You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments
24 points

I wonder if he and his wife ever get into fights over his ultralibbery?

permalink
report
reply
34 points

Naw, at home he rolls over and shows his belly like the loyal dog of empire he is. He readily admits he doesn’t push back at all against her lmao

It’s one of the reasons I can’t take anything he does seriously, even if he is one of the broken clocks that is right a couple times a day. Every other segment he does is basically "here’s why the problem is capitalism but I won’t say that so I’ll either end the segment abruptly or redirect the blame to a single person/entity instead of anything systemic

permalink
report
parent
reply
20 points

lol, figures that he wouldn’t, I bet they agree on most things anyway.

Even if he wasn’t a lib, I doubt he’d be allowed to have a show on American late night TV where he says capitalism is the problem. I also have to say that politics aside I don’t find Oliver that funny, especially not that “This is just like (non sequitur)” thing he does that he thinks passes for a joke.

permalink
report
parent
reply
19 points

Oh yea, just the way he frames her military service as positive gives it away. He can criticize the American Empire all he wants but at the end of the only part he has an issue with is the optics and aesthetics, not the core concept. If he actually had a problem with America he sure as hell wouldn’t have married a completely unrepentant war criminal.

I used to like him back when his show first started and I was at the tail end of my liberalism, but I haven’t watched any of his stuff from recent years. His humor began to grate on me and I got tired of the whole “I’ll outline the problem and why it’s capitalism’s fault, but I’ll just blame this one ceo/company instead of capitalism itself” cycle

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

Even if he wasn’t a lib, I doubt he’d be allowed to have a show on American late night TV where he says capitalism is the problem.

This isn’t controversial at all. There have been multiple popular and successful “capitalism bad” shows and movies. Capitalists literally do not give a shit what you make as long as they make money from it. Jeff Bezos will allow you to make communist propaganda and depict him getting beheaded on Amazon Prime if you can guarantee the movie makes $300 million.

permalink
report
parent
reply