New Rule: Time for a National Divorce?

[@stevenwoodward5923]

Back when I was in High School back in the 70's, I had a friend that was strong Republican and I strong Democrat. We could actually sit down and have a discussion without a argument happening. We disagreed but respected each other opinion. As a society we need to get that back to that mindset.

[@fivestring65ify]

@@okinnivlek That's all fine and well, if it stopped there. When people start trying to legislate their religious belifs, it's gone way too far.

[@NapoleonSolo61]

Same here in the UK, well said 👏

[@matthewcarter1973]

It'll never happen my guy

[@wanderer3004]

That sounds very civil, but we can't get back to it when a certain half is actively trying to destroy it with voting restrictions, reproductive right violations and even an occasional attempted coup, not to mention the endless conspiracy theories.

[@stevebonk8995]

My father and brother were Trump supporters while I’ve been a lifelong Democrat and we get along fine, I may not agree with the way he thinks a lot of the time but I’ll listen and consider whatever point he’s trying to make and I’ll also counter point if I think he’s wrong. We’ll read each other’s articles we send each other validating our point or invalidating the others. Ironically my grandparents are also Democrat and voted Biden and that’s dads parents. We’re a mixed family over here politically lol

[@mathurex211]

It's hard to stop hating each other when everyone at the top conveniently benefits from the hate.

[@nanonkay5669]

They only benefit if you play right into their hands. And now that you know how they benefit, it can be up to you to stop it and ultimately stop the hate before a civil war happens

[@realtruenorth]

Then stop voting for them. Vote for someone else that wants to stop the elite government mentality.

[@realtruenorth]

@@nanonkay5669 there will never be another civil war in America, but a George Washington style revolution,,, maybe.

[@obtsfan]

It’s important to hold everyone at the top accountable but let’s also take responsibility for our actions. There’s a lot we can do on our end, by hating each other less.

[@mathurex211]

@@obtsfan Absolutely. The people at the top, they don't give a damn about us. We have to do it from the ground up. No more letting them divide us.

[@hosseynshanbehzaadeh9342]

Why me, an Iranian former political prisoner, mourning for death of one of his closest friends due to COVID-19, am watching this show, about the details of American culture and politics, 6:32 in the morning, and really enjoying it? I don't know. I just know I love Bill Maher, and in this difficult times, his great comedy (whether written by himself or otherwise) is helping me to recover. I wish all Americans peace and prosperity. As an Iranian, I know what mutual hatred of your countrymen can do to your country.

[@bewton88]

Cool!! Thanks!! Yeah, we're screwed...

[@b.kenobi9063]

Much appreciated, and wishing you well while you mourn your friend, I’m really sorry to hear that. But glad we both got this video to laugh from 😊

[@johnwolf2829]

Bill sometimes says things that everyone should be able to say, but are either too proud or too cowardly to say. I think that the real problem is there are too many people that can't just leave other people alone, including the ones that really SHOULD be left alone. And if there is another Civil War, it would be decided with guns, it will be with WMDs. We have an awful lot of them, and a General in charge that would rather talk to China than to a President he doesn't like. But the real question is, what would the rest of the world do without the USA? Settle old scores, I believe, and then.... then they would have to learn to speak Chinese, very quickly.

[@localroger]

My Condolences on the loss of your friend, and for your previous difficulties. Maher has writers but he works closely with him and he says nothing onstage that he doesn't personally believe in. We are in a difficult situation here in the USA right now, as you are probably in a better position to appreciate than most of us are. It is uncertain how this will resolve. But know that there are many of us who agree with Maher, and who didn't need him to tell us how to be sane. I don't know if there are enough of us in this age of weaponized propaganda, but we are doing what we can, which is all we have ever had the right to ask of the citizens of other countries whose leaders were acting crazy.

[@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou]

I wish you the best, Hosseyn. And I'm sorry to hear about your friend. Stay safe. I hope your country can overcome its challenges, and I hope some day our countries' governments will be able to get along.

[@jebremocampo9194]

I wish all Democrats were like him. I disagree with him in a lot of issues yet I can see myself enjoying a cup of coffee with a respectful conversation

[@stanleed.harold5457]

Most of them are

[@bigkatwhodat]

Try not to let social media effect your perception. I'm very far left and I have trump supporter friends and family who are respectful and chill people

[@elizabethhouser1220]

He actually has intellectual integrity and moral courage. He’s wrong on most things but at least he arrives at his conclusions through an intellectual process.

[@casuallavaring]

Personally I really do think it’s time for an amicable national divorce, but I would want it to be a peaceful process and not a civil war.

[@iwritechecksatthegrocerystore]

I wish all Republicans were like him.

[@maliksamarijones9304]

"Hate at this level can only sustained for so long before it turns into war." The fact that we need Bosnians to teach us this is so chilling.

[@shitabus]

Nazis taught us this and we've been pointing this out to you for months

[@arceusthomas2447]

@@shitabus ohh let me guess you are someone who thinks that your side are saints and righteous right?

[@johnware1801]

@@arceusthomas2447 "side" you sound like someone eager for the conflict. Calm down.

[@arceusthomas2447]

@@johnware1801 what gave you the impression that I was eager for conflict?

[@scooterbaby1]

@@arceusthomas2447 it is clearly explained in his comment.

[@pridan94]

I think America needs about 4 more political parties. The two party system is destroying the country.

[@harveydodd8803]

Electoral college makes this impossible.

[@raygrinders3918]

@@harveydodd8803 Plurality-winner elections do, too.

[@sterling7]

Unfortunately, it seems that not wanting to veer away from a two-party system is one of the very few issues that you can get deep-system Republicans and Democrats to agree on.

[@Pomoscorzo]

Yes, every side seems to be like "we're the Jedi, you're the Sith"...

[@strategicsage7694]

We've had a two-party system almost as long as the US has existed. That isn't the problem. The problem is us.

[@co-bruh1423]

People all over the world are looking at us like we’re a sullen, slowly decaying corpse. Some are sad, others are cheering it on. And we’re tearing each other apart because we’re told to do so. Grow. Up. America.

[@zoanth4]

Foreign nations are funding our decline. Hundreds of millions of foreign money falls into our politicians war chests every year.

[@captaincaptain2128]

Sorry to burst your bubble of self depreciation, but America is far from the only country slowly tearing itself apart, and becoming a corpse. In fact, most countries are. The only difference is Americans are more dramatic and open about it. The while world is heading towards self destruction.

[@Ghoulstille]

@@captaincaptain2128 People have been saying that since the dawn of man and yet it keeps never happening. You need to chill out.

[@captaincaptain2128]

@@Ghoulstille dawn of man didn't even know the world was round, or that people existed past the ocean. To compare the problems of the world in 500 BCE to the problems of 2021 CE is naive and ignorant. The world Is on a slow crawl to a shallow grave. I hope you continue to find peace in blissful ignorance, but the rest of us aren't so stupid to think otherwise.

[@thetavibes9021]

@@captaincaptain2128 I agree with everything except that... Like it or not, the world is better than it's ever been before, objectively. Source - history

[@TheNerdForAllSeasons]

"Do you think you're gonna win?" The nervous laughter from the audience tells you they hadn't thought that far ahead.

[@Nobushido]

I listened to their nervous laugh out of pure pleasure.

[@ryannath85]

@@Nobushido You are what's wrong with this country and the world.

[@danielbabcock4752]

@@ryannath85 oh shut upppp. Because he takes pleasure from the side of hate realizing it’s all bark no bite - you think he’s the “problem” 🤦‍♂️ how about the authoritarian excutive branch calling parents domestic terrorists… I guess that’s the America you want. Fascism’s at its finest

[@jwal1685]

Idiot he know the rich are are not dem or republicans he was just saying that to make you feel better. Take from me a rich dude

[@metalmadman1980s]

@@ryannath85 BAHAHA!! Relate to the nervous laughter a bit? The point is the left is calling for war because their entire self complex is fed by a dishonest media and hiding behind a keyboard. Maher spoke the truth and it scares the crap out of you that some day you may actually be held accountable for your actions and words. Some of us enjoy when reality hits the left for the simple reason that it will AVOID that war if they wake up and smell reality.

[@eddiegaltek]

"No one hates like a right wing republican." Bill clearly hasn't been on Twitter.

[@greghester2720]

It can get a little irrational.

[@bobbierobinson6269]

Or Facebook, KZbin, etc... I used to be embarrassed that KKK members were considered conservative (they are terrorists and don't belong with anyone sane) and now I imagine there are some liberals cringing everytime they watch CNN. (Maybe I'm delusional also, because I don't know if Democrats can be rational)

[@john.premose]

@@bobbierobinson6269 you think CNN is left wing. That is so cute 🙄. God you people are backwards . Ugh

[@marchuitt]

@@john.premose : Self-righteous douchebags always amuse me. You're exactly what Maher is talking about.

[@troubadour723]

Sounds like good grounds for divorce.

[@mysticaltyger2009]

1:36 "If we want to halt this descent into Civil War, we have to stop hating each other". Once you understand people in power from across the political spectrum want us to hate each other for their own selfish reasons, it starts to make sense.

[@ryanhampshire7042]

As humans, we will just find another reason to hate each other. For example, I am a smoker and strongly believe It should be unlawful to tell renters who provide security deposits that they can't smoke or have pets. Not only that, I would gladly kill half the country "or planet" to protect my right to do so. "if it helped my cause"

[@peterfallon4018]

@@ryanhampshire7042 As a former smoker, I gladly let people smoke in my car, home etc. Never ‘preach’ Could any CONCEIVE of going to a fat-err obese’-& ltk Obesity causes 100+k MORE deaths than smoking? Sure

[@MarkMikelVideos]

@@ryanhampshire7042 the smoking ban was the first step toward building an intolerant and impolite society. Now it's in hyper-drive.

[@tripacer8259]

@@MarkMikelVideos It seemed like a test at the time.

[@josephgriffin2388]

Cop out. Quit worrying about the elite.

[@rc9749]

Oh Bill, you're always on the cusp of being correct throughout this segment and then at the very end you hit the nail right on the head--social media needs to be turned off for a period of time.

[@trparky]

Exactly. For six hours the Internet was peaceful. Then Facebook came back online and then... the shit hit the fan again.

[@Cabbage22927]

That period of time being forever

[@mikec6617]

@@Cabbage22927 I’ll settle for 5 days a week.

[@ChrisAlbertH47]

Social media don't need to be turned off. People just need to be adults about it, and maybe exercise some self control. Though I can see how expecting Americans to communicate responsibly can be quite the uphill challenge.

[@rvanzo925]

Only if they turn off media as well. Then we have a deal.

[@danielsantiago6696]

I went to a thanksgiving dinner at a family member's home we agreed nothing involving politics was to be spoken in the house. I had a wonderful time.

[@tam.s..9131]

I did that the same thing for years in my early 20's and never stopped until know more..

[@dog9970]

Reminds me of an old saying be it viking or native american I don't know. 'There are two wolves in a man's heart, love and hate. The wolf that thrives is the one that is fed the most. ' Main stream media, social media etc are currently serving up an all you can eat buffet.

