Posted on 02/04/2023 7:11:47 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that “today’s woke revolution” has striking similarities to China’s Cultural Revolution of the 1960s under Chairman Mao and “we do have our own Red Guard here, but they do their rampaging on Twitter.”
Maher stated, “Yesterday, I asked ChatGPT, are there any similarities between today’s woke revolution and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution of the 1960s? And it wrote back, how long do you have? Because, again, in China, we saw how a revolutionary thought he could do a page-one rewrite of humans. Mao ordered his citizens to throw off the four olds: old thinking, old culture, old customs, and old habits. So, your whole life went in the garbage overnight, no biggie. And those who resisted were attacked by an army of purifiers called the Red Guard, who went around the country putting dunce caps on people…who didn’t take to being a new kind of mortal being. A lot of pointing and shaming went on — oh, and about a million dead — and the only way to survive was to plead insanity for the crime of being insufficiently radical, then apologize and thank the state for the chance to see what a piece of shit you are, and of course, submit to re-education, or as we call it here in America, freshman orientation.”
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What’s going on with Maher these days? He’s starting to make sense.
Maher has made a career out of mocking people who said such things.
Depends on how and what you are counting, I suppose. I think the Cultural Revolution killed something like 50 million. But mostly through famine, maybe. Maybe he just means a million dead by security forces alone.
I look down and whisper, "No."
Woke cancel culture is just another reason I will not be giving up my 2A rights. These people would put us in camps if they had their way. I'm not willingly getting on that bus.
Says the guy who stocks his audience with obedient seals who clap and hoot on command.
Bkmk
They will probably try to just off some of us outright. When they come for me, I’ll be locked, cocked, and ready to rock.
The Great Leap Forward ‘58-’63 killed that many.
BTW we shouldn’t get too cocky tho - the environmentalists/globalists are slow rolling us into our own version today.
“These people would put us in camps if they had their way.”
Nah. They would probably kill us if they had their way.
He starved the bulk of them.
“These people would put us in camps if they had their way. I’m not willingly getting on that bus.”
I have no doubt. In fact, they’d enthusiastically watch us as we’re hauled away.
> we do have our own Red Guard here, but they do their rampaging on Twitter <
They’re also in every company’s HR department. Say something out of line, and you’re HR bound. And it won’t be pleasant.
Somebody ought to write a country song about this. Hank Williams Jr., are you listening?
Good for him.
I hope Maher turns full 180.
Yup, the Environment (TM) and Diversity (TM) are their religions. They must be followed.
This has been going on a LONG time, since the hippies wrecked everything.
Bill doesn’t like the child he birthed.
Good luck with that, against their tanks and bombers.
The 2A needs to apply to ALL weapons, not just personal hand-held munitions.
Maher helped make this all possible by being a useful idiot.
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