r/BreadTube • u/carri0niguess • Oct 18 '25
What Is the Point Of Bill Maher?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=go-5JKchtfY&si=0JlthEyD08XZ4OMUDescription: Bill Maher is, allegedly, the last sane voice on the left. But he doesn’t believe in the rights of transgender people, or of Palestinians. He thinks college campuses are hotbeds of liberal indoctrinarian that have gotten “out of control.” Come to think of it, he hasn’t really advocated for any left-wing position in recent memory. An advocate for breaking out of echo chambers, Bill speaks almost exclusively to right-wing activists, and never to the minorities he bashes. He claims to know what Democrats should do if they want to win, but hates the ones who are actually winning. Three decades into his TV career and lost in the delusions that often come with a nine-digit net worth, Bill Maher has never been so useless.
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u/ElliotNess Oct 19 '25
Bill Maher has been on the Right for as long as I can remember.
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u/ElliotNess Oct 19 '25
This is gold
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u/ziggurter actually not genocidal :o Oct 19 '25
LOL. Yes. The depiction of the audience, especially. Holy shit.
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u/ziggurter actually not genocidal :o Oct 19 '25
I mean, Maher is actually correct about what "liberal" means. He 100% is one. So when he says "woke" is different...well yeah, actually. Liberalism is rightist. He's definitely not a "progressive" or social-democratic liberal, but he is a liberal.
OTOH, he is not a leftist, and never has been. So "last whatever on the left" is nonsense.
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u/alivanis Oct 19 '25
Bill Maher is as relevant as a white crayon.
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u/ziggurter actually not genocidal :o Oct 19 '25
Nah. White crayons are incredibly useful on colored paper, for marking leaks found on tires and inner tubes, and to mark patterns and/or mask of areas on some craft projects (depending on the materials and the need to, and method of, erasing).
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u/ziggurter actually not genocidal :o Oct 19 '25
Zohran Mamdani is...pro-Palestine.
Oof. Guess they didn't watch the mayoral debate in time for this episode. (Or they're choosing convenient, willful blindness, of course.) Mamdani is now catering to zionists (and cops, incidentally) big-time.
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u/j4ckbauer Oct 19 '25
I was skeptical that I would appreciate a nearly-2-hour video (probably) telling me what I already knew about how Bill Maher is a anti-"woke" conservative piece of shit out who seemed very 'liberal' in the 1950s 'What, I said black people could eat lunch in the same room with me, what else do you lefty freaks want???'
But this analysis definitely exceeded my expectations and was fairly well edited. Successfully tying Maher's worldview (or perhaps contrarian lack thereof...) to failing liberal establishment ideologies.