Grandpa Maher is getting cranky how that he's becoming irrelevant

Safe space and SJW are more appropriate than ever. You're just pissed off that Maher mocks you people.

no he's not. he only has 9m, armin van buren has 40m, howard stern and even ryan seacrest have 20m

Since you asked, here is a glimpse of what I am talking about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4N88w8TYms

While there are several supposed media outlets, they are typically controlled by a few super-rich elites, and they don't really report news anymore, but propaganda to push the agenda of "the establishment". They seek to inundate you with it, hit you from all sides, and demoralize you into not challenging their narrative. When someone does, they refer to it as "conspiracy theory" and such (as they do in this video). Bill Maher is part of this (HBO wouldn't put him on the air if he wasn't). Yes, from time to time he talks about certain small issues that seem like he may independent, but on the big issues, he falls right in line like the rest of them. This coordinated effort extends beyond mainstream media. Many politicians, mostly on the democrat side are part of it (that is why they get such favorable treatment from the media), bureaucrats in the government, particularly the intelligence community. In 2018, several "ex" intelligence personnel ran for office, almost exclusively as democrats

https://www.newsmax.com/platinum/deep-state-cia-anthony-shaffer-spanberger/2018/07/27/id/874169/

Why would that be if there wasn't some coordination. Also, have to wonder if they are really "ex" intelligence and if their loyalties don't lie someplace other than with their constituency. In the last phase, we will extend it out further. Time Magazine, in a story almost bragging about their crime, wrote about coordination between provate companies, big tech, democrats, and others, to sway the election. They admitted to everything except the actual voter/election fraud that anyone paying attention knows was present.

https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/time-mag-trump-was-right-there-was-a-conspiracy-well-funded-cabal-powerful-people-changing-laws-steering-media-and-controlling-the-flow-of-information/

I could keep going

Bill's rants are about more existential things like perceived racism or hatred resulting in an overreach of shaming someone. That obscure NBA player is just one example of that where he supposedly muttered "Kike" while on Twitch playing a friggin video game. Did is verbal slip up mean that he's a Nazi sympathizer? The forced injunction of his career would imply that he is but he's not.

The Georgia voting law fall out is playing itself out with corporate and personal boycotts and the argument could be made that the GOP who are behind these new voting restrictions are themselves practicing "WOKE" culture in that they want a social political setting that supports their viewpoint and way of life. Bill also clearly knows that the Republican-led voting laws are B.S. and an attempt to secure GOP chokeholds on the electoral college process for future elections.

You say it doesn't exist but it's a hot trending topic on every talk show on TV, Radio and the Internet. Well, obviously it does and even though you pointed out that people and societies have censored and censured people for over a millennia. I'm not going to change your mind about that and neither is Bill.

> That brings me to what I DO like about Maher. He's one of a dying breed of celebrity talk show hosts who is actually (somewhat) unafraid to call out hypocrisy (like Piers Morgan)

Yeah, I appreciate that about him too ... but he is so desperate to have something to rant about in the last few years he more often than not gets it wrong - at least as far as I can see.

I think cancel culture is pretty much of a nothing thing. His last run in with political correctness was when he made the "house n-word" comment and had to apologize. That is, he was doing what you said, trying to seem cool and in solidarity with blacks, and people said no. The problem with Bill is that he is so much like Trump. He will fight that forever now, he always has to be right - because he lives along and hires friends, he has a very distorted view of reality.

The other day he was saying how he liked ... I think it was HBO, because they were nice to him. A more Trumpian comment he could not have made. I think he is entering into his old age crisis, maybe even a kind of dementia because his jokes are so stale. He has little patience for others, and constantly interrupts and never lets an actual discussion take place, past his ability to make smart remarks.

It is popular these days to use terms like social justice warrior, or woke, or snowflake, but this is just a less nasty way to discredit people's feelings and rights. He tries to play both sides of the aisle, and you really cannot do that - he is coming down on the side of his class - the rich white guy know it all in power elite.

Maybe you don't realize but 100 years ago the government was sending in troops to kill people for rioting and demonstrating so they would not have to have their children work, or could limit their work day to 8 hours. They used the same dismissive phrases to attack those demonstrators as they do today - but they also used machine guns and baseball bats.

Bill is turning into Donald Trump.

I think a lot more about all this stuff on social media is a lot faker than we ever imagine. It is a violation of people's human rights I think. Freedom of speech should be with respect to a subject matter or issue, or something related. If someone just steps in with a curse word or insult that is irrelevant and unqualified - it needs to be deleted.

And security of identity should be guaranteed, except for all the constant hacks of people's data.