[@AngelRodriguez-zt6nv]

Corporate media is the problem, we need more citizen media like TYT 👍

[@patricksmith4148]

Hey wow! Perfect analogy!

[@createimag4088]

Wrong. It is the other way around. The people tune in the most to hate and division. If the masses watched love and unity the news wouldn't be a horror show. It's the masses fault.

[@naotamf1588]

Well in the land of the "free" it still is suposed to be each and everyones choice how much to "feed theier wolfes" lukily I am not a US resident. So go ahead and smash each others head at your "well deserved 2nd Civ War!"

[@juliusrobinson7363]

I believe that people blame the.media too much. It's too hard to do your own research and to logically think through some things!

[@billy-joe4398]

When embarking on a journey of revenge remember to first dig two graves

[@luckydave328]

Wise words

[@fern7306]

Well - Sometimes revenge can be cathartic… And worth it.

[@hemidas]

But I have three targets.

[@zg6766]

@@hemidas ...Then dig 3👌

[@billy-joe4398]

@@hemidas then dig 4 graves

[@chaitanyashinde4989]

The best decision ever I took was deleted FB, Instagram and Twitter.

[@SRosenberg203]

I never had an Instagram and never used Twitter, but getting off Facebook was one of the best decisions I ever made too. It's been about 5 years, and I'm so much happier and healthier without it.

[@123je12]

I should do it again, my mental health gets much much better when I’m not using them…

[@feYslYa]

never signed up to this shit good for you man

[@TheYobo1016]

Yes, same for me. Now if I could only figure out this KZbin thing. 🙄

[@Nico_Conradie]

Nah. too much fun to be had, teasing people on these platforms. Liberal Woke types are easy to trigger.

[@rocketmanrogers8723]

For those that think a “national divorce” is beyond the pale, or that it could only take the form of a civil war, let me ask you this: Where is Czechoslovakia? Remember that place? Now it’s the Czech Republic and Slovakia. When I visited both of those countries, I asked locals about it. They both said roughly the same thing: “We’re still friends. But we just believe in doing things differently.” We should take note.

[@cryptochat313]

How many people remember the fall of Russia in the 90s? The same thing could easily happen in the United States!

[@far2ez539]

For hundreds of years, people died so that our nation could remain. Let's not throw it away because the guy next door won't use your pronouns or doesn't like guns. The USA is uniquely nearly immune to actual physical threats (outside of nuclear) due to its geography and its control of the continent. If it were to split into two nations, a war could easily broil over hundreds of years. If we can't work in unity now, there's no guarantee we ever will. Differing opinions makes the country better, not worse, and splitting it up is just a bandaid. After a split, it's only a matter of time before the Left half becomes a debate between Liberals (like Maher) and Wokeists, and the right half becomes a debate between Libertarians and Fascists. Do we just keep subdividing down until we're 50 tiny countries? That is nonsense. America is BETTER for having more views. Disagreeing with people and finding compromises is not a downside.

[@k_tess]

@@far2ez539 The Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and tyrants from time to time.

[@alaunaenpunto3690]

Conservatives and liberals are increasingly not friends narrow now. There are even factions within each party that hate each other's guts. If happen to be friends with any liberals, it's by accident and only because we're unaware of each other's politics.

[@SubduedRadical]

@@far2ez539 There are limits. A society that is so diverse and differing that there is no common ground and people feel so alien to "the other" that they don't mind (and even WANT) to oppress the other side whenever they're in power is not healthy nor is it stable or "BETTER".

[@stillsmallvoice1277]

"United we stand, divided we fall!" Whatever happened to the basics like, 'wisdom and mutual respect?' There were good reasons America became the United States of America. I heard it quoted recently on the media, "the time for diplomacy is over" I would argue, when have we needed diplomacy more than now? This includes domestically as well as internationally.

[@LilLizaLady]

Sure, but how can you have mutual respect for a terror group like Antifa and BLM who hate your country? You can't and you shouldn't have to.

[@gregc6535]

The declaration of independence has some words that are applicable, ....."That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." It's time to separate to institute new governments for like peoples rather than having a supranational government dictating so many things that it was never given the power to do in the first place.

[@tomogden2432]

@@LilLizaLady - how about the terrorist shitbiscuits who attacked the Congress of the United States while they tried to codify the will of the American people? Or do you think those were "freedom-loving patriots" because you agree with them?

[@marcusruizevans4513]

What are good reasons to stay together .. NOBODY points out why to stay together ... just that divorce is bad.

[@gregc6535]

@@tomogden2432 Better to attack the powerful than the shitbiscuits who spent the entire summer attacking their fellow citizens, their businesses and so on. The 'will of the american people' didn't matter in 2016 when the shitbiscuits rioted, stopped traffic, created a false russian collusion narrative, tried to flip electors and acted like little babies when their side lost. Interesting how now it's the 'will of the american people' that suddenly matters. GTFO with your bullshit.

[@joshuamurphy9902]

I'm a conservative. Bill I applaud and respect what you said here. I've been part of the problem. I have a lot 2 say about a lot of issues but I haven't always done so in a respectful way. I'm gonna take a break from leaving comments on KZbin after this one. My goal is a year but honestly I'll be happy if I can go a month. Gonna take your advice and just 'shut the fuck up' for awhile. Hope in some small way it helps.

[@rosesmith6925]

I gotta say the less time I spend on social media or even watching "reported" anything the less anger I feel. It's so refreshing. Pick up a fucking book and explore what makes you happy ☮❤

[@567dirt8910]

You read my mind. My whole life, I have been an avid film buff- my number 1 hobby. Everyone knows I'm the movie guy. I despise trump with a fiery passion. I began hate watching him, and then there was the campaign, covid, election, bjg lie, Jan 6, and on and on. It got to where I was watching a couple movies a month, if that. It was YT and Twitter -that was my supposed recreation. It eats you alive and I was even aware of it. You can't accuse your opposition of being brainwashed while arguing just as fervently against them for the exact opposite side. Anyway, a couple months ago, I forced myself to watch less politics and began watching movies again. The difference it's made is incredible. Such a simple thing to do. I hope more people will just tire of the fighting and do more useful things with that time.

[@melissalong8491]

@@567dirt8910 I am going to do the exact same, watch more movies! Hell, people used to claim that movies and video games made people violent but IMO, the real world is scarier and more influential. The Night of the Animated Dead and The Green Knight - here I come!

[@melissalong8491]

When things started heading downhill, I started reading trashy romance to take my mind off of everything going on. I think I'm going to get some of the more recent Stephen King novels for a change. Love his books and nothing he writes scares me more than current world events.

[@567dirt8910]

@@melissalong8491 So true! Enjoy your 'me time'

[@marcusruizevans4513]

What if I want to read a book about hate filled social media posts.

[@kaymoore7859]

I certainly appreciate the fact that he tells it like it is, or should be, and doesn't apologize for it. I, too, wish ALL serious politicians had the courage of their convictions, and not melt like a witch in the rain when it came time to actually make a change. Thanks, Bill - you give us hope.

[@LB-ty6ks]

The formula for a peaceful society was given thousands of years ago. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Apparently on a national or international level this is too much to ask.

[@michaelbayer5094]

LB, you are correct. Following that dictate would make life better, and it always has been too much to ask. According to legend, the religious and secular powers conspired to crucify one of its leading advocates.

[@ohadzic6377]

Bill, I am from Bosnia originally. A beautiful country (Yugoslavia) fell apart thanks to hate on all sides. Let me tell you something, once it is gone all you have are pictures and memories (if you are lucky to be alive). I love USA, it is my only home I have now. Hate is not the answer. I love you all (Love your show).

[@Wustenfuchs109]

He just skipped the part where the hate was artificially pumped by select few on USA payroll, and then a small group of criminals and radicals were armed by countries like Germany, USA and Russia to start the assaults that would then feed into the hate. Let's say it like it is - we didn't hate each other. We lived for half a century without it. It was fed and supported from the outside. It is not natural to us. How can you tell? Belgrade, a former capital of Yugoslavia and currently Serbia, is filled every night with youths from the entire ex-YU region, singing the same songs and enjoying themselves. In Serbia we drool at original baklava and ratluk, we go to Sarajevo to get authentic fildžans and džezvas. Šljivovica from Serbia unites like nothing else. And we all consider Macedonian paprika the best for ajvar. We DO NOT hate each other. Never did. A small number of politicians and their criminal friends spoon feed us hate. And they did it in the late 1980's and then 1990's because USA wanted it to happen. Ain't it funny how the same people they supported then are still in power? And all good companies in Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia etc. are owned now by Germans, Austrians, Americans, Turkey? Funny how that ended up.

[@austenhead5303]

@@Wustenfuchs109 Divide and conquer. Works every time.

[@zenahowes6093]

I am Croatian ,living in Canada and I agree with you 💯👍

[@moonpie2637]

As a conservative I just want to be left alone. I'm tired of being told how to speak, what to say and how to think. Think for your damn self and give me the respect to Think for myself.

[@jasonlefler3456]

As a graduate student who votes thinks in a fairly left-wing way, I relate to being tired of being told what to say and think. The thrust of identity politics is respect and understanding for historically and culturally disenfranchised people. It can also be weaponized by the most powerful people for a very effective exercise in divide and conquer. I see a lot of folks trying to shut down the speech of others. I see it a lot on the left, in academia, and I don’t relate to it.

[@moonpie2637]

@@jasonlefler3456 I respect liberals but can't stand "progressives". They are like slave traders insisting the slave doesn't have to be black this time. They just want to be the one in power.

[@Sneedmire]

@@moonpie2637 It's sad that the word "liberal" has been co-opted. Used to be something worth identifying as before it became a rigid set of beliefs.

[@boldvankaalen3896]

To be left alone does not work in a society. We are all interdependent and almost everything we do affects other people.

[@Sneedmire]

@@boldvankaalen3896 Oh, it can work. These past few months have demonstrated that quite significantly, what with how the nation is going through this post-Covid era. I live in a red state and life had returned to (almost entirely) normal. No masks. No mandates. No proof of vaccination status required. But if I go to a Blue state, say New York, the situation is vastly different. The problem is that there is an over-bloated bureaucracy that sits above the various people the US and tries to fit a universal standard that does not work. I shouldn't have to care what someone who is Left leaning in California or New York want. They shouldn't care about how I want my domestic policies.

[@richardbale3278]

Before the last civil war, one side figured that it had more guns and the expertise to use them. They still lost.

[@CyanCooper]

Bill Maher: "If you insult them, they won't laugh." Bill Burr: "Hold my beer."

[@dougwebb704]

Yeah, I was thinking about exactly that. Philadelphia I believe you're referring to. Back when Bill had hair.

[@Adeon55]

You don't even have to change the Bill, Maher does it himself lul

[@moe433]

Because he can't tell jokes while holding a beer ?

[@patricksmith4148]

That's funny

[@boldvankaalen3896]

In Dutch political comedy it is quite normal to insult the audience, yet the public keeps coming to the performances.

[@mark1h2023]

3:15 as a Balkan, I can assure that that what that cab driver said 1000% hits close to home.

