Not even fucking close, buddy.

I do understand those things, and Maher clearly doesn’t.

You said:

I think he only aligns with Trump on a single thing you listed, and even that’s is for different reasons than Trump’s.

But Maher said:

I told him I thought parts of his plan for Gaza were wacky but that I had supported him in the idea that Gaza could be Dubai instead of hell. I told him he was wrong when he tweeted the night before that I was critical of all things Trump. Not true — check the tapes.

Moving Israel’s embassy to Jerusalem? Loved it. The border did need to be controlled. I’m glad the cops are getting their morale back. DEI had gone too far. Biological men shouldn’t be playing women’s sports. Europe should pay for their defense. And of course, it makes sense that Arab countries should take in Arab refugees, like the million Syrians who wound up in Germany when Saudi Arabia took none. He said to me, ‘You’re right, they took none.’

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/04/12/bill-maher-donald-trump-full-monologue/83055277007/

It’s fine that you want to continue to enjoy his comedy, by all means go ahead. I just gave the reasons I don’t like it, and him; I’m not trying to attack you.

Ha! I don’t get how I’m being condescending though; those are the issues I have with him, and it makes it really hard for me to enjoy anything else he says. I also think he aligns with Trump on those things. Where am I wrong?

But also, it’s just his style of comedy; I’ve never been a fan. I don’t like Ricky Gervais’ comedy either, and I think it’s for a lot of the same reasons.

I’m glad he makes you laugh! I won’t begrudge you that. Though, it’s not that I forget he’s a comedian; his humour really doesn’t hit home for me. He’s had some takes that aged like hot milk, even recently, and the positivity after hanging out with Trump was and is weird.

Weird to me, anyway. But then, I understand the need for inclusive policies that serve a diverse population equitably, I understand how trans rights are human rights, and I understand that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, which puts me further from Trump than Maher is. Quite a bit further, possibly.

If you could get through the light without him condescending to you about your lighting technique, your rolling technique, the lighter, and the weed… yeah, he might get stoned enough to shut the fuck up for a few minutes. That would be alright.

Then again, he got along okay with Trump instead of telling him to eat a bag of fascist dicks, so maybe not.

Sounds like she might be Labradoriented?

Has he learnt his lesson yet, Susan?

I’m really glad that he’s aware of the moral implications of what he did.

Doesn’t sound like you are though. I mean, you just admitted he committed fraud in order to appropriate money meant for people who actually needed it, and now:

• you want to justify it by saying “clearly the government wasn’t holding back assistance to anyone at the time” as though it being an honour system at the time made what he did okay;
• you’re pulling that after you first tried to paper over that they weren’t just any old loans he took out; in addition to which
• you want to try and paint me as the bad guy.

You serious, dude? You’re aware that I didn’t commit fraud during the pandemic, right? And it wasn’t hard either, I just didn’t apply for relief I wasn’t eligible for. You’re aware he wasn’t scamming a bank, he was scamming people in need?

It’s okay to make mistakes, but he is lucky he’s not in prison, and if he can own what he did like an adult then so can you.

Hope you’ve got some of that broken leg serum

Also half of the loans were government Covid aid that he applied for even though he wasn’t eligible

Ahh, so he did a bunch of fraud. The reason the government was writing blank cheques was because people were dying in the millions and businesses were failing left and right. He’s lucky he’s not in prison.

I’m glad he’s doing better now, but I can’t help but think of the people who needed that money and might not have gotten it in time (or maybe at all) because of what he did. Does he ever think about that, do you know?

Well yes, but not because of this. The literal Ten Commandments in classrooms, or maybe “under god” on our money and in our official oaths, sure. This? The solution to this is easy: tax ministries that spout politics from the pulpit.

It won’t happen, but it’s an easy solution.

_(Edit) I guess it could be worse: https://assembliesforall.org.uk/about/law-on-assemblies/_

It’s been six months. How long did it take in Germany? We have at least until World War o’clock.

“Führer over the Epstein files” seems like a pretty good headline for the happenings, all by itself.

I hear you! Hardware fragmentation is a serious issue, very difficult to deal with as a small team, so I can’t hold it against them, but I really wish I had been able to put it on my old Note 9 instead of buying a Pixel 😑 (doesn’t have to be a Pixel, there are other supported devices, but it’s easiest and works best)

Have you tried CalyxOS (https://calyxos.org/)? Review from a year ago seems pretty good (fair warning: Reddit link). I’m keeping Calyx in my back pocket in case Graphene goes tits up.

Yes, I’ve used all my apps pretty seamlessly. I had to turn on “exploit protection compatibility mode” for some of them like banking, but they work fine. You can get Google Play, and it runs in a sandbox, but I use Obtainium and Aurora Store (Aurora in particular would be of interest to you, it’s just a frontend for the Google Play store which allows anonymous connections: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store/). I moved to Aegis for my 2FA because I was looking for a way out of the Twilio/Authy ecosystem. I don’t play games on my phone, so I can’t report back on how those work.

Anything compatible with Graphene OS (https://grapheneos.org/); a second-hand Pixel will work best, if you can find one cheap. I use it as my daily driver on a Pixel 7a and it’s great; it’s the most stable and easiest-to-install custom ROM I’ve ever used, and I’ve been rooting my Android devices for over a decade now.

That’s the prevailing theory, yes, but as far as I’ve found there’s not empirical evidence to back it up. The theory does make perfect sense to me, though!

Also, as a sufferer, I’ve noticed it almost always requires sunlight or something with close to the same frequencies. Most artificial lights don’t trigger it *for me.

My family members view is that the people I love don’t deserve to exist.

They mean it. They can get fucked. Political beliefs are beliefs, stop acting like they don’t mean anything to the people who hold them.