New Rule: Collective Narcissism | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

People chanting from the river to the sea while not knowing which river and which sea. We've reached peak human stupidity.

Nice scarves, suddenly cultural appropriation is fine.

4:20 Don Lemon acting like he's not guilty of that same thing, lol

The smart phone and the internet has unleashed the inherent narcissist in everyone.

We should stop celebrating every form of fanaticism

He has a point about protest in general... just stay on the side of the road and ask for people to beep their horn if they agree. Blocking traffic just pisses people off.

"They also protested here on the 405 but nobody noticed." Okay, that one got me laughing out loud for real.

Cuba here. The Che bit was awesome. I always love when Che lovers school even cuban refugees on the man's virtues, which virtues they learned about in predominantly white upper middle class colleges

What about the civil war in Sudan? Does anyone care about that? The media sure doesn't for some reason

You don't see those students protesting against the treatment of women in Iran? I guess it's not as popular?

"When activism merges with narcissism", it's "less about the cause and more about me, look at me, like me... And if you like the way I'm fighting injustice, like and subscribe", with a big old smirk and a thumbs up! I do like Bill Maher.

This was just published in the The Times of London. The war in Sudan…erupted last April and has created the world’s biggest humanitarian disaster, uprooting 8.5 million people and leaving 25 million needing humanitarian help. Experts say that famine will break out in the coming weeks, which could kill 500,000 to one million people. Anyone interested? No, I thought not.

"or is the cause here to bring you me" the online generation.

Holding a protest sign at the side of the road is legal.Blocking traffic is not.

Actually my first thought is HOSPITAL. People need roads for emergency rooms. Never block a road

I'm an Israeli living in London. A couple of years ago I volunteered in a mentoring programme with refugees. I met Tigrayans fleeing the war in Ethiopia. Every time we meet I hear horror stories, and I go check in the news and barely any mentions in the BBC and The Guardian. The civilian death toll on the Tigray side alone was around 500k. They tried to get attention to their cause here in London, to stop the actual genocide of their people. They were protesting, blocking roads. No one joined them, no one cared. I didn't want to say, "you're Africans, no one gives a fuck about you". Ethiopia, like Israel, is an American ally, getting its supplies from the US.

The point of a protest is to inconvenience the powerful, the second you start hurting the average person, you lose your support.

Thank you for continuing to call out crazy.

There is a delightful irony in Maher telling his audience he will wait for applause when presenting an argument about "collective narcissism."

They are moving the Mona Lisa into a bigger area of the Louvre. This gives more space for visitors coming during the Olympics AND allows the Louvre to create a more effective security barrier for the painting.