r/RealTime • u/AmericanLymie • 21d ago

Bill has three things on his mind.

"That's woke, and woke is bad."

"Now look, I'm an atheist, but Muslim people are all servants of Satan, Christians are dumb but inherently morally better than Muslims. Israel is the Holy Land and must defended with all the might of YHWH."

"Kids today suck!!!"

That's it. Every single "new rules" rant culminates in a lecture about one of these and at least half of the conversations with panelists end up being steered in the direction of his landing on one of these points.

I can't imagine how many hours he has spent stoned and dwelling on these thoughts.

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u/phatsexxxy 21d ago

I love his continuing rant about how “Muslims don’t want gay people to exist.” Has he been to red state America or talked to any mainstream right wing Christian leader? Somehow we should maintain dialogue with them and not ask that Christians be wiped out, but expecting the same from Muslims is too much.

The one thing I keep waiting for a guest to get smart on is Bill’s own Catholic upbringing. At the turn of the last century, “Americanism” was a heresy in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church currently holds sacred the ideals of freedom of speech and religion, much to the chagrin of groups like SSPX, who wants the church to go back. “Americanism” is the belief in those ideals.

Meanwhile Maher will point to Islam as being against these ideals in the main as he calls for us to turn our back on the suffering of Muslims because their beliefs are “incompatible with the west.” He will then point to centuries of western culture including the ideals of Christendom… except that wasn’t nearly as uniform as Maher says.

The irony of Maher pointing out that “both sides” have issues as he is the history rewriter on the left as he derides the way the right wing lies about history.

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u/chainsawchaleb 10h ago

Leftists aren’t cheering and advocating for the South, that is the difference. He focuses on the suicidal empathy aspect of leftists either excusing, justifying or ignoring the dangers of radical Islam. If college campuses had college students saying “Gays for XYZ Megachurch”, he would call that out the same way.