New Rule: The Misinformation Age | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
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When we talk about misinformation, we always focus on the producers, never the consumers. But keeping you safe and sorting out the lies from the truth - that's your job.
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"Lies are all around you, develop a better bullshit detector"
Priceless lesson
That along with "sometimes misinformation is just history's first draft".
@DeftRose
It’s the government who is telling us these lies. There’s a reason that people only get their news from the internet. If Fox News, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC were trustworthy, so many people would be unemployed, and that includes Bill Maher.
Bill is full of shit and you fell for it
A majority of GOP voters believe the lie that Trump won. Misinformation could take down our Republic. Maher is ignoring that to get applause.
fact is humans have very poor bullshit detectors. Its wishful thinking to think we can stop the harmful effects of lies by just developing better bullshit detectors. We are up against people who do this for a living. Spend their whole lives studying how to influence. From psychologists, to writers, to politicians, marketers etc. How does the average person cope against that?
Critical thinking and how to search on the web for information should be a class . From middle school to college.
“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
Indeed. This is the best route, and done impartially. Simply teach how to seek secondary sources and opposing views. The world will and always has been full of lies, as Maher said. It's up to us to sort them and that's one of, if not the main reason, the first amendment exists.
Teachers don't know what the facts are. Better to teach logic. Logic should be mandatory. It was a course in my college.
Before middle school.
When I tell you that there's a World War II government video titled *Hemp For Victory* which encouraged American farmers to grow "Marihuana" to defend our country, people should be able to find it online for themselves just by knowing the title.
But you'd be surprised how many people tell me to post a link to the video, like they don't have the internet. I tell them, "There is an official .gov link to the video from the US National Archives that comes up through Google." Not even that seems to be enough to help people find it. So, I say, "It's also on several UA-cam channels." Since these people are on UA-cam, you'd think that they would know how to find a video on UA-cam. But even that seems to be too complicated for everyone.
Whichever writer had the line about "fact checking a toilet stall wall..." deserves a raise!
It’s a Jimmy Dore’s analogy. It’s a good line indeed.
It’s a really common phrase
Perhaps a better strategy would be to require a right to reply so more people get both sides of any argument? Maybe not...
@@lanternedu33 before that it was a Ricky Gervais analogy. Both legends!
@@JuntaOne Agreed! Thank you Jake
When I was a kid my father told me "DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU HEAR AND ONLY HALF OF WHAT YOU SEE". At the time I thought he was losing it but time has proven him to be correct.
My mother said the same thing. Only now somehow I cannot even believe half of what I see.
And that's the problem. People take that literally and just believe what they want to believe.
Don't believe anything your father told you. Or your doctor, mechanic, electrician....
I don't trust much of anything I hear or read anymore. Very few exceptions to be sure.
And now with photoshop and voice synthesizers you can not believe even that.
Few phrases annoy me more than “your truth”. Thank you, Bill.
Your truth read as your fantasy world. I don't like that phrase or compelled line of thinking it comes with
@@Flexyourmemes need a psychotic break from reality? Own YOUR truth! 🤣
In my experience people that use the word "truth" by itself overabundantly are usually implying "their/your truth". They do the same thing with words like logic, facts and critical thinking, these types of people just love to redefine words period. If enough of them get behind any given definition it will start to stick in their minds as the actual definition.
Or “lived experience”.
100%
From a purely unbiased, sociological perspective, it's been a weird twist to see people on the right begin to commend Maher while people on the left begin to try and metaphorically 'eat' him. For someone that used to be considered solidly on the left side of the spectrum, it shows how far the goalposts are moving.
Democrats are revealing their dark side, whereas the republican “boogeyman” is being debunked and Republicans are more and more seen as supporting core traditional American values: parental control over childhood education, secure borders, law and order and tough sentencing for felons.
The reason is pretty simple, the left has deliberately changed dramatically over the last 5 decades. In the 70s, they were the harbingers or free speech even being willing to defend a member of the KKK. It was the right that was threatening to silence everyone and everything. In the 80s, the left started using PC as a form of censorship and have only gotten worse from there. The left claims they need to censor things everywhere to help protect everyone therefore making it ok. That is exactly the rationale people on the right had often used. Censorship is always the same. Bill and many others on the left have always been against censorship and they have been unwilling to change with the left. I've always been mostly aligned with the left, but I feel the same way as Maher and I know many others that do as well. Today's left is simply unacceptable. They do many of the worst things that people on the left had fought against for decades. Money and power always corrupts.
They only commend him for throwing some shade at the left. They are seething at his statements about religion and their conspiracy theories.
Bill still holds the same Leftist views as he did 20 to 30 years ago, but the Left has gone so far Left that if they take another step they’ll probably fall off the edge
@@andrewstrycker9374 No they aren't. They are the underdogs right now and grateful for scraps of decency. If they ever return to power, then they'll seethe.
I don't always give Bill credit, but he has absolutely hit this one out of the park.
You mean you agree with some of what he says but not others? Imagine that. Imagine not just adopting what someone says wholesale because they happen to be in the same box as you, thinking that everyone in that box thinks the same about all things or that you can’t stay in the box if you don’t check all of the requirements to be there. Imagine that, after checking the intricacies & nuances of a given subject, that sometimes you find yourself falling on the right and sometimes you end up on the left. Y’know what, I’ll stop now coz that’s just crazy talk.
no he didnt today is completley different
you shouldnt he is a stooge. the radio broadcast that caused a mass panic never happened... it was fake news to generate publicity and idiots like maher are still falling for it to this day
Yet he will still vote for the left, who will have us all living in some post 1984 world.
@@hibernopithecus7500 Maher spent years telling the public that a sitting American president was a Russian spy. He told us that Biden was a better pick because Russia preferred Trump. There are dozens of similar instances. Maher has changed his perspective a lot all of since, which is why that guy now agrees with Maher.
"Sometimes misinformation is just history's first draft" ...indeed, well said
and we find too that the final draft of history--"written by the victors"--also can be misinformation.
Hit the nail on the head with this. Always ask "Is this true?" But so many are just looking to confirm an already existing bias. We all fall into the trap now and then, no matter how careful we are, but some seem to embrace it without question.
Why I always shared peer reviewed data that was duplicated during the pandemic to skeptics/conspiracy minded people. My favorite was masks when they claim it didn’t help and I pointed to numerous studies from multiple countries showing it helped and they were silent in response.
@@rc8929 I agree with your tactic. Another that I would use is to ask this question. "If masks do not have a positive effect on limiting in some degree or another the passing of germs among people then why are masks worn during surgeries when a sterile environment is paramount?"
Confirmation Bias: Works Every Time.
Embrace it Some idiots cling to it like it is the word of God
@@rc8929 so you were a double masker? How come every time we had some facts from Fauci they changed the following week?
“Cleaning up Twitter is like fact checking the graffiti on a bathroom stall of a dive bar.”
Truer words have never been spoken.
I've always called my bathroom stall at work, Shitter Twitter.
It takes seconds to make stuff up or share lies. But to provide truth it can takes long hours. It just isn’t worth it in most cases.
A majority of GOP voters believe the lie that Trump won. Misinformation could take down our Republic. Maher is ignoring that to get applause.
You mean a more false narrative has never been spoken. Cleaning up Twitter is simply not banning conservative opinions.
@@steverenom.299 yeah, because what we need is more people preaching about the world been run by lizard people intent on eating our children 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Loved that dead silence when he pointed out the covid misinformation.
