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South Park targets Paramount after signing $1.5bn deal and skewers Trump: ‘He can do anything to anyone’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Fuck off, South Park. Trey and Matt are as responsible as anyone for the "both sides are flawed therefore both sides are equally bad" bullshit that gave a generation a pass to try to play off intellectual incuriosity and cynical laziness as some kind of principled position.
This is how I know you have either never watched South Park, or that you entirely misunderstand the show.
Trey and Matt were vocal libertarians for a long time and only recently realized it's a morally bankrupt political position.
For example they mocked Gore for warning about global warming. There was no "both sides are to be mocked" in that episode. It was, "Gore is a complete idiot." That was season 10. 12 years later they realized their mistake and made an apology episode where they showed Gore was right all along.
So yeah, good for them for finally coming around but the OP isn't wrong that they lead their libertarian mob towards the cliff.
And their apology episode was very much 'we would have believed you if you weren't so annoying, geez, it's still your fault'