'Stop s***ing on your own!': Bill Maher says woke liberals have lost 'perspective' about 'real oppression' and should stop complaining about America and realize 'we're not the bad guys'

Real Time host Bill Maher slammed 'woke liberals' for complaining about America by teaching Americans what 'real oppression' looks like on his show on Friday night.

Maher slammed Americans for constantly complaining about how America is 'so oppressed, sexist, and homophobic' by highlighting what his viewers should learn from Afghanistan.

'Watching the s**t go down in Afghanistan has reminded me of all the conversations I've ever had with an immigrant, almost all of which - if we got to really talking - included the notion of "Oh you people have no idea, all you do is b****h about and bad mouth your own country, but if you knew about the country I came from, you're stop s***ting on your own,"' he said.

He drew comparisons to his own life when he had 'two presidents up my a**.' Former President Donald Trump sued him for $5million over a joke comparing him to an orangutan and former President George W. Bush's press secretary Ari Fleischer told him to 'watch what they [comedians] said' in a press conference.

He admitted these instances weren't 'pleasant,' but he was grateful he knew he would be safe throughout the whole experience.

He told his viewers: 'Neither experience was pleasant, but I never had to worry about being dragged until I'm dead behind a Toyota Tacoma. Have a little perspective about the things we howl about here.'

He mocked 'woke liberals' for being angry their professor didn't agree with them and that the only people who lived without water in this country 'live in California,' and the only ones who starve are actors for a role.

He continued listing real-world problems where women couldn't leave their homes without permission from a guardian because they would be harassed or in danger, and said people were killed at astronomical rates in Honduras and the Philippines.

'I'm sorry your professor said something you didn't like. That wouldn't be a problem with the Taliban because you're not allowed to go to school. In Saudi Arabia, grown women can be jailed for doing things we think of as routine without the permission of a male guardian.

'China rounds you if you're the wrong religion and puts you in camps. More children in Burkina Faso work than are in school. Only five per cent of Burundians have electricity. The homicide rate in Honduras is eight times what it is here. The inflation rate is in Venezuela is 2,719 per cent. The Philippines in the last five years has put to death 27,000 low-level drug dealers, my old job,' he said.

'In North Korea, people starve to death. The only people who starve here are doing it for a role and the only people who have no water live in California.

'If you think America is irredeemable, turn on the news or get a passport and get a ticket on one of those sketchy airlines that puts its web address on the plane.'

Recently, leaders of the Taliban have told Afghan women to stay home because 'fighters haven't been trained to respect them' and before the terrorist organization overtook Kabul, women and their husbands and fathers rushed out to buy burkas to cover their whole bodies, as it was a requirement last time they took over.

The Taliban recently tortured and killed Afghan TikTok comedian Nazar Mohammad, something that hit closed to home for Maher. It stoked fear in Afghan artists about the future of intolerance and convenorship toward art and humor under the Taliban.

Images of Afghan mothers handing their babies over barbed wire to troops at Kabul airport in hopes of getting them on evacuation flights have flooded social media and news sites too as desperate parents try to save their children from life under the group.

'There's a reason Afghan mothers are handing their babies to us,' Maher said on his show. 'And we should take them. Americans, right now, should take Afghan refugees into their homes and into their neighborhoods.'

Maher claimed Americans aren't 'the bad guys' and the country isn't 'rotten to its core' as troops were sent over to stop oppression in Afghanistan in 2001.

'That doesn't make us the bad guys, we're not the bad guys. Oppression is the bad guy,' he said.

'Oppressions is what we were trying to stop in Afghanistan. We failed, but any immigrant will tell you, we've largely succeeded here and yet the current thrush of woke ideology is that America is rotten to the core, irredeemably racist from the moment it was founded, and so oppressive, sexists, and homophobic that we can't find a host for the Oscars or Jeopardy,' he exclaimed.

'Have you ever heard of honor killings? Public beheadings? Throwing gays off of roofs? Arranged marriages for minors? State-sanctioned wife beatings? Female genital mutilation? Marriage by capture? Because we have.

'What's the lesson of Afghanistan? Maybe it's that everyone from the giant dorm room b****h-fest session that is the internet should take a good look at what real oppression looks like. Ask your maid, ask your Uber driver, ask the Asian woman giving you a massage.'

'America may not be the country of your faculty lounge and Twitter dreams, but no one here tries to escape by hanging onto an airplane. No, we wait until we're inside the plane to fight and that's because they cut off the beverage service!'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9935551/Bill-Maher-says-woke-liberals-lost-perspective-real-oppression.html

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Historians launch ‘History Reclaimed’ to combat ‘simply fake’ narratives

Cambridge University Emeritus Professor Robert Tombs says many of the narratives espoused by left-wing activists about historical figures are “simply fake” and he has launched a plan to combat them.

