Framing seems to counter your point? It suggests, like I do, that those with the most similar cognitive and political frames are most persuadable. It’s why we should work with those we share ideas, even if not all. Perhaps I am missing your larger point.
Research seems to suggest a soft hand is the best approach.
Perhaps I was assuming the worst in your post. My apologies. I’m as guilty as everyone in too quickly entering a defensive position in every discussion. It really hurts the chance for open debate. I’ll try to do better.
My original point was about the larger issue. Not Maher specifically. I guess I did a poor job of making that clear.
I worry about the tendency to write people off who don’t fully align with a prescribed worldview. This does seem to be getting more common.
Whose mind are you trying to change? Mine or Bill Maher’s? idgaf about Maher personally, but I want you and everybody else who might be reading this thread to think that he is a) an anti-Muslim bigot with stupid and childish views on religion in general, b) a shithead who enables terrible people by giving them a platform, and c) just not very funny. That’s what I think the primary frame should be when evaluating media personality and HBO show host William Maher. I will try to strengthen that frame by constantly repeating those views. .
You, otoh, are asking everybody to consider Maher an ally worthy of consideration and respect. That’s the frame that already exists! He has been on teevee for decades with an audience of millions! You’re not changing anybody’s mind about anything, you’re bolstering the status quo.
Bill Maher sucks and he should be deplatformed because he’s a bigot who lets terrible people be on his show and he’s not very funny.
It’s about using shoe polish for blackface.
And who could forget his Oscar-worthy performance as “Bob” in the 1983 mega blockbuster “DC Cab?”
I’m old enough to remember when Mahr actually tried to be a mostly non-political comedian on Comedy Central and boy, he was not good at that.
I’ll agree Maher is not funny at all. His monologue is normally pretty painful. I think he is like Harris. They make some important points about Islam but they do a poor job of making priorities clear and they paint with too broad a brush. I also think having people from the other side on his show is important, no vital.
It probably doesn’t. But it was fun to look at.
Basically all the transistor counts on the modern processors at the end mean they can do a ton more in parallel, but they’re not that much faster on each task. So it depends if your program can be broken into parallel tasks by the processor.
Maher is John Stossel if Stossel chose a comedy career over creating libertarian agit-prop videos.
But waaaaaaait a minute (in my John Stossel voice)
Most people who try to be funny 5 nights a week fail miserably. Jon Stewart, David Letterman and maybe that’s it. (Ellen pretty good from what I’ve seen. Benefits from not trying to be funny every third sentence.)
The few good stand-up comedians there are can take years to come up with and refine a couple hours of material.
Maher’s only once a week and he still sucks shit lol.
And don’t forget the fact that your Noah and Colbert types each have like a dozen writers working for them.
Edit: My pony’s writers were slow.
For sure, but I think they are just funny. Letterman was good at bad jokes. Maybe that’s the key. If a joke wasn’t good he was always ready to make fun of the joke. See Johnny’s last comment about Maher.
Of course, he has writers.
WTF is this shit? Gentiles need to stay out of the bagel game, we have clue what we’re doing.
https://twitter.com/lovemyphilly/status/1173914495594315776?s=21
That tweet belongs in the Trump’s America thread.
Desktop computers haven’t gotten significantly faster in years. It’s at least 5 years since a new computer was noticeably faster than the one it replaced for me. This includes tablets and phones. The industry is appearing to do just fine. Processor speed is still increasing fast enough to make up for the slowness of the software but it won’t be too much longer until that no longer holds and then maybe we’ll see advances in how software is produced.
This has probably been around longer, but I’ve only had a SSD hard drive for a couple years. That has been the biggest computer improvement for me in a long time - maybe it’s the best improvement ever as software needs have more or less kept up with processor speeds.