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Milo Yiannopoulous resigns from Breitbart over pedophilia comments
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Maher would easily find a job elsewhere, all that would do is make HBO look worse. Save that energy for Trump and his camp
plagiarize
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The white working class chose Donald Trump. They're going to have 'their way' for four years. I can't stand people who argue that the solution to that, is to do more to appeal to white people.
'Hey, they elected a white supremacist, so we've got to cater to them now.'
Like... what the hell?
DyslexicAlucard
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Anyone with half a brain can tell he's just trying to back peddle, and failing miserably. At least something good came from that horrible appearance on Real Time.
You came into this thread wanting to give Maher some (undeserved) credit for Milo's recent downfall when his interview had nothing to do with it. Yeah, I saw that you said you didn't want him to do the interview at all and were unhappy with how he handled some of it - yet you still concluded that, despite these disappointments, Maher's interview had still successfully cultivated an environment where it was ok to criticize Milo (as if that had never happened before) and had helped lead to his recent professional problems (which, for the nth time, had everything to do with his pro-pedophilia videos and nothing to do with his appearance on Real Time).
So what am I misrepresenting here?
plagiarize
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Anyone with half a brain can tell he's just trying to back peddle, and failing miserably. At least something good came from that horrible appearance on Real Time.
For crying out loud.
NOTHING GOOD CAME FROM THAT.
excelsiorlef
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It's 100% coincidence.
Berkley may have caused two major platforms to be offered to Milo
Real Time and CPAC
Despite so many of us lefties begging Maher to not give him a platform Maher ignored us and did it anyway. Then Maher and his staff did zero research, conducted an unprepared onterview which appeased, and even found common ground with Milo and resulted in Maher calling his anti-trans bigotry reasonable and a NYT headline of Bill and Milo Find Common Ground
In response to CPAC giving him a platform some Reaganites did some research, found a good line of attack and voila here we are
Liberal hero Bill Maher got clowned by Reaganites
Amibguous Cad
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Or, you know, maybe "America is already great" doesn't really play well when half your town is unemployed and addicted to opiates.
He also got invited to CPAC at the same time. Did it ever occur to you that maybe the invitation is what sparked the conservatives that took him down to move?
How is it the center of "left-wing" discourse and how is it a dead end?
Sounds like you think there should be no focus on minority issues.
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
Breitfart, lol.
excelsiorlef
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Again you should and I shudder to say this be thanking the Reaganites
plagiarize
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I'd fucking love to hear you explain to me how 'identity politics' is responsible for the over prescription of pain killers to white people.
Two good things came out of it.
More people are aware of how much of a fucking hack Maher is and this:
Nah, fuck Maher too.
I'll just point out that this is an axe worth grinding. Grind it to the god damned hilt and then start the next axe on the grindstone when the first one breaks. Never let off these assholes for even a second.
plagiarize
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Two good things came out of it.
More people are aware of how much of a fucking hack Maher is and this:
Fair point.
djplaeskool
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Life comes at you fast
LMAO! They're crumbling! This is hilarious
excelsiorlef
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I find it funny that so many are thanking Bill Maher but no one is thanking the Berkeley protestors.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Maher's an entertainer who knew he'd get ratings just by having Milo on no matter what he did, so he got two guys he knew would actually challenge Milo while Maher himself rubbed Milo's back.
CPAC is in this for power and the money that comes with it. They understand that the Trump/Milo brand of outlandish idiocy is not sustainable but were willing to use him as long as possible. To that end they combed his past to make sure that aside from the racism, sexism and transphobia there was nothing they actually opposed. They found the pedophilia advocacy and acted swiftly as they did not want that stink on themselves.
CPAC is in this for power and the money that comes with it. They understand that the Trump/Milo brand of outlandish idiocy is not sustainable but were willing to use him as long as possible. To that end they combed his past to make sure that aside from the racism, sexism and transphobia there was nothing they actually opposed. They found the pedophilia advocacy and acted swiftly as they did not want that stink on themselves.
shinra-bansho
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You think Bill Maher calling Milo a "fag" in some idiotic attempt at humour or shock is confronting his hateful bullshit peddling?
