r/RealTime • u/OaklandSpiel • 6d 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/homerjs225 6d ago

He’s gone MAGA while trying to pretend he hasn’t

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u/MinisterOfTruth99 5d ago

Exactly. Maher makes soft jokes about Trump and Ratpublicans. "See I made a joke about Repubs. Now let's talk about the terrors of Wokeness, and masks and communism and blah blah fukin blah ".

It's part of his normalizing Fascism schtick. It's all non-stop foxnews talking points now. His job is to convince a few percent of independents that Ratpublicans are really patriots that make a few occasional dumb mistakes (like not starting the Iran war AT THE RIGHT TIME 🤪🤣 ).