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It’s a British-ism that I never quite realized was one because there’s no better word for it in American English.

Hasan Piker’s uncharacteristically po-faced response to the shooting was quite revealing in this regard.

Also Charlie Kirk was real to them in a way that Melissa Hortmand, Gabby Giffords, and the victims of every other assassination attempt and mass shooting were not.

I gotta tell you something about Malcolm X (1992)

In practice, speculative fiction

Nope, it’s still like that. So much Montreal is very cool and grown up but so much it feels like it was last updated some time in the mid 1990s.

Downstream of the moral vacuum of it all is how creatively lazy it is. It’s a parody of a play they clearly have no interest in or understanding of. (I think a parody of Hamilton is entirely unworkable because Hamilton is already a parody of itself)

It‘s a sign of how well SNL UK worked out that no one actually remembers the Starmer impression at all because there was just so much other stuff. I am very curious about what they do with Burnham.

I think it’s a bit of both - it’s a 50/50 chance of whether he’s in the right or in the wrong but either way he‘ll be equally unpleasant and unreasonable about it

I think the trick is to treat politicians the way The Crown treated historical figures - actually play them as characters rather than just doing a half hearted impression

Their impression of Pierre Poilievre is so consistently good because they have correctly clocked that he’s clearly a deeply awkward and unpleasant personality, and his suits always being way too small for him is *such* a great bit of characterization www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwPf...

A look at Pierre Poilievre's New Year's party... | This Hour Has 22 MinutesYouTube video by 22 Minuteswww.youtube.com

I think a good comparison might be Canada’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes, which isn’t the most biting satire but is consistently cruel about Canadian politicians

That‘s exactly who I was thinking of!

The Hero Voter strategy is/was shit but Starmer was always the worst possible vehicle for that style of politics

It’s a character archetype that’s much more common in comedy, for obvious reasons.

My counterpoint to this would be Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. The media is perfectly capable of making something into a career-ending scandal when they want to.

Exactly, “third spaces” are just a broad term for communal spaces people go out to unrelated to work.

The really funny thing about “third spaces“ discourse is that the person who coined it 100% considered churches et al to be that, but none of the people talking about the concept online ever mention that

Idk I think it would be nice if at least one American party thought Canada was a real country worthy of mutual respect

There are lots of things I admire about Malcolm X, but was an antisemite who considered northern liberals to be worse than segregationists.