Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher are now not resuming their shows amid strikes.

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    It’s why the right wing invented ‘cancel culture’, to try to demonize people banding together to change things. This kind of public pressure is a form of people-power. There’s a nasty side to it all, but this is an existential battle for the writers and a mild inconvenience to Drew and Bill. I know what side I’m on.

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    Bill Maher wasn’t complaining about the “crystal generation” not long ago? He folded?

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        Literally the only thing that makes Maher not a conservative in the US is that he’s anti-religon. In any other developed country, he’s comfortably a right wing conservative.

        Plus, regardless of political leanings, he’s an asshole.

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          I could never put my finger on why Bill Maher pissed me off so much and has such a small audience compared to other so-called “liberal” commentators - it’s because he’s an asshole that pisses off the left and right equally, but for entirely different reasons. Thanks.

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        He said that millennials complain too much and are always on the brink of a nervous breakdown and how boomers needed to be in charge. So I guess one crystal by itself even though sharp isn’t much of a threat. But when they are together is pretty dangerous like the cave of swords in Mexico.

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      Sometimes it is unavoidable unfortunately. Had to cross the picket line at the hospital where my grandma was dying.

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      And The View. i I unplugged and it’s amazing what I haven’t been missing.

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    If these scabs really need something to do to kill time during the strike, might I suggest moderating an online forum?

    It’s fun.

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    Calling people who are just trying to work and make a living “scabs” is dehumanizing language. Not surprising from the so-called tolerant left.

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        I’m hereby announcing that people who the left vilifies and dehumanizes with hurtful words like “scab” are always welcome to work at any of my businesses.

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            None of my businesses are about boot cleaning, but even if they were, it wouldn’t be me doing it, it would be my employees.

            Just so you know, the people you cruelly slander with such gross language as “scab” are actually some of the hardest workers. They don’t make absurd demands for more pay and luxurious pampered conditions, they just show up and do the work and take whatever they are given. The way it should be.

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    I dunno, seems like all the shitty actors and writers are striking.

    Good thing, imo. The faster we can replace them with AI, the better.