Another inconvenient truth: given our failing medical system even 1% is too much for it to handle. That is a thing people hasn't really noticed, how LITTLE was needed to overwhelm the system.
I'm sure the new ministry of truth will be right on top of censoring democrat lies.
The Republican joke was too myopic. Qanon and PizzaGate were quite dumb but they were products of the FAR right. Gender mania, BLM, and consequence free shoplifting are the product of the mainstream left. And they have done infinitely more damage to our country.
If erring on the side of caution means being wrong or dying I’m okay with being wrong, especially when you consider that viruses and infectious diseases have killed more humans than every other cause of mortality throughout all of history combined.
What’s also notable is that since vaccines were first introduced over 200 years ago they’ve been administered to billions of people, providing the largest sample size by far. Hundreds of millions lives saved while the number of people who suffered fatal reactions to them numbers, at most, in the tens of thousands.
Maher’s an entertaining guy but his research team misses a lot of very important information regularly.
And when millionaires talk up how we should just let everyone’s immunity ride I have to roll my eyes.
@@shacktime check the recent release of data from Pfizer.
"It doesn't matter if you did your research on social media."
Damn. That's gold. Pure GOLD!
Exactly, it matters as much as going through your average garbage bin. 😆
I love it how his public laughs when he roasts Conservatives, but when he roasts Democrats, everybody stays silent... confused😆😆😁 he is analyzing critically, and people just want to live in a made up world
Yeah, that was cringy. I'm a liberal and I thought his jokes were funny. Really uncomfortable for the obvious silence.
bill’s the dnc’s B!TCH, Smart American Know!
I wish he had given equal time to the wrong things that liberals have believed in large numbers. I have liberal friends who post "news" on Facebook that fits their world view, and it will be from a satirical website. All they had to do was click on "About This Site" on the menu at the top of the screen, and it would say that it's a satirical website.
This entire monologue on free speech seemed to be a liberal roast. I appreciate Bill is a "classic" liberal, but I don't understand why he still aligns with the anti-white, anti-male, anti-traditional feminism, anti-free speech, anti-police, anti-individual liberty, pro-crime, censoring, pseudo-intellectual, guilt ridden and victimized "new" liberals of today. He is alway welcome to come out of the closet and declare himself libertarian.
Yes, but I think he is based in NY and honesty, I think conservatives seem to be more rigid in their thinking and a night of listening to Bill Maher may trigger, "He's so liberal and against conservatism!" He may want to say a Christian prayer before the hour.
Everyone loves the 1st Amendment until someone says something they don't like.
Finally a serious comment!
Well, it takes two people to say something objectionable, one to utter it and the other to listen! You have the freedom to not listen to what you don’t like!
@@Luqueso1 you mean "Finally, someone who agrees with me" 👍🏼
Actually I love it because then I have the freedom to tell that person just how much I don't like what they said without fear.
@@andrewtodaro2874 Damn right Andrew. I love Black Sabbath....BUT my girlfriend hates it so she doesn't listen.
People used to say, "I may not agree with what you say but I will defend your right to say it." Let's get back to that!
Yeah but now we have mediums that allow horrible people to ruin the world for decent people at an alarming rate.
Who has lost that right?
@@jayray1714 independent, normal every day Americans that didn't jump on the blue hair/pink hat bandwagon when they decided to turn both parties into the equivalent of football teams
People never said that. People used to literally be tortured to death for their beliefs, and in many places outside of the developed world still are.
@@sea_triscuit7980 Source? (as in, actual court cases of "independent, normal every day Americans that didn't jump on the blue hair/pink hat bandwagon when they decided to turn both parties into the equivalent of football teams" for expressing speech)
I’m doing my best to stay in the middle with no party affiliation. Honestly I am a conservative who is thankful for Democrats like Bill who is trying his best to stay in the middle and hold his “side” accountable. I wish there were no “sides”. I try to remain open minded. It’s difficult because the left and the right are becoming more and more radical. Those of us in the middle are left scratching our heads at the insanity.
Cudos to you for not being a mindless sheep, too. I don't get it how people just blindly follow some ideology without thinking for themselves.
I used to think there were two sides to a story, but its more oftten accurate to me to think there usually in a right side and a wrong side. the idea the there is always just 2 sides to the story as if everyone is honest has lost me. meh?
This man is a breath of fresh air. Tells it like it is, calls out the crap on both sides and encourages critical thinking, evidence and basic common sense.
For me Bill’s words make sense, no BS or snake oil politician speak, what you see is what you get. What we need in higher office. Just a thought.
Love the shows mate, fan from across the pond.
It wasn't that long ago Bill was way far left and I know he is still left but how much? I like Bill and am glad he is seeing things from an Independent but I don't know how long that will last.
Someone like that wouldn't last a day in politics.
@@thatguy22441 And that's important how? He is not a politician. He's a TV host and a journalist. I like to use the term "social commentator" and he's a great one.
“Nothing is more true than that lie you’ve longed to hear.”
-Karl Beck
I was very young when I realized my parents were lying to me about the existence of Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. I was incredibly shocked that seemingly all parents were lying to their kids. One thing it did was from that moment on I began to question everything I was told by all adults.
People will find what they look for, no matter what it is.
@@brianpowell2798 thanks. Just beginning my search for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Ministry of Truth" in 1984 by George Orwell | Quotes, "War is Peace," "Freedom is Slavery," and "Ignorance is Strength."
@@dag_of_the_west5416 im sure you know what i was referring to.
If someone wants to find good they will find good, if someone wants to find bad, they will find bad, if someone wants to find racism, they will find it. You get see what i mean? Didnt think i had to spell it out.
Have a good day, im sure you can find it.
"It's like fact checking the graffiti on the bathroom wall of a dive bar," "the martians had the whole universe to invade and they chose... New Jersey?," " it doesn't count if you did your research ON SOCIAL MEDIA." Gems like this make Bill great.
Indeed lololol
LoL he used to be funny keywords used to be
masterchinese28
Maher makes some good points, but there was something very wrong with his info on the Democrats believing those COVID-19 unvaccinated numbers.
One episode by Bill Maher about the 1942 USDA film *Hemp For Victory* could change the world.
He's been on television for how many years now, and he's never once mentioned this.
That just enables the misinformation to continue.
Watch *Hemp For Victory.* See for yourselves how the legalization of "Marihuana" was vital to stopping the Axis of Evil.
Bullshit coming from what used to be the president of the United States and backed up by half of Congress and and international news network aren't simply scribblings on a bathroom wall.
As a college professor, it is beyond frustrating to see an overwhelming majority of students, regardless of class level, completely lack critical thinking and reasoning skills. Kids just "look up" information but have no idea how to critically analyze things. So when I challenge them to do so in my classes, they are bewildered and say that the class is too hard. It is very frustrating to receive students who have not been challenged by the secondary education system and parents, then have those students reject the idea of being challenged.
the wolf. Well said. I am a retired college professor and I would have written pretty much the same thing. After teaching for 30 years I saw the students change. By the time I was ready to retire I felt like I was teaching the 14th grade of HS. Then there are the bribes, whining, feeling sorry for themselves and a whole array of emotional and psychological issues they are completely overwhemed with at midterms and finals. Grandparents dying three times during a semester, never coming to class. But to your point about critical thinking I agree completely. If it's not in the textbook, it's not worth questioning, if they read the text. We will not be sending out best and brightest out into the world is nothing changes. Colleges have been adopting more of a business model. Get the students in and out and so what is they plagaiized or didn't go to class. Get the next crop in.
