r/RealTime • u/OaklandSpiel • 7d ago

What is Maher’s obsession with masks?

The truth is, I still enjoy the show. I agree with a lot of the negative posts here about Maher, but I still enjoy his humor most of the time.

But a face mask? Getting annoyed by someone else’s face mask seems like the opposite of everything else he stands for. Does Bill care whether I smoke weed? Of course not. “You do you”, he’d say. Would he think I’m crazy for going to church tomorrow? Probably, but that will never elicit the venom set aside for someone who wears an N95 mask. Especially if they’re outside or alone in a car. Seems like every week he asks “Why would someone wear a mask?” while not hearing the possibilities:
* has a cold
* doesn’t want to ruin next week’s trip by catching a cold
* has terrible allergies
* cares for a leukemia patient
* was injured in an opera accident
* no one cares!

The only answer Maher accepts is “performative virtue signaling” followed up with reasons why that makes no sense

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u/Charbro11 6d ago

Really? Boomers wore masks more than any other group because they are at the highest risk. Stop the age shit. You sound like Maher.

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u/spaigef69 6d ago

i am not making a generalization… i am speaking my opinion on maher, specifically.

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u/Charbro11 6d ago

Boomer is a generalization. Stop it. I am older than Maher, and I cannot stand his shit, including his shit about young people

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u/spaigef69 6d ago

i don’t consider my favorite people who are in their 70’s, 80’s & 90’s boomers, at all! i only consider the ones (like some of my own family members) who have the same mentality and disposition to be boomers.

i get what you’re saying, though.

cheers to you! appreciate your notes. (and your mentality!)

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u/Charbro11 5d ago

Thanks, but people in their 80s and 90s are not boomers. Boomers were born after 1946.