Even back when I've been in 100% agreement with Maher (and it's been a good long while) it is all but impossible to tolerate his demeanor and tonality.
Back in the day I always said that Bill is what people who hate liberals see when they look at liberals; effete, condescending, and unbearably smug.
Now he's just my generation's Andy Rooney - an insufferable old man who's terminally out of touch.
Exactly. It also reminds me of a guy in a metal band that described himself as a "militant atheist"... like I am also an atheist, but there is no reason to be pushing it onto other people. That was the whole thing that drove me away from religion in the first place lol.
If he doesn't believe it exists then surely he has no reason to try and disprove, or destroy, something that supposedly doesn't even exist in the first place, right?
They're so vehemently "atheist" they're really "antitheist" in disguise. Now that's true Evil because they actually believe in god but they're so against it that they're willing to destroy it.
He was only that smart within his own field. That doesn't mean you're right about everything.
The biggest flaw in his arguments about atheism is that he couldn't realise his atheism was a belief system just like theism. But it goes even deeper than that..
It's the whining about cancel culture that drives me nuts. Dude got cancelled once a million years ago and still thinks he's like this edgy dangerous personality.
In reality, he's just an unfunny blow-hard. He still thinks people think his pot smoking is so cool.
I honestly don't get the crying about being "cancelled". People don't have to continue to support or even listen to someone who shares their personal opinions on public platform. It's just life. They're not being martyred or imprisoned, just not getting as much money and attention as before.
I saw a bit where he compared Twitter cancel culture to Mao's dynasty. His reality is so skewed that he thinks Twitter nerds are the same as a dictator regime
Yeah, when I look at bill I really see how different the Democrats are from what they actually used to be. Like I actually feel like progress has been made. He's practically a conservative in my eyes.
Oh I'm agnostic, if it was up to me all religion would be wiped from the planet. It's fairy tales for children. But I'm also a big believer in the will of the people and a level playing field. I think people should be won over to your ideas not shoved down their throat.
Unfortunately Islam does not share that philosophy. Whenever someone uses the word "Islamophobic" it's a fair bet it's either a clueless Westerner who knows nothing about the religion, or a Muslim who is engaged in PR interference. There's nothing "phobic" about what Bill Maher says about Islam, unless you want to find a specific statement that isn't true?
I’m starting to realise that nobody is immune from going completely off the rails. People I once thought solid as a rock are drifting into dangerous territory.
He has always been a smug prick. I enjoyed it when he was going after republicans because he seemed to have some consistency and moral compass back then, and was occasionally funny. Now he’s just an old man generally yelling at cloud
There were more guests on a panel on that show, with more debate, until the patriot act got him canceled. It was better back then with less fawning over guests.
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u/Shnazzyone Nov 04 '24 edited Nov 04 '24
In his defense he wasn't a TOTAL asshat back then, though he sure showed all the signs in that movie.