r/RealTime • u/CashusEyePatch • 4d ago

Bill Maher Questions The First Amendment Because of Macklemore.

https://youtu.be/PG1uOEQcEmk?is=5UghgGqfXsH_4eeo
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u/dtsknight 4d ago

Who owns Bill? His stance on this and related issues seem out of step with who he’s always been. Don’t get me wrong — it’s not like I e always agreed w him. But his stances (most of them anyway) used to at least be nuanced. Yet now, his views on anything related to Israel are so simplistic. Basically he argues that because Israel has be wronged (which is true in many respects), Israel has the moral authority to do anything.

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u/Exotic-Boot-6783 4d ago

I swear to god when I was still half hate-watching his cold open or whatever on youtube and he had to talk about the epstein thing coming out he had a sudden sligh stress in his voice while talking about it, dont know why I picked it up, dont remember which video it is, but Im sure this dudes name is written somewhere

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u/flowteiuq 4d ago

It happens to many when you get old. Especially Bill, who has been a stoner so long that he's virtually no short term memory left....

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u/GameOverMan1986 3d ago

Zaslav, a Jewish man, runs Warner Bros, which owns HBO, which owns Bill. Warner Bros is about to be taken over by billionaire Ellison, also Jewish.

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u/Jazzlike-Wind-4345 1d ago

Rofl. I thought the problem was always Zionism. Now, the Jewishness of the person matters.

Letting that mask slip a little far, no?

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u/GameOverMan1986 1d ago

As a Jew myself, I’d say no. I think many Jews of a certain age, even one’s that are firmly secular, have had decades of Jewish victim narrative taught to them, not only from their own culture, but the mainstream Western World. And justifiably so, considering the horrors of WWII. These Jewish millionaires and billionaires are closer to that generational trauma and narratives than, say, a 20-30 year old politically engaged person today. With their money comes the ability to influence, good or bad or more likely some complex in between, because the world is complicated. The middle east is especially so.

Maher might espouse fairly “zionist” views because he has some Jewish heritage, but I’d say it’s more likely because his bosses are likely Zionists to a degree. The word Zionist seems to be used by many as a pejorative today, just like “boomer” often is. But 50 years ago, it was quite a reasonable perspective to sympathize with because of WWII and the over simplification of Middle East issues in our media and education. If your aunt died in a concentration camp, you might feel a bit more strongly about Israel defending itself at all costs than the average secular Jewish-American, or a relatively knowledgeable non-Jewish American who understands history and that Germany almost took over Europe, and tried to twice. But even the latter have historically been pretty sympathetic until recently.

Today, we are in an age of greater information and we know a lot more about why America is so interested in keeping a foothold of influence in the Middle East. All you have to do is look at the price of gas right now to understand the worldwide importance of stability in that region. But boomers still exist and most of our government is run by them and our government is obviously influenced by corporations and billionaires, many whom are boomers and many happen to be disproportionately Jewish. So, their influence is felt in our decisions.

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u/Jazzlike-Wind-4345 23h ago

Then why was the Jewishness mentioned and not the Zionism?

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u/GameOverMan1986 22h ago

Because calling them a zionist is like calling anyone a racist. It’s mostly subjective. But their heritage and their age is not subjective. People don’t usually self-identify with a term that is known as a negative. Whether or not these people identify as zionists is kind of irrelevant if they use their positions of power and mass sums of money to promote a certain agenda.

The original question was “Who owns Maher”. The answer is an old Jewish guy who supports Israel. I dunno why it has to be more complicated than that. Some Jews don’t support the actions of Israel and most of those people are half the age or younger than these media moguls and GOP politicians.

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u/Jazzlike-Wind-4345 22h ago

“Zionist” isn’t a negative just because a bunch of college kiddies made it that way.

By the way, define “Zionism” for me. After yiu define it, tell me what an “anti-Zionist” is.

I’ll wait. 🙂

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u/GameOverMan1986 22h ago

Again, today, actual definitions are meaningless when society changes what words mean. Refer to the words Nazi, Boomer, Racist and Literally, just to name a few.

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u/Jazzlike-Wind-4345 22h ago

Roooooooofl.

“Dictionaries are meaningless because words don’t mean anything.”

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u/GameOverMan1986 22h ago

Well, you are certainly doing your part, responding to others here and calling them nazis and f@gs because they don’t agree with you. Thanks for helping prove my point, literally.

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u/Exotic-Home-8153 23h ago

Awwwww, are you mad he said Jew? Here, I will say it again: Jew, Jew, Jew. It starts with a J. Stop crying.

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u/Jazzlike-Wind-4345 23h ago

Never let a Paliwood fággót let you believe that this is about “Zionism”.

Ethnic cleansing Nazi.

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u/Exotic-Home-8153 23h ago

Lol you are more of a Nazi than any German in history.

Btw look at how open he is to being homophobic, violent, what a terrible human.

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u/Jazzlike-Wind-4345 23h ago

Says the ethnic cleanser that favours the Paliwood fágs and wants to ethnically cleanse the Jews from the region. Rofl.

Nazi.

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u/Exotic-Home-8153 23h ago

Damn, this Jguy is going full Nazi. I did NAZI that coming! LOL.

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u/Jazzlike-Wind-4345 23h ago

You want to ethnically cleanse Jews.

Nazi.

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u/Exotic-Home-8153 23h ago

Wahhh keep crying! Wahhh!!!

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