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Rich coming from a guy who owes his entire career to writers. I hate this smug piece of shit

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 98 points 1 year ago (15 children)

He's the walking embodiment of the smug liberal elitist that literally everyone hates. Amazing he still has a career.

[–] Fibby@lemm.ee 95 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got a special hatred for the "I use to be left leaning, but now they've gone too far!" type liberals

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And the last time he leaned left was when marijuana was counter culture.

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[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

He speaks to the heart of affluent liberal suburbanites.

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 89 points 1 year ago (2 children)

God I saw this clip of him interviewing Marianne Williamson, he was complaining about “elite Ivy League schools” (never mind he went to Cornell) and how they’re brainwashing school children these days. Marianne pushed back that kids aren’t being taught by Ivy League professors, and his response was “yeah well those professors are training the teachers.” Motherfucker thinks every public school teacher went to an Ivy League.

He also bemoaned that modern universities don’t allow for independent thinking and non-conformity, then in the next breath complained about students talking back to their professors. Like, which is it asshole, are students pressed into conformity or are they too free in questioning authority?

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago (6 children)

God, it would be so funny if someone went on his panel show and, after one of his tirades, asked him, "So, when did you become your dad?"

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That’s the core of boomer brainworms, they’re terminally stuck in the mentality that they’re never the “old people” and so they see anything that goes against their worldview is “the man keeping them down.” There’s zero self-awareness that they’re “The Man” now.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What false consciousness does to an mf

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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

It would be so funny if someone went on his panel show and, after one of his tirades joker-troll

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[–] cynesthesia@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

Motherfucker thinks every public school teacher went to an Ivy League.

how much could a banana cost michael, $10?

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 84 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bill Maher is straight up a conservative who considers himself progressive because he smokes weed and fetishises black women

[–] christiansocialist@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

Don't call yourself an atheist if you don't support a four olds campaign against christianity

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 83 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This emoji may as well be Maher: smuglord

[–] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 99 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've got some news for you

same-picture

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Lmao its literally the same image

@WhyEssEff@hexbear.net was this the source material you used?

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

smuglord was conceived of in my mind in a dehydrated vision

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

The specter of bill Maher haunts you

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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maher said, "We have been the cowards. Lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building. Say what you want about it. Not cowardly. You're right."

Only correct thing he's ever said, and of course he was cancelled for that.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

the one time he paid a writer

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[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well the strike is making it clear that nobody is owed cheap writing either, Billy. Also, if the comparaively tiny A24 can afford their demands without issue or resistance, there is no excuse for companies like WB, netflix, and the like.

[–] Finger@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

no more half measures walter

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

bill maher is not owed living, in minecraft

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Nobody is owed cheap or free labour either, but these smarmy smuglords never seem to talk about that quippy gotcha.

"If minimum wage goes up, I won't be able to afford to keep my business going" ok? Is there a law that says you have to have a business?

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You know, there are a lot of people deserving of hate. Nazis. Transphobes. Politicians. They all probably deserve it more and I do hate them, but the heart wants what the heart wants and my heart really really hates this unrepentant shitstain of a human being who never had a correct opinion in his life and yet persists in being the most smug-ass motherfucker to ever exist more then any other human being on this planet.

Of course his opinion on strikes is garbage. There was never any doubt. I hope he starts glitching out, McConnell style and shits his pants while live on TV on every single show he records, but they keep dragging him out to do more shows until he is 125 years old and sees everything he ever held dear die.

new rule motherfucker: SHUT THE FUCK UP!

ahem Sorry. When I see this guy I just go off.

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[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago (11 children)

People still listen to this washed up dipshit?

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

Older libs in my family do. His takes basically define conservative democrats, ie the people who think it's fine for gays to get married but also think they need to shut up.

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[–] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

Personally I dont see why Bill maher is owed a living of any kind. A genuinely worthless individual gulag

[–] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Everyone is owed a living, motherfucker! It's not as if we can just flee into the woods, y'all mulched all the woods and built strip malls!

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[–] ajorge@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

i wish nothing but terrible things to bill maher and hope he eats shit sooner rather than later

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Withholding your service until your demands are met? Whose idea was that, the republicans?

[–] robinn2@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

"I bet transgender people and Muslim immigrants are up to this"

[–] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

Kid named Nobody:

waltuh

[–] Freeanotherday@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Whens the last time you think he told a joke or did a bit that he actually wrote ?

frog-no-pretext

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

he probably does write them himself judging by how unfunny they are

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Boondocks really nailed how much of an annoying smug little shit Bill Maher is with their representation of him in the show10+ years ago.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why, why did I read the comments on that video?

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think some people have the critical thinking skills to understand the show. The whole episode is about how leftists were indifferent/did not like Obama and got shit for that, and about how many people got caught up in the "hope and change" nonsense. But I think that just flew over their heads.

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[–] Grimble@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Execute Bill Maher like a dog then go through his phone and do the same to every named contact

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[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

idk i've seen his show, i don't think he pays his writers. he'll go a full 10 minutes without a single joke.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

I remember when I was living with my dad after I flunked out of college. For awhile he limited my internet time, so I entertained myself with cable on demand services, and my dad had HBO. So one of the shows I watched was Real Time. I usually only got mad at him when he went on antithiest rants, because I was just a vanilla liberal at the time.

My dad is mostly apolitical (he doesnt vote because he wants to avoid jury duty, lol) but his opinions lean conservative when he does have them. So I was surprised when he said he actually liked Bill Mahr when I mentioned he, because he's "not afraid to tell it like it is" or whatever. Like I said, at the time I was surprised, how can my mostly conservative dad like this liberal?

I get it now.

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

bill maher should be fed to wild beasts in the arena

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Maher having the coldest takes possible again, and he wonders why the Left he claims to be apart of hates him so much.

Remember when he interviewed Milo Yiannaopolis and then took credit for this getting him deplatformed (When really Milo was just outed as a pedo, which is how most people seem to lose their following these days)

Edit: Changed the wording I used because someone took this post out of context to get into a weird argument.

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[–] SkibidiToiletFanAcct@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

New Rule: if you're one of the woke writer's Guild elites who rejected my pitch for Breaking Bad 2: Full Measure Consequences, Tagline: "you've seen him Break bad, now he's Breaking Evil", instead of whining that netflix isn't giving money you don't deserve, open up your fancy ivy league dictionary, and look up the definition of the word "Irony".

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[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

look, given he writes his own jokes, it's reasonable for him to come to this conclusion

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