Some of the world’s most distinguished historians, including Andrew Roberts and Nigel Biggar have joined forces to found History Reclaimed, an initiative designed to call out misleading narratives about historical figures.

a close up of a sign© Provided by Sky News Australia
“A lot of us were concerned that things were being said that were clearly not true, and that these things were very damaging,” Professor Tombs told Sky News host Peta Credlin.

“If people are told that the whole history of their country is shameful, that it’s based on genocide … racism and exploitation – then what are they going to think is worth defending?”

“So I thought, well, let’s try and get some people together and not say that our history is perfect, because no history is, but to say that some of these stories, some of these things are simply not true.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/historians-launch-history-reclaimed-to-combat-simply-fake-narratives/ar-AANVPup?ocid=chromentpnews

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Protesters blockade dairy factory to demand plant-based production

Fifty climate activists have created a blockade at the UK’s largest milk factory, locking themselves on to bamboo structures and concrete barricades.

The activists, from Animal Rebellion, are calling on dairy company Arla to transition to plant-based production by 2025 and claim they will not leave the firm’s site in Aylesbury Buckinghamshire until it agrees to do so.

Animal Rebellion claims Arla emitted more greenhouse gases in 2017 than BHP a mining company, and ConocoPhillips, an oil producer.

James Ozden, a spokesperson for Animal Rebellion, said “The dairy industry abuses animals, the planet and workers, who are increasingly squeezed by big business.

“Arla say they’re pro-worker but lobby for supermarket contracts that sell milk for less than water.

“We’re not just demanding that Arla go plant-based by 2025, we’re demanding that the Government supports companies like Arla by funding a just transition for workers in meat and dairy industries to just and sustainable alternatives.”

The group said a climate crisis could lead to unstable crop supplies to feed dairy cows and also potentially expose them to heat stress for two months longer than usual, which could lead to a milk shortage.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/foodanddrink/foodnews/protesters-blockade-dairy-factory-to-demand-plant-based-production/ar-AANVYjQ?ocid=chromentpnews

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‘I got the AZ’: the peculiar second life of the disdained AstraZeneca vaccine

Since I was one of those who chose to get the AZ, I am rather pleased to read this. I am not usually fashionable -- JR

As the Pfizer vaccine rollout extends to younger age brackets and many holdouts finally come forward for a jab, the under-40s who had already received AstraZeneca are sitting on their high horses.

a hand holding a toothbrush: AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine© Provided by Crikey AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine
A subtle sense of perceived moral superiority can be seen among those who signed up for the out-of-favour vax counter to health advice. You could even say AZ is trendy among young people.

How does a vaccine become cool? Like most things in life, when you tell someone not to do something they’ll want to do it more. If you tell someone a behaviour is risky, they’ll want to prove they’re not afraid.

Getting AZ carries with it a number of subtle, but desirable, messages. The recipient is highly rational and able to assess risks without succumbing to fear mongering. They’re happy to accept risk and even go against official health advice. Essentially they’re bold, independent thinkers — and a little edgy. And, finally, they care about the public good and doing their bit. This selflessness permits them a “humble brag” on social media in the name of spreading messages of vaccine confidence.

This newfound status is a rather humorous pivot, given that not so long ago the name AstraZeneca equalled blood clots and death. Even once the minuscule risks were explained and contextualised, the older generation still wasn’t biting, and it looked like the AZ campaign was tainted beyond recovery.

But when under-40s were given the go-ahead to request the AZ from their GPs, counter to the government’s vaccine advisory group ATAGI’s advice at the time, a new wave of youth-driven AZ support was born. The “vaxxie” took off in Australia, with young journos on Twitter being among the first to share selfies receiving the AZ jab.

And soon enough the AZ bandwagon gained a sense of moral authority; its ample supply made it the more ethical choice, and the vaccine that was once shunned was now the subject of bragging rights for its recipients. The 20-somethings who managed to get their hands on Pfizer were soon looked at with thinly veiled disdain — they’d taken the easy route. I’ve heard someone describe a Pfizer recipient as “too chicken” to get AZ.

This all sounds rather negative, but I’ll confess I am one of the young ’uns who got their first shot of AZ in July and, yes, I did post about it on Instagram.

I think it’s the right thing to do, but I have to acknowledge that this perceived trendiness may have encouraged my decision. When I told a friend I was writing this article, he agreed the trend was real. He even changed his Facebook display picture to tell the world he had taken the plunge with the AZ.

There’s no such thing as a selfless good deed, but if this unlikely trend is what it took to get uptake of the AZ vaccine, then so be it. Whatever gets the job done.

As for how the vaccine that is most commonly accepted across the globe became a “fringe” vaccine in Australia is a question for ATAGI, government officials and the media, but I suspect that “I got the AZ” will be a statement that holds some weight for at least a few years.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/i-got-the-az-the-peculiar-second-life-of-the-disdained-astrazeneca-vaccine/ar-AANUNpD?ocid=chromentpnews

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