Well said! 🤘😎🤘

a BIG part idiocracy!

I think it can FEEL that way when you watch the the news or media where "if it bleeds it leads" and the main lure of engagement is to make you scared, or angry, or both. Out in the real world shit is definitely not a cross between those dystopian nightmares you pointed out. People are living longer than ever, with less murder and rape, less famine, less war, less infant mortality, the highest literacy rates in history, etc etc etc. Sure Trump sucks, Biden's old, whatever. The sky isn't falling.

You are vastly under rating the idiocracy part.

A huge part of the problem is that so many reading this will wonder wtf are you talking about?

no the 70's the 70's was the right answer.

Noooooooooo!!!!

@@Piggy-Oink-Oink I actually meant to say both decades.

​@@Piggy-Oink-Oink The 60th was much better!

60’s, 70’s, 80’s. Hell I’d settle for 50 years from now. Literally anywhere & anywhen would be better than right here, right now

nope more like skynet lol

Oops, I read this with my “smart” phone.

I think the smart phone and technology is a double edged sword. It allows pretty much all the knowledge known to man in your pocket and can connect people for good. Unfortunately, it can connect people for evil as well. Now everybody has an equal place at the knowledge table. Problem is, not everybody should be equal, especially for an extreme minority opinion.

I'm not against smart phones, it's just the fact people can even just wait at a red light without looking their phone- totally addicted to it ,and it's sad.

@user-oq6st5pp4f I hope you wasn't driving. 😉

I never understood how people can be addicted to a tiny computer screen where you have to squint and get a hand cramp to poke tiny letters on a screen with 2 fingers. It's so uncomfortable. I'll stick to my PC addiction, thank you.

I can only count one group here. Which is "the former"? And which is "the latter"?

@@bryanmachin2152 here is the first part of the quote: In certain remote corners of the Old World you may still sometimes stumble upon a small district which seems to have been forgotten amidst the general tumult, and to have remained stationary whilst everything around it was in motion. The inhabitants are for the most part extremely ignorant and poor; they take no part in the business of the country, and they are frequently oppressed by the government; yet their countenances are generally placid, and their spirits light.

@@bryanmachin2152 Courtesy of Project Gutenberg, here is the part of the paragraph preceding the quote above. Americans are "the latter" and "the fomer" whom de Tocqueville is comparing them to are as follows: "In certain remote corners of the Old World you may still sometimes stumble upon a small district which seems to have been forgotten amidst the general tumult, and to have remained stationary whilst everything around it was in motion. The inhabitants are for the most part extremely ignorant and poor; they take no part in the business of the country, and they are frequently oppressed by the government; yet their countenances are generally placid, and their spirits light. "

@@patrickking9600 So the group of ignorant and poor are "the former" in the first quote, which means the enlightened ones are the ones who are unhappy and unsatisfied. I get it. Yeah, I think we ARE still like that, yes! Too bad it's so long you can hardly put it in a comment. 19th century authors were famously long-winded. Still DeToc was probably the most unbiased of America in his time.

@@thisspaceforrent5737 Thanks man. The original writers supplied it also. But thanks anyway!

I like that. Mine comes from Churchill- "You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing- after they've tried everything else first. "

What a load of crap. How do you think America got built? How did the skyscrapers first go up. How did Slavery get abolished, how didthe west get settled. Americans worked tirelessly, fought over moral imperatives and endured extreme hardships. Americans disciplined their impulses to build the decadence. That was civilization. Sounds like Wilde was too focused on perceiving America through the eyes of the wealthy, slavers and outlaws.

@@digalittledeeper Well it took awhile in Churchill's time, but we haven't much since then.

Thats cute but also 100 percent horse shit. Its OK. Oscar Wilde is a more lovable liar than Donald so I forgive him.

@@gamkal7231 Agree wholeheartedly.

Yea expect Europe is going through esentialy the same exact problems 😂

Bingo

Yeah, And Europeans want to give up sovereignty to the UN.. Yet Americans are still supposed to pay for your defense.🤨FU!

That would be funny if you people weren't busy destroying yourselves too.