[@user-sd5vh1mx5x]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/foLIY6Gan7pgr7c I love her book, like you, she understands what will happen if our fragile American societal glue comes apart.

[@RMT192]

@S G His approval rating is only 48% after his evil inhumane response lead to 20,000 cases a day. How is that a great governor? Realise that the right-wing media is rich guys playing you so they don't have to pay taxes. Come on, your statement is ridiculous, you're smarter than that. Just stop watching Fox News, Facebook, KZbin, Right-wing pundits and start listening to the otherside and you'll be shocked at how much more in common you have than you realise.

[@RMT192]

@Saints and Scholars Being able to change your views is a sign of intelligence. But Republicans are nuts and it's gonna take time to reconcile our own stupidity with theirs.

[@matthewmartin5763]

I live in Dallas, TX and it's really a decent place to live in your day to day life, in my opinion. I was in my backyard the other day and I could hear my neighbor in his hot tub listening to some monotone christian death cult stuff. These are the kind of people that have bible verses on signs in there yard. Being an atheist, I just sort of rolled my eyes and just listened to it for a minute. It was more funny to me than anything. I don't hate or even dislike the guy. He always waves when we see each other. We loan tools to each other. Our dogs play together. Also, helped us out with firewood during our winter storm back in February. This was all to say that even if you completely disagree on everything else, hating someone takes more energy than just trying to get along and be good people. I would hate to see our nation split up, again. We all need each other more than we know. Oh, and STOP FEEDING THE TROLLS!

[@amieres]

Your dogs play together? They do not hate each other even though they have different persuasions? Smart. It's best not to focus on what divides us but in what brings us together.

[@matthewmartin5763]

@@amieres my dog does not discriminate based on color, species or gender. If he can hump it he will.

[@makelikeatree1696]

Well put, friend. I have also lived in Dallas and pondered the paradox of really good people finding truth in such crazy shit.

[@scottjeune154]

Hot tub christian death cult stuff is the phrase i never knew i needed in my life til i heard it.

[@dutube99]

@@scottjeune154 their music slays

[@gammasmash1924]

The most backhanded call for unity ever.

[@bradsnedeker3833]

My thoughts exactly. This basically boils down to "We need to stop hating these people even though they are ignorant racists who vote out of anger and fear"...."Obama care is good for them but they were too stupid to vote for it!" This guy has absolutely zero clue about how conservatives think or what is truly important to them.

[@stephenharper6638]

I realized years ago I've never changed anyone's mind through debate/argument. I HAVE developed a gentle technique to let it be known I won't engage in mindless talking points. There is no viewpoint so low, vile, or ridiculous that if put forth with energy and confidence it won't attract followers. Was it Voltaire that said if someone can make you believe absurdities, they can make you do atrocities?

[@B88-h6n]

You can change other peoples minds in a civilised conversation, and they can change yours, in a civilised conversation, of course.

[@Pteromandias]

It helps when you don't think the person you're debating has seen years and decades of you telling lies about them and about everything.

[@unidentifiedguy8253]

People open up to sincerity and honesty without manipulation and hidden motives. That is why Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, and Russell Brand have such large youtube audiences for just having 3 hour open, transparent, and thought out conversations with people that many times have contrasting views to themselves. The last politician that has changed my views was Ron Paul, specifically because he painted how horrible it is to send just one person to a death sentence for a crime they didn't commit, which has been an issue even up into the modern era. I had to rethink my views on the death penalty realizing I too would rather people have life in prison rather than the death penalty if it just save one person for dying for something they didn't do. He also radically changed my view of drugs from taboo for irresponsible idiots and criminals to a civil liberty that rational free people of the proper age should have the freedom to partake in, accepting all the consequences of course. If you didn't notice, Ron Paul was one of the only politicians that was known by both parties as being genuine in his beliefs and convictions, and overall, uncorruptible.

[@ImTheJoker4u]

@@unidentifiedguy8253 There's a Ron Paul sticker on my toolbox. No one has ever questioned it😁

[@panchopuskas1]

Sadly it’s only on one side will you find that approach.....the gentle technique leads to you being walked on.......Germany/Europe 1930s......look it up.....

[@dougburton001]

I respect Bill but he doesn't seem to catch the irony that he is one of those stoking the hatred and tribalism. Even within this clip as he urges people not to throw shade at each other he throws shade at Conservatives.

[@ILoveGrilledCheese]

I don't know if he's throwing shade so much as just pointing out the obvious.

[@dougburton001]

@@ILoveGrilledCheese And there you go... Guns it is then.

[@Evil-Rod-Farva]

@@ILoveGrilledCheese it’s obvious to most conservatives that the left is incapable of leadership or competence. See how this works?

[@SkepticalUnicorn]

​@@dougburton001 Worth mentioning that Erik Torbjørn Bjørnsson seems to be not an American. I've noticed that a lot of the people trying to stoke animosity within the U.S. are actually from *outside* the U.S., whether from Europe or China or wherever.

[@jonsmith9838]

Well he is a comedian. We all scream at liberal for taken these to seriously. Then it should be ok to throw some shade every now and then at conservatives.. A little shade shouldn't breed hate

[@Phi1618033]

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." -- Nietzsche

[@keef7224]

“I have gazed into the abyss, and the abyss has gazed into me, and neither of us liked what we saw!” - Brother Theodore

[@JT-xj1pg]

I know you copy paste that quote because you didn't mention the book it comes from and also that's not exactly how that aphorism is written in Beyond good and Evil, thank me for the enlightening later.

[@adonaiorion]

The problems in the USA/ the planet aren't the political beliefs of people, nor their outrage towards evil minds. It is messages like his here to ignore the vile actions of rich elite men. Killing people isn't an answer to take unless it's a life and death situation; "forgiving" them isn't enabling and or ignoring them, forgiveness is a personal feeling that shouldn't be confused with opening the facts of the horrors, addressing them accordingly. Defending Bezos because you don't like Musk, is ignoring the horrors of both each of these people that contribute to horrors in politics, etc. It's a club, and they depend heavily on misinformed people and those ignoring injustices. I disagree heavily with his "STFU" stance on the actions of Bezos, but then they have Yang on the same segment who was promoted by Musk and who even after the facts has continued to promote Musk and Grimes, both who are very vile and thoughtless people, making the point, ironically. It is ignoring injustice that has gotten society where it is at; it is the same stances of ignore this here now that got each of the horror world wars to go where they went. The difference in this time is, you have a lot more to lose, and a lot worse to gain / unleash. It is not the time to ignore anything or anyone, anywhere. Every evil act accounts towards the undesired future, and the creation of multiple outlets for it, an obvious move by the elite / political theater trying to plunge the planet and society into a more literal hell.

[@garrydye2394]

​@@adonaiorion That is one large rambling that made no sense. I understood you think Rich people are evil. You said nothing to back that up other than you are not in the club. Everybody hates the rich but yet....everybody wants to be the rich. Amazon does not come to your front door and yank you out for slave labor. You go there willingly and apply for a job that you are legally able to quit anytime you want. My wife is Filipina and she worked 12 hours a day 7 days a week for $300 a month. Only in America would you think packing boxes for 8 hours a day...5 days a week for $15 to $20 an hour is some how slavery. Half the world lives on less than $2 a day and has no running water. Your current life is equal to that of a past King. You have all the food you could want and more...you have air conditioning...you have hot water...you even sleep on satin sheets...yet you complain...complain...complain... solely because you have no understanding of the luxury of your current situation. You are comparing your life to a Billionaire and feel oppressed. Your mindset is what is destroying this country. You want something...go out and earn it...but for heavens sake...do as Bill Stated and STFU.

[@margo3367]

That's so true. Don't let evil into your life. It takes over. There are the forces of good vs. evil.

[@jrousseau22065]

For someone who comes from liberal Orlando, this kind of talk where we need to stop hating each other and just seeing each other as a friend from the other side is some thing we need more of.

[@assass2187]

no, liberals hate this country and conservatives love it. you cant live with a faction of people that want to tear your country down and build some socialist utopia. either the left leaves or the right sends them all to hell.

[@liamliam5341]

I appreciate your approach, and I am not saying this in spiteful way, but we could only be friends if did not live together, too much shit is being forced on each other, and it is very abusive. Generally, it is a good idea to get out of a relationship when it gets this abusive. I could wish you well, but not when your policies destroy my freedoms and all of the things I value, so I can wish you and every other liberal well, when your choices no longer attack me.

[@MarkMikelVideos]

If we were just told the truth, we'd be fine. The left, center, and right are all good people. We all want love and happiness. They're playing us all against each other.

[@tomthebomb557]

Right at the end when he said facebook shutting down should happen more is THE reason why hatred is drumming up in the 🌎. Shut down or seriously regulate social media would curtail a lot of the shit.

[@saviesmor4162]

Exactly.

[@brucefreadrich1188]

And here we are… commenting on social media. Most of the time I think I would enjoy KZbin more if the comments were "off"

[@richiemcnabb5991]

"regulate" it... No. You'll just make it worse. It'll just be an excuse to censor further. Without conversations, this can only result in violence. Then again, that's exactly what the establishment wants. They need an excuse to institute more authoritarian nonsense. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK

[@d21storm]

@@richiemcnabb5991 I think he was referring to regulating the censorship so issues can be discussed, or maybe even regulating the algorithms that drive division for the sake of profit.

[@richiemcnabb5991]

@@d21storm that really doesn't change anything. Our lawmakers are too stupid, even if they have pure intentions, which they absolutely do not.

[@Wolverines77]

Bill, 80 + percent of the adults in this nation have reverted to living emotionally and intellectually as an "average" 11 year old 5th grader...

[@newagain9964]

Obviously true. Ppl like u elected such a case.

[@demaals]

Funny he’s one of them.

[@everythingisfine9988]

Convince people to stop watching CNN, FOX, MSNBC and anything someone sends you from FB. Things would improve after that

[@1414Gstevens]

Practice what you preach Bill! I do agree a lot with your message though.

[@DonnaBrooks]

Bill isn't hateful. You just can't stand anyone criticizing your tribe. If you don't know the difference between criticism & hate, then YOU are part of the problem, not Bill. [Hint: People who aren't part of a cult can criticize their own ingroup w/o being thrown out. Mature people can criticise something or someone they love. Critical thinking & looking at the fruit of a political party or party member's words & actions is not hate!]

[@DonnaBrooks]

Also, since Bill hosts a television show about politics, then he couldn't "practice what he preaches" b/c if he shuts up, there's no show. So, IDK what you expect him to talk about on a political show if not politics. Knitting? Bowling? The Periodic Table? How about a cooking show? Can't you see the absurdity of your comment? But just because HIS JOB is to talk politics, it doesn't mean it's YOUR job, so you CAN "STFU" w/o closing your business or finding another career. Those are the people to whom he is speaking!

[@1414Gstevens]

I agree with everything you said Donna. I didn't say anything about Hate or criticism. I have no problem with others outlook on politics.

[@gotplague]

Perhaps tribalism is the real problem. America is waaaay in deep at promoting the separation of people by race gender and political outlook. Nationalism in the USA is dying.

[@russbilderback]

@@gotplague you just nailed it.