Being a teacher is a thankless job. People are lazy and resist the urge to reason. I don't understand it. I never will. Keep trying 💪
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything”~ Mark Twain.
That's genius.
I'm always telling people that it's so much easier to tell the truth then to argue a position of Lies.
Brilliant!
It’s funny because bill Maher has seem to forgot his positions about social media and Twitter from 1-2 years ago.
@@kingkontinuum social media has changed from two years ago
You realize Mark Twain isn't a real person. It's a nom du pseud.
Being a religious conservative "with a friend in the sky", I can appreciate Bill for being rational and holding up the values that make us all free and able to discern truth or bs for ourselves. Wish both sides held this common ground with such bipartisan ferocity
As a gay European atheist of Arab and Persian grandparents, I wish every religious post on FB could come with that Fectcheck warning though. It could cure the evils of Iran and KSA within a generation.
Yes, well to be clear since liberals are conflated with "the left" in the narrow bounds of what qualifies of public discourse (uncoincidentally so, and relevant to this entire thing), any _leftist_ ie one with a class consciousness, would agree with you and Bill here, the first amendment is literally the only thing in the constitution that is not absolute dogshit, ie an intentionally constructed rube goldberg machine of baffles to dissipate accountability and cement class power (see: Federalist papers, Federalist 10 by Madison comes to mind) explicitly to _suppress_ democracy, contrary to our ubiquitous mythology (also "fun" fact: we literally stole most of it from the Iroquois Great Law of Peace...still "savages" though apparently). Liberals and _especially_ the democratic party are in no way shape or form "left" in any meaningful sense (anticapitalism), foundationally that they support the fundamental root cause of this social antagonism which is capitalism. Spinoza comes to mind, _"why do people fight for their servitude, as if it were their salvation?"_
Bill _momentarily_ (and somewhat indirectly, though it could have led somewhere other than the banal truisms masquerading as insight, had he answered it) asks the correct question, really the _only_ political question of _cui bono?_ (who benefits?) when he asks "who gets to decide what is misinformation?"...but then just immediately moves on without actually answering it, apparently only asking it rhetorically for what I can only presume is supposed to be comedy (to me at least, oof, painfully unfunny). Freedom of speech under capitalism is guaranteed only to those who own/control a platform in which to be heard.
_“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”_ - some guy
Like my god, instead of perpetually reacting to this inconsequential "culture war" ideological/aesthetic smokescreen, anyone complaining about "culture" in general should maybe consider that "culture" doesn't spontaneously generate from the ether, it is _cultivated_ by the way we organize _material reality_ in terms of ownership and control which then directs social relations, existence _precedes_ essence (see: Sartre). Class, unlike all this other idpol nonsense, does not depend on subjective interpretation and is externally independent organization of material reality that defines orientation of one's _material_ interests. Importantly the class dynamic between the capitalist class and the working class is antagonistic, diametrically opposed, and zero-sum. The only success of the capitalist class is the working class's defeat, inevitably with tidal material forces now entirely out of any individual control, this in actuality ends up in their common ruin of these contending classes (climate change _alone_ ).
_"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air_ [Metaverse/NFTs/Crypto/finance/tech bs, all unconsciously undergirded by global US corporate empire entirely taken for granted], _all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."_ - some guy, again, a bit optimistic at the end we wouldn't just choose individual delusion while the planet literally burns around us...
Socialism or [continued] barbarism.
He forgot to mention, the BS of being able to change genders.
Yep!
I too can appreciate what Bill Maher Has to say. Being a Christian Conservative/ Libertarian Thinking person, I do not always agree with him. I know he is a comedian and can be a bit snarky, I do hear when he speaks sensibly. The problem is I do not hear enough from people on the "left" that claim to be liberals, But speak like socialists with a marxist ideology. I believe that Elon musk is more of a true liberal than the employees and "fact-checkers" on Twitter. Elon Musk is a liberal, but suddenly extreme leftists have come out of the woodwork to demonize him, because they don't feel he is lock/step with their marxist agenda, disguised as Democrat/Liberal ideology.
I still remember being 8 years old in school when we watched a (VHS) video in class on advertising. They talked about how ice cream in commercials is really just crisco, how they arrange burgers in ads, and specifically I remember them pointing out the small "this isn't real" text at the bottom of a Pogo Ball toy ad. Weirdly that video alone changed how I see media for the rest of my life.
A friend of mine who did props for commercials, use to substitute motor oil for syrup in Aunt Jemima ads…..it actually does look a lot better that way. 😆
All marketing departments hire professional liars. I'm a scientist and their mindset is an anathema to our way of thinking.
Thanks to your teacher 👏💚
MSM, Government, is nothing more than Theatrics
I love how the crowd went dead silent when he started talking about the other side falling for misinformation. 4:48
That's because he didn't say it in the same format, it wasn't meant to be a punchline, he said it as a truth to point something out and it made people think. Not sure how you don't get this
@@rum-hamI don't think so. Bill Maher's captive audience wants to laugh more than they want to think. listen to any of his monologues on controversial issues. He is adept at balancing the dominant narrative with critiques of that narrative. Audience members are often afraid to laugh at those critiques. This is one such case.
However, I think Bill IS actually wrong on that one though when he says "somehow misinformation got to those people" who thought that "41% of Democrats replied that at least 50% of unvaccinated people have been hospitalized due to COVID-19". That's not a case of the left-wing media spreading misinformation -- seriously, find me any source that made up anywhere close to those kind of numbers. Rather, it's just a case of too many people's utter inability to grasp statistics.
That's because people are more likely to get tripped up and believe an incorrect statistic surrounding a medical issue or some other fact that's impacting the whole planet; Sure these folks should have done their due diligence. But what is certainly laugh worthy are those believing and spreading stuff like "Lizard people are in control of the government".
@@bearer0975
No. It just wasn’t a joke. Did you laugh at that statistic?
“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”
- Oscar Wilde
True
I'm not young enough to know everything. J.M. Barrie
The old are aware of nothing.
Couldn't have said it better. 😁
And old farts like him are arrogant enough to think THEY know everything
This is why I like and respect Bill Maher. He doesn’t just fall into line with “his side” and he even calls them out when he doesn’t agree with them.
The world needs less sheep.
kevin less sheep for sure.... but more lambs 'cause I LOVE LAMB SHANKS!
Ehh Bill is a bit more honest but he’s still bias and pretty blind in some areas
Bill is a wolf in sheep's clothing . He's a commie .
Maher is fair in that respect..I just like his guests
@@barne3668 I’m not a lambologist!
*“You are young yet, my friend,” replied my host, “but the time will arrive when you will learn to judge for yourself of what is going on in the world, without trusting to the gossip of others. Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."--- “The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether” by Edgar Allan Poe*
Cool. The song of the same name is my very favorite Alan Parsons song ever and I am a major fan. Your comment was the first time I have heard a quote from the text, which I have never read.👍
gordon, I have never read that title by E.A.Poe, before. I’ll look it up. Thanks ☺️.
LOOK OUT FOR THAT BUS
Did you reach that level yet?
That's right! We seem to be living in a world where some people can't think for themselves and need to be told what to think. Because they're too damn lazy to go find the damn Truth themselves.