Except Europeans are the same just more miserable.

FFS. You really aren't too bright

No it's a place for "enlightened" centrists to act smug and circle jerk.

Sometimes, I'm just soooooooooooooo tired of the BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not really. He is just a leftie masquerading as a centrist.

​@@zapkvrThey ain't smart at all. Shallow being the operating word. He's a gas lighting lad just a few inches to extreme left who would not be relevant if people were smart

Idiocracy was incredibly hard script to write as M Judge had to lower his brain power to about.. 2024 election level.

@@Piggy-Oink-Oink omitting "an" and shorting Mike to M proves my point. 🤦

@@wadestclair249 Nah..did I really have to type MIKE .whatever lol

Not quite, but close. My doctor certainly isn’t as dumb as Justin Long was in that movie. Lol

I agree that we are living under the rule of idiots who appeal to the common idiot. In that regard, we live in an idiocracy.

Then why are you commenting on KZfaq?

ditto.. and don't read Bill's book either...

@@marcpeterson1092: …because youtube allows you to safely vent so you don’t do anything stupid…

@@ShawnDillon-pw8lb Not much venting allowed here anymore. This comment might even be too much. Basic truths can be discarded by YT and/or the channel

@@marcpeterson1092 Hey, KZfaq doesn't MAKE YOU stupid. Like everything else, it's what you do with it.

Respect to you. This was one of the few comments I found here that sound like a genuine effort towards a solution. You're right, it does take work, and if we don't all chip in our buck o' five, who will? On top of that, I'd say it's important for us to be understanding and compassionate of others. Especially if they're different than what we're used to. Tired of hearing about how divided we are? Understand that that doesn't represent reality. We have a lot more in common than we have in division.

Yes harley, you are absolutely right 😢

While my attention was taken up in guarding against one fault I was often surprised by another, habit took advantage of inattention, inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. -Ben Franklin There is perhaps not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive. Even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility. - Ben Franklin

Hard to remember a past when our present is documented almost entirely electronically.

We're not forgetting the past so much as we're corrupting our present with things that never were. I'll bet whomever stated that quote never saw that coming.

The bigger problem is remembering a past that never was.

Shut up with that tired trope. Repeating the past IS what we do.

It was a real good girls on roller skates best rock and roll music yeah I said it was good times

Yea, making a livable wage with a high school diploma, being able to afford dating, a family, and a burger out. Granted that came with hiding under your desk bomb drills….but is that really so different to all the fear mongering the news does now? The burger, which wasn’t injected with tons of hormones, delivered on roller skates does sound better.

@@user-kb8ec6kg6b I miss the quad skates.

Average wage, 1.50$ an hour. No extra for overtime.

@@juliagoodfellow-so4jchouses cost $21,000. SS Camaro cost $5,000. Gas cost $0.30/gal. Oh no! No overtime?! Pfft

Ukraine's government is corrupt, but their people deserve to be protected.

@@Happyshiningpeople12 They've been combatting coruption like there's no tomorrow my friend

I remember when Republicans were on the side of the peoples being oppressed by the Russians.

Same for democrats hatred for jews in the middle east

@@Zer-o-ne It is a corruption culture, they have that from the russians, just dont send them money, you can only send goods and hope you catch what are being sold.

The present age was never a golden age.

Jolee Bindo, right?

Compare 1900 to 1800, 1700, 1600, and 100bc. Now compare 1900 to 2000. Our present time started with trains, steam engines, and industrialization, about 1850. The rapid changes the past 150 years has made our present time period very unique and special in the known history of humans on Earth.

Look around you. There are no equivalents in all of human history with what is happening right in front of us. Some just don't have eyes for it.

True enough, but as mentioned above, things are changing very rapidly now. The oceans are warming so fast that things could fall apart soon. This will truly be the time we have reached our peak. It's all downhill from here.

We need people less afraid to vote for a third party.

@@HercuLync The establishment will blame you for costing their candidate the election.

@myowndata If people wanted a centrist third party then why did no labels end their presidential campaign?

