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Bill is not only funny but smart man.
All funny people are highly intelligent.
I personally do not get the impression that Bill Maher is gay.
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guess that would explain why Stephen Colbert isn't funny at all.
jews don’t get cancelled from unless they vote for Trump.
cancel culture campaign has been pulled back, they won’t be cancelling anyone till election year.
And finally, new rule for all the progressives and academics who refer to Israel as an outpost of Western civilization like it’s a bad thing. Please note, Western civilization is what gave the world pretty much every goddamn liberal precept that liberals are supposed to adore.
Individual liberty, scientific inquiry, rule of law, religious freedom, women’s rights, human rights, democracy, trial by jury, freedom of speech. Please, somebody stop us before we enlighten again.
And since one can find all these concepts in today’s Israel and virtually nowhere else in the Middle east, if anything, the world would be better place if it had more Israels. Of course, this message falls on deaf ears to the current crop who reduce everything to being only victims or victimizers. So Israel is lumped in as the toxic fruit of the victimizing West, the irony being that all marginalized people live better today because of Western ideals, not in spite of them.
Martin Luther King used Henry David Thoreau’s essay Civil Disobedience to help shape the civil rights movement. The UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights owes its core to Rousseau and Voltaire. Clysthenes never showed up for a sexual harassment seminar, but without him, there’s no democracy. The cop who murdered George Floyd got 21 years for violating his Fourth Amendment rights, an idea we got directly from John Locke, who no one in college would ever study anymore because he’s so old and so white and so dead.
So Western. Yes, that’s how simple the woke are. It’s never about ideas. If it was, would they be cheering on Hamas for their liberation?
Liberation to do what? More freely preside over a country where there are no laws against sexual harassment, spousal rape, domestic violence, homophobia, honor killings, or child marriage? This is who liberals think you should stand with. Women there should be so lucky as to get colonized by anybody else. And for the record, the Jews didn’t colonize Israel or anywhere ever, except maybe Boca Raton.
Gaza wasn’t seized by Israel like India or Kenya was by the British Empire, and the partitioning of the region wasn’t decided by Jews, but by a vote of the United Nations in 1947, with everyone from Russia to Haiti voting for it. But apparently they don’t teach this at drag queen story hour anymore.
Now, it is true that for too long we didn’t study enough Asian or African or Latin American history, but part of the reason for that is, frankly, there’s not as much to study. Colleges replaced courses in Western Civ.. Boo. Eye roll… dead white men. Am I right?
They replaced that with world civilization classes, which is fine in theory, but what it meant in practice is you read queer poetry of the African diaspora instead of Shakespeare. And I’m sure there’s value in both. But as usual, America only ever overcorrects. And so we’re at this place now where the words Western Civ became kind of a shorthand for white people ruined everything.
But they didn’t ruin everything. No, they didn’t live up to their own ideals for far too long and committed atrocities. But people back then were all atrocious. Not just the white ones, depending on who had the power. But it was the Western Enlightenment that gave rise to the notion that the law of the jungle should be curbed.
Henry David Thoreau, John Stuart Mill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jean Jacques Rousseau. Three named dudes.
It was all about three named dudes. Three named dudes like that were the OG social justice warriors. The ideas that came through Athens, Rome, London, Paris, and, yes, Philadelphia are what make life good for most people in free societies today. That the individuals have value, and even the powers that be must submit to the rule of law, that punishment should not be cruel and unusual, that the accused get people get a trial, that there is such a thing as a war crime. Why is it that every other culture gets a pass, but the west is exclusively the sum of the worst things it’s ever done?
You think only white people colonized? Historians estimate that the very non-Western Mr. Genghis Khan killed 40 million people, and that was in the 13th century. He single handedly may have reduced the world’s population by 11%. On the other hand, he kind of made up for it because he was such a prolific colonizer of vaginas that today, an estimated 16 million people, are his direct descendants.
So stop saying Western civilization like it’s a contradiction in terms. It’s not. You’re thinking of moderate Republican.
💉 There were so many great moments it was hard to decide which clip to include in today’s post from a recent podcast with Bill Maher and Oliver Stone. I chose this short excerpt where the two media heavyweights discussed shady U.S. biolabs in Ukraine. Maher seemed genuinely shocked to hear there were U.S. biolabs in Ukraine, and Stone was just as shocked that Maher hadn’t heard about the labs, or about Viktoria Nuland, for that matter.
Maher promised to research the Ukraine biolab story, and it sounded like he meant it.
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1728264535805460852
Bill Maher is a perfect sample of what the intellectual left is thinking these days. Although he often expresses conservative thoughts, Maher is not a conservative. In the full interview, for example, while he conceded that Biden’s vaccine mandates were totalitarian, he insisted that Trump would be much worse — arguing, non sequitur, that Trump never conceded losing the 2020 election. (Stone scoffed at that and asked Maher to show evidence that Trump lost, in a delightful turnaround of the Left’s “no evidence” gag.).
But Maher — already opposed to mandates — is coming even further around about the vaccines, again suggesting that vaccine skepticism is no longer a partisan issue. The whitecoats wish it were a partisan issue.
And get this: both men admitted they took Ivermectin for their breakthrough, post-vaccination covid infections. Haha, nobody trusts the FDA.
In the linked clip, holding his hands out wide to demonstrate the two extremes, Maher explained, “If Fauci’s here and Bobby Kennedy’s here, I’m closer to Bobby Kennedy.” First, by using Fauci as one extreme, Maher basically called the human cockroach a jab-happy nutjob. Later in the interview (not in this clip), Maher called gain of function research “stupid” and “not worth the risk,” but — get this — said it was “pushed by Fauci.”
Saying Fauci was pushing gain of function research is almost calling him a genocidal maniac. Which he is, of course, but I digress. Maher’s evolution is progress. We don’t need to persuade everyone. We only need to reach the tipping point.
But Maher — already opposed to mandates — is coming even further around about the vaccines, again suggesting that vaccine skepticism is no longer a partisan issue. The whitecoats wish it were a partisan issue.
He is genuinely idiotic at this point. He has more in common with Trumps policies than Biden’s and doesn’t realize it. He places way too much importance on abortion and other than that he frequently agrees with Trump though he won’t admit it. Nothing new. He called himself a libertarian for years until Larry Elder explained to Maher what a Libertarian actually is.
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