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He's shifted further right over the past decade.
During covid it became clear he had moved beyond right of center.
Going against his own union is the final step in this journey.
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
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Yup, I used to enjoy the show, but now he's just a miserable old white guy yelling at shit
I'm not sure about that. I'm guessing the final step will be endorsing Trump. I won't be even remotely shocked when he does it.
He seems like a Kennedy Jr. guy
He's an anti-vaxxer too, so probably.
He constantly tries to get Republicans to disavow Trump on his show. He used his show to practically beg people to vote for Biden even if they didn't like him, just to get Trump out of office. People here may not like everything he does, I certainly don't, but the guy will never support Trump, I'm willing to state that unequivocally.
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Bill Maher is a transphobe and a scab
John Oliver could kick his ass
I believe you meant that John Oliver could fork him up.
Don’t forget a raging islamophobe, a racist against Arabs, and an antivaxxer.
I'm pretty sure he was vaccinated. He did criticize the piss poor messaging during Covid, i.e. claiming the vaccine would keep you from getting the virus entirely, which was never true, and harmful to the effort to get people vaccinated. He made a lot of fun of incoherent mask rules. If you watch his documentary, Religulous, you'll see that he's actually anti all religion, not just Islam. As far as being a transphobe, I'm not like a huge fan or anything, so I don't see his stuff all that often, but he doesn't seem like the kind of person to care from what I've seen. That said, his fawning over Elon in particular made it impossible for me to take him seriously, along with his compulsive shitting on millennials and Gen Z.
Pre-Covid he had a lot of whacky health ideas and thought that healthy vegan eating would solve most diseases. He didn’t like the idea of antidepressant meds, and some others.
He claims to be against all religion but it’s indisputable that he definitely doesn’t criticize them equally. He singled out islam repeatedly for years and says democrats should go along with Republican Muslim-bashing. Even though he claims to be an atheist, he defends rightwing Jewish extremists in Israel. He hates Arabs pretty explicitly and got in trouble for using the N word.
His irrational defense of Israel is another reason I stopped paying much attention to him. I can't speak to the rest because frankly I don't care enough about him to go verify everything you said. I remember him make fun of foodies a long time ago but I've never heard him do the vegan health thing. I have also heard him say the left needs to stop the weird fetishization of body coverings for women in many Muslim societies, which I agree with.
he's actually anti all religion, not just Islam.
That's not the problem. I'm against all organised religion too, including Islam. The problem with Maher is that he treats everyone who's Arab or otherwise culturally Muslim as equivalent to the worst fundamentalist preachers and also that he platforms and promotes some of the worst islamophobes from the far right, more of whom are Christian bigots than atheist ones.
TL;DR: it's not the opposition to the religion, it's the bigotry and the hypocrisy.
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You shouldn't pick on him.
Picking scabs isn't healthy.
Booooooo. Booooooo.
Don't support scabs. Support the striking actors and writers, and support unions. That's the thing I'm really endorsing here right now.
I'm with Margot!
Yay
I am one of them
Uh, really? That's why you're scabbing?
"[…] will not be as good as our normal show."
How.
How can you possibly go lower. Hire Tucker?
Thirty minutes of Bill Maher saying “really?” couldn’t disappoint because I never expected any quality in the first place.
Scab
I can't comment on the quality of his show but once upon a time Jon Stewart did this on The Daily Show and people applauded him for it. Why is it different when Maher does it? Stewart still supported the writers but wanted to keep the rest of the people who worked on his show working, isn't that the same thing Maher is doing?
Maher doesn't still support the writers and Stewart was not in the WGA. Maher is.
I didn't know that about the WGA (Maher being in it but not Stewart), that is an important distinction, thanks.
I might be wrong about this, but I believe in the John Stewart situation (or whatever show this happened with), restarting the show was a collaborative effort between the show and the union. In this case, the union has stated that they would consider restarting a show without writers as crossing the picket lines.
Wow his actual tweet was terrible. Tone deaf doesn't even describe it.
Peak liberalism. "I have principles, don't get me wrong. It's just that as soon as they cost me anything I abandon them."
Lmao nicely done
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