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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago (22 children)

I honestly think Stewart's refusal to pretend Biden was still ok was instrumental in getting him to step down

All the "serious" news closed ranks for him, and even cable late shows like Colbert cracked a few jokes but still backed him.

Stewart was one of the few with the balls to say the bus was headed off a cliff and we needed to slam the brakes now instead of hoping we could land the jump.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I'm so glad he's back right now. I never got into the Trevor Noah version of the show, it was just a different show.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I liked the Trevor Noah iteration of the show, and I feel he was maligned unfairly. And most of that came from the fact that neither he nor anybody else (except, in hindsight, maybe John Oliver) could have filled the gargantuan shoes Jon Stewart left.

But all that said, Stewart just has a different knock. I respect the guy tremendously. He's got integrity, razor-sharp intelligence, and a true gift for comedy and comedic timing.

ETA: missed a word.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 9 points 1 year ago

And his humility went a long way. He was a true journalist, even as and especially after journalism itself died, giving way to an exclusive focus on the profit-seeking motive.

Speaking more of his integrity, he wasn't afraid to take potentially unpopular stances. Calling for Biden to step down was not the first, and I hope not the last. His stance on cops being bad apples was breathtakingly beautiful imho: not "all cops are bad everywhere all the time", but rather "we support the true cops who protect & serve, and reject those who pervert that mantra".

He calls for peace rather than war, staying firm in the principle that the only thing we must not tolerate is intolerance, bc then we'll lose everything we have built up in civilization to date and revert instead to anarchy. And through that to totalitarianism by people who were just waiting for the organized defenses to be discarded (by idiots not even realizing that is what they are accomplishing by their actions) to move in and take it all for themselves.

Every army knows that you have to have accurate intelligence in order to accomplish anything at all - too bad popular journalism has died and the populace no longer has any clue what's going on anymore, a prerequisite to being able to vote on matters of substance. But anyway, as for Jon, he did all that he could to warn us as it was happening, so it's not his fault that nobody would do anything about it. He at least is basically a freaking hero.

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