Bill Maher compares Northern Ireland to Sri Lanka

[HLecterPHD]

he he he ... its funny cause its true.

[SummerHerald]

"Always the british"

lol

Give it a few decades and it'll be "always the americans".

[H1TMANactual]

God he's a retard!

[uafchris]

Lets not forget it was the Americans who fucked the Philippians, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine to name but a few. And lets not forget the millions of native Americans wiped out and reduced to a small minority, struggling to live on reservations.

The only reason it was the "british" fault is that they happened to rule pretty much the whole world at one point in the past, most of the actual current problems have nothing to do with the UK.

[darkillity]

Bill Maher IS A MOTHERFUCKING MORON.

[JSremus]

I'm reasonably sure when he says 'Its always the British' he's being sarky (my use of the word sarky instead of sarcastic should tell you I'm british) in a lot of his other stuff he's very complimentary of the british when comparing us to the Americans. Can we show we do have a national sense of humor and take a joke

[gammaray4evrr]

always the british...? has this guy never heard of Vietnam?

[MsDDiddy]

@gammaray4evrr: vietnam doesn't compare with the mayhem caused by british colonization. have YOU heard of darfur?

[gammaray4evrr]

@MsDDiddy

i know, vietnam caused so many more deaths. and it wasnt caused totaly by the british, was mostly the republicans

where are you from?

and now im afraid i havent heard of darfur

[MsDDiddy]

@gammaray4evrr: yeah vietnam was totally unnecessary but yes, the british can't be blamed for it. i live in america but originally from sudan. darfur is a place in sudan where genocide occurred because the british left two different ethnic groups when they colonized. now one group is trying to kill the other. sort of like Rwanda. very tragic.

[uafchris]

@MsDDiddy Darfur is not the fault of British colonialism. You cant just randomly pick countries that were once under British rule hundreds of years ago and then blame the British for all their current problems. It doesn't work like that. And Vietnam was worse than anything the British managed to do. 4 million killed due to US imperialism is hard to beat.

[MsDDiddy]

@uafchris you should probably go educate yourself, it'll prevent you from looking like a dipshit. the southern sudanese were previously part of the DRC but the British combined north DRC with south Sudan so there became two distinct ethnic groups which as soon as the British left sudan, started killing each other. just like Belgian imperialism caused Rwanda. get it now?

[Burnageable]

@MsDDiddy Yeah but you cant just simply blame the British government when they had their own regional governments in a sense, not every individual single issue went to Westminster.... Every empire generally ends up doing bad things, thats why people dont like the idea that the USA has been supporting dictators both previously and now such as Batista in Cuba, when people bitch about Castro they dont know the full story. USA also for example executed President Salvador Allende of Chile

[Burnageable]

and he was democratically elected, they then replaced with dictator Augusto pinochet and murdered 200,000 in the process. This issue was most probably pushed through by the US government as oppose to a regional government. As for the British causing the Rwandan genocide, the British government gave money to the Rwandan government to help fight the increasing aids and various other diseases and Rwanda asked for the money to help them fight it. They then used the money to cause mass genocide.

[Burnageable]

It wasnt the British government. The Rwandan point is a perfect arguement for arguing against charity, and is used frequently, not that i am against Charity. Its not an example of imperialism in practice as the British did not know that they were going to cause genocide with the money they gave from charity and relief. I mean im not saying the British are perfect in the circumstances of Sudan and perhaps India, but the USA is just as bad. I mean you could argue over who is worse for ever...

[MsDDiddy]

@Burnageable i'm sure charity funded these murderous militias but the initial cause was imperialism. i love that your sole arguments is that the USA is much worse. did anyone argue that it wasn't? but we're not talking about american imperialism, are we? we're talking about the fucking british wankers who thought they could go around taking over the world without any consequences. give me a fucking break!

[Burnageable]

@MsDDiddy As I have already clearly stated, i said that the British Empire was not unaccountable for some acts, and i also said "the USA is just as bad", I didn't say worse. The point of my arguement was that these events in the British Empire was generally due to regional governments so you cannot hold that countries government to account, as for the US more recent acts they would of had to been discussed by the govnerment such as Vietnam.

[Burnageable]

For example the Kenyan massacre about 70 years ago, commited by the British Empire was not known by Westminster, the British public or anyone except the government out in Kenya. Where as events such as Vietnam, Batista in Cuba and assasination of the Democratically elected Salvador Allende of Chile would of undoubtedly been discussed with the current Presidents of the time and possibly through the appropriate government bodies.

[gammaray4evrr]

this guy clearly hasnt got a clue...

[UlsterScotKeith]

Give the native indians their land back Bill, then you can talk about Northern Ireland or the UK. No Surrender.

[51wins]

nothing to do with the British...the people for years protested for the British to leave and when we finally left and handed over power to the majority people...they went and f**ked things up for themselves.

Very same thing happened in Africa in many countries, when under British rule the countries were run very well, once British left the new leaders had no clue how to run things and the country fell into civil wars, famines etc

[Applebaum]

yes it is always the fucking british, superiority complex

i would add europeans in general to that wherever they maybe be, theyre arent all evil but fucking look at history its fucked up...and too many countries now speak english u know that some people have to be killed before they stop speaking their own motherfucking tongue. colonialism is some evil shit and england/britsh were fucking disgusting in this department.

[OrangeDemocrats]

How are the Native Americans treated in your backward, racist nation Bill??? Fucking hypocritical, arrogant, overweight, illiterate Yank douchebags!