@@giantsr1eva Please read the comment above. Thanks!

@@rkjackson6976 I did read the comment, it said “America needs a third party, for all normal people who are not extremists, Should win easily” That’s what the third party called no labels was doing. They ended their campaign so if people really wanted centrism, then that party should have won easily is a false statement.

laugh tracks... look them up.

Bill most certainly has staff in the stands laughing their ass off.

or what you don't find funny i may find hilarious.

Yo I laughed out loud at least twice during this, especially the Greek joke.

Every show/week, year after year; yes, his audience, unfortunately, is mostly his writers and staff, and yes, their volunteering to be an echo chamber of scripted laughs and applause is so frustrating and annoying. 🤐

This was happening before Covid

Not everyone is miserable - migrants are not miserable. It's mostly white people who are miserable. They are seeing their country invaded and turned into something it never was, their culture destroyed in their native homelands, their tolerance is actually unique among peoples, but also their downfall.

​@@redsolozach1151 Yeah, polarization did exist since antiquity, but it wasn't as toxic as it is today.. It's like the saying: "And then it got worse"

YES!

I am an Italian who lives in the UK. Western Europe is not (yet) as polarized as the US. But even in the US, political polarisation is higher among political, cultural and economic elites (politicians and journalists on both sides, scholars and bureaucrats on the left). The problem is that this minority is extremely vocal, and they get to frame the political discourse and its content.

Perhaps.. with your back turned, your pants down?

I think he meant Athenians, or that was just Spartan propaganda.

@@dr.ryttmastarecctm6595Actually all Ancient Greek city states practiced some form of homosexuality (male only) they didn’t like the female kind and in some cases prosecuted women for it.

@@thegamerv2346sounds like the same sort of misogyny that has led to all these men pretending to be women

​@@thegamerv2346you can find the Yale University courses on ancient Greece. It's pretty shocking what they were into. Their wives heads were shaved and dressed as a boy on their wedding day 😂

You've reached the Age of Wisdom?

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” Carl Sagan --1994

Quasimodo somethin somethin- Bobby Bacala 😩😩

How sad. When Carl Sagan made the prediction, he really meant to warn people at the time to turn around and stop driving down the cliff. But here we are at the bottom of the valley, wondering why we wind up here. “Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.” - Three Body Problem series

@@tszirmaybecause all of this was happening to a lesser degree back then too

Yep - The Demon Haunted World. Brilliant book.

not to maga, not to woke. So,, to the rational middle that's watching the extremes burn the US to the ground.

To us 😊

@@spaceknight793 MAGA never did burn anything. With the help of the FBI, they broke some glass right before a guided tour of Congress.

In bookstores, probably.

Admittedly his target demographic is one that seems to be constantly shrinking, yes...

Everyone thinks they’re doing that. The conflict comes because we all define humanity and justice differently…and how inflexible one is in their definitions.

Humanity and Justice sound cool and all, but how about intentionally misleading people for personal gain? That would be pretty fun too, right?

@@drumjod That is not Justice, so clearly not cool. But part of viewing Humanity is to accept, we are all humans and we all make mistakes. The wrong comes when people lie on purpose, like Tucker Carlson did about a stolen election.

@@Sereneh468 With facts and truth you will get Justice, but only if the system is Just. Name one system that is just. It is an ideal, and yes we differ on what punishment comes when you break the laws we make. But laws are only guidelines, and each case has to be viewed on its own facts. I stand with not is perfetc, we can't achieve utopia, but we can do better. We can learn from others and demand better from our politicians. Like how the prison system is better in Germany, or the educational system is better in Japan. All we cna do, is demand better in baby steps, otherwise it ends in a revolution, and I prefer not going down that path.

There's no such thing as true justice. We can only ever look to the future with shared humanity and right wrongs collectively to benefit us all. Looking to the past has been shown to be divisionist.

No he is fearing being irrelevant

@@richardgarcia7180 that's Trump actually.

😂 is he??

