:nkrumah-baffled:
we're not losing to china, we lost, the returns just haven't come in yet
:sicko-yes:
Right like one thing that jumped out at me was complaining about schools being more diverse or whatever. Somebody should tell him that yeah China actually does make it easier for ethnic minorities to get into better schools (you literally get some amount of points added to your entrance exam scores) because actually making opportunity available to everybody in a somewhat equitable fashion is really important to building a strong society.
Wasn't a big reason California couldn't build any rail because of NIMBYISM by property developers and big agriculture? Like I get some of the liberal cancel culture stuff is stupid, but it should be glaringly obvious what is actually preventing development in the US.
Yes the reason California can't build a real high speed rail network is because markets are irrational and because all landlords are bastards.
Painful watching that. He's so bitter and preachy at the same time. Don't know how normie-libs watch that shit.
actually I just understood what's wrong with bill maher.
all his sentences are scripted. But they're scripted in such a way that they seem funny and poetic when you're WRITING them, but when you're LISTENING to them they're so long and unnecessarily complex that you can't even process the meaning and humor by the time the sentence is over.
the sentences are so long, the analogies so random, that they can ONLY have any entertainment value after thinking/studying them. The audience doesn't have the time to do that--the writers do, and they've deluded themselves into thinking these lines are funny when you haven't spent 15 minutes poring over them.
Basically it's like applying Family Guy randomness to an SAT writing exercise, and expecting the audience to get all the meaning in a 2 second window
That's a huge gripe I have with these people but I'm gonna be enlightened centrist here and say that a statement that your audience agrees with told in a context you would expect jokes isn't in itself a fucking joke. Was/were aren't fucking pronouns and being pro trans right doesn't mean the joke isn't poorly thought through and shouldn't be an excuse. Be funny or stop trying to do jokes.
yeah I hate his style and aura so much, even ignoring his political views entirely.
I hate to use a Rick and Morty comparison, but Jerry is the type of person who would watch Bill Maher
I s2g Americans will:
- Clap for anything
- Use "fuck" for anything and also think it's comedy genius
edit: wow it really doesn't get funnier does it
They make them applaud. It’s a studio audience thing they tell you when to applaud. When to laugh etc.
Ok maybe I’m a lib but “China is winning because they have no cancel culture” is a shit take and it’s weird for us to be applauding it just cause he says “China good”. He was THIS close to making a pronoun joke.
Edit: it’s worth noting that Maher is also the only late night host the Republican ghouls in my neighborhood watch. Specifically BECAUSE of his stupidpol shit.
If he did make a pronoun joke it'd be something shitty like:
It's Xi Jinping, not Xi/Xir Jinping. (smirks angrily at the camera)
You could have told me that was in there and I just didn’t catch it and I’d believe you
A pronoun joke about china would be great because by default the pronoun tā is gender neutral. And in the gendered case of writing it. That looks like a style adopted from the west.
So uh yeah... I'm thinking its pretty based
You know damn well the pronoun joke wouldn’t be about China jt would be about spoiled American weirdos.
Not based
Not at all
Stop defending idpol shit
Yea Maher’s analysis of the situation is terrible and borderline fascistic at times, but the overall point that America is a failing state and China is not is correct and good
Not really his entire point can be summed up as “we don’t have these things cause cancel culture”. It’s classic pure idpol shit where Maher blames the whiny millennials with JUST a dash of materialism.
Based and Xi-pilled. :xi-lib-tears:
[Wuhan was] back to throwing raves in swimming pools while we were stuck at home surfing the dark web for black market Charmin.
I chuckled lightly. :xi-clap:
Literally enlightened centrism. The thing between the US and this caricature of evil China muh genocide, muh human rights that actually works is... drum roll China.
It hurts literally no one Chinese universities have the same.we had them here back during the Cold War when all these fucks claim college was harder. It’s called filler classes for a reason . Maher is just doing his “old Man yells at clouds” shit.
Exactly! As is this idea that boomers had tougher college. My dad’s professors just gave him C’a cause he asked them to. He took film and history of sports mascots in the 70’s at college. It’s just typical boomer shir blame ing millennials for going to college like they were told by all the millennials they trusted.
I bet that joke originally included some jokes about useless degrees for purple haired freaks that got taken out.
I've studied a lot of both. My conclusion is Star Trek has been around for fifty years, there is close to 800 hours of it available and it was made by hundreds of different people so its best to take things episode by episode
This reminds me of why I used to like Bill Maher so much as a lib. But yeah, the standing ovation after every minor quip is a bit much lol.