Good grief.
Bill Maher being a doormat for Milo had nothing to do with CPAC. The latter doesn't take its cues from liberal icon Bill Maher.
Good grief.
Bill Maher being a doormat for Milo had nothing to do with CPAC. The latter doesn't take its cues from liberal icon Bill Maher.
Oppo
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the part where you said:
... which just isn't true.Blader said:
As usual, there is massive hair-splitting happening in a politically charged thread. We are largely in agreement with the following points, it seems to me:
- Milo is a hateful troll
- Milo ought not have been interviewed
- Milo's interview by Bill Maher was largely weak, if not completely
... with me so far?
The part where we disagree:
- the appearance of Milo on Real Time did zero damage to Milo's reputation
...and I simply disagree. You guys are in such a lather to make sure Maher receives "NO CREDIT" for this, I feel like you're sort of tilting at windmills here.
It doesn't matter in the end. This joker's cooked. So I'll leave it here. Wish he had never been on. I just didn't think it was quite the lower-sack-massage that some others did. *shrug*
plagiarize
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I'm not going to thank people who pepper sprayed innocents and set fire to a building when I'm 100% a supporter of peaceful protest.
Sure, you can draw the line, but I'm not going to signal boost the antifas types that turned a peaceful protest into something else.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Don't worry, Milo already has a new gig lined up. He'll be writing for Brietbart's sister publication:
Hi yoooooDon't worry, Milo already has a new gig lined up. He'll be writing for Brietbart's sister publication:
Already Torn
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Me personally I'm not a fan
excelsiorlef
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I said the protestors... There were you know what 1500 of them?
The rioters were a third party
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Then you'd like him to do better, right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5iY7H1s2Ws
Look at him squirmish. He knows that his career is destroyed. He will forever be known as the disgusting human garbage that he is.
But hey. It's all about ethics in journalism, right Milo?
Look at him squirmish. He knows that his career is destroyed. He will forever be known as the disgusting human garbage that he is.
But hey. It's all about ethics in journalism, right Milo?
Head of Vengarl
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I honestly saw nothing unreasonable about Sam's arguments about Islam. It's not racist to criticize bad ideas, and Islam is full of them.
Show how much people actually pay attention. Makes sense that people are giving Maher the credit. They slept through the interview.
plagiarize
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Right. The antifas. Who I specifically mentioned.
The only reason that protest got coverage is because of the antifas. If it hadn't turned sour, you'd barely have heard mention of it, remembering that there were peaceful protests going on all across the country against the travel ban at that same time.
Did you love how he gave Yiannopoulous' balls a tongue bath on the show?
He didn't push back against any of that shithead's bullshit.
Who to do better in sense of what?
I didn't like him a lot during last weeks show, but that doesn't kill my love for Maher and his show during all the other hundred times Ive loved him and the show.
I even agreed with Milo on the "Liberals bait" thing. It's not even a new thought for me.
Spiral Insanity
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Anyone with half a brain can tell he's just trying to back peddle, and failing miserably. At least something good came from that horrible appearance on Real Time.
Why are you saying that. Stop saying that.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Did you watch the interview with Milo or are you just jumping in to express love for Maher
Is he a secret member of CPAC?
excelsiorlef
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But it literally didn't. If anything Maher's reputation got damaged out of it. Literally the headlines coming out of that were about those two finding common ground
The pedophile shit is the only reason Milo is fucked right now and that wasn't from Bill Maher
And the argument does matter because what happens when the next rock star bigot comes along?
Not try and normalize bigots and bring them into the mainstream?
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
You guys gotta admit Bill Maher is pretty great if you like your opinions and musings to never exceed that of a 9th grader who thinks he knows fucking everything.
Already Torn
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And are a white dude
Oh I watched. His 1o1 interview with Milo was pretty bad. Milo interrupted him at everything and Maher didn't have the balls to hammer him with shit.
Bingo
Bill Maher and Milo Yiannopoulos Find Common Ground - NYT
The guest panel did all the work on shutting down Milo. Maher did shit all and even looked sympathetic to Milo.
Identity politics are evil. Here are some identity politics I'm gonna try to hide behind.
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