It's like, not only have we become physically fat and lazy... But we've become mentally fat and lazy too! And can't be bothered to eat right, think right, sleep right or exercise right. I.e. we can't be bothered to take responsibility and look after ourselves... And so rely on others to wipe our ass!
"sometimes misinformation is history's first draft." I like that!
Yes, like that too!
Such a simple yet profound statement.
and sometimes the final draft of history--written by the victors--turns out to be misinformation as well
As a life long moderate Democrat thank you Bill for reality, Stop being a bunch of Whinny babies who believe only your opinion matters.
Clearly, that Pope, who warned against pernicious use of the printing press, was Innocent.
I see what you did there
Lol, the European history buffs are in the chat.
Unlikely.
Eso fue lo que no perdonó la Iglesia a Lutero: una biblia en idioma nacional.
"We called this number and we DIDN'T have a good time" gave me a good chuckle
Love that you’re bringing back good fair intelligent comedy. Keep it up.
What ?
I couldn't agree more. I love it.
Spreading common misconceptions is not intelligent.
Comparing religion to fake news is not intelligent either.
@@MargaritaMagdalena LIke what common misconceptions? Name them.
Bill’s special “Be More Cynical” was by far his best. Much more tightly focused than his most recent specials.
I noticed that Bill's audience laughed at Republican's misinformation, but got real quiet when he called out Democrat's misinformation.
overwhelming evidence that republicans are more likely to believe and promote misinformation. There's actual researchon that. "Do your research"
They don’t like it when he’s talking about them, hits too close to home.
It's almost as if "democrat misinformation" is trivial compared to just how destructive, and prevalent, republican misinformation is
Bill trying to ‘both sides’ it - I question whether any significant number of Dems actually thought that close to 50% of unvaxxed people were hospitalized. I am quite well read & keep up with news and have never heard the claim. I call BS. What I do recall is hospitals being so overwhelmed that at times they couldn’t take any more patients- which is quite true .
I thought they play the soundtrack for that themselves. If it is live then for sure it is a biased audience.
Such an amazing and refreshing monologue. I consider myself a mix between a staunch conservative and old school liberal. Although Bill has some views I vehemently disagree with, I sincerely appreciate and respect his voice in today’s world.
I'm younger and have only known post-Reagan politics. As I dig through history, I find I would have aligned with the JFK era Democrats more than anyone else. Sadly, that era of democrat is solidly right of center in the US political spectrum today. JFK would be conservative in modern politics because the spectrum has shifted but those around him in the spectrum don't want to put the same plans/programs in to place that he would have.
Bill I have to say I love listening to you. I'm not of the same political ideology as you are but love to hear your takes. Keep on doing what you do. One of you fans from Georgia!
he still has TDS. He's only waking up to old issues
@@nuckygulliver9607 unfortunately there are a lot of people that have tds. I will say that I was a supporter of Trump and backed him in both elections but him latching on to Marjorie Taylor green and Dr Oz while attacking Governor Kemp (who btw most people of Georgia likes) has pushed me away. With the way he constantly harps on losing the election he sounds like Stacy Abrams or hillary clinton to me and a lot of people.
@@kennethwilliams1390 you sound like a liar
@@kennethwilliams1390 Extremists on either side are becoming the norm anymore. Why can't we find someone who just wants to make cannabis legal, loosen some of the more draconian laws on firearms (or at least take no further action, legally, against firearms) and generally leave us alone?
@Kenneth Williams
Because Kemp voted for Trump's 2nd impeachment + he couldn't secure election integrity.
He is a snake-like RINO
“The Martians had the whole universe to invade…. And they chose New Jersey?”
Don’t usually find myself laughing at Bill Maher’s jokes but damn that was funny.
His joke is based on actual 'sightings'. Doing technical support years back, I once had a call from a friendly fellow who told me about the interdimensional appearance of alien ships every Thursday night on a hill in... New Jersey. - - It is astounding what we humans create and believe inside our Inner Worlds. If only the science of psychology would grow up and deal with who and what we really are inside our heads. Sometimes I get the idea that we don't want to know.
Bill your misleading ua-cam.com/video/tzlqH0_OUTQ/v-deo.html
I've got the clowns DVD's from the Kissinger Inside Job Bush years, which were funny; but when he went left for a decade, then realised it is a dead end for his money &/or freedom, he has the idea to seek normal again; which is where that Jew Jersey funny got people. P.S. UA-cam was on autoplay for a news vid (a D Trump Jnr bit), the only reason I caught it.
3 replies but one was deleted. I wonder what that reply said.
@@zunipus I think his joke his more based on the fact he himself is from Jersey
Praise God for Bill coming out against the insanity. Man we needed this a few years ago Bill. Better late than never.
What? He's been going on about it since Trump got inaugurated and Spicer was on camera lying and making misinformation about crowd sizes compared to Obama's inauguration.
"Praise God for Bill" :) I think Bill would have something to say about the irony in that statement ;P
@@Derrek84 There isn't any irony in that statement though? Lol who cares that bill vehemently doesn't believe in god and hates religion, he's allowed to do so and luckily he's one of the few atheists who likely wouldn't care that someone has the opposite beliefs to him. Praise God/god/the buddha/allah/and/or the Universe for someone on his side of the isle fiiiiiinally standing up to the mob even if it's just a little bit, on certain issues.
Freedom of speech, debate, and being a place where people with different views live together and have to shut up and deal instead of attacking everyone that doesn't have the approved set of views, that's the foundation of our country. It needs to stay that way, instead of this Ministry of Truth BS
“God” is one of the insanities Bill comes out against regularly.
How would this keep those that won't question what they are told from detecting bullshit a few years ago?
Hence, the good old saying. "Once I almost knew everything. Then I got older.."
@Braeden Bonilla that's an easily detectable spam bot, given that this comment is a character-for-character duplicate of one that was sent to me a week ago
youtube is really falling behind the curve
"Don't the 'wokest people in the world believe what really matters is your truth?'" - Priceless.
You're attacking woke?! You say, "Don't the wokest people in the world believe what really matters is "your truth".. WTF! Since when did Maher side with the right against "woke"! I'll break it down for ya Bill; Defination of woke; "JUST be nice to others". Politically; To be conscious of social and racisal injustices!?
Oh but even if that's right, Bill has the answers, "Yell about how those issues are already a crime?" How did woke; Treat others how you'd like to be treated .. how did it go from that, to a selfish Bill Maher meaning, "It's all about ME and "My truth" ... And criminal behavior is already illegal? WOW!
Bill for decades you use to be the King of tremendous earth breaking insights! All my friends would talk about your past shows and anticipate your next show all week! "What revelations with humor will he bring us this week!?" But lately, aren't you just the King of ... Zero insights while turning on the left! (And after what the last 5+ years of trump and the GOP taking America to the edge!) It's America's fault that Russia turned evil because we didn't abolish NATO and greet the past KGB socialpath with open arms the minute the USSR failed?!
Bill, it's only because of your "past" years of unbelievable insights that allows your smug arroganance to survive NOW ... And I'll yell ya, you've always been arrogant but without all those awesome insights, it really shines through now. Sorry .... everyone I know, including myself, really use to idolize you! 😢
“YOUR truth”?? There are OPINIONS, and there are FACTS. Your “truth” is just your OPINION, and I may have a different OPINION about the FACTS.
If you bring 20 people into a room with no windows; ask them to close their eyes and point north. You will have 20 people pointing in 20 different directions, yet there is only ONE true north.
