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I love how now that he disagrees he's suddenly "not a progressive".

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  I love that now that you encounter a position that I've held and expressed consistently for long enough that it could legally vote if it was a person, and which has been quite common on the Left for at least as long, you act like its a sudden change. I get that he opposes some things sacred to the Right, and that to people on the Right that makes him Left, but...
• faeriechangling 5y ago
  Bill Maher back around 9/11 had a slide deck act where he justified racial profiling in airports with a picture of a fundamentalist Muslim in traditional garb going through airport security. He once literally hosted a talk show called "Politically Incorrect" He has always been "I'm leftist, but I have a politically incorrect anti-establishment edge.". He has been saying things like this for decades.
  • slothtrop 5y ago
    Politically Incorrect was canned when, in disagreement on teh show, he said the terrorists weren't cowards, that bombing a country (Iraq) including innocents from offshore was cowardice. Referring of course to physical / mortal cowardice, not moral cowardice, in which case he's right.
• rsynnott 5y ago
  I mean, he's long been primarily a conspiracy theorist, surely?
  • slothtrop 5y ago
    No?
  • dragonwriter 5y ago
    He occasionally gloms on to a conspiracy theory, but he's more into shallow hot takes without any deeply consistent factual or ethical theory from one moment to the next.
• kelnos 5y ago
  That's not a new take on Maher, and it's a bit disingenuous to suggest that it is.