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Why do people still pay attention to this blowhard? He was a smarmy asshole even when I agreed with him. Now he's leaning into right wing culture war shit to try to remain relevant.
Yeah he's grasping at straws. People like him and Joe Rogan who chase views and plays at any cost are despicable and gross
I remember when I was first leaving religion and becoming an atheist, I saw a trailer for his Religulous "documentary." I think it looked interesting. I was young and angry at religion. So I watched it. I still felt like it was bad. It was basically just him going around the world laughing at religious people. He made it seem like he was going to have actual conversations on the subject. He wasn't. I'm surprised more people have been following him this whole time. Like you said, even when I agreed with him I didn't like him.
It is titled a portmanteau of ridiculous and religious. You went in for a serious take?
I knew going in it was going to be biased. That's not my issue. It's just a lack of really much of anything from him. It just felt like him going around being an asshole. That's it. Granted, it's been a lot time since it came out, but by the end all I could think was that he was just a dick. Hence the fact that there's also a lot of other people who agree with him on things that also still think he's a dick. Because he approaches everything like a dick.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I had pretty much the same experience with the film. I wasn't expecting a scholarly investigation obviously, but I was hoping it would at least be funny (it wasn't) and not mean-spirited (it was).
I used to watch his show because it was live and guests seemed to have a little more freedom to say things than on other programs. I phased out of it around 2015 due to exhaustion of politics, but Maher has always been an asshole. I agree with him on Religion for the most part, but he's mean about it a lot. His Anti-vax views are stupid because he's worried about a small chance of a side effect and not a large chance of the main effect of getting the illness the vaccine stops.
Poor risk assessment.