Is John Oliver COINTELPRO?

Did he explain why it was less serious? The CIA leaks already confirmed what Snowden said in the first place. Call me when it revealed a death weapon or something

Please don't. We're not the air-right. His naive treatment of "well they can't really misuse it because they're not allowed to" is enough we don't have to devolve into sperging "Le current year man XD" autists

He downplays it by comparing the CIA looking into taking control of people's vehicles by comparing it to an average person's personal thoughts that they wouldn't act on and that you can just unplug your tv if the CIA is using it as a hot mic so no worries.

WTF?

Kek, this could even make a good thread. Tell me about Bane, why does he wear the mask?

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wtf im john oliver now

Kek, I've never watched him but whenever I see clips of him he will justify it and throw in some slapstick humor to make the criticism seem absurd or not justify it and mock the criticism itself or the critic directly. Just add smug, rinse, repeat.

How is kicking blood sucking theocrats out of your own country imperialism

It certainly doesn't help that the MSM reported very poor about the leaks (and sometimes just left out the hacking into vehicles) and the only outlets who seriously reported about it were stuff like Breitbart and RT. From there it's easy for the liberal machine to just ridicule everybody who takes it seriously.

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…how did he eat it all?

…what? No he doesn't. His retarded opinion was that they aren't "allowed" to use it that way so they aren't.

This is true, but it doesn't really excuse him imo.

I'm really embarrassed to have been a fan of his when his show first started and I was still a liberal. I dropped his shit once he did his anti-Bernie episode. I'd like to think I'd have been aware enough not to buy into this shit though.

Which one was the "anti-bernie" episode? Honestly he was the only one of the liberal dipshit commentators that ceded the point that the DNC needs serious reform, for which I gave him begrudging, short-lasting respect

Literally at 3:10 he talks about how you can just unplug your tv.

I thought he made some pretty good pieces on exposing the corruption of the system, but I think he's become embarrassing after it got obvious that he's pandering to a select group of people.

Weird, the rip I watched yesterday had that part cut out for some reason

He did one where he spent the whole episode scolding Sanders supporters for daring to have grievances with the Clintonites. He did breakdowns of vote counts and said that Sanders supporters need to go away or shut up. He also went on about that bullshit chair throwing stuff. I suppose it was more of Clinton shilling episode than an anti-Bernie episode.

youtube.com/watch?v=hg2UJkZHUug

nah he is just a liberal commentariat shithead.

Somebody should make a webm of this if they know the episode or where the clip can be found.

Every Liberal commentator pandered to Bernie voters. Bill Maher was on board with Bernie's "Democratic Socialism" up until they knew he wasn't going to win so he decided to slander Bernie and describe his politics as Santaism.

Oliver dies with the rest of them.

The fact that the skeleton-fucking sack of shit can call himself even a center-lib when he's a barely disguised outright right-wing bloviator proves just how fucked the US is politically.

you can say the same about most of the american "politcal" pundits

Nah, most of them are genuine neoliberals. He's a barely disguised right libertarian that manages to fuck Anne Coulter and enjoy it. That should tell you all you need to know about how genuine his beliefs are.

Alright, I went back and found it again. It's his Primaries and Caucuses video. It's not as anti-Bernie as I remembered, he actually was critical of the primary and caucus systems. However, you could help himself by ending the episode by doing condescending breakdown of Hillary's votes in the primaries as opposed to Bernie's, as though Bernie supporters complaints are valid that the primary system is bad, but that they are wrong for being critical of Clinton getting the nomination. I skipped through the episode, so I don't know if he touched on the voting purges or if he pretended those didn't happen.

Yeah that's pretty much what I remembered of it. I swear people confuse the Trevor Noah segment with the Oliver segment. THAT'S the one I remember being especially egregious

Sam Bee was the worst for that garbage.

Never liked the guy, can't understand why he's so damn popular.

youtu.be/hmOFxyIEj_U?t=1m40s

white libs who want to feel like their racism is progressive

I seriously worry that I will lose my shit on the next lib who brings up Sam Bee to me. That pro-school segregation, Glenn Beck cunt can fuck off forever. Of all the insufferable lib show hosts, she is by far the worst.

I liked Maher's thing about how liberals are behaving like pussies after the election but that's about it.

VH1's Black Ink Crew, about African-American tattoo artists, gets much higher ratings than Samantha Bee's trash heap of a show. Why does she get so much free press when no one watches it?

Because she's a wealthy white woman who other wealthy white people enjoy watching and discussing.

b-but she went to russia and talked to the hackers

lmfao

yes

Wait what?

hahahahahahahaha
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rude

Yep.
Do to all this they need to use exploits like any other hacker, exploits that need to be implanted in your system somehow before hand. It's not simply magic that makes you automatically connect to CIA servers as soon as you connect to the internet, well unless of course you use a botnet OS like windows but then you are pretty much asking for it anyway.

Her and her husband vocally opposed school integration at their child's school.

Whoa, this is the second person from the media that pulls an "I just went through it and it appears to be nothing substantial sadly" with a straight face I've seen so far.

Yeah, everyone comes out of the womb a leftist. Nobody can ever go further left. You don't want change, you want a social club.

That's not very conscious of you.

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China's treatment of Tibet is fucked up though

Out of all the Daily Show people who came out of it Aasif Mandvi really was the only one who managed not to fuck up as bad the rest

We do do this though, we just hate having them here because they don't lurk and take a big fucking shit all over the place when they're online.

Fuck off he could be younger for all you know. Most of us definitely started as liberals. Especially in the US its not like people are raised as communist or taught it in schools.

Socialist Imperialism is an oxymoron.

I didn't watch that one.

We need to move him TO the left.

Last Week Tonight is just a marketing lab disguised as a news show. Just because Johnny Come On is trashing [BRAND] doesn't mean it's not marketing. The whole point of the constant product placement is to covertly test different marketing schemes. They're so brazen about this that one of the segments from the first season is even about native advertising.

The choice of a comedy/news show is nothing more than a cynical boardroom decision based on the (unfortunately accurate) "millennials love The Daily Show" stereotype. The show having Poor Analogy Oliver roasting a company is the same thing, based on Gen Y's cynicism, predilection for banter, and disdain for corporations.

That is so cynical, it honestly wouldn't surprise me at all.

bretty guud

youtu.be/L0SN29Ee8mo
You really need to stop giving them so much power by acting as if them watching you is dangerous. Zizek is right, the prison of your mind is more powerful than surveillance. If many change their behavior online because they think they are being watched then the people who are violating laws when they should be socially acceptable are in more danger. Nothing happens when you pirate because tragedy of the commons is in effect. They can't go after everyone and they can't randomly pick off individuals.

Usually when Holla Forums calls someone a cuck it's projection but Oliver genuinely seems like he would have a micropenis and get off solely via prepping bulls.