MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin

> No one caught the irony the Russian he interviewed is named "Sir Gay"!
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> > I haven't watched the show regularly in a long time but based on that clip Jason
> Jones seems pretty angry and doesn't fit the historic Daily Show vibe. Mine 2 cents.
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> There Jason Jones is, pointing out to the gay Russians they could come to America and
> be openly gay... but they don't want to leave Russia because they are "Russians
> first." These people are legally persecuted in their homeland, but are still too
> proud of their homeland to leave it.
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> Yet there too is Jason saying "That's fine... no one is American first."
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> You could turn Jason's question around and say "If you don't like it here... why
> don't just go to [insert country name]"? Why wouldn't he? He's not "American first"
> so why would he give a shit.
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> Kind of captures the popular sentiment in the States right now... to have any form
> patriotism is "lunacy"... no one would put their country first here... and quite
> frankly Hollywood would have you believe you should almost be ashamed to be American.
> But the biggest irony is that America has more freedoms and is more of what Hollywood
> wants the world to be like than almost anywhere else in the world, like, say...
> Russia! Talk about taking what you have for granted. We're not perfect... but we
> continuously strive and make progress to get it right.

We're striving for something alright, but I wouldn't call it progress.