And John Legend came on the show; he asked to come on the show, to voice all the fear and anxiety that communities of color were feeling after Trump’s victory; and Maher basically ignored him and blathered on and on and on about how horrible political correctness is and that’s why democrats lost.

Ana Marie Cox deserves sainthood after sitting through that.

The Syrian civil war started when demonstrators marched in Damascus demanding democratic reforms, and the government opened fire on them. ISIS has taken advantage of the chaos of the war to make inroads, but it’s not true that this war is a result of ISIS trying to overthrow Assad.

The conflict in Syria began before ISIS was a force, near the time of the other “Arab Spring” revolutions. People were demonstrating against the authoritarian regime of Assad- no free press, sham elections, constant monitoring, indiscriminate jailing of opponents, astounding corruption, less opportunity for Sunni…

By the way, if you’d like a better understanding of what’s happening in Syria, and about the history of ISIS, here are a few books I frequently recommend to people:

Ha. Your dad sounds pretty cool. And if you think that was bad, look at this:

the fact that he married a Sunni

Seeing people turn against Hezbollah over the past several years has been very, very welcome. Hebollah supporters online boasted about all the Syrian women their creeps were raping, and next thing you know people were rightly calling them the Party of Satan and talking about Hassan Nasrushaytan....

There are a LOT of people who don’t seem to remember how it started, or what groups were prominent when. They take the present reality and just project it back onto the past. Something which is pretty common (and annoying) to anyone who’s studied history and discusses it with non-specialists, but is a bit…

Whenever someone tells me “why don’t Muslim countries take refugees in?”, I want to smack them over the head. Apparently, the online Muslim places that exist are Saudi Arabia and Dubai.

That’s like 10% of the moving parts going on in Syria, there are so many groups involved with different motivations other than Assad and ISIS. Just for example I’ll post this graphic but be warned, this rabbit hole will make your head hurt...

That’s what happens when optometrists (Assad) and bankrupt reality TV hosts (he who shall not be named) try to run entire countries.

Isn’t that right?

This isn’t accurate on a number of counts.

Assad executed untold thousands of people at his prisons without trials; he’s an inhumane dictator of the lowest order. Anyone who supports his regime is not on “the left” as far as I know the left- concerned with extending human rights and protecting the sanctity of civic society. These people are “far-left” in the…

Do you honestly not remember how the Syrian Civil War started? It had nothing to do with ISIS or any other “terrorists.” Are you seriously just here to repeat the Syrian regime’s talking points, because that’s exactly what that little recounting was.

Nope. Check your timelines, this is wrong.

Oh FFS! It was a peaceful protest that started everything.

When Trump said he would create 25 million new jobs I bet no one thought they would all be working for the ACLU.

For fuck’s sake, can people leave Monica Lewinsky alone already? Hasn’t she dealt with enough fuckery?