Bill is one of the few willing to call out the bullshit all around us coming from every direction.
yeah, he doesn't play the partisan game. unfortunately, many people on both sides will only play short clips that support their view. tiktokers will nod their head as if they've ever had an original thought and it really grinds my gears. back to you, Tom
In an age of extremists we need a Centrist.
@@jeepdan7776 - The right has gone SO far right, that the mainstream democrats have essentially become centrists. I'm a lifelong conservative and as much as I dislike the spending, everything else about the Democratic party is far closer to conservative values than ... the modern/Trump-inspired GOP.
No he isn’t. He’s just the only one who claims to be on the left who will call out the BS
@@donaldhavasy2356 - What "BS" exactly? If you listen objectively rather than hearing what you'd like, you realize he's not "calling out", he's explaining the hypocrisy of EITHER side, the further you get from center, or the further you get from "democracy", which is governing based on the voice of ALL people (through their elected leader) and diverse beliefs.
Bill doesn’t change but our culture keeps making him more and more necessary and right.
He has turned into an angry old mental patient. Screaming at kids theyre all the problem.
Whoever commented on this, we can't see your comment.
@@EveryDayImJocelyn YT has really upped their censorship. Go to any of your favorite sites and most will read x number of replies but you only get to see a few. Imagine how many original post we never get to see.
@@theredbirds3896 it's quite concerning. Idk if you were the original commenter but I can see your reply just fine. I've been seeing this increasingly. Particularly on political posts.
he has to change. he's way too bright. He knows the progressives are going to be cancelled sooner or later AND he doen's want to be caught up in the massacre.
As a rational human, I liked your monologue, even if I didn't agree with every single word.
I verify everything from everyone and use my very own brain to figure out the rest.
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Has that included your faith in god?
@@NebraskaGonvilleJones you answered it for him, lol.
“Faith” in god! Faith by definition doesn’t need proof or reason. Just needs Faith.
I lol'd when i heard the Trump blonde joke lol and im all for most of Trumps policies he had to tone down on twitter when he was on imo (dont hurt me 😄) and evem tho Bill is a Dem supporter, I like his content!! Some comtext I dont agree with but thats the joy!! Of agreeing to disagree.
You don’t have to say “every single word.” Christ, grow the fukk up. Went without saying forever. Stop letting blue hairs dictate what you say.
“ If you don’t read the newspaper your uninformed. If you read the newspaper, your misinformed. “
Mark Twain.
Wow, the audience laughed when he pointed out the foolish beliefs of Republicans but when he pointed out the same about Democrats you hear a pin drop. Says a lot about his audience.
It wasn't a punchline. There was nothing comedic about it.
@A.D. Hanson. You people who are pointing this out do realize that half of Bill's audience are conservative's, don't you?
@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou I don't know, I find it pretty funny.
@@randysteele6741 I doubt it. At least not in the studio.
If the audience had been Republican Bill would have to stop and explain, using very short words, just what the fuck he was saying.
I'm SO happy I took Bill Maher's advice and found out all his misinformation about Israel's policies and treatment of those that are not Jewish! Thanks Bill!!
I'm sure he'd advise you to do your own research too.....
Bill "I hope the economy collapses so Trump will be voted out" Maher.
He's worth 140 million. His Jewish mother is taken care of. Screw the peasants.
Is that treatment anything like non-Muslims are afforded in Egypt or Pakistan or Malaysia or Indonesia or Iran or Saudi Arabia……………? OR….is that treatment similar to that afforded to Jews in historically Christian nations……..? So….Israel is YOUR boogyman…..boring -
@@johnmckeag1048 Like the black Ethiopian Jews STERILIZED by Israel. Disgusting tribalism.
Why do I feel like you already had your preconceived ideas beforehand and didn’t actually research anything 🤔?
Thank you for being a shining light of logic, intelligence and wisdom. Hopefully your logic starts to spread - it needs to for our society to move forward.
If he supports people having different opinions then why does he shadow ban people from his UA-cam channel who express them?
All of the wisdom and logic and worldly rational of man is but foolishness to God
@@taekwondotime You honestly think that its Bill shadow banning you and not Google?
@@ElDarric Google can only shadow ban based on keywords, phrases, etc. I'm not writing anything with expletives or other offensive words. Someone has to actually READ my comments (I'm sure his channel puts comments through a review process before they get posted) and so someone is reading them and deleting them.
@@ElDarric Perfect example: Occasionally my comments will show up if I REPLY to an existing thread, but whenever I start a NEW comment thread, nobody can ever see it. I started one 12 hours ago and nobody can see it.
We called this number and we DIDN’T have a good time. 😂
Our culture used to bombard us with constant reminders to think objectively. Our old sitcom plots were almost always about recognizing the problem and solving the problem. The Twilight Zone would sometimes even scare us into thinking objectively. Our music was pretty thoughtful and profound as well(Cat Stevens, Logical Song, USA For Africa, Lennon, Stevie Wonder, The Gambler etc.) We're no longer reminded to have just plain old common sense.
What a curious statement. It is as if somebody did NOT want us to think for ourselves...
Star Trek's a great example of this. It used to use alien civilizations and stories to explore a social issue, and look at both sides even if it was biased towards one.
Now in Star Trek they find some hot twitter target, literally show that target, go "Bad thing bad! Bad thing bad!" and then move on without even tying it to the story. Like they had a character get arrested by ICE for like 3 episodes and it said absolutely nothing about it and dropped it like a rock once he left.
@@xhagast Really? Did we not have that thing called The Fairness Doctrine? Have you never seen All In The Family, Barney Miller, or The Jefferson's? When was the last time you watched an episode of Andy Griffith? Even Mork&Mindy was designed for introspection. Munsters reminded us of perspective. And what about the music we loved? Where's today's unity of We Are The World, the cleverness of 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, or crossover power of The Pointer Sister's Slow Hand? We just had an actor recieve a standing ovation after slapping a comedian and then cursing like trailer trash on a live Oscars broadcast. We don't really think like we use to.
I'm sure Bill would agree with me on all of this. Well.. most of this anyway.
@@kingcassius2586 Are you arguing against this point or adding to it? According to Wikipedia the Fairness Doctrine was ended in 1987 and eliminated from the Federal register entirely in 2011. All of your examples are from before '87. Seems like xhagast is on to something.
King Cassius
I enjoyed reading your post. More idyllic back then in a quaint way as a country that wasn’t moving so fast and talk radio was an avenue for discussing life instead of daily conservative demagogues conditioning virtually half the country. You, me and others have seen this change before the internet put it on steroids.
Maher is missing the big picture
Misinformation and lies are not the same. It's not about being better at detecting lies. It's about being able to analyse information.
DAMN this was probably one of his best "new rules" ive ever seen. agreed with every line. Thanks Bill! :D
The best one was China already won! Hilarious!
Problem is Bill thinks he knows everything. But will not admit it. He defined what that makes him. I recognize his clever BS.
he couldn't be more wrong. If he was right we wouldn't see half the nation willing to end American democracy over the blatant lies of a failed rug salesman/president. Hell, we wouldn't have even had him for president if the whole country had a passable set of critical thinking skills.
Yes. But Thank GOD for the Clapping seals. 👍👍.
@@mawavoy you mean his writers think they know everything, they know all they have to do is throw a Trump insult in there and his cult members will blindly follow
Watching this from nothern Mexico where i live and where I am from, just went to Catholic Mass this morning to meet my "friend in the sky" I think Bill is quite right on a lot of things and his sense of humor is marvelous. I think one gets a lot of valuable insights from his show.