[@Myself-yf5do]

I love that he asks people what should happen to the Trump people without telling us what he himself thinks should happen to them.

[@musikinspace]

"...no one can do hate like a right-wing conservative..." I understand, Bill. Amid the constructive criticism you had to throw your seals a fish. And they clapped right on cue.

[@IdiotBoxProductionsTV]

Lol fr but he knows what’s up

[@realtruenorth]

@@IdiotBoxProductionsTV he does,, he has to play the idiots in order to get them to listen to reason.

[@warallied]

@@realtruenorth agreed. Thats a typical comedian trick. You soften your crowd or you play the idiot to throw a gigantic punch that they cant reply to.

[@spinflux]

I think he meant violence-wise. Lefties don’t tend to lynch or shoot the people they hate, or put them in cages, or pass laws against them. Their hate is more verbal. They tend to intellectualize it and find a reason NOT to fight with violence and they tend to rationalize their reasons for hate, and don’t vote against their own interest. Right wingers can’t tell you why they hate the left and they don’t care what left policies are beneficial to them, they just hate. They will go against their own stances on things if lefties disagree with it.

[@musikinspace]

@@spinflux Most of the violence has come from the left lately. Just one small case in point, Antifa is explicitly based on physical violence and openly defended by leftists. If by cages you are referring to the situation at the border, it wasn't different from what used to happen before, and it certainly wasn't done away with by the lefties in power now. There is no republican movement based on going out and seeking to physically attack people, like Antifa.

[@andrewhogan6533]

I think this has been building for quite some time, like 50 years, we just didn’t want to see it

[@georgeglaser532]

Perhaps it’s been building since the Civil War?

[@kellibarnhouse6591]

No, it has not been brewing since the Civil War! It has been a Fact that the Wealthy are not just happy with All the riches they have, but that they want All of the Riches that you have too! F REPUBLICAN LIES AND GREED! WE HAVE 750,000+ AMERICANS DEAD OF COVID, BECAUSE OF REPUBLICAN LIES AND GREED!

[@philballa3683]

Yes, exactly 50 years. Aug. 23, 1971 was the Powell memo -- which put all this machinery in motion.

[@danbaird5684]

@@kellibarnhouse6591 you are really smart.

[@lunda2222]

Not quite that long. I'd say it's been since 9 November 1989. That's the Berlin wall fell. Why? Because with a lack of a unifying enemy, the US is falling to internal strife.

[@cwoza5]

Another great video Bill. As a Conservative I don't hate those who disagree with me. But I have family/neighbors that despise me for my values. That's a problem. Big problem.

[@br8674]

You did it yourself right here.. 'I'm not the problem, 'they're...the problem.' Are your values the kinds of things that tell others how they should be living their lives? Maybe, maybe not. I suspect you're not completely innocent either. Though your thoughtfulness on the subject is much greater than most, and I applaud that.

[@cwoza5]

@@br8674 Yes. Your right. I am saying that. I'm hated by many for my political beliefs/position. You think that hate is a good thing? You don't think that's a big problem that could get very ugly? So I disagree with people politically-big deal-does that call for hating them and not talking to them? This is what Bill is saying. It needs to stop. And as a conservative I speak for many saying our values do not tell others how to live there lives. The number 1 priority is freedom and keeping the government out of people's lives. Leave people alone. Let them do what they want to do. That's first and foremost.

[@zeenuf00]

@@br8674 a lot of assumptions in your comment

[@michaelrandall7667]

@@br8674 There is opinion and than there's just what's right and wrong. Him saying he's right for not hating someone over their political beliefs is right, hating someone is wrong. He didn't do anything wrong. People are allowed to disagree. You must not be married. Next time you decide you want to chime in and tell someone they are the problem for trying to fix a problem, don't.

[@michaelrandall7667]

@OBVIOUSLY IMRIGHT it's a problem for society. Tribalism like this only leads to one place, historically, and it's not good.

[@SongWhisperer]

Heck ya, separation sounds like a win win for everyone . The left can live in whatever society they want and the right can live as they choose, we don’t need a war we just need a new boarder. It’s also a good way to break up the government and the amount of taxes & power pouring into a one sided political system, the left can support their own government with their taxes and the right can support their own government with their taxes. It’s time to create the last free country in North America.

[@MarkMikelVideos]

That's no good. As long as we have powerful corporations (media) lying to us, it won't matter which border you're stuck behind. They will always find a way to divide us and control us. We need to break up the 6man media monopoly of lies and make anti-propaganda laws that punish the liars. We can disagree once we know the facts and get along as a society just fine. If we are told different facts, or can't agree on what the facts actually are, we are doomed. That's what they're doing to us now. Bill Maher included.

[@SongWhisperer]

@@MarkMikelVideos • I don’t know, leaving these Jabberdo’s and Masketeers behind still seems like a great plan. People who still believe in freedom should not be paying taxes into the government any longer, let these people support themselves and their own agendas. The people who want to take our freedoms away definitely don’t want to do the kind of jobs that hold a community together, and the people who do these jobs on a daily basis are mostly freedom loving patriots so if we take our labour force somewhere else the people who put their trust and faith in the Hierarchy will be left to support themselves. We don’t need their ideologies but they definitely need our money, if we leave and take our skilled labour force (and money) with us then we can survive without them but they definitely can’t survive without us.

[@josephgriffin2388]

We already have a country like that.... Korea.

[@SongWhisperer]

@@josephgriffin2388 • Ya, and the left should all move there since they like a dictatorship so much.

[@JamesJohnson-sl3ui]

Funny everytime Bill used the word Republican when describing hate he could have replaced it with the word Democrat and been just as accurate

[@okn712]

@The Hottest Men Online for what? Not complying? Ask yourself why, other than political opinions wouldn’t they want to comply? If I, a random person, showed up to your house and said “alright here is a random pill I developed like a week in my garage, take it or I will not let you go to your local grocery store, I will get your employer to fire you and I will impose my will on your whole family as well. Comply and take the pill or lose your livelihood, your choice” how would you feel?

[@realtruenorth]

@The Hottest Men Online nope,, democrats are ,,or ,, communists I mean. Where is JFK?,, he would be whooping democrats asses today. He would be like "what the hell did you guys do to the Democrat party and to America?"

[@donrobertson4940]

Yeah. Sure.

[@slmishler]

"none can do hate like a right wing conservative", I experience exactly the opposite. The liberals I come in contact with have no tolerance for anyone who disagrees with their views.

[@notbraindead7298]

Because the views of the right have become so far right that they are fascist/Nazi and always center on destruction of democracy and freedom for ALL. I for one will never give them comfort.

[@st.jimmy0244]

@@notbraindead7298 And they claim that the views of the left have become communist/Soviet and will never give you comfort. You're as bad as they are.

[@notbraindead7298]

@@st.jimmy0244 Let the war begin.

[@st.jimmy0244]

@@notbraindead7298 Maybe you should go back and re-watch the pre- and post-war photos that Maher put up to reference what the Bosnian driver was describing. No rational person wants a civil war. You're either an idiot or a troll.

[@bobbierobinson6269]

@@notbraindead7298 what views do you see that way?

[@kevinkoch284]

What an odd mix of appeals for de-escalation and understanding with insults for the “other side”.

[@marcusruizevans4513]

So when you see someone act so skitzo - saying things that seemingly contradict - what does that mean?

[@newagain9964]

He tells everyone to STFU. Yet he has a weekly broadcast opinion show. He has always been an elitist hypocrite and this is a perfect demonstration.

[@matvei15]

And the insults are not only wildly inaccurate, they are projection of the Democrats.

[@PaulRoneClarke]

Yes I noticed that. He "others" Republican's. Then does a "tua culpa" bit about them Forgive those Republicans - they know not what they do. So he wants a de-escalation from both sides - but makes it crystal clear which side he believes are to blame for everything. (I'm not a US citizen BTW and have no direct interest in US politics at all - just writing what I heard)

[@DadeHudson93]

Oh c'mon now you conservatives are starting to sound like the lgbtq community protesting against Chappelle because they couldn't take a jokes lol

[@ashleegoodrich513]

“We need to stop hating each other.” Couple minutes later he tells his audience Republicans hate Democrats. Do YOU not see what you’re doing? You are fueling the division and the hate.

[@TheBasedAustrianPainter]

He knows

[@lahaza6515]

@@TheBasedAustrianPainter And he doesn't care. Have to slip it in there to satiate the crowd's desire & reliance on it.

[@Antis14CZ]

IDK, I'm just an outside observer of this circus you guys call "the greatest country in the world", so maybe I'm missing something here, but why do people keep bringing this up as if it's some kind of a "gotcha"? What he said is true. He's just reporting. The hate is on both sides, yes, but it isn't equal. The Republicans are much more antagonistic, much more hateful, and much more violent than Democrats. What's more, in the case of the Republicans, it's stoken from above. Republican politicians and candidates for various offices are often fueling these feeling in their base by their speeches. Somebody please burst my bubble, but I don't see that happening on the other side.

[@lahaza6515]

@@Antis14CZ I can understand completely why an outsider would interpret it this way, but I'm going to take a stab at finding an analogy that might help explain, hopefully anyway... Have you ever been in a relationship or an argument with a person who passive aggressively stands in front of you smiling & telling you that blue is green? I've been liberal all of my life, but I cannot deny that the "compassion" & phony concern of the dems is just that; phony. Just because they're smiling, doesn't mean anything. My parents are republicans & I visit them every year. I see that they are frustrated because the young interpret straightforwardness & logic as inhumane & mean... when it's just about trying to take out the emotion from everything & get shit done. I spent this weekend cooking for a group of very successful, young female doctors from Brooklyn who were super nice. They sat for three hours around the breakfast table talking about positivity, social justice & socialism. At one point I heard one of them start to talk about her cat's vet visit & the conversation turned to veterinary doctor income. The last thing I heard before it became apparent that they were totally lost in their political identity was; "well the suicide rate of vet's is so high because they make than 100k a year!" The inconsistency of their conversation & stance was lost on them entirely. Ultimately I think republicans are frustrated because they want things dealt with in a straightforward manner without all the of emotion, victimhood & chaos. I'd much rather hang around with a wolf who wears his own clothes & tells it to me straight, than a wolf wearing sheep's clothing & smiling at me while he plots my death.

[@Antis14CZ]

@@lahaza6515 Sorry, but no. That's some serious false equivalency you're trying to establish there. That "Getting things done" attitude you mention sounds nice, but only if the things getting done are actually good, and only if they outweigh the costs. If the things you're "getting done" are based on beliefs that are completely out of touch with reality, you may very well end up doing bad things. If your idea of "getting things done" means you'll do anything and crush anyone standing in your way to do it, you're doing a bad thing. And that's what the Republican party is doing right now. Many of their policies are based on propaganda, ridiculous conspiracy theories, and other lies. Getting those things done will only harm the people, but yeah, "things" will be "done", so I guess it's okay, right? Take abortion, for example. I have never met a person who wanted there to be more abortions in the world. Both parties want there to be less of them. However, the Republicans are stuck in their simplistic religious view of sin and outlawing the sin, while the Democrats actually go and ask "Is this the best way?" And as it turns out, no, just flat-out banning abortion is not the best way. That's not just an opinion, we have tons of studies to support that conclusion. Without thinking about what they're doing, the only things the Republicans "get done" are suffering and misery of the population. I fail to see how some women thinking some weird stuff about the connection between the salaries of vets and their suicide rates could possibly balance out something like that.

