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Do you agree with Bill?

Do you agree with Bill?

We can build data centers but we can’t build homeless centers.”
On the October 3rd episode of Real Time, Bill Maher didn’t hold back on the bureaucracy and misplaced priorities surrounding the homelessness crisis. Highlighting the billions of dollars spent in major cities—including the staggering $81,000 per homeless person spent in New York City—he questioned why society can easily construct massive, complex technological infrastructure but struggles to build basic, functioning facilities to help those on the streets.
Is it a matter of funding, or is the red tape and system itself entirely broken?
What do you think? Let’s talk about it 👇

u/Sherris-Stuff — 4 days ago
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Why does Bill Maher praise Elon Musk as a genius and ignore Musk's rabid antisemitism?

People who watch Bill Maher's show today know that he has two primary refrains that almost every discussion and almost every closing segment lands on:

  1. "Woke is destroying the country and all Democrats are crazy."

  2. "Any criticism of Israel's government is inherently antisemitic, and antisemitism is the worst sin anyone can commit."

Lately his attacks on people alleging they are antisemitic have overtaken the "woke" complaints.

And yet, Maher has consistently praised Elon Musk. They agree on anti-wokeness, without ever explaining exactly what that term means to them. Musk is aggressively hateful toward transgender people beginning with his daughter, and Maher seems fine with that.

But Musk is also openly bigoted, and as racist as he is, his most overt bigotry is antisemitism. It has been thoroughly documented and consistent for over a decade.

Musk has cultivated antisemitism on Twitter since he bought it and renamed it. He has intentionally identified and promoted antisemites. He has personally promoted Nazism. He has retweeted Holocaust denials and he has personally commented that "Jewish communities push hatred against whites" is "the actual truth." His words.

After he bought Twitter, it began to selectively promote antisemitic tweets, and IBM contacted Twitter and told them not to place Nazi tweets next to its paid ads. Twitter refused, and IBM discontinued advertising on Twitter.

Musk then introduced his Grok AI chatbot, and soon thereafter it began tweeting Holocaust denials and antisemitic messages, naming itself "MechaHitler." Musk said it was a glitch and nothing more.

Musk then gave two Nazi salutes, and despite his long and bold antisemitic history, people like Maher waved criticisms away as unfounded.

Musk then made Nazi jokes on Twitter in response, mocking those who said he was giving a Nazi salute. And then he began to promote the German Nazi party, the AFD. And then he began to fund the party. Then he went to Germany and gave a speech telling German people that they need to get over their Holocaust guilt and move on with life—and elect far-right AFD leaders to make Germany great again.

An AFD candidate with Musk's backing recently won and he celebrated.

This litany of actual antisemitic and pro-Nazism events is thoroughly documented over many years of time. People don't care. Including Bill Maher. Maher interviewed Musk two years ago, called him a "genius" to his face, complimented his sense of humor, and his only criticism to Musk was that Musk preaches that people need to reproduce as much as possible, and Maher has no children and therefore does not agree.

Yet to Bill Maher, college students who protest what the United Nations and about a dozen global human rights organizations call a genocide, Maher calls those people antisemites. Even when people go out of their ways to specify that they only condemn Benjamin Netanyahu and his current regime, Maher calls them antisemites. When those critics are Jewish themselves, Maher suggests they are self-hating antisemitic Jews who would support another Jewish Holocaust.

And yet he only calls Elon Musk a genius with a sense of humor.

Does anyone know why?

Some people here have said they know people on his staff. Can anyone ask Maher why he supports the most-prominent and wealthiest antisemitic person on Earth unconditionally and condemns anyone who specifies their only criticisms are of Netanyahu and his government?

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u/AmericanLymie — 5 days ago
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Why no mention?

He supported Kraft’s decision to bar Sheeran. But when this happens, doesn’t take 10 seconds to point out hypocrisy?

u/VegetableBulky9571 — 11 days ago

Maher claims there is a frothing anxiousness for the literal extermination of Jews by brainwashed woke TikTok idiots and that Democrats are responsible

u/Key_Jump1011 — 14 days ago
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Who needs to buy a movie ticket when you can turn on the news and watch President Evil?

u/ManCoveredInBees — 12 days ago

Real Time? Nah.

The show is nearly unwatchable. Bill lives to lecture and interject his opinion and cuts off guests and discourse for nonsense and/or nonsensical segues. In the latest episode, he cut off a discussion between the panel to talk about how MAGA can’t adopt cats? Whoooo. It’s absurd.

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u/kaiiizen — 12 days ago

Oct 2 show

Bill Maher claimed the CEO coldplay exposed was separated from his wife. I Googled it, and it seems not only were they not separated, they are still married today.

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u/Mindless_Method9478 — 11 days ago
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Matt Friend as Bill on Howard Stern

It's pretty good but he's not smacking his lips enough

u/inanemonotony — 12 days ago

Why did Farred Zakaria parrot right wing talking points on blue city being worse for homeless people?

The reality is like the other guest said that blue cities offer better care and services for homeless people so they are draw into blue cities from across the county, and red city being harsh on homeless people so they flee. Not because red city build faster and offer housing for homeless people.

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u/jwang274 — 12 days ago