I've seen some discussion recently on other places around the internet that the left needs a 'Joe Rogan' so to speak, and in these discussions, Bill Burr's name invariably gets put forward. It's kind of telling that he's consistently seen that way, I think, but while it's understandable, this most recent special also kind of highlights why I think that's not really a workable idea.

There are superficial similarities between someone like Rogan and someone like Burr, but there's a…

There's a scene about the midway of the film, where Sakura Ando is casually wearing a shirt with the quote 'Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed' while she talks to her sister in the kitchen-the camera doesn't particularly linger on the shirt or its caption, although the scene lasts long enough to give the viewer a chance to read it, but the more I think about it, the more central it…