[@notjaysday]

"STFU for a while" is an approach that has been so desperately needed for too many years now. Everything is worthy of outrage, and it is all just noise.

[@TheBigBigSean]

"STFU for a while" is the strategy of a coward who doesn't have what it takes to fight back. We've only just begun.

[@marcusruizevans4513]

Say nothing and still debate your ideas in a democracy - YEAH SOUNDS LIKE IT WILL WORK

[@emilyfeagin2673]

Sean D “ Begun” what? A fight that will never end? Are you doing something to actually help your community? Like work at a good bank or a an animal shelter? Or do you just want to argue, tear down and destroy? Like a rotten three year old having a tantrum ? Your life is better spent helping others. That’s where you find true joy

[@troubadour723]

So suspend the First Amendment then. Ok, for how long?

[@marcusruizevans4513]

@@emilyfeagin2673 NONE of those suggestions are going to heal division in America. The fight has already begun.

[@Dakotako]

It’s far too late for patching things up. Most moderates and conservatives will not forgive the insanity from the left/establishment at this point. Peaceful divorce is the best option forward.

[@sedftnio]

What a quitter.

[@Ryan-kc5pl]

@@sedftnio that or conservatives win a war in less than a day. Which do you prefer?

[@SolaceEasy]

I remember being told "Some things you just don't talk about in public." Nowadays people wear t-shirts blaring extreme blather.

[@hudson2441]

Used to be that religion and political talk was left out of polite conversation

[@weazel72003]

@@hudson2441 Yup, my father would say that and I thought it was in all good fun but now it isn't fun anymore.

[@erichancock6815]

It could be said a decline in education of a growing demographic & tolerance of ignorance & incompetence in that time is how we got to such a level of uncompromising division. Communication, good & bad is key, but the important thing is both sides listen, think critically without simple partisan bias & respond as adults, rather than shaved apes barely a century into indoor plumbing & the horseless carriage.

[@SFGUNNER]

I'm 33 and remembered being told to never to talk about religion or politics.

[@felixwinkler6450]

But... Is ignoring problems simply out of politeness that great? I understand we should be civil in our discourse, but some uncomfortable truths need to be spoken. I have a feeling that telling too many comfortable lies is what really devides the US at this point. Too many don't live in reality, anymore. Fantasies feel so much better. And they make much more money. No, I think we need to be much more blunt. Talk about everything. But always from a position of trying to make things better and with the intend to help. Be nice, but don't lie - to yourself or to anyone else. No matter how comforting some lies might be.

[@patrickcharles7190]

The problem with unity is that media and politicians don't benefit. Fueling issues until they turn into hate is how media benefits these days. Politicians taking the most popular side and creating divide is how they benefit. They know how to manipulate human behavior to be the worst. They've become experts at creating fear that a mundane issue will destroy your life. Its us, the people, who will have to demand unbiased media and fair politicians. It doesnt appear the powers that be really give a fuck. Its up to us.

[@GarlicPudding]

"Take it down a notch". Tell that to the people sending death threats to vaccine nurses, Bill.

[@MrLee-cy1pw]

What part of de-escalation do you not understand?

[@kcking]

That's exactly what he's doing

[@strategicsage7694]

@@kcking Literally

[@rf9031]

Tell that to the government threatening my job and home making me take a experimental vaccine aka at this point therapeutic treatment.

[@Hamlet92100]

@@rf9031 good to see nobody is going to change and keep doing the same thing

[@gregyoung9980]

I’ve begun to avoid political content on social media for this exact reason. I still read the news, but when posting on Facebook or Twitter, I don’t post that stuff, it always riles people up.

[@gadaffi1000]

But it's so enjoyable.

[@miggans21012]

It gets tiresome after awhile. I get so frustrated and burnt out I start hating everybody. Especially when I'm becoming a guy with no political standings anyway.

[@matts9109]

Yeah I agree. I don't get involved in political comments sections on Facebook. It's just stupid arguments. I also don't get involved if my friends make political posts. Or if I do make a comment and someone responds, my response back is usually "Lol, ok" and then leave the argument behind. I swear people get adrenaline rushes trying to escalate online arguments. Such a waste of time. Since taking this attitude my Facebook experience now is much better. Funny how that works.

[@stillsmallvoice1277]

I hear and agree with your frustration, I regularly feel the same, but sometimes I feel I just have to say something. Hang in there and best wishes

[@thechestrockfield]

...he said while commenting on political content on social media.

[@TedsHoldOver]

“Hating people…if they stopped they’d miss it. Consider this. It feels better to watch your “enemy” suffer than to see yourself prosper.

[@JazerMedia]

Or as I put it, eating a plate of shit just so your opponent can smell your breath.

[@timpatrick2109]

And Maher would be out of a job.

[@roc7880]

amen bruh. I saw people knowing that they would benefit from a higher minimum wage while still voting against it, because they did not want to see their worse-off neighbors getting a raise

[@stephanjones8424]

@@roc7880 wtf are you talking about? When? Where? Wtf is $15 an hour? I make $60 and it's barely enough to live in my state and actually have a life.

[@danholm4952]

Thats the poor, bitter gop voter that has nothing and keep voting against there best interests...Its because of hate! Remember MOST of these white gop voters are either? 1.rich=tax breaks...or 2.? Rural, poor, bitter, sheltered people that have never left their state....These poor, rural voters/people (north and south) have never met a black person..(See Iowa, Dakotas etc).... I am tired of it. Hope the gop win in 2022 and 2024! I got mine being union for 30 years... I'll take my pension and savings to a decent country... Sweden! No gun nut hillbillies, clean, progressive... Cant wait! MURIKA! YEEE HAAAAA!! However the gop/nra said anyone can have military type weapons. As I do in this nut job country....Wont need em over in Sweden!

[@sj-du2yo]

This LETS GO BRANDON meme is a prime example of whats wrong, when half of the population celebrates banning the other half,s free speech, its just about over.

[@TrollFalcon]

Until we realize who's pulling the strings that make us hate each other, we'll never fix the problem.

[@aebalc]

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[@squatch545]

Nobody is pulling the strings. You are deflecting from your own choices.

[@TrollFalcon]

@@squatch545 you don't think that cable media companies have a vested interest in us fighting with each other?

[@camabron1]

It's Putin. And he's co-opted the Republicans. A good percentage of the country.

[@squatch545]

@@TrollFalcon Nope. They just have a vested interest in gaining paying subscribers. If you're fighting with someone, that's your problem, not theirs. Take personal responsibility for your life.

[@davidpumpkinsjr.5108]

In my experience, being perfectly calm and rational to someone who is losing their shit tends to make the situation worse. I'm not sure what the solution is. Engaging escalates, disengaging escalates... the only thing I think might work is to hold the people who turn to violence accountable. Most people who escalate do so because they face no consequences for it.

[@jimmyhall6588]

It's happening on both sides and actually scary to watch

[@thetavibes9021]

@@samanthachurch "Sometimes a friend can make a point that makes someone think. An enemy never does." Personal enemies can't make a point that makes someone think?

[@Acoto]

Unfortunately a lot of protestors that engage in violence don't understand what its like to be on the receiving end. I wish they'd go to a MMA gym and spar so they can see what's it like and why violence is a bad idea for most people, but assuming that's not going to happen then consequences is unfortunately the only way people will learn. Hopefully future political/social scraps will result in only minor injuries, just enough for people to lost a taste for it.

[@Acoto]

@@samanthachurch There's wisdom in being empathetic, and ideally that would work, but from what I'm seeing a lot of these people and politicians want capitulation more than understanding. Thus cancel culture.

[@myothersoul1953]

@@samanthachurch You are right. In most arguments people don't listen to the other side, even more so in politics. When ask people can rarely fairly represent the arguments the other side is making. Just making the attempt to confirm your understanding of their argument without ridicule or derision is often enough to calm people down.

[@ednorton5213]

“Warehouse safety”?!??? The Lebanon street fight was about Hizbollah trying to stop the judge from convicting them, and is part of a much bigger struggle. That was one ignorant bit.

[@sanzen1234]

Everyone is ignorant and they believe these idiots in Hollywood and media. Do no research and think they are above other people because they out a D on a voting card, not realizing the rich power wealthy don't give a shit about them

[@travislivengood5228]

@@sanzen1234 Lol.

[@mickkirk2157]

Bill Maher can be pretty hateful and ignorant...

[@grabka1984]

wow you really missed the point eh?

[@Entropy__]

You missed the point there buddy.

[@prestoncreed8736]

Damn Bill thank you for being so awesome intelligent & reasonable, I fancy myself on the center right but I wanna live in a world we can all exist

[@SirMac27]

Bill, you helped push a bit of the Us vs. Them behavior back during the Bush Administration. I agree, we should stop despising one another, but you have to and should acknowledge your hand in this thought process.

[@j.s.3297]

He helped create many of the things he now despises.

[@russbilderback]

He still pushes the us vs them.

[@chrishaven1489]

Well, tbf, there was a lot to criticize under the Bush administration

[@blakejameson1114]

He pushes the us vs. them every day. He even did it in this segment.

[@chuckmoore7428]

He's a comedian not the news. Really guys come on now

[@RobidyBobidy1]

Bill Maher: "Guys, if we wanna heal, we have to stop hating one another!" Also Bill: "IT'S REPUBLICANS FAULT!"

[@jimedick9496]

He has done that, but in all fairness, he has slammed his own party just as much. He’s a liberal to the core, but he’s not a progressive liberal. “Old school liberal” is more fitting. They were on the left years ago, but as the left has moved further left, his position never changed, and is now seen closer to the middle these days. Most republicans have moved to the middle and their views align more with old school liberals. That’s why people get confused to which side Bill is on. I see so many say that Bull has taken the Red Pill, but that’s not the case. It’s just the political shift has moved left, especially socially. I’d still say his views align with republicans more than democrats of today, buts he’s always been an old school democrat.

[@Based_Proletariat]

It is republicans fault.

[@e-money5851]

@@Based_Proletariat = it’s your mother’s fault!

[@travislivengood5228]

He's criticized both in equal measure. You just don't like it when Republicans are on the receiving end of it. But I guarantee you cheer and clap when he does it to Democrats. You're so trapped in your partisan gridlock you can't see the overly-sensitive and petulant attitude you've developed.

[@kathleensposato5529]

It is.

[@travisethridge4062]

Sad that people see left or right when the leaders of both sides just meet in the middle with money from donors

[@kimgarver5795]

They took the bribe. Destroyed our democracy. If we want democracy back we will have to create a new one while ignoring the ruined one.

[@carlodave9]

There are only a couple of Democratic senators holding up lowering prescription drug prices by allowing the government to negotiate. EVERY Republican senator opposes it. That's Left and Right leaders meeting in the middle on behalf of big money?

