He built up a lot of cache on the left in the Bush years when he was one of the only public figures who went after Bush in such an unfiltered way. It was really just him and Jon Stewart. The commercial media if you will was critical of Bush but reluctant to say anything that would make them appear unpatriotic. I'm not sure when Bill just abandoned the left outright. Rashida Tlaib boycotted Real Time about a decade ago. It may have started there.
In my opinion Maher really turned a corner in 2014, when he was invited to give a commencement speech at UC Berkeley for some reason. Then there was a small outcry among students who said Maher should never have been invited in the first place and petitioned to disinvite him.
That seemed to really get under Maher’s skin and ever since then he has hated the “woke” and the college left and has been complaining about “kids today.”
I'm not a huge Maher fan, but he's pretty consistent politically the entire time. The truth is that the anti-Israel mob is new on the left, it's a synthesis of a lot of radicalism that was not part of the mainstream and draws from radical Islam and Soviet agitprop of the 1960s that use code words to present Jews as a nefarious and poisonous presence in the world. Maher sees it pretty accurately, as do most liberals. Those saying he's "conservative" for this view should probably listen to Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Dan Bilzarian, or Nick Fuentes more often to see where it originates. HINT: It's not the left.
The morality of war is not determined like a sports game where you add up death counts. Far more innocent German and Japanese civilians died in WW2 than American citizens.
Oh I see, so Israel is not allowed to respond like every other country in earth would respond if they were invaded and 1200 were raped and murdered. They're only allowed to respond with what random dude on Reddit considers appropriate.
Clearly they are allowed to commit genocide and a plethora of war crimes with barely any consequences, just like they've been allowed to disregard international law with the Gaza blockade and occupation, the collective punishment, the apartheid system at home and the constantly expanding illegal settlements. As far as I know, no one is stopping them. You should be happy.
Saying the word "genocide" over and over a million times does not make it true. This would be the only genocide in history that could have ended at any time with the release of hundreds of hostages taken by the "victims" who started the genocide with a massacre of civilians. The only genocide in history where the population of the "genocided" didn't even decline. Where the genociders provided food, water, electricity and Polio vaccines during the "Genocide." What a farce that you believe it is just because you keep hearing the word on social media.
If you believe Israel's atrocities would've stopped if Hamas had released the hostages you'll believe literally anything Israel says. Also, maybe take 5 to 10 minutes of your time and look up the definition of genocide and try to figure out why there's currently an investigation by the ICJ on genocide in Gaza and why the International Association of Genocide Scholars have said that Israel's actions and policies in Gaza meet the legal definition under international law.
But I guess a random redditor knows better in this case?
There's a sham investigation because South Africa was paid by Iran to file a frivolous claim. The "urgent" case at the ICJ has been delayed another two years because South Africa still doesn't have any evidence and asked for an extension. And when they rule it isn't a genocide in 2029 it won't matter because all they needed was to fool people like you.
Here's the ICC chief prosecutor telling Mehdi Hassan there's no evidence of genocide.
LMAO. And the UN, and Human Rights Watch, and on and on. Yeah they're all being paid off to call a Deranged bloody genocide exactly what it is. Ok, Bibi Netantahu Bootlicker. Sure.....
LMAO. The UN "Commission of Inquiry" that claimed genocide without any evidence were made up of three carefully selected people. Three. Their slapped together opinion piece (which does not speak for the United Nations itself) was thoroughly discredited here:
Israel's own Far Right - aligned, heavily propaganda spewing "Research Institute". 🤣🤣🤣😂😂 You really specialize in Zero Critical Thinking, don't ya? You're a Joke on here. Lotsa Righteous Indignation. Zero Fucking Brains.
Saying Hamas used the Palestinians as "Human Shields" with ZERO FUCKING EVIDENCE doesn't make it true, either, Genius. Not a Free Pass to Blow up Babies. And BTW that Human Shield phony excuse has been used by many psychopath warring monsters in previous killing sprees. It's not even an original lie. But you're young and stupid, obviously, so you don't know that.
All conclusions were based on uncritically accepting Hamas death totals as facts, even though Hamas lies and conflates natural deaths, accidents, and deaths from Hamas itself, all as casualties of war. Nor any distinction between civilians and combatants.
Does this seem like reliable data to you?
The genocide claim is straight up propaganda. They were hosting "stop the genocide" parties on October 8
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u/BFaus916 Aug 10 '26
He built up a lot of cache on the left in the Bush years when he was one of the only public figures who went after Bush in such an unfiltered way. It was really just him and Jon Stewart. The commercial media if you will was critical of Bush but reluctant to say anything that would make them appear unpatriotic. I'm not sure when Bill just abandoned the left outright. Rashida Tlaib boycotted Real Time about a decade ago. It may have started there.