John Oliver is doing communist edging. The point is to get as near as possible to understanding the underlying systemic issues that are the actual cause of everything he looks at, without ever actually getting there.
He would be filtered out if he said something that anti-capital. It’s similar to the Manufacturing Consent model, except John Oliver and that type is the furthest left the system can tolerate. Jon Stewart getting kicked off Apple comes to mind.
I don’t put any stake in being pandered to but I will admit it does feel good on the rare occasions it happens
go after bush next
I wonder if he and his wife ever get into fights over his ultralibbery?
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
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.
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
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.
You do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it them”.