[hugoegbert79]

@MJMedin How is any of that relevant? Does that mean she can't criticise the British for things they've actually done wrong? It doesn't make any of the other things she's said any less true.

[badhead]

Thats right Bill. It's NEVER American

[edmund184]

"The fucking British" Oh yeah. In my country the police aren't armed. In the US 70,000 die in shootings each year: that's a 9/11 every 3 weeks. I DON'T feel inferior to Americans.

The blacks got far worse treatment than Northern Ireland Catholics, they weren't linched or made to sit at the back of the bus.

How dare this asshole Maher talk about minorities. Irish america virtually kept the terrorism in Northern Ireland going with weapons & money. Damn the US.

[Applebaum]

@edmund184

America was made by Britain

[v19d]

Right on Bill Maher you said the truth about the british running Northern Ireland. The British should leave Northern Ireland and let it reunite with the South. I say let there be a vote on leaving Britain and joining the republic of Ireland

[MrMudkipKing]

@v19d Wow theres alot wrong about your view, the UNITED KINDOM ( clues in the name) is not run by the British all four countries ARE UNITED, i can tell your American. they can allways call for the queen to stop being the head of state there and since the civil wars funded by America, there is no chance of an southern allience. Scotland, Wales and England are one of the Oldest democracys in history. N Ireland get good healthcare, support, schools, Economy and everything because of the uk

[v19d]

@MrMudkipKing Can you explain why some of those same people are leaving Britain. The reason the whole world knows why Britain is called United Kingdom is that the British forced those nation Scotland, Wales, and now N Ireland through war and conquest.

[MrMudkipKing]

@v19d What people? And theres a phrase here and everywhere in europe, History is History. No one cares what ancestered did to ancestered cos it doesn't matter. The English get on with the french now, and the 'whole world' doesn't care about the dark ages, middle ages or whatever otherwise we wouldn't share the same flag.

[Applebaum]

@MrMudkipKing History makes you who you are. People are right to care.

ignorance breeds ignorance.

unless you learn from the past you are doomed to repeat it.

[MrMudkipKing]

@Applebaum one step forward ten steps back. Do as you say, learn from the past and stop being ignorant. You somehow have assumed the prodostant ulster Scots were ever united with the catholic Anglo Irish, believed you an American could have a say in the mater when your hated in ireland more than the english would ever be. Created an idea that people are leaving Britain because the english 'run it' believe Alba, Crymru and N Ireland are forced into anything. Jesus ur the most ignorant kid online

[Applebaum]

@MrMudkipKing Are you sure you are talking to the right person?

'You somehow have assumed the prodostant ulster Scots were ever united with the catholic Anglo Irish'

I've never once uttered those words in any of my comments....and I think you meant *Protestant

'believed you an American could have a say in the mater when your hated in ireland more than the english would ever be....Jesus ur the most ignorant kid online'

I'm from England and I'm a Black woman, never jump to conclusions darlin.

[MrMudkipKing]

@Applebaum yep sorry I thought you were someone else

[petersz98]

@v19d

I think you Americans should leave the USA and give it back to the Indians who everyone knows you stole the land from them and carried out a genocide that Hitler would have been proud of!

[AnySmokes]

always de fuckin birts

[Casimireffect2010]

some people have never heard of the Dutch,Spanish, Portugese, French, American,Chinese,Japanese,Germ­an,Russian Empire/ Empire attempts.Sometimes it was but that is just a simplistic statement happily agreed by wankers.

[purpleSun6292]

@Casimireffect2010

you redcoats are soooo drowl

[ste43]

more!

[handofnergal]

that chick is HOT!

[trekkiesrule1]

Good point welltodo6. It's certainly lost on them both.

[76evercln84]

"always the fuckin british"....lol....the british have caused at least 1/3 of the problems in the world....fuckin limey assholes!....lol

[welltodo6]

The Tamils want their former state in the north and the east of the island reinstated. Recent democratic elections have pointed at this, as have mandates the main party there, the TNA, have acquired since the late 70s. It's kinda selective history they're scrutinizing here, and I'm disappointed in both of them for doing that, although Maher also mentioned Israel/Palestine in the interview which has more parallels with the Tamil struggle.

[aaronmcc23]

Northern Ireland, of course. I'm saying that invading another country is wrong at the time. The point I'm making, however, is that the ancestors of these invaders aren't bad and can do nothing about it.

Americans are often self-righteous preachers of Irish Nationalism (despite not living there) yet in their own country they lived in the exact same thing happened. I don't preach Native American Nationalism to them.

[aaronmcc23]

What I find hilarious is that Bill Maher lives in the United States of America. There is a minority issue there. In that the white man settled there, killing millions of natives through disease and physical force and basically stole their land. Now the natives are living on reservation sites and are neglected by their society.

It is shocking how hypocritical he is.

[drefan20]

could u post the whole interview urs is the only video that looks good

[JDela10]

Bill, Northern Ireland was quite a bit more complex than a "minority" issue, but British joke at end was pretty funny and so true ;-) but history is history. The full interview is pretty painful to watch, all Bill does is keep saying his audience and Americans are too stupid to understand what she's saying, he needs to calm the hell own with that.

[Freshhhhh1982]

It is always the fuckin British.

[Silwathpora]

My dad was the chief for the LTTE cargo ships.

[hippotoast]

My mother was Adolf Hitler's Alsation.