Congrats to all American fellows reading this.
I will never live in the USA, ( I'm ok here) but I visit almost every year and I think you have the best country ever existed. Doesn't matter if you are left or right, be proud, protect it, improve it. You are blessed to be Americans. Keep being a candle in the world.
the best country ever existed.... Really ?? And you know this how ? You did visit many, many, many other countries on a regular basis as well I suppose.
After watching this I'm convinced Bill is talking about everyone else but me.
I hear that, and to add to that, he's talking about himself also but he's too up his own ass to realize it. Twitter is a garbage platform for lazy people anyway, who are on their to consume the garbage that other people put out. He misses the forest for the trees way more often than hes right. I've been paying attention to current events for basically 2 years out of 37 and I never had watched his show before 2021, and I long ditched twitter and facebook because I saw where it was going.
The one thing I'll give him credit for is hes right that people are too stupid to fact check things, or do any real research, unfortunately he's in that category also. John Oliver squeezes more information and is a shit ton funnier , with only 30 minutes, Bills show is an hour, he talks over people he disagrees with, and lets whoever holds his viewpoint ramble on. He's been on the air long enough to produce something way better than what he puts out, yet he consistently just reaches for the low hanging and tired fruit.
I only pay attention to politics at all because I started to recognize where things were heading around mid 2020, and sadly I've been right about almost every prediction I've made, because none of the information that formulated my opinions came from social media.
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When Bill Maher is a voice of reason, you know we are in some stupid times
Bill has been Gold for decades
Yes, you could grab any idiot out of the 80s who would spout you the exact same wisdom but more to the point. I'm not sure exactly when/how everyone got so stupid, but I feel like it was around the late 2000's. But yeah props to Maher for keeping his balls intact. 👍👍 He's right, ridiculous to view Musk as some sort of savior when he's just being baseline moral. All the same, good thing someone's trying to put the brakes on these weird high-level maniacs.
@@RobFraxedas ". I'm not sure exactly when/how everyone got so stupid..." Check out, "The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr, my friend. Or even his piece titled, "IS Google Making Us Stupid" (From 10 years ago!) ~~~> Use of the internet literally shrinks the areas of your brain associated with everything that makes us human (!), attention span, memory, the ability to think deeply about complex things and put new information into our heads! "We" knew this 10 years ago...but as the song says, "who can stand in the way when there's a dollar to be made?"
@@redwolf915 Bill's way behind. He's watching two year old Tucker Carlson videos. He's really low info and his mind is shaped by his leftist guests
@@codywhistlesnatch8274 Isn't it crazy? And if you bring such a thing up around people, even really smart people, everyone just shrugs uncomfortably. I guess we've crossed the "event horizon" of Pandora's box here? Thank you, I will check these out!
Kinda rings hollow when both UA-cam and HBO are far more censored than Twitter
Yeah I’ve had a few comments deleted on here
Twitter's sole purpose is as a commenting platform. UA-cam is a video platform with an added bonus of being able to comment. I agree it's extremely annoying when your comments get deleted. Believe me. But they're not in the same league. It's like saying that McDonald's has substandard salads. They're McDonald's. They're not there for salads. And them being substandard is certainly not the same as some high end vegan restaurant having a substandard salad. The later being Twitter...not that there's anything high end about Twatter...or special about salads...but you get the point.
UA-cam has these terrible bots shadowban comments CONSTANTLY if the wrong combination of words get used.
Twitter was the king of not just censorship, but of only allowing one opinion. I am glad to see it smashed and turn into a place for free speech.
@@ivareskesner2019 I agree. Twitter is more valuable for public discussion. UA-cam is more useful for education and entertainment
"I called this number, and I did not have a good time." 😂
I'm so happy to hear what you have to say and that there is someone like you talking on american tv!!
Damn Bill...you hit every nail on the head. Every week, you speak the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I wish more folks would get their heads out of their a**es and wake up! Thanks for keeping it real...on Real Time.
Be careful what you ask for..lol those of us who's heads are NOT up our asses can think independently and don't need the likes of BM to explain to us or tell us what to think..lolol
@@ep1789 Maher is too smart to be wrong on manchin and sinema ... After taking all that money ... And he has been "wrong" more and more lately at slamming the left and defending the GOP!
And right after the biggest corruption that almost brought down AMERICA! Seems like Maher saw rogen go from the middle of the road, to backing the GOP without losing the dems while gaining popularity with the right ... $$$
@@ep1789 And yet here you are
Absolutely correct and oh so true
@@yonatangoldman9759 the only reason and ONLY reason Bill has changed his ways is for Ratings! Late night is being stomped by Greg Gutfield and he knows it so he’s basically just copying Greg. Bills delivery is not near as crisp as Greg’s because his heart is not really into it
"when we talk about misinformation we always talk about the producers, never the consumers" - when I heard this, I knew this segment was gonna rock. Prepare for more woke democrat backlash, Bill. They don't like personal responsibility.
Whew, that irony. More empty crying about the "woke" boogeyman while desperately trying to pretend the right cares about "personal responsibility", lmao
@@hannibalb8276 🫃🫃🫃
Womp womp
Profiles encourage -what an abuse of a moniker. It sounds to me like you're a a part of the Matt Geatz freak show
Some of us are just fine with personal responsibility. He's not saying anything I haven't been telling my fellow woke leftist liberals for years. I just wish more of them would listen.
This all is so well illustrated in John Milton's "Areopagitica". That was good call out on Pope Innocent VIII and the printing press censorship. Censorship is never a healthy sign, yet societies do this naturally. The first books they allowed to be published were biblical horror stories like "Faust". It is important we keep Free Speech and maintain the Separation of Church and State in our Constitution.
Gotta love the just little too enthusiastic laughter and applause for moderatly humorous lines, oh and your feigning humility for such wit.
Your essays are brilliant just wish the audience would listen and not feel the need to show how clever they are .
Really cuz I infrequently react much to shit and I had just about the exact same reaction the audience had on every one of the points. Idt it’s just the humor being reacted to, but the humor tied in with what couldn’t be more perfect advice the country needs to hear right now. Drives passion out of you like gasoline and then the humor is the spark that sets it all off
all left-leaners are desperate to do that...
Its because they know hes talking about them.
Sycophants.
I went to a "Comedy Club" a couple of years ago. Sat through three different routines. Not one chuckle, not even a smile. Could have heard a pin drop. Had sense enough to get up and walk out. Comedy is dead.
my father and I loved watching real time, before he passed. he was an old hippie. I feel he'd agree 1100% with your take, Bill.
@NBA could... could you not? please? every comment I make on a Bill Maher vid, I get your automated reply.
Sorry for your loss.
"Sometimes misinformation is just history's first draft". Nice one.
Bill Maher for President!
A “better bullsh*t detector” requires some intelligence and a willingness to think for oneself. Two qualities severely lacking for most people.
Also two qualities that make a population hard to brainwash, which is what authoritarians require.
...and the problem is that everyone thinks these qualities are only missing in the people they disagree with.
@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou At least from the centrist viewpoint moving rightward, we are'nt losing sleep over the viewpoints on the other side, or losing the ability to 'jew spot' them on social media.
