And yet, I still hate Bill Maher.

  • Nonameuser678@aussie.zone
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    I’m surprised this guy still has a show. I mean who’s watching it at this point? He’s surely alienated most people on the left, who were always his target market I thought. And surely his history of making jokes about how the right are stupid and fat isn’t going to win him those viewers.

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      His target is liberals that lean more centrist than your normal liberal (which is already fairly center). There’s a surprising number of them because so many people in rural cities in the US want to move to the left compared to their parents, but too far left is scary and a drastic change from their normality. His target audience is people who have basic empathy, but no motivation to change and they need somebody to tell them it’s okay that they don’t want to change things.

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      The only people I know who watch the show, are my 60yo Conservative parents. IDK why people think he appeals to liberals.

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        He appeals to the old demographics who think they’re progressive because they smoked weed once, in college, and listened to alternative music. But are too far out of touch with reality to realize that most of their worldviews are now right of center.