@@richardgarcia7180 Almost everyone becomes irrelevant sooner or later, and that’s something I know as a history geek. Even if they haven’t been outright forgotten, nearly all of the historical figures we study are only remembered in the first place because they were the exception, not the rule. That “exceptionality“ may be due to any number of factors - social rank, vast accomplishments, or just plain luck - but in the grand scheme of things, far more people have been forgotten than remembered.

he's wrong about the science, gender is a construct. it's different than sex.

As opposed to the days of religious empires? Humans are the most emotionally complex species In Earth’s history, it’s why we got this far. Modern times are easily the most well behaved we’ve been by a long shot lol. It’s not even close

The exact opposite.

What do you think about those that went to war century ago?

That's just a continuation of tens of thousands of years of human existence.

@@mattkess3156 for thousands of years religion was all we knew as far as explaining the unexplainable. And yes this did result in tribalism. However I believe social media has made the modern human emotionally weaker than humans in the past. Look at how all logic flew out the window for years during covid due to people being emotional. As a country I don’t think we are emotionally equipped handle an emergency like 9/11 or Pearl Harbor as well as previous generations did.

Nah. Future historians will look back in shock at the stupidity of the view that the stability of other countries is not important to their own. Especially to the country who sees itself as the greatest ever country.

@tn_onyoutube8436 The country bringing stability to the world has possibly the most idiotic and ignorant politicians and population that has ever lived. Not a great combination for big decision making.

Unless it's voting time 🤓 🖕

Future historians: The 10 private equity firms owned the vast majority of the global corporations that owned all the politicians (republican AND democrat, conservative AND [new] labour). They made sure the people fought amongst themselves instead of looking at them. Status quo is what they got, with a sympathy card from one side and thoughts & prayers from the other.

Some idiot celebrity the other day was talking about periods and accidentally said " female" but corrected herself cause her huge ego and then said " or menstruating people."

I've listened to NPR for years as it has always (on the state level) had some great music programing and carries BBC World Service News in the afternoon. But lately I've noticed the "Woke" creep. Yes we all know the slant to the Left that NPR has always seemed to have, but the Woke BS I just shake my head and do a WTF moment.

just proved that I was safe

Agree. It's time to put Biden away.

like those that help themselves to stuff on store shelves and walk out?

@@LuxeFilmographyLook I know they say we can't arrest the Thieves Guild because we'll be at it all day...but you gotta start sometime

Well, if a plurality and almost a majority of "we" want him to be "our" leader, then it's rather difficult.

@@ScootyPuffSr7 He lost the 2020 election and has never provided proof of any of his claims. Then he decided to use his followers, like you, as pawns whom he left to hang because they didn't achieve what he wanted... that's your guy. That's your legacy.

Maybe its an employee?

I suspect he must be a producer or a member of the crew. Probably laughing loud to carry favour with the boss

laugh tracks... google them

He takes those laugh signs they hold up, very seriously.

Canned laughter, probably.

His attempting to compare the left and right as equal is laughable... his defense of Israel islaughable.. hes a comedian all right .... according to his logic Israel could blow up his entire audience if they thought one hamas member was hiding amongst them....

Not sure what it means to be, "the middle" to you, but I consider myself to be reasonable, as I'm sure you do too. Thanking someone for reminding us of how bad something else is in it's absolute worst case? Showing clickbait headlines and presenting them as though that represents anyone? Hard to think of that as constructive or productive. How about the good things our opponents do that we often overlook? Cutting myself off here, but really want to make this point. It's not valuable to focus on how destructive a perceived, 'them' is. It's more valuable to talk about solutions. Jokes are great, but come on, Bill Maher hasn't hit a punchline since the last time Mike Tyson fought with his fists.

@@e.m.b2834could you please paste this in the general comment section, it bears repeating.

So what rock star does he pick..I pick.. Bob Dylan and Gene Simmons (who curiously almost released an album together). That pretty much sums up the Yin and and yang of rock de-evolution.

​​@@Piggy-Oink-Oink All wrong it should be Chuck Berry. he best imbodies the genre that was his legacy. and as for the constitution I can't say at this point in time. because right now it's taking a real beating.