Before the p(L)andemic was forced upon us, I gave any random person in their 60s the benefit of the doubt as being generally more intelligent and individual than us younger people. Now I see there’s a lot more old fools who are simply going through the motions while being led by political propaganda and big-money interests for most of their lives.
@@SteveVon7 Not sure what you mean.
As a native New Jerseyian, I approve of this 2:40 burn.
The woke audience was eerily silent when the bit about Covid unvaccinated hospitalizations came up. Priceless.
That's his entire audience. He needs to poke them or it's not funny for the rest of us.
The USA just crossed 1 MILLION dead from Covid, and your only response is going to be "Nu uh."
if you think misinformation is a one-way street, you've never been on Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr.
Bill and Team, love your work, thank you 🙌🙏
_“Sometimes misinformation is just history’s first draft.”_
This was quite something. Bill has the intellect and courage to message truth in a way no one else can.
“ develop a better bullshit detector”. Might be best advice Bill ever gave! 😂😂😂
True story. We were in the UK and France during the 2020 campaign/election period. My daughter wanted to see what Trump was actually saying on his official campaign website. While in France she received a disclaimer stating "this website may contain false information and should be viewed with caution."🤣😂🤣
wow
crazy!
That’s because Trump is a proven pathological liar.
I agree with everything Bill said but that's not the only problem. Another problem is calling "misinformation" and censuring information you just don't like to hear because refute something you think or a message you want to send.
Yes! Every time I posted about Xlear Nasal Spray that has been shown in university studies to kill Covid, it was labeled misinformation.
The first amendment does not apply to anything other than the government. People who think otherwise lack critical thinking skills.
THAT SOUNDS LIKE RUSSIA TALK TO ME! WHAT'S THE WEATHER LIKE IN ST PETERSBURG???
You have a Z in your name sir. We know who you are!
What is objectionable about a "Ministry of Truth"?
My favorite Lib.
Well said Bill!
Bill is so right. We all need better bullshit detectors, but should be allowed to see everything
One of the Capitol rioters charged with minor offenses said in his defense .. and I'm paraphrasing .. I don't know what happened . I was coming off of binge watching Fox News and reading chat boards and I guess I just lost it ! This is not who I am .
While that's true, the baby boomers who do not understand disinformation or those who were not taught critical thinking in high school are very susceptible to Russian propaganda. This is a huge problem that the US is not really addressing
@@AndiDuck - That example could be used to argue either side. Some might say that allowing Fox... it's very difficult to call them News... led to this person's crimes. On the other hand, and to echo a conservative phrase that has probably been previously used by the very same person in your example, this is a matter of personal responsibility.
I'm not sure if I'm arguing with you or against you... just throwing out random thoughts your example inspired.
There's a World War II video made by the US Department of Agriculture that encouraged American farmers to grow "Marihuana" to defend our country and defeat Fascism. The video is called *Hemp For Victory.* It was banned from history books and public broadcasts for almost 50 years after World War II in order to wage the war on drugs. The film was uncovered in the Library of Congress in 1989 and has been officially available to the voting public from the US National Archives since 1990. There is an official .gov link to the film on every cellphone. It's been there for decades now. It is openly available from the US Federal government and it is on several UA-cam channels, but still barely anyone has heard of it and even fewer people care, even as millions of selfish, ignorant consumers vote in state after state to "legalize" Cannabis for corporate profit.
@@RictusHolloweye - Sending you and ThE DuCk thumbs up, because the conversation seems legit.
When someone says they've " done my research", ask them for their footnotes and bibliography. 😎✌️🇨🇦
I've had people link me articles literally written by the Chinese propaganda wing as proof of things, and refuse to accept that they aren't reliable.
The R word makes me cringe now.
Good critical thinking was the most important skill that I learned in college. I seems I use it more and more each day. My big concern is that democracy and its underlying process of compromise breaks down when a large number of folks no longer bring reasonable ideas to the table. How can I compromise with someone who believes that the Earth is flat? We live in a scary time indeed.
This should be mandatory viewing for kids. College kids as well.
I agree with Bill, but I wish he had spoken about the algorithms social media companies use to intentionally enflame things. An open town square is one thing, but I don't want a billion dollar corp giving the worst people there a megaphone so they're heard more than everyone else. Keep it a fair playing field.
I love that Elon wants to make the algorithm open source and adjustable.
And it's hard to believe how many people just go along with Bill when the algorithm and suppression are the real problem
Or choose not to participate? Unplug?
@@taylorc2542 it's nice that he wants to do it, but I'm working in that area and most algorithms are inherently difficult to comprehend when it's based on machine learning. One you get to millions of variables, which is not a very big one nowadays, it's nigh impossible to verify any of it.
So it's nice, but not going to do much.
@@beentheredonethatoriginals5673 The algorithm doesn't create liberals or conservatives. It doesn't direct your attention away from any specific viewpoint. It DOES however foster whatever viewpoints you find the most interesting, and in some extreme cases, it can cause people to radicalize. Suppression on the other hand is something the companies who own these tools use to silence people they disagree with. However as hard as they fight to remove things, there will always be others stepping up into their place. Just like how the flag at Fort McHenry had people holding up the sign of freedom, each time they were taken down, someone stepped up to take their place and keep it held high.
I love the silence when Bill says, "somebodies misinformation got to 'those' people". He doesn't realize at this point his entire audience is made of "those" people.
He knows that dude
Takes like this are the reason Bill is the one late night host I can still watch. He's mostly too centrist for a radical lefty like me but I am 100% with him on this one and it is SO goddamned good to hear it from a prominent media voice
So you fully support Trump and the 1000s of other conservatives being allowed back on Twitter then right??
@@WKRP187 Yep. 100%. I was very vocally opposed to them being removed in the first place
@@00SmileTime00 👍
@@WKRP187 Trump should be locked up in jail for numerous crimes, forget twitter smh.
@@WKRP187 why shouldn't they be allowed on there? Aside from Trump who incited violence. But in what way is it okay to segregate a whole political party from an app just because we don't agree with what they say?
And if roles were reversed?
Doesn't matter what your political values are. Freedom of speech is important.
Social media has become the break room at work. Nobody giving their real opinion for fear of getting censored or banned.
"You have the right to be an asshole". That is a right a lot of Americans exercise vigorously.
Still better than the GOVERNMENT telling us who the assholes are when it is THEY who are the biggest and most dangerous ones.
Really should have cut to Dennis Leary at that point though.
As an American, I agree.
Yep, this is spot on, along with 90 odd % of latest rule, always look forward to checking it out. I just wish the studio audience wasn't there, totally annoying!
Ikr? If he would get rid of that live audience it would make it such a better show. So many times they miss the joke and have to be prodded to laugh. Then when guests are talking, they clap every other sentence. So the show never really gets too deep into any topic. The audience makes this show downright unwatchable sometimes.
@@jenniferannison4390 So true Jennefer. I'ts like a bunch of stoned kids laughing at anything pro cannabis...(which is funny it itself but not in a serious conversation)
@sabbracadabra It's like every audience member gets a hit of X an hour before the taping..
OMG thank you yes, I mean love the live audience laughter response which actually helps make the punchlines hit better, but the constant self-righteous applauding and virtue signaling catcalls of every thought is so annoying. makes me wanna puke. it actually jumbles up the flow of the show.
He's absolutely right, whenever someone assumes to protect you from "misinformation", you can bet they are protecting their own version of truth, which may or may not be valid.
