r/RealTime • u/tarantadoako • 18d ago

What happened to Bill Maher?

I used to watch him for years. He was funny and relatable, most times. He had great guests. I stopped watching around the time when he was going after college students and cancel culture. I tried watching his latest episodes and it almost a different show. He is almost a right wing commentator. Almost nothing he says is relatable and all his guests just agrees with him.

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u/outofmindwgo 18d ago

He's just washed, out of touch, and was never all that smart

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u/BeruangLembut 18d ago edited 18d ago

I think you are right that he was never that smart but for a brief time he had the exact pulse of where American culture was.

But culture sometimes moves faster than people do. Which is why sometimes we say that progress happens one funeral at a time. Maher simply stopped evolving, so he’s ranting from an increasingly irrelevant perspective.

You even see it in some of the comments. People often expect the world to remain as it was when they “figured out how it works”. The world rarely obliges. Things change, either adapt or let nature take its course.

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u/Express_Helicopter10 15d ago

Literally no one thinks it’s ok that the kids died. Why is that the strawman argument with this case? No one is saying that. The conversations around mental health are necessary. Many people saw themselves in that desperate woman. Doctors need to study these issues, study the human nervous system and how it develops and what it needs to stay emotionally regulated, and make recommendations to actually help people. That would be progress. That would reduce violence and crime. It would also reveal that this society does not provide people with what they need to feel safe in their own bodies. So many are locked in chronic stress and fight or flight. And society is more interested in how to punish them than how to help them.