@@musicauthority674 I agree..Chuck actually INVENTED both Rock AND Rap (Too Much Monkey Business) CHuck is completely overlooked by GenZ because of you know..the Dark Side of Chuck..but Come on-he INVENTED IT ALL!!

The question wasn’t “who was the symbol” it was “who will be _seen_ as the symbol”

@@Chris-fn4df That is incorrect, if you read the comment it states the question? and I quote "what rock star will be remembered as the symbol of the genre"? end quote. if you go back and read the comment? that is exactly how it is worded.

Closer To The Heart - Rush

Exactly right! I even slept in a mask for two weeks during the peak tree pollen season just gone. Strangely I didn’t die from the inconvenience.

His obsession with it is stupid. If it makes you feel comfortable then by all means wear it.

Agreed. But poor Bill... he's just stupid about that shit...

I've gotten in my car before after leaving a store and forgot to take it off. (During the p a ndemic.)

People like you are what he’s talking about. 🤡

Would not have a child if not for abortions?? What does that mean?

@@hurricanekitty6736Just a guess, but perhaps the fact that women with ectopic or other forms of dangerous pregnancies denied abortions today often end up sterile or unable to conceive afterwards?

@@hurricanekitty6736 I'd guess that his wife had a troubled pregnancy and had to abort one before getting pregnant with his current child. But I'm sure he will enlighten us. ;)

Stop writing pointless comments for no one and pay attention to your daughter.

There's too much profit in selling fear and dread. Combined with a serious derth of critical thinking skills from decades of demonizing intellectual achievement and knowledge and you're left with a situation where both sides of the aisle live in two completely distinct realities complete with their own sets of facts and existential crises.

Graduated in the late 70's, couldn't afford college, gas prices exploded, no jobs in my town. wound up in Alaska on a fishing boat, lucky to land that one,too. Long ways from my Massachusetts. Music? Absofrigginlutely! Everything else? No fucking way, my friend. didn't even get to disco.

@@loucat2779 Gas prices exploded , but the 70s in Orange County California were way better than any time in my life. We were safer, happier, and better off.

@williamjmccartan8879 The establishment has failed the people, that’s why they don’t believe their lies. Bill is clearly upset that he might lose some of his money.

He was laughing his ass off.

Same. They are generally more interesting characters.

like Dr. Evil or Dr No. They put so much effort in. Then it all gets destroyed.

Doms have more fun

He took the fun out of the room in the best way.

I wanted to talk about emotional perspective in modern cinematic art but now I’m just speechless.

I think that’s not correct. Stupid and crazy people have always been there. But they have been confined to the corner of society until social media comes across and every opinion, no matter how dumb it is, gets its air time.

As he should. This monologue is cringe.

It was the only thing with Maher worth watching for years.

Ol’ Billy Red Tits really popped this self-satisfied little zit. It made the world right again for a few minutes.

Bill Maher forgot that being funny was more important than being right. Burr, came up with the Opie & Anthony crowd, dude can take bullets after the insults he got. Maher was worth something at some point, now he’s just an opinion piece where his best jokes are not his lol. He always gets mad when they sleep on his one liners lol

Seemed like Mahr didn’t catch on to what Burr was doing until it was too late. Maybe I’m biased towards Burr because I’m sort of a Masshole, he’s definitely in my top five comics all time…

Who dat?

And petty!

Also the most unpleasant part of wearing a mask is sometimes putting it on, so if you’re going multiple places maybe just leave it on. Also it was advised early on in the pandemic that you shouldn’t be touching it too much, taking it off and on without washing your hands, but of course conservatives wouldn’t have gotten that message... Hmm, I wonder if the rest of his examples of left nuttiness are less dumb and falsely equivalent...

Actually you weren’t supposed to reuse them at all, so it’s either keep it on while driving from place to place or take it off and use a brand new one for every new place...because you want to look tough while you’re driving I guess?

I agree with you. I think Bill might rush to judgement and ridicule the wrong people. I used to live in a place where I am allergic to a particular type of dust mites, in door and out door. I did wear masks and use air purifier all the time for a few months before the effect of allergy shots kicked in, but it has absolutely nothing to do with covid.

