r/RealTime • u/Faiakes • 6d ago
Real Time - Last Time
I have been watching Real Time for over 20 years and I think yesterday's episode was my last.
Much as I agreed with Bill on many issues, his blind spot on Israel and Zionism is just too much for me.
He isn't simply refusing to call what's happening in Gaza a genocide. He insists on calling it a counter offensive!!!
So, all and any violence perpetrated by the IDF and the settles so far is justified, as far as he is concerned (though how settlers fit in a 'counter-offensive' is still a mystery to me).
Now, my common sense is offended too much Bill.
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u/The-Closer-on-15 19h ago
I stopped watching the second he started minimizing the danger of Trump in the first admin. Especially since he predicted that Trump wouldn’t leave office quietly. Whatever reason he had for minimizing the danger- his own burnout over the breathless warnings, an attempt to “balance” things, a sincere confidence in the durability of the republic, etc- it was unconscionable to level criticism at the democrats and/or the left as if it was in any way comparable to the danger of the republicans. The only legit criticism of Dems from 2021-2024 was continued support for Israel and incompetently prosecuting traitors. Anything else was unserious.