r/seculartalk • u/MABfan11 Socialist • May 15 '24

Crosspost Bill Maher is a garbage person

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u/AValentineSolutions Dicky McGeezak May 15 '24

Watching Bill Burr roast Maher so hard on his simplistic ideas about what is happening over there was so magical. Fuck Bill Maher. Can't believe I ever respected the guy.

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u/north_canadian_ice Dicky McGeezak May 15 '24

I liked Bill Maher at one point.

Like Kyle, I watched a lot of Maher/Dawkins/Hitchens in the early 2010s.

It was great to see Bill Burr put Bill Maher in his place on Israel/Palestine when Maher made that comment that Cenk is referring to.

Fwiw, I still like Hitchens (RIP). But I don't like Dawkins or Maher anymore. I think Hitchens would not have followed the path of Maher & Dawkins if he were alive today.

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u/SatanIsMyBaby May 15 '24

Dawkins had a stroke at one point and I think it might have changed him. At the risk of sounding like and apologist for Dawkins and John Fetterman, I hope that’s the case..

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u/[deleted] May 16 '24

Wasn't Hitchens a driving voice for the invasion of Iraq?

Thats when I stopped respecting him. He would have been on Maher's side here.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/hitchens-and-iraq

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u/SatanIsMyBaby May 15 '24

Sam Harris has also kind of gin right wing : ( Daniel Dennet didn’t. I hope Sam and Dawkins find their way again, because they were good writers with a good cause.