Canada

The Canadian Prime Minister was in it.

I wasn't sure whether to put it here but yes, Canada's involved in this episode so I thought other Canadians might want to know or talk about it. The thing with throwing it in a different Canada-discussion commhnity is that likey very few would see it and discuss, because we're still relativey small overall. For that reason I think the approach which gets more people interested in Canada to see content relevnt to Canada is to use the topmost Canadian community - /c/Canada. As the number of users grows, the increased noise in this community would necessitate moving more topics to more specific communities, and at that point they'll get more engagement there.

I think they're begging them to get canceled. As if to prove to everyone still in disbelief that freedom of speech is dead under Trump. Which they'll probably succed in, should they get canceled.

They just got renewed for 5 years for $1.5 Billion, so I am thinking that either paramount can kiss the sale of their business good bye or kiss a lot of money good bye after settling with Trump then again with the creators of South Park.

Edit fixed some spelling.

The anti-climate change, pro-Walmart, pro-Starbucks whatever-era was annoying as fuck. Like you said, it's not directly South Park but their annoying fans taking their shit too seriously.

Internet threads talking about climate change had some "man bear big" bullshit going around.

The thing is that I watched South Park during that time too and I loved a lot of the episodes. I just didn't take their commentary too seriously. I'm just like, "well they're obviously wrong". I was a Richard Dawkins fan and had no problem with them skewering him at the time either.

Like their central ethos was “caring about people is for losers”.

Worse even, IMO, their strategy of "attack every position so we can't be seen as biased" meant their effective ethos was "caring is for losers"

Yeah there's definitely some of that. I don't know if they made these people or these people flocked to SP because they see some of themselves in it. I guess people who don't have established belief systems can be influenced that way. I've always viewed it from a leftist lens and perhaps I see what I want to see and miss what I don't. They're often ambiguous enough to let me do that. I can totally see how that could and perhaps does work differently for others.

What people take away for themselves is a function of their already-existing bias. I watched south park during a formative period of my life and the lesson I took away is that everything can be laughed at, and how ridiculous some of the things we take for granted are.

The ending just about killed me. Couldn't breathe for a few minutes there.

Aww he loves ewe.

I sailed the high sea’s to watch it, I have no intention of paying or giving data to a US company to watch it.