[@popireal3628]

@@carlodave9 Don’t be a single-issue voter. Democrats held up a stimulus package last year because it didn’t include provisions for gender studies. 😒 There’s plenty of ridiculous partisan grandstanding on several issues

[@popireal3628]

America has the most coveted stretch of land: We’re water locked from the east and west and landlocked from the north and south by allies who have shared export-import interests to maintain Western dominance. We have 50 nation states- each with a surplus of agricultural land and resources- that are, in many cases, larger than most countries. We have a governing document that assumes the best of the people and limits the government…And of course we have the storage capacity for the most nuclear weaponry on the planet. Why sacrifice that over petty social issues?

[@billbillson5082]

I agree but i think the absolute best way to heal america would be to weaken DC. When republicans are in charge of it dems are freaked out, when dems are in charge of it republicans are freaked out. It has way, way to much influence in our lives and it is causing these 15 round, drag down, knockout boxing matches every election. We need to put the brakes on the people in DC. Whoever is in charge has way to much power to influence our lives.

[@sengchenteh]

Divorce is better than fighting and smearing each other 7/24.

[@PlayDeadPlease]

As a right-leaning person, I appreciate Bill’s message.

[@jellojoe00]

Which is why Bill is garbage. Lol

[@wandabanks6756]

The older I get the more conservative he gets

[@PlayDeadPlease]

@@jellojoe00 yeah. Open the borders, disarm the population, play Covid tyranny, identity politics, and give the children racial propaganda. You guys are really some gems. Huh?

[@Anicius_]

Hey are you the pope who followed kendall roy on Twitter?

[@javierdiaz4763]

@@PlayDeadPlease maybe a separation is not such a bad idea then.... let the confederation come back everyone gets a gun! Nobody pays taxes, gays get shot on the street, everyone not a shade of pink gets kicked out, illegals get shot at the border, school is annexed to the church. Obviously no public schools, cuz that socialism, only private charter schools, and under absolutely not circumstances Medicare or medicaid cuz again socialism...sounds like paradise let's go!

[@DP-rr9kp]

I don’t know Bill, hate is a powerful feeling, hard to give it up when a person doesn’t have anything else to fill the void.

[@hhiippiittyy]

Just redirect the hate towards those selling it for their gain at our loss. Not easy, maybe impossible, but at least it doesn't ignore the justified anger.

[@DP-rr9kp]

@@hhiippiittyy that will not be a solution because the point is to get rid of hate not manipulate it.

[@hhiippiittyy]

@@DP-rr9kp some hate is justified and perhaps inevitable. I dunno.

[@476429]

When Trump lost the election, I knew people who were almost depressed . . . and they voted against him! He had become such a focal point of their day, they didn't know what to do when there wasn't a daily, "Did you hear what Trump did?" I wasn't a Trump voter, but I also wasn't deranged by him. I know people who are just now getting out of the hate obsession they had with him. I think political hate can give people a sense of purpose, accomplishment, and virtue. They do not want to let go of those feelings.

[@DP-rr9kp]

@@hhiippiittyy Hate is a disease that harms the people that hate and those around them. We must empty our minds of negative thoughts in order to enjoy life a little.

[@nathanlehman5118]

I firmly believe that if a study were done on such a topic if it hasn't already, we would find out that being outraged and offended releases endorphins in the brain that give us a sense of pleasure and a high for us. And for some, it's the only happiness they can get and it's addictive.

[@donobrien1850]

It's been done, in fact at least 10 million times a year in this country. Ask any man who has treated a "tainted" one like gold where eventually she leaves him to go back to her life of drama and (self created on the type of men she wants to spend her life with) victimization. Drama and woe is me is their drug of choice, the methadone of a good man who values her just doesn't offer the same kick (or punch) as her addiction. To be honest, there is great fun and humor watching her frantically try to convert a good man to drama giving, victimization, abuser, but no matter what she says and how hard she goes with attempts at physical abuse, he doesn't bite and she ends up tiring herself out after a relentless pursuit of abuse conversion. I highly advise packing up her stuff or yours when she finally passes out from such strenuous activity.

[@alipainting]

@@donobrien1850 sorry you had to go through that. I've got some ex's she can meet 😆. Hang in there. Nice people do exist.

[@m.s.e.4192]

Yeah...I know....right!!!! That's why I pick a fight with my neighbour whenever I get bored.

[@yetzchaqeaton6888]

I became political because of Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann and George Bush... I was a liberal moderate, now that I am a conservative moderate, I still agree with Bill 60% of the time...

[@orsonlannister6675]

Bill Maher: "You can have an act that kills, but if you insult the audience, they will not give you that laughter." Bill Burr: "The entire city of Philadelphia is trash and can burn to the ground." Phily: LOL

[@mccxcccx7793]

Ditto for NYC and for LA! Sorry.

[@orsonlannister6675]

​@@mccxcccx7793​ I wasn't aware that he famously destroyed NYC and LA for 10 minutes straight to a home audience that laughed at it.

[@DonnaBrooks]

@@mccxcccx7793 Whoosh! You missed the point entirely. I've never even HEARD of Bill Burr & I understood the point. Try harder.

[@DonnaBrooks]

​@@orsonlannister6675 It's not unusual for people to laugh at themselves. I will have to look up a video of "Bill Burr Philadelphia" to see what you mean before I can give an informed comment. I will say that not everyone who lives in the country is right-wing & not everyone who lives in the city is left-wing, so if he's talking to a group of right-wingers, like ya'll, of course he's going to get applause trashing a city. Right-wingers today always attack cities as "cesspools" b/c city governments tend to be overwhelmingly controlled by Democrats & in their mind (your mind?), anything associated with Democrats is bad, stupid, evil, deserving of scorn, etc. P. S. Having grown up in the country & now living in Columbus OH, I can say that there are wonderful things about both. In the past 12 years at least, Columbus has often won recognition as the best library system in the country by the ALA, has had the best zoo in the country the last few years, & the best science center. We have an outstanding Metro Parks system, and green spaces everywhere, including downtown. There are deer walking through neighborhoods in Clintonville & Worthington. There are plenty of free community meals offered by churches, open to anyone, and it's nice for those of us without families to have somewhere to go on Thanksgiving Day & Christmas Day. There are community vegetable gardens, pollinator gardens, & "Little Libraries" everywhere. Fireworks on Independence Day & Christmas light shows & displays are spectacular. Every year the Convention Center downtown hosts the Origins gaming convention which I attend for all 5 days every year (not this year b/c COVID), to play the newest boardgames w/ other enthusiasts. If I didn't live in the city, I'd have to pay for a hotel to attend all these things. But getting to all the fireworks & Christmas light displays & the Convention Center is easy once you develop a habit or tradition re where to park & what buses to ride, as I have. So I do love Columbus. Like every city, though, the downtown & poorer parts of town are dirty & I see homeless people all the time. Many are mentally ill. Some are addicted to alcohol or drugs. There are areas where it's safe at night & areas where it's dangerous. I also don't like trans ideology on display everywhere. I'm lesbian myself, and I'd be relieved if they NEVER had another Pride event in Columbus. I haven't gone to one of those in probably 15 years. Pride is well past its expiration date. So is Stonewall. The T has completely taken over to the point where there is now hostility toward ACTUAL gay people like lesbians who don't want to have sex with men who claim to be women! And now every other letter of the alphabet wants to glom onto us. The T should never have been added in the first place b/c it's completely different from the LGB. LGB & heterosexual are sexual orientations. Fetishes occur among people of all sexual orientations, and "gender identity" has nothing to do with sexual orientation! In fact, the language is changing so fast now among the woke that people are using the term "gender orientation" instead of sexual orientation b/c they want to treat biological sex as not being real while "gender identity" is what people really are. W.T.Actual.F?! To them, sexual orientation is MEANINGLESS, so if you're lesbian & don't want to have sex with someone with a penis, then you are a bigot & transphobe. This is just a way for hetero men to finally get into lesbians pants by claiming to be women & therefore claiming they are lesbian. It's all an absurd, bizarro world where women no longer exist as biological adult human females but only as an idea about himself in some man's mind! Stonewall, HRC, & Pride should have been dissolved when same-sex marriage was achieved. Now it's "all TQ+, all the time." Now, instead of helping LGB people in places where there is ACTUAL hate & persecution, like Russia or Iran or Uganda, they make up oppression in western countries that isn't there. (This is the favorite passtime of millennials & other woke enablers of the crybully culture.) Pride has become so corporatized with businesses virtue signaling their support, and it's been taken over by furries & men of all sexual orientations parading their fetishes where children can see. Take that garbage out of here & don't you dare associate ME with that shit! The Library system, with it's many services & affiliates, Metro Parks, & annual events alone make this a great city in which to live. That doesn't mean I'm blind to its faults or that I can't laugh about things we do or allow that are ridiculous. Cities have personalities, just like individual humans or animals. Some are more pleasant than others.

[@orsonlannister6675]

@@DonnaBrooks I'm not reading all of that. Basically, it goes a little beyond tossing out self-deprecating jokes to the audience. The audience was super rude to all the comedians before him and he was only doing a 15 minute spot in the middle of a line-up of comedians and instead of doing his set, he just roasted the audience and Philly for 15 minutes straight because he was legitimately pissed off at how they were behaving, but he did mostly win them over. People shouted things and he took them out like a sniper. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZuwmaJ9is58oc0

[@carpetempus1817]

Finally! Bill! You see the abyss our late great United States is standing next to! Lincoln said it best: “United we stand, divided we fall!”

[@newagain9964]

What abyss? It’s worse if we continue to be forced to hold hands. Liberals and conservatives don’t live in or even have the same idea of what America is and should be. It’s time for a divorce before it becomes violent.

[@ryanb7186]

@@newagain9964 And what exactly will that solve? Both sides will still hate each other, be right next to and among one another, and they will have to split the army, navy, air force, and nuclear arsenal up between themselves somehow. That sounds like a recipe for armageddon, not just in the U.S. but worldwide. If WW III breaks out, everyone loses. Maybe you survive if you're a billionaire with a nuclear fallout vault somewhere.

[@coolidgedollar2154]

Literally none of my closest buddies share my political beliefs. I've even been asked why I "keep them around": It's because we bonded over some of the billion other aspects of being human, and at age 9 I wasn't exactly screening my potential friends for how they would vote -- and I still don't. Today, I would take a bullet for all of them. Why is this so hard to understand?

[@marcusruizevans4513]

Because you are expressing a value - called not turning your back on someone even when it gets tough - that is not a respected value any more. HOW DO I KNOW - becuase I did the same thing for a friend and I only got trashed for it - not respected. Hold tough homie - your doing the right thing. We live in a time where there will be no support for this though.

[@lighthouse4161]

I’m a trumpet. Okay hate me. But I love Bill. He has common sense. I think we all need to realize that it will be common sense to make us get along. My daughter a far out lib. My sons tell me to not let it bother me bc they do t agree. I’m glad my daughter thinks the way she does. She feeds bums. Goes to dog shelters in Detroit and plays with dogs. Just some of ideas do t Aline with mine. I don’t care. I’m glad. She makes the world a better place and so do I.

