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Re:Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South... by antonvs on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:01PM (#49633327)
The whole point is it wasn't "hindsight". They took obviously wrong, easily refuted positions on some very important issues, like climate change and political choice, and abused their platform to promote that nonsense.

Impressionable baby techbros here on HN still quote them on that stuff, so the consequences of their multiple fuckups haven't finished playing out yet.

"Hindsight" would be recognizing "oh shit, I'm a fucking idiot and I didn't realize it." But they haven't actually reached that level of hindsight yet.

Essentially, Matt Stone and Trey Parker are enthusiastic heralds of the idiocracy.

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Re:Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South... by mc32 on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:00PM (#49635797)
Well, when people get their news from entertainers, that’s when things are wrong. One should not be informed on important topics by people who have little understanding of things but have a lot of feelings about things in the world. If you give entertainers that much credibility then you get good along with bad.
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Re:Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South... by prawn on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:59PM (#49636357)
Are you talking about South Park or Trump here?
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Re:Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South... by actionfromafar on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:18PM (#49635975)
You shouldn’t do a lot of things. Yet people do. Feels like you are talking past each other
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