Let everyone speak, I bet I can decide what to believe, without you protecting me from your competition of information.
this is how we got donald trump, using powerful misinformation
Which is exactly what Twitter and other tech companies have been doing the whole time.
Yes!
Absolutely! I get so sick of hearing "the american people are scared" to incorporate more intrusive laws. I don't know any "scared" Americans. The ones I know will fight for their freedoms. I don't know any Ameeicans that are so dumb they need the government deciding what we get to hear. I'm so sick of them trying to make us believe we are all just a bunch of scared ignorant people that need to be coddled. We don't need a mommy.
I am grateful to "my invisible friend in the sky" for Bill Maher.
This is my favorite throw down of honesty yet😂💜 Really appreciate your voice Bill🙏 Keep on toking and talking please!!!
I suggest he stops TOKING first. I don't necessarily want him to stop TALKING (at least publicly) because it will be recorded, and it might be easier to call him and others out on their bullshit....Even if "it's just a joke"
But keep up the faith.....Faith.😐
Another topic that applies to Bill’s studio audience and they don’t realize he’s talking about them.
He's talking about you, too. Everybody listens to a segment like this and can only think of it applying to other people. That's the problem.
But he’s definitely not talking about you one bit, right?
@@HyzersGR actually no he’s not talking about me. I don’t think someone should be kicked off Twitter or “ deplatformed” for saying something I don’t like. I very strongly believe that. Might be hard for you to imagine but a lot of people feel that way
Lmao at 5:03!! Audience that laughs at lizard ppl which was crazy outlandish and then no laughs cuz they realized, oh hey im the butt of thus joke. 😂😂😂😂😂
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Did u miss the part where he says, i did my research, but it doesnt count if u used social media. C'mon man lol
And how'd u come up with that so fast. I barely commented. Were u just watching it lmao
And im not wasting my time watching watever it is u linked. Perhaps just say wat u got to say. Not share a link. Dont be scared
Unfortunately misinformation has real consequences.
It restores my faith in the “liberals” to see this level of critical thinking. Thank goodness!
Yeah, you're thinking of conservatives being the dumb ones. Like literally the most stupid on Earth.
Unfortunately we can't return the compliment. Nothing personal, just saying.
@@RVHello Unfortunately with most liberals today it seems everything is personal.
Tulsi Gabbard is doing a creditable job as well.
What restores my faith in Repubs isn't the same. Most are for voter suppression. Big fossil fuel and taking a women's right to choose. Mitt Romney restored my faith when he clapped for the new Justice. All Repubs walked out John M for keeping ACA. That's all the good I can say for Repubs
"Lies are ubiquitous." Even if this were completely true, it would leave the fact that functional societies depend on trust and trust cannot thrive without reliable sources of truth. You inadvertently make the point for those who want to reduce misinformation by pointing out how successful propaganda is, throughout history and in every "civilized" culture.
exactly.
Yes but the problem is who can be given the power and responsibility to basically censor what you hear or read? Would you like to give that power to a left leaning or right leaning ‘department of truth’. I for one, would prefer to do my own research and sort out truth from lies, rather than entrusting that task to someone else. The price we pay for free speech is that we will sometimes be offended and sometimes lied to.
@@KarlCourage How do you arrive at your "truth"? You "do your own research" (as do I), but the information you look at is from somewhere isn't it? And do you view some sources of information as more reliable than others? I'm guessing that you do. Another way to put that is that some sources are more >trusted< than others. Let's avoid false straw men when having a discussion.
@@KarlCourage Karl that's what my last girlfriend kept telling me....oh!!!!
His point wasn’t inadvertent at all…. it actually showed that societies throughout history have functioned just fine, and been able to find trusted sources of information.
It never ceases to amaze me what people will believe, no matter how outlandish it sounds… having a better bullshit detector is helpful, but prerequisite to that is just having common sense, lol! Love ya Bill, always telling it like it is!
And this is why Bill Maher cannot be "cancelled". I am a Christian Moderate Constitutionalist, but watching Bill Maher call it what it is is very satisfying indeed.
We need to teach, at an early age, how to qualitatively evaluate sources of information. It is at least as important as math. We should also do our best to bring the older population into the know. Call it Intellectual Self-Defense.
Regardless of a college student's major what that student is most learning is critical thinking skills. That and making contacts.
I'm 60 and all my siblings are older than me. You can't teach those stupid f**** a thing. You got to wait two years before the truth comes out in the media before they'll believe you. And then they don't acknowledge you. They just keep their heads shoved so far up their asses that you can't see their point of view. But at least you know you've won the information war.
We need to teach people how to think critically. The universities don't teach you how to think, rather, what to think.
When I was in school I was taught how to research and how to find reliable sources.
@@deeh5126 Was it a journalism class? Debate club? Or just the basics of citing good sources for papers in general?
The catch-22 here is that free speech requires an educated republic. In this case, one that is able to independently verify information and data and critically think through the misinformation and disinformation. There is not a chance in hell that that is going to happen any time soon.
So what is the alternative? People like you, who presumably possess a noble and educated mind, get to tell us what is truth?
The “educated” ie universities, doctors/CDC etc are part of the problem because they made it cancelable to ever question them. If you say people can identify how they want but having men compete with women athletically, or men cannot have periods or babies….you are told you’re a transphobic idiot. If you question wearing the mask to walk in to the restaurant, but taking it off when you sit down….you’re anti science who wants to kill grandma. I think what is so confusing to people…..we used to accept there was some brainwashing or indoctrination on the right…….but (imo) the left has surpassed the right with the craziness. It’s sad, I think most “classic” liberals like Bill are feeling politically and intellectually homeless.
Yeah, some people are stupid but they still have the right to decide what they believe for themselves. And who’s to decide what is misinformation and what isn’t?
The problem is that one group (conservatives) made it their mission to defund education systems around the country (and also globally), specifically to keep people stupid and to create more republican voters
Agreed Randolph. The problem is humans are more driven by emotions more than education. You can show extreme self-restraint, but as soon as emotions take over, your IQ drops 50 pts.
Show a supreme court to a liberal, their IQ suddenly drops. Show a Mexican border to a conservative, he gets insane. Same happens when I see a hot woman.
Education cannot solve that.
Love how when he said the part about 41% hospitalization rate for the unvaccinated no one laughed or responded. It’s as if his audience actually still believed it.
Well. I don't know the statistics in the US, but the German statistics say that of the patients in intensive care, about 60% were not vaccinated towards about 40% who had at least partial vaccinations (meaning one, two or three vaccinations). That is, of course, only from the number of people whose vaccination-status was known.
And that is so even though about 70% of the population is vaccinated, which means despite the majority having been vaccinated, there are more unvaccinated people in intensive care than there are vaccinated.
Just means that those who DO get the virus will more likely (not certain! just more likely) to need intensive care. But there is no 40% hospitalization rate for ALL unvaccinated.
If that was indeed the belief, then it is indeed false.
It's about 10%. Thanks for playing. The numbers for cases/100,000 and hospitalization/100,000 are on the CDC site, collected continuously. But because Americans suck at math they can't do the research themselves. For younger people the hospitalization rate is lower 1-2% but growing if unvaccinated.
@@jml-rj5re by “younger people” you must mean “under 65” because 1/100 “young people” were hospitalized. 10/100 is off by a factor of 10.
Haha so true , I heard the record player abruptly stop
My point was to show how politically biased the audience was not to start another debate on the efficacy of the vaccine.
The American flag coming out was spot-on hilarious