[@joshuakoch3165]

Bill, go back and watch the last 10 years of your show and understand you have been part of the problem. You literally said in this monolog no one can hate like right wing conservatives. Think Bill

[@triciamoss9074]

Exactly!

[@Monkeyninja87]

Yep

[@troywrzesinski9143]

Bullseye

[@fuinrock8346]

Great point.

[@bryanmachin3738]

But you have to admit they are pretty good at it! (just kidding, you're right!)

[@Robert44444444]

Here's the thing though Bill, you call for a dialing back of the 'hate' while you aggressively and REPEATEDLY insult an enormous percentage of the country throughout this monologue… just astonishing that you don't see the problem in that.

[@akimlettner2984]

If you listen to him he insults all sides IMO. But not hatemongering IMO .

[@Robert44444444]

@@akimlettner2984 - "If you listen to him…", I listen to him, and have going back to his "Politically Incorrect Days".

[@feYslYa]

@@akimlettner2984 watch it again and imagine you're a conservative from texas, this time then come back and report

[@akimlettner2984]

@@feYslYa i stand by my post. And you don't have to be from Texas what he is saying is the loudest mouths have to step back but his View on the conservative side is solid. As I said above I stand by my post thank you for your opinion goodspeed and have a nice day

[@jime8532]

@@akimlettner2984 I agree with Hoden, I don't see anywhere BM insulted the left, please point to the places he did. thx.

[@KSchawacker]

On a scientific note, it's pretty cool to know the elderly can survive space flight if they pass the physicals. That could potentially lead more great minds to study in orbit without an age cutoff.

[@johnkarls2132]

In a truly free market world; government wouldn't have a say in who can or can not go into space!! That's none of their business!!

[@Annapurna818]

Correct. Ageism boils my blood.

[@panpluto13]

@@johnkarls2132 yes and we wouldve been further away from the answer since bezos and elon have profited immensely from corporate socialism.

[@nostalgiaman6816]

I know! Send our Politicians to another planet!

[@cwx8]

Also he is 90. Insane.

[@johndelong5574]

U.S. surrounded by well armed enemies, A house divided shall not stand.

[@SkywalkerPaul]

A native shaman said that the US will split into 5 different countries in the near future

[@yodhin79]

Bill Maher: We have to stop hating each other Bill Maher 5 minutes later: No one is more hateful and violent than the far right.

[@Shane-un8pe]

he didn't even say far right. He said conservative

[@iloveeveryone123]

@@Shane-un8pe he did say far right idiot boy

[@Shane-un8pe]

@@iloveeveryone123 LITERAL QUOTE "No one can do hate like a right wing conservative."

[@iloveeveryone123]

@@Shane-un8pe He said right wing while showing pictures of people holding machine guns in the streets. Hes talking about people on the far right. The fact that you said "he didnt say far right. he said conservative" means that youre either really annoying and corrected "far right" to "right wing" when he was referring to the far right, or you missed the part where he said "right wing" while showing pictures of people holding guns in the street idiot boy

[@Shane-un8pe]

@@0XxBesTofTheRestxX0 ...wut

[@rmrm1229]

I think the UK’s going the same way too. You get the sense that many of today’s political problems are just sticks to hit your opponents with, rather than an effort to achieve positive change (whatever the hell that means). It might help if people were reminded their opinions aren’t always reality for the rest of the world, or even 1%.

[@BishopWalters12]

Canada is also pretty bad, We all need to be careful because countries like China and Russia are loving this divide. They're a threat to any free country.

[@andylane247]

Yes it's the "my opinions are more valuable than your facts" brigade.

[@nicolajohnson1887]

The UK has gotton so nasty, I moved to spain permanently, I definitely jumped a sinking ship.

[@0ntimetaiment921]

@@nicolajohnson1887 Ah, yes! Spain the heaven of people who do not fight among themselves. Maybe if the UK would just imprison the Scottish regional leadership like Spain did with Catalonia, people would get along again. And by get along I mean hundreds of thousands demonstrating every year and people actually voting to secede.

[@nicolajohnson1887]

@@0ntimetaiment921 enjoy your brexit Gammon, I will enjoy my retirement in the sun, without all the hateful gammons like yourself.

[@philipcochran1972]

You can not negotiate with those that refuse to see reason, those who want to impose repression on you, those that have been indoctrinated with lies. We learnt this lesson in WW2

[@Kfabiano10]

He's talking to you, man. Kick it down about ten notches

[@motordudeable]

@@Kfabiano10 agreed

[@mission772]

Are you the one who refuses to see reason?

[@terryadams2652]

We learnt this lesson in WW2?? What you describe is useful idiots in general. UIs have been around a lot longer than since the 1940s.

[@Sneedmire]

Actually, a better statement is that you "cannot reason someone out of a position they have reached by way of emotion". It all comes down to aggression, though. It's why I personally cannot identify with the political Left in the US because there is no tolerance in their words or ideology.

[@PatrickTheThird1]

It would be an interesting social experiment to split the country, so that half were completely democrat or republican controlled and see whose society becomes more desirable. We would probably see very quickly that neither extreme is ideal, but I’d be interested to see what society most people would prefer once they stabilize. It would be really interesting to see where each side ended up with no brakes on the car. It’s almost preferable to the no change we’re getting right now.

[@mizark2029]

Check out San Francisco and Detroit.

[@andrew8168]

Are Texans fleeing to California or is it the other way around? Everyone knows the answer but no one wants to talk about it.

[@PatrickTheThird1]

@@andrew8168 I recently moved to Florida, so I get what you’re saying.

[@susangarner7972]

Well democrats would not have to support the LOONIES in the Red States

[@PatrickTheThird1]

@@susangarner7972 I’d say there’s a fair share of “LOONIES” on both sides.

[@MrDellasc]

I’m a moderate independent who has friends on both sides, and I’m heading to my ultra conservative neighbors daughters wedding today, and I’m going to have a blast celebrating with my conservative buddies. Peace out!

[@troubadour723]

Glad to hear they actually respect you as a human being. Those of us who actually stand for something -- meh, not so much. :-)

[@MrGgabber]

@@troubadour723 You don't stand for anything, just a bunch a woke platitudes that mean nothing, "Equity", "Inclusion", "Diversity" and other nonsense

[@troubadour723]

@@MrGgabber And thanks for illustrating my point.

[@nunyabizness6662]

@@troubadour723 it’s funny that you started the insults and then act like you are innocent. There was no need to imply conservatives stand for nothing. That’s precisely the rhetoric Bill mentioned should be toned down.

[@Nico_Conradie]

Conservatives really are the superior people when it comes to having fun👍

[@csr326]

As a independent centrist i can honestly say to you Bill that no one can do hate like a Left wing liberal. I’m Mexican and I’d rather share the table with right wingers than with left wingers.

[@zeenuf00]

we're more fun 🙂

[@kittiepride7772]

As also an independent, I can tell you this administration has created more of a divide than ever, when I saw Biden give his acceptance speech, the first time he addressed the country as the president he said, to the Republicans....I understand things did not go your way, I have been there.....and went on to say how he would lead the country as a president for all and not just for the democrats......i really thought he meant it, he had such a RARE and important opportunity to calm everyone down, extend a hand to the other side, reunite Americans and get back on the right track but instead........they are currently trying to make vaccines mandated and give the federal government control over federal elections.......guess he changed his mind on that unity thing.........sad, he could have been the president to heal the nation, instead he doesnt even try to reach the right......I REALLY hope Joe Manchin runs for president because he is about the only Democrat I could see myself voting for right now.

[@relaxingsounds1386]

@@kittiepride7772 you thought he meant it? lol!!

[@ian1352]

Hilarious, as I grew up in country controlled by conservatives and they did hate really well. And in the US they’re doing hate really well and have been at it longer than “liberals”.

[@ian1352]

@@kittiepride7772 What do vaccine mandates have to do with anything? And your other objection is the central government trying to put a stop to conservatives’ long running campaign to disenfranchise people who don’t vote for them. Fact is it is long overdue because conservatives have shown they can’t be trusted on the matter. But no it’s Biden’s fault.

[@teethreeemfore]

The reason Gen Z is so screwed up is because the America we were taught about and the America we are seeing are not the same thing. I can’t believe Civil War isn’t a ridiculous prediction anymore. It’s sad.

[@dustinsindledecker154]

Dude you boomers can't gen z for everything, who runs this country oh yeah the boomers, you cause more division than gen z so stupid a bitter old man and actually talk to your grandchildren instead denigrating them

[@assassinsrequiem]

That's what is making this new generation so angry. They were taught how great America is, how wealthy you could become, how people are treated fairly, and how unity was our best strength because they were told it's called the "UNITED States." Now, they are ambushed by reality & just how absolutely FUCKED they are. Shit wages, expensive living, and luxuries are never going to be theirs. They see themselves entering a world of a dystopia, full of disease, carnage, near lawlessness, poverty stricken neighborhoods on the rise, threats from the ones they were told were there to PROTECT them, and these empires of wealthy that abuse them in the workforce. How can they NOT be absolutely pissed off & become Progressive wanting someone to reign in all this corporate & banker abuse?

[@chrisrhodes2]

The America we were taught was a fantasy though, not reality

[@teethreeemfore]

@@chrisrhodes2 That’s my point

[@Ucedo95]

Have rou read Secular Cycles? A book by Peter Turchin.

[@royw-g3120]

Give Texas to Mexico , make DC a state. Job done.

[@cameron6262]

Nah, just remove California from America.

[@claudioc.5336]

From your friends in Canada, Bill you have been nailing the real issues, and the World recognizes that the USA is faltering and will be vulnerable if things don’t change soon. Good Luck- Canada needs you to get your act together!!

[@alphanerd7221]

The US is still got it's act together much more than Canada.

[@foggy634]

Alpha Nerd....have you ever been to Canada? You havent or you would know better. better healthcare No guns in the streets. Happy. yeah Happy people, We vote and accept the outcomes. Then go back to chatting with our neighbours regardless of their political leanings. its sooo much better then the USA

[@carolmiller5713]

Don't worry, if the republic falls we'll all be moving to Canada and help re-enfoce the borders.

[@undercoverreseller205]

@@alphanerd7221 🤣🤣🤣 yeah, sure. I’ve just escaped the US and returned to Canada after living in what became a social/political hellscape after 13 years. You’re delirious, keep telling yourself that.

[@undercoverreseller205]

@@carolmiller5713 we do actually have immigration laws here.

[@Vlabar]

Bill makes a living telling divisive jokes and then tells us to stop hating each other before its too late

[@bushmg1061]

Well, yeah. But, it’s better than some of the competition

[@Nico_Conradie]

Maher is a liberal hack, all in for the money.

[@bingochoice]

divisive jokes?? name one...what a bullshit observation

[@bingochoice]

@@EJY318 spot on bro

[@michaelangeloevans2722]

@@bingochoice This video itself was divisive.

[@gengstar09]

There’s so much hatred on both sides. I was reading the responses on the Dave Netflix special and the comments were so toxic. I wanted to better understand the reason for the outrage and contribute to the conversation without being called uneducated or transphobic so I just stayed out of it. On the reverse side of the spectrum, I read about vaccinations being mandatory in healthcare fields and tried to understand what the issue was. When I worked for St. Luke’s they required me to have my shots updated as it was for the healthcare of their patients. Reading into it, you see things like “sheep” “test mules” “beta males” for agreeing that vaccinations are helpful.

