Maher's criticisms are on the "liberal" side mostly. I'm not making the argument Muslim people are treated fairly in this country - they're not. Trump's ban is a personification of that, as you referenced. What I'm talking about is the "political correctness" that mostly liberal people tend to follow when avoiding…

I think you're grossly misinterpreting what I'm saying. Maybe it's my failing, though. I don't know. But let me take a step back here to try to clarify.

The point I was originally trying to make wasn't advocating profiling at all, so I'm not sure what you've said becomes a true reply or rebuttal to what I was saying. I don't agree with profiling whatsoever because of some of the issues you've identified. You can't know what someone is thinking, what religion they are,…

Thanks. In fairness, too, I wasn't aware of his support for profiling in the past, which is why I asked you about it when you brought it up. I'm not the man's biggest fan of course, and only had some passing knowledge of his views on things. I was familiar with some of his criticisms of religion, including Islam, and…

To the first point, I'm not sure that that's the logical strain that Maher is really espousing in the first place. He's been an advocate against religion for a long time, and my understanding of it wasn't that, "Religion makes men evil, therefore religion is evil", but rather because of the disagreement with religion,…

"But religious profiling you're OK with?"
Please, just don't. Just because I elucidated what I thought his take on the whole affair with religion was, doesn't necessarily mean I endorse everything he's ever said, as I explained in my original statement.

I don't really find your argument convincing, in turn. Many of the systems that "do bad things" are discussed freely - socioeconomic status, education, political structure, etc., as an influence in crime, for instance, are all things that are freely discussed. Religion is a more sensitive topic to people, due to the…

I wasn't aware of the advocation for racial profiling. That I don't agree with, no. Was that recent?

To his credit, Maher is smugly anti-religion particularly when religion infringes on people's rights. I think the greater point he usually makes is that religion is shit and does shitty things often, and Islam has a habit of stoning women for showing their faces in public, etc… you could take the religious freedoms…

I think he was saying you're a racist. You guys should fight.

Ah okay. I was aware of the endorsement of Hillary and the silence on DAPL. I was disappointed in Warren when she endorsed Hillary over Bernie for sure, and about DAPL. I agree she was being politically expedient. I am somewhat optimistic in that she's very vocal about economic inequality and injustice moreso than…

We've seen that before, too… from other characters… in other shows created by the same people, tied into this same world.

Precisely.

Ah man - that was so good. Sincerely, that increased my mood about 30% just now.

One doesn't need to know Black's work to get the "joke." The performance he gives does the work.

Counterpoint: The very fact that he won as many as he did, and then also won via the electoral college, is enough to cripple one's faith in humanity.

Plus, I mean, a bit of exercise a day helps to combat the negative effects of a lot of this stuff. If one were inclined, they could even set up an exercise bike in front of a TV.

It's PSYC100 all over again.

To be honest, I'm not sure anyone gives a shit about how smug you want to be about film, as if you're holier than thou in your tastes because you only watch movies that have subtitles (to be clear, this is an exaggeration to make my point). This is a pop culture website that has many people - including myself - who've…

Yeahhhhh. I totally cried at the self-sacrifice.