Here's a thought, maybe it a shared car and they have Covid.

@@patcurrie9888we knew by like June 2020 that the virus doesn’t live on surfaces but you’re still claiming this crap. The “trust the science” folks strike again!

The cocaine fiend?

Actually NO peer-reviewed history books says either of these things. But nice try.

@@bryanmachin2152 So you DONT think blacks are being cast as historical figures in these upcoming films? 🤣🤣🤣

No, Augustus will be transgender too, just like Jesus and God

The black samurai thing is in reference to a new video game if I remember correctly. Cuz the narcissistic DEI crowd has to “see themselves” in everything to extents beyond absurdity. So that is what the commenter is calling out.

@@bryanmachin2152 Give it time. Over the past 3 years, the story of Yasuke has gone from fairytale to entities like the Smithsonian stating it as factual. Seems like something they really want people to believe.

Stop! Your ruining it for all the judgy people out there.

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden. With Molly Ringwald.

@@willdpe1256 Don't forget Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn too.

But also in the U.S.S.R. "Long live , Built by the people's mighty hand. Long live our people, united and free. Strong in our friendship tried by fire. Long may our crimson flag inspire, Shining in glory for all men to see." I'm not Russian, but I hope to be friends with others from Russia some day. Those last 5 sentences I just found from their anthem speak true to everyone, no matter where you come from. The things their government commits to do not represent what the people of Russia think. Just like how the things my government has done to other countries in the past does not represent how I think. Thank you for this platform where I can express this.

Born in the early 50s. A great life. Glad I'm on the way out, as the Libtards have screwed up the world. Good luck to you all - you're definitely gonna need it!! Fight lie hell to defeat the growing evil that is the Left!

60s: Rampant racism and a never-ending war. 70s: racism slightly better, but still pretty bad; huge inflation (worse than today); terrible crime rates. 80s: racism against slightly better, but still pretty bad; crime slight better, but still pretty bad; homelessness started getting out of control. Every decade has its warts.

It certainly was miles ahead musically and in film. A lot cheaper and a hell of a lot less cynicism. I could see the country changing for the worse in the late 80's and the culture. You have to have the belie,f and the belief is gone with a few of the Presidents on both sides on down who never paid for their crimes.

Because bill pivoted to appease the right wing media pipeline

Sad. Conservativism is a mental disorder. A deep, deep, mental disorder based on must having an enemy to hate and blame.

R u still a virgin or just celibate?

@@venicebeachsportsnetwork6677 the left is now an asylum lol. Reminds me of the dark knight quote, die a hero or live long enough to be the villain. The left is the example.

@@ReD4eva94 the only ones who need asylums are people who think cutting taxes is good for the poor

Yes, there is no sense of proportion here! And I think that's all about Maher not wanting to look bad to the side that's more likely to be violent and dangerous going forward. I could be wrong though.

Which side is waving Arab fascist flags and calling for destruction of Jews in the Middle East?

Well said, thank you.

Yes Bill loves to shit all over the left now that he's over the center line and quickly becoming right wing.

I think it would proportional not to give that minority of leftists as much power and tv time as they get. just like the lgbtq minority they shout the loudest and are getting the most attention in return. If Bill ignored them they would largely stand unchallenged by the media.

He's getting worse, isn't he? Maybe it's an age thing?

You wouldn’t love America if you knew what a wonderful country Australia is ; without all the barbarism and inequality that sadly America represents.

@@dennisevans6544 That's funny.

@@dennisevans6544 Those people chanting for the death of Jews at the Sydney opera house were scary

@@dennisevans6544 You mean the country where you can be arrested for free speech the government doesn't like? The country where guns are illegal? No thank you.

@@dennisevans6544 You mean the country where firearms are illegal and you can be arrested for speech? I don't think so.

Your or anyone else's happiness is 100% on you.

@@terryolsen3225 Not sad as in emotion...sad as in pathetic.

@@Adatoode That is such a random comment. You've clearly missed the point.