[@gracepunla4433]

You use too much internet.

[@gengstar09]

@@gracepunla4433 I actually deleted my Instagram and haven’t used Twitter and Snapchat in over a year. I barley use social media as.

[@gracepunla4433]

@@gengstar09 You're still using the internet. Then also do the same on yt. Both sides are pathetic and delusional.

[@gengstar09]

@@gracepunla4433 your comment was that I used too much of the internet. I responded with how I decreased my social media usage to lower my internet activity. I didn’t see where we were talking about abstaining from the internet. But I do agree that both sides are extremely problematic at times.

[@richiemcnabb5991]

"both sides" - you mean the authoritarians and everyone else?

[@ronthomas8108]

Burning down police stations and businesses is just “mostly peaceful protests”. REALLY? Let’s Go Brandon!

[@chenxiaozhou3143]

some of these comments are really proving Bill’s point

[@Mikejones-vy9dx]

Jacky chang

[@marinaagustina2520]

Yes, I agree..... always focus on the negative..... rather than jus enjoy it.

[@thebluntreport8850]

@Lessco Brandon liar..I have been watching/listening to Bill for years and I have never heard Bill promote violence against anybody, gtfoh

[@darthsaban8665]

@@thebluntreport8850 And yet you probably conflated Trump telling his supporters to March to the capitol to peacefully make their voices heard, as a call to violence. You clearly hear what you want to hear as it suits your beliefs

[@feYslYa]

@@thebluntreport8850 watch this clip again but this time imagine yourself to be a conservative, and report back

[@briankunnari]

"Not everything has to be political. You want to heal America, shut the f*ck up for awhile." #preach

[@Force1Com]

yeah I get it... stfu because you're getting what you want politically at them moment. Don't stir the pot, so that more of the U.S. can be hallowed out before people really get ticked off

[@shelll9254]

Agree, Everyone shut up and listen, couldn't hurt...

[@panpluto13]

"They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back" Jean Luc Picard

[@KH4444444444N]

Not again! The line must be drawn HERE! This far NO FURTHER! And III will make them PAY for what they've done!

[@verfuncht]

This would be the greatest comment I’ve ever seen were “Jean Luc” not missing a hyphen

[@dparky1627]

“You know, in some ways, you're even worse than the Borg. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You're more insidious, you assimilate people - and they don't even know it.” - Former Lieutenant Commander Michael Eddington, Star Trek Deep Space Nine.

[@cleo4548]

………………………………………………………………………………………………………. -morn ds9

[@alex35agm]

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few,or the one,which refers to the selfishness of anti vaxxers,thinking of themselves first before the good of the entire country.

[@bigtakeshi]

"If you're wishing them dead, you can be sure they're wishing you dead." Absolutely brilliant!

[@JingleJangle256]

Hatred is difficult to deal with. How can you calm down two sides that don’t trust the other to act in good faith? How can you hope for them to lay down arms when they’d rather use those arms to kill the other? At the same time, I don’t believe a “National Divorce” will work. Not that it can’t happen, but that it won’t solve the problem. What happens when Republicans in Illinois don’t want to be dominated by Chicago? Or blacks in Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, etc? The vitriol won’t stop. The pot will boil over, and dividing up the pot isn’t going to stop it.

[@Ashitaka1110]

Arguably the greatest irony in this nation's history is that it may well be social media, the thing it's creators intended to bring everyone together, that will end up tearing this nation apart. And it does so simply by letting us all expose the darkness in ourselves to everyone else. "As the Scriptures say, 'No one is righteous- not even one.'" -- Romans 3:10

[@CoolBlackKnight]

FACTS

[@lotusmaglite]

"And it does so simply by letting us all expose the darkness in ourselves to everyone else." ...and using their algorithm to pick out the darkest darkness, and shove it in the face of people who will hate it the most, and then shove their angry reactions in the face of the people who will hate _that_ the most, then take _their_ reactions and shove it back in the face of the already-enraged people, and so on, and so forth. We didn't get here without a lot of help.

[@beaudy1012]

No question Social Media and the 24 hour news cycle has hastened the discontent with each other in this country by a couple of decades. But, the root cause has always been the ever increasing hostility and partisan one-upsmanship our "two party" political system has been experiencing for the past 40 years. This 2 party democracy has come to it's logical head and that was predictable and scholars have predicted it long ago. After enough friction....there will be fire. We would have ended up here sooner or later. SM and cable news made it sooner.

[@newagain9964]

Liberals and conservatives don’t live in or even have the same idea of what America is and should be. It’s time for a divorce (at state level too) before it becomes violent.

[@dr3w399]

@@newagain9964 fine im down conservatives get the south and texas and democrats get the rest

[@firefly0203]

Conservative here!!!! Appreciate everything Bill had to say whether I agree politically or not. I like knowing things in this country can be viewed apolitically.

[@praetentious2925]

The problem here is if That Guy says tomorrow cleaning your ass is a communist lie, half the country will stop cleaning their asses, and that stinks

[@michalyne]

Something tells me you're not a Trumper. I consider myself a progressive Republican and the only option these days for me is to vote Democrat, however I know several other Republicans and I assure you if you speak to a Liberal or Democrat one on one you can find common ground.

[@democlips1]

1:33 I agree with Bill, however, it is very difficult not to hate MTG

[@batgurrl]

Every argument goes from zero to homicide is sadly on point Bill. Captain Kirk actually went into space - Just enjoy it. Good advice.

[@skipnick]

the people that need to hear this never will

[@batgurrl]

@@skipnick sad but true

[@bobfg3130]

It doesn't matter. The rich have to be taxed.

[@YaliBomaye]

@Freedom Seeker you must be really easily distracted by things which don't concern you

[@batgurrl]

@Freedom Seeker millionaires going into space is a cheap distraction but he’s Captain Fucking Kirk and the only people who should be upset about it are George Takei or other actors who played Star Trek Captains, otherwise, it’s irrelevant.

[@BruceRichwineJr]

He’s right about so many things, but Bill has to take some responsibility for some of it too. Even in this segment he insulted those he doesn’t agree with. If want real discourse it starts with each individual respecting each other.

[@woodiemarv]

When did he insult someone? I missed it

[@gregc6535]

@@woodiemarv Then you're a liar or stupid if you missed it.

[@stevejones209]

@@woodiemarv He insulted Conservatives, and Trump, which he does at every opportunity. The "othering" has to stop if things are going to improve. If you don't know what that means, look it up.

[@americanrebelking8337]

Exactly. I have a respect for Bill but he also is the problem. I get it he doesn't like trump.. Trump did do good things and people do like trump... trashing those who voted for him is childish. Also Bill is right. Most military and pro 2A are conservative leaning.. so let there be a civil war.. ill take the hairy dumb bush men over the woke red head women who want to be men any day.

[@Nesendrea]

Bill is a comedian, and he makes jokes. Being able to make jokes about ANYthing and not have it fan the flames is PART of a stable society. I don’t get upset when people make jokes at my expense; I laugh right along with them, then get them back twice as good!

[@smokescythe8880]

Wow. This coming from the guy that said he'd be OK with a national recession to get rid of Trump. This state the country is in is where he asked for it to be. Congratulations you got what you wanted. Set the fire then call for the fire truck.

[@seattleite6631]

His point was it's not as bad as an autocrat takeover. Recessions come and go. Trump is still undermining our democracy. He's dangerous.

[@Sneedmire]

@@seattleite6631 Trump isn't president. The Alzheimer-ridden Covid authoritarian is.

[@erickheredia8910]

@@seattleite6631 You guys need a middle ground. Biden is doing a poor job, to say the least. Trump had lots of errors during his presidency. Both can be true.

[@myexescallmetictac8297]

Obamacare screwed me over as a paying privately insured. Do not agree with you there.

[@chrisusher1356]

It always fun to watch Bill's monologue to find the point where hes not making jokes anymore but the audience hasn't gotten it yet. Well done sir.

[@Heath.houston]

@UnitedWeTrip I found the Prime Idiot! Over here, everyone!

[@JohnSmith-zy9ve]

Holy Crap, Bill, your a damn genius. Hope you know that. This is perfect. Both Republicans and democrats need to calm the hell down.

[@praetentious2925]

@Saints and Scholars how?

[@aureate]

@@praetentious2925 He has been calling conservatives evil for a while.

[@majuli8420]

Yes. Both sides. Republicans say "Kill liberals." Liberals say "Be nicer." Great idea.

[@breege8]

Nope, the racist right-wing Conservative Christian extremists who want to send this country backwards 50 years, need to leave if they don't like diversity and progress. They seem to think this is their country, it isn't.

[@breege8]

@@aureate maybe they should stop being evil.

[@_Spacecraft]

“Let’s all deescalate and be kind to each other!” and in the same breath villainizes half the country and pins all of the hatred on them.

[@vrASMR180]

The segment would have had more punch had he really gone after the Left and given examples of their hatred as well.

[@joecramer2263]

Exactly!!

[@Finallysomepiece]

Because there always has to be balance. Not saying the left doesn’t have hate, they do, but it isn’t at the same level as the ultra militant extreme right wing types. The lefts hate is limited to telling jk Rowling she should die and not be involved in Harry Potter anymore. Or walking out of Netflix because Dave chapelle said something they didn’t like. The rights hate literally stormed the capital. Just saying…

[@SchmittySchfin]

@@Finallysomepiece So what you’re saying is the left goes after literally anyone they disagree with, hoping to completely ruin that person’s life and censor any and all thoughts or opinions they come across… and the right went after politicians responsible for the system BOTH sides agree is broken? And somehow you come up with the left is the innocent side? I think maybe you need to rewatch this video and really listen to Mr. Maher.

[@vrASMR180]

@@Finallysomepiece Jan 6 was really dumb but was it truly hateful or violent? Most of the group simply walked into the building, a few windows were smashed, and not a single person was harmed. Aside from the unarmed women in the group that was shot by security on the other side of a door. Is it really so different than other groups marching thru the streets, a by product being some stores are vandalized?

[@littlerainyone]

It's too late. Politics is the religion of modernity, and *especially* for the political left, because it is the only religion you've got, the only thing that gives meaning to your pathetic empty lives, so are you going to "take it down a notch"? No, you can't, not without losing your whole reason for being. Trying to dominate others and impose your vision of the good life is what gives you a sense of purpose and mission. Look, we can be friends as neighbors. You can be friends with all kinds of people provided they don't control your life, so let's get an amicable divorce and part ways as friends. The U.S. is a ridiculous continent nation. Let's break it up and celebrate difference the only way that matters or works, by letting people **actually** **be** **different**!! No, we don't need another "Confederacy". Thanks for that cheap shot, Maher. We need to break up the U.S. into 100 Swiss-style cantons. A "nation" of 330 million is a ludicrous absurdity. The USSR was smart enough to realize that humans don't flourish in continent-sized nations. Why can't we wake up and realize the same?