good old man rant.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

I think he's insufferable with a lot of his topics but sometimes he finds something that bugs the shit out of me and manages to make a pretty good old man rant.

The funniest thing he ever did was when he was talking about how he keeps derailing DW shows by bringing up extra terrestrials. "Everyone hates it. The audience is sick of hearing about it. But I'm not going to stop".
If Larry David was young and Catholic, he would be Matt Walsh.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

Walsh is - like so many conservative internet pundits - a good example of "I kinda agree with some of what they say, but on my god I want them to shut up and stop being a moron in other ways. And maybe quietly fall off a ladder or something."

Do liberals have that? Do liberals look at the average liberal pundit and think the same thing?

 

[The Token Ethnic]

Walsh is - like so many conservative internet pundits - a good example of "I kinda agree with some of what they say, but on my god I want them to shut up and stop being a moron in other ways. And maybe quietly fall off a ladder or something."

Do liberals have that? Do liberals look at the average liberal pundit and think the same thing?

I'd say that Walsh is similar to a lot of (earlier) Daily Show/Vice reporters that did interviews while being deadpan yet overtly sarcastic.

 

[RollerGator]

Walsh is - like so many conservative internet pundits - a good example of "I kinda agree with some of what they say, but on my god I want them to shut up and stop being a moron in other ways. And maybe quietly fall off a ladder or something."

Do liberals have that? Do liberals look at the average liberal pundit and think the same thing?

They have it but it's only when their favorite commentator says something they deem mildly offensive.

 

[Skylavijas]

Walsh is - like so many conservative internet pundits - a good example of "I kinda agree with some of what they say, but on my god I want them to shut up and stop being a moron in other ways. And maybe quietly fall off a ladder or something."

Do liberals have that? Do liberals look at the average liberal pundit and think the same thing?

Or they're Vaush... Never seen anybody defend his tirade about jacking it to loli as normal

 

[anustart76]

I'd say that Walsh is similar to a lot of (earlier) Daily Show/Vice reporters that did interviews while being deadpan yet overtly sarcastic.

I used to feel that way about John Oliver sometimes, like way back.

 

[Cheeseknife]

Walsh is - like so many conservative internet pundits - a good example of "I kinda agree with some of what they say, but on my god I want them to shut up and stop being a moron in other ways. And maybe quietly fall off a ladder or something."

Do liberals have that? Do liberals look at the average liberal pundit and think the same thing?

I think this is more a problem with where the attention of younger conservatives is bring placed.

Matt Walsh sustains popularity on a platform that, in all reality, is far too much of an obsession or addiction.

He needs to tell these kids da truf, but da truf is boring so he mimics social media trends to get them to pay attention.

At many times, it seems to me the only thing getting across is Liberalism and Conservativism are just two flavors of ice cream. Kids have been eating chocolate so long, they see the forbidden vanilla and start to crave it just because it's different.

I don't think Walsh is giving kids anything other than another flavor of ice cream. But, by the end of the day, it's still just ice cream. When conservatism gets boring, they'll just explore some other online buzz.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

He needs to tell these kids da truf

You think edgy teenagers are Matt Walsh's audience? Lol, ok.

 

[Cheeseknife]

You think edgy teenagers are Matt Walsh's audience? Lol, ok.

Probably young adults too. I usually refer to them as "kids" because I'm old.

 

[Skylavijas]

So I got to watch this movie recently and it ended up being funnier than I expected. Not sure if it's high praise since the film does feel like a cookie cutter Adam Sandler comedy, but for terfs, so that should probably say more about me being juvenile than the movie itself. There were sections where I just skipped half a minute, because it was way too abundantly clear what movie the joke was referencing or what story beats it's gonna play, as the plot... again, felt very predictable, up until the ending. You can infer 90% of the plot just from the 1 minute trailer.

It's kind of unavoidable to discuss politics for a film like this and I'm gonna try avoiding bringing my political views as much as possible for this post, but it feels way more politically moderate than I expected as well. It's actually way less edgy and mean spirited towards trans people than that one South Park episode where Mr. Garrison got surgery and one guy transitioned to a shark and one kid to a black basketball player. But to be more specific, I need to get into a little bit of spoilers:

I can expect some people thinking this film isn't anti-trans enough, since it depicts them in a way too positive light. People who aren't faking it and feel like they're genuinely trans are thought up to be just confused people that need help or just somebody to talk to. Yeah, it's more likely that the sky will turn purple before the average Kiwi Farms user embraces that sort of attitude to anyone period.

It also doesn't shy away from showing the protagonist being into BDSM female dominatrix shit. He doesn't even have an arc where he learns to overcome it, that's just his fetish. As far as sexual fetishes (or degeneracy) goes, it's usually played for laughs in a sense of "boys will be boys!". So it's evident that the movie is catered to moderate conservatives, the most the film will demand from it's audience is to not divorce for the sake of their kids, which... means fuck all to anybody that isn't married, has no kids, or both, so it never actually outright goes against what most people would consider sexual degeneracy. Not really a critique of the film itself, just an insight I had.

Overall, the film is fine I guess, if you're looking for a comedy film to kill time, it's fine. If you're the type of person interested in watching it in the first place it's not gonna tell you anything new or profound you haven't heard of dozens of times already, regardless of your political alignment. It's absolutely not worth paying a subscription service for.

 

[Iron Jaguar]