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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis Bill Maher take is so stupid
He is essentially saying that people fighting oppression and tyranny over here should be grateful that we dont live in Afghanistan because its worse there. No! why cant you be against both
.thats like saying that if someone is getting slapped in the face, but someone else is getting stabbed that the person getting slapped should be grateful because the person stabbed would love to be in their position. We should want better
and why is he comparing the US to Afghanistan
the comparison should be between the US and other western countries like Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Sweden, etc
Link to tweet
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Paladin
(28,202 posts)Those of you still watching him, walk away.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Never missed his bullshit at all
Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,072 posts)He really has turned into an idiot.
Be glad of your abuse because it could be worse.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)How tone deaf can he be?
Things here are getting worse and worse, and we are basically on the road to fascism and here he is trying to tell us how good we all have it because the government isn't killing comedians and we don't have "honor killings" or imprison people who practice certain religions.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)NCDem47
(2,238 posts)But his take on COVID and everything that came with it proved too much. Thats when I saw his dark side that no longer proved entertaining. Have totally lost interest in anything he has to say.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)Ritabert
(644 posts)....and didn't call her on any of her nonsense. The final straw was a show with that clown Milo on. Ridiculous.
PCIntern
(25,347 posts)and apparently he made a choice.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Aging white "threatened" males seem to be his only remaining fans.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)USALiberal
(10,877 posts)He made some excellent points. It is not that we shouldn't try to make our world a better place, but once and awhile we need to stop and realize how good we have it compared to many parts of the world or to just a generation or two ago in this country. It is a matter of putting things in perspective now and then, lest one comes across as a whiner with little concept of world events or world events. Take a pause and acknowledge how far we've come and then make plans to move forward and build on that.
Maher often irritates me and this past year it has been more and more frequent, but on occasion he still nails it. I knew what he was saying and I knew who he was talking to.
wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)Of course our country isn't a failed state or a theocracy. We are "woke" because we want to prevent that from happening.
Cerridwen
(13,251 posts)"I mean really, do American women have it that bad? I mean, look at Saudi Arabia"
"I mean really, do American women have it that bad? I mean, look at Somalia"
"I mean really, do American women have it that bad? I mean, look at Afghanistan"
same shit; different target
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Cerridwen
(13,251 posts)Thank you for your sig line. I was looking for that quote everywhere. I could not remember who said it.
Thank you!
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)I agree with him.
Perspective is important.
That doesnt mean we have it great and that there isnt a lot that needs to be addressed.
But there really worse places. And thats just a fact.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Bev54
(9,961 posts)Try comparing to western countries and you will see how much you are getting closer to the third world countries rather than closer to the western progressive democracies.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,496 posts)to what someone is saying before you can critique their comments.
wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)Just a bunch of out-of-context truisms and barrel-scraping whataboutism.
I want my 7 minutes back.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,043 posts)1. You're a white male
2. You're worth $140 million
3. Pretty young women will fuck you BECAUSE you're worth $140 M.
As far as I know, Bill's biggest problem lately is difficulty getting the permits necessary to install a solar electricity system on top of his home in Beverly Hills (on 3.2 acres). But because he's FAMOUS a solar energy company helped him out and he now has solar on his mansion.
JI7
(89,174 posts)for all the problems in the world .
Things like the problems in the middle east go beyond anything having to do with the US.
Of course we don't help in many cases but in Afghanistan we mostly did try to do good and improved some things.
But too many men there oppose any rights for women.