What did Tom Cruise do? I know about John Xina and Lebron “Chairman Mao” James.
Not really Tom Cruise’s decision to make. The studio chose to do it. Not sure Bill Maher knows about the movie making process.
Bill Maher thinks he's so clever and brave when all he does is essentially parrot the same line and thinking of Ayn Rand philosophy regardless of what he says. The man after all was a proud libertarian when he was hosting his canceled show on ABC Politically Incorrect. And that show got canceled at the height of the terrorism hysteria in the U.S. post 911.
Bill Maher the idiot and a typical American ignoramus would want a country like China to take and accept all the insults hurled by his country, America and still slavishly buy, fawn, and absorb everything America makes. Who thinks like this? None except western chauvinist idiots like Bill and his fellow exceptionalist Americans. American history is so new and for the most part it's people have never truly been tried and undergone a massive internal upheaval caused by defeat and humiliation by any external foes. Having been the dominant power and hegemon of the western hemisphere and isolated from the ravages of WWI and WWII much of the American sentiments and views on conflict are largely sanitized and one sided. Thinking that they are on the side of providence and that they're relative safety and economic dominance are the blessings from God.
God complex is what America is afflicted with. They can never do wrong and even if they have committed any wrong doings they were largely committed out of trying to do good. So the populace somehow manages to excuse the horrible actions their government have committed in the preceding decades and which is why they are able to sleep soundly in the night and smile courageously even if they feel and know deep down that the Native Americans were genocided because at the end of the day, American progress was allowed to happen, and Jesus willed it. It would not have happened if all them Indians just went along with the program and accept the fact that they were nothing but savages that needed to accept Jesus into their heathen lives and have Americans as their superiors.
American superiority arisen from their God complex are pretty potent killer combination that the only antidote to these condition is defeat and humiliation in whatever form or capacity. I don't see no other way.