Even extreme right wing assholes can be right sometimes.

yeah; but the whole "outrage de jour" thing is part of what Bill Maher is trying to fight. and I think rightly so. we have to stop being so outraged about dumb shit. There's real shit to be outraged about.

I agree with this 100%; I felt my upvote wasn't enough so I had to add this comment too. Well stated.

I think this proves that to me technical comedy chops don't mean much. If the essence of what you're saying is true/good point then I find that funny. You can have the perfect comedic delivery but if you're saying something that means nothing to me then I don't care.

Richard Spencer maybe? I don't know about giving these assholes a platform - but on the other hand maybe it is best to shed light on the cockroaches since they are scurrying about on the internet anyway. I really don't know.

OK. You've mentioned you feel that way. Do you have anything else to add?

there are a shit ton of shows I find not entertaining (like 99% of them) I don't go around hoping they get taken off the air, I just don't watch them. works fine for me. I recommend it.

Ah, that makes sense. I'm afraid that Poe's Law works both ways now. Damn it.

Yes; he is like Jon Stewart if he was a pompous asshole. I guess I don't mind the pompous asshole thing as much as many others; he is a comedian after all. I think at least some of it is part of the act. But even if it's not; what do I care what he's like as a person? I enjoy his show.

Why would you want him to lose his job? I find that "burn the witch" mentality to be growing a little too common among my brethren on the left.

I wouldn't even say I dislike those people. It's more about disliking the institution that leads people to having backwards beliefs and the need for modernization of that institution. Obviously this is a difficult subject for people to talk about rationally but we're going to have to do a better job than we are.…

Maher used to actually describe himself as more of a libertarian. I used to think of him that way. Over time he's become more progressive. Kind of funny you'd think it was the other way around from the way a lot of progressives talk about him. The guy who gave Obama a million dollars.

Again you're trying to shun some people off as not "real progressives" because they aren't in line 100% with every tenant of the church of progressiveness. This is not a way forward at all. It's a way to stay in the minority and to cause huge backlashes in the other direction. We need to stop with the purity police.

Not cool to me. I'm just saying that trying to tell people that they have to have a certain set of beliefs on every topic imaginable is bound to backfire. And it's just … I really don't think it's healthy or leads to intelligent debates. It just leads to a sort of echo chamber groupthink thing.

First of all I'd say being an atheist doesn't have to be tied to a cause that's kind of crazy. But beyond that; I'd say people like Maher and Dawkins are against the negatives that come with fundamentalist thinking and obviously there are many. And also against the stigma that still remains for not being religious.…

I think Bill Maher's political incorrectness is more about thinking about topics as they come rather than being reactionary - too many people who think they are liberal today are actually reactionaries just from the left rather than the right. Any kind of puritanism over rational / reasoned thinking is a bad thing in…

Amazing he wasn't burned at the stake.

Agreeing with every tenant of some set of "rules of being a progressive" isn't liberal thinking; it's some form of creepy fundamentalism. I'm about as far from the alt-right as you can get; but you can almost understand why some of these young kids think being a conservative is "cool" when it's contrasted with this…

God bless. Talk about insufferable:

I'm seeing more and more reactionary tendencies from people claiming to be liberals. This is what Maher has been talking about lately and I think it's quite obviously true. This kind of purity police BS is not the way forward, it's not progress.