Even for a shitlib like him this is a huge step forward in admitting he was a bootlicker all along.

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    it amazes me the morons who think that guys like oliver are ‘sided’ as if he doenst point out the asinine things that both parties do, just as the daily show does. its not his fault if conservative idiots just happen to be the dumber of the two idiotic groups.

    its only conservatives who will literally provide cover for pedophiles and more because they cant ever be wrong, ever.

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        Magician pointing to Tara Reade: “Introducing the invisible woman.” Media: “But we can see her.” Tara Reade: “Joe Biden SA’dme.” Media: “Oh wow! We literally can’t see her anymore.”

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          I’ve heard tons of russiajacketing in her case, that basically she’s a Russian asset

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            As is every inconvenient truth for the Dems. Why bother fixing or even addressing when you can count on the racism of libs by going “really convenient for those orcs, am I right?”

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      Liberals like Oliver exist to make the unconscionable palatable to the general public. He normalizes genocide, deprivation, civilian-targeted sanctions, absurd imperialist propaganda campaigns, internalized state violence, and punches left.

      In function, the “conservatives” just use the tools given to them by both parties to be nakedly reactionary. The “non-conservatives” (who are generally also quite conservative and reactionary) still enact the same or worse horrors but they do it with slick PR so the people to whom they appeal either don’t notice, forget, or rationalize it. Notice that Dems have literally no agenda with any mass appeal, just “we’re not them”. They aren’t attempting a serious political program to achieve results in the interest of the public. If they were, they’d fire all their strategists from the last 20 years and decapitate the party. But actually, those strategists and leaders are the party’s reason to exist, they’re the closest connections to ruling class interests and eagerly reflect them.

      Oliver’s main draw is that he presents topics as complex and as doing a deep dive that miraculously fits into something like a 40-60 minute segment. He cites “experts” (ranging from actual experts presenting high quality information to outright bullshitters or propagandists), he has a writing team making things comedic (though they aren’t particularly creative…), he takes on a sympathetic affectation and appeals to you the same way whether the message is “climate change is real” or “sometimes we just have to bomb brown people”.

      Oh, and his wife is a war criminal and by liberals’ own standards should be tried at the Hague.