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September 2025: Bill Maher SPARS with Liberal Actor Rob Reiner, who wants to put conditions on Dems *EVEN SPEAKING* to GOP https://t.co/e0cDcJ0jRT
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The discussion centers on whether people should talk to others even when they don’t hold political power. One speaker argues that you have to talk to people, even if you disagree, rather than refusing to engage because you lack power. The other counters that before arguing with someone who has a different point of view, you would need to agree on certain facts.
The first speaker pushes back against the idea of avoiding dialogue, saying, “you have to talk to people.” The other insists that if you’re going to have an exchange, you must first agree on some facts, implying that without agreed facts, productive discussion is impossible.
The first speaker contends that you can’t always start with agreement on facts, suggesting that once you begin down the path of refusing to talk to someone who holds an opposing belief, you enter a “slippery slope.” He acknowledges that there are common beliefs many share, but notes that some people you’d consider rational still hold widely rejected beliefs, such as not believing we landed on the moon.
The other speaker concedes the point, but the conversation remains focused on whether it’s feasible to engage with people who hold what are described as crazy or irrational beliefs, and how to begin discussions when there is fundamental disagreement about basic truths.
In sum, the speakers debate the practicality and limits of dialogue across political and epistemic divides, highlighting the tension between the necessity of communication and the challenge of convincing or even starting a conversation with someone who holds fundamentally different, and sometimes widely dismissed, beliefs. They illustrate the difficulty with beginning discussions when points of fact are contested, using examples like “two plus two is four” and the belief that “we landed on the moon.”
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Speaker 0: For the Democrats if they had any power. But the idea of we don't talk to you when we don't even have the power, of course, you have to talk to people. I mean, there was an article somebody wrote he was
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. You you you're right. But here's the thing. Let's say we're gonna have that argument. You're gonna try to talk to somebody and you have a point of view.
The other person has a point of view. Before you have the exchange, you have to agree on certain facts.
Speaker 0: No. You don't. You can't. Once you start down that road
Speaker 1: Well, no. No.
Speaker 0: But It's like these are you just have
Speaker 1: to talk
Speaker 0: to people.
Speaker 1: No. No. You talk to people. But if somebody says two plus two is four and the other guy says no, it's not, how do you begin the discussion?
Speaker 0: Because it's a because Rob, that's a slippery slope. It it just I agree. There are certain things that we all think, and then there are people I'm sorry. They everybody I know this from peep from doing this show for so many people who've sat here, and they're like, oh, this is a smart person. This is a rational person.
This is and then there's like one thing. They don't believe we landed on the moon, and you're just like, no. If you start down that road of I can't talk to you, if you believe this crazy thing, because
Speaker 1: maybe Okay. But okay.
Speaker 0: So let's say you can't.