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Rich coming from a guy who owes his entire career to writers. I hate this smug piece of shit

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

God, it would be so funny if someone went on his panel show and, after one of his tirades, asked him, "So, when did you become your dad?"

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That’s the core of boomer brainworms, they’re terminally stuck in the mentality that they’re never the “old people” and so they see anything that goes against their worldview is “the man keeping them down.” There’s zero self-awareness that they’re “The Man” now.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What false consciousness does to an mf

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

he's a millionaire. nothing "false" about it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Not for Bill Maher but for his audience, you gotta be pretty deep into the cope hole to laugh along at that drivel.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see this all the time in the business world when it comes to succession planning. One's refusal to face mortality becomes a refusal to train one's replacement, and more importantly, neglecting documenting how one does one's job. I just left a job after just a year where I was being trained to take over a retiring boomer's job, but she'd documented nothing at all for about 20 years, and yet expected me to do things exactly the way she had done them, no deviation, no questions answered. It was highly stressful. I was just burned out.

I don't normally get involved in generational wars. Sorry, working class boomers reading this! No war but the class war! But those among your generational cohort who rose to management positions in the business world consistently display this pattern.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

No war but class war. But as someone raised by shitty boomers, somethines you need to release a little generational anger, as a treat.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

It would be so funny if someone went on his panel show and, after one of his tirades joker-troll

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't remember the context but wasn't Bill owned by Ben Affleck of all people on his own show once? I think it was when Mahr had said something Islamaphobic as usual?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He got owned by Norm Macdonald just mocking his whole dumbass discussion once or twice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can tell that a show sucks when Norm Macdonald is regularly the least shitty person in the room.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The only person in the room not high on their own farts. Like, he had the only take on china that wasn't "let's nuke them" once or twice on the show.