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CareercowRobert Chipman / Bob / Moviebob / "Movieblob" - Middle-Aged Consoomer, CWC with a Thesaurus, Ardent Male Feminist and Superior Futurist, the Twice-Fired, the Mario-Worshipper, publicly dismantled by Hot Dog Girl, now a diabetic
See Bobert if we ended the Electoral College not only would the Mayonaise Ghouls would be ignored but also anyone in a Red or Blue State who doesn't live in a city. Going forward why would any politician looking to win the Presidency waste valuable money on ads in areas that don't have a population that counts? They won't so small towns across America even in Blue states will no longer have a say in the Presidential
He'd be perfectly happy with that because small towns are obsolete and in the superior future, everyone will live in a Manhattanized New York State mega city, just like the ones he's seen in his movies.
Remember, he doesn't consider anyone who exists outside of who he's met in real life to actually exist the same way he does, so they don't matter
From my understanding G Gundam was made the way it was because the popularity for the franchise was declining at the time. Both viewership numbers and merchandise sales were dwindling. The sponsors essentially forced the production to do a major reboot of the franchise because they felt what they franchise had been doing was played out by that point.
Fans of Universal Century probably owe more to G Gundam than they realize. It might have been flawed, but it likely did a lot more to save the franchise and renew interest in the Universal Century saga.
Yeah; IIRC after Victory Gundam, the original timeline for Gundam kind of petered off and TPTB wanted desperately to keep shit going, so they pushed for more or less stand-alone Gundam shows so that they could be self-contained for new viewers and allow for toyetic designs to keep the cash cow model/robot toy side of the business going strong.
Tomino by that point was beyond the point of giving a shit and only in it for a paycheck/keep his baby out of other peoples hands and even then, they made him bring in an outside designer to design the mobile suits. The only reason Tomino is said to have stayed on, was that Sunrise had the new designer send his ethnic stereotype Gundam designs to the toy makers to make prototypes and Tomino was said to have been impressed with how the blasphemous designs looked in toy form, in terms of causing him to shelf most of his concerns as far as the new designer making robot designs that, in toy form, impressed even a super jaded Otaku like Tomino. But Tomino still hated a lot of the changes being forced onto him, hence him making a big play with G Gundam's story where you had a huge amount of political intrigue and cloak and dagger shit going on behind the scenes during the tournament and characters sarcastically stating that the tournament shit didn't matter, only the cloak and dagger shit.
And he followed up G Gundam with Gundam Wing, which remains the only good "update" of the franchise in terms of rebooting it from scratch.
There's also the fact that rather than being something to pass for more eco-friendly measures to be taken, the biggest thing they're trying to push, the Green New Deal, is basically a wishlist of stuff the Democrats want that have nothing to do with climate change, like trans rights, education reform, and healthcare. Gee, why didn't anyone want to pass this bill?
It's ironic how despite being a caricature meant to mock her, the Dianne Feinstein from this SNL sketch raises several good points against the Green New Deal.
If for no other reason than the Dems themselves know that they'll lose a shit ton of their own cash and the favor of dozens of industry lobbyists that they're in bed with in the process....
This, more than anything else, is why they bought off Bernie... he was dumb enough and committed enough to sign it.
He'd be perfectly happy with that because small towns are obsolete and in the superior future, everyone will live in a Manhattanized New York State mega city, just like the ones he's seen in his movies.
Remember, he doesn't consider anyone who exists outside of who he's met in real life to actually exist the same way he does, so they don't matter
Oh I agree but it's not going to change so quit bitching about it is my point to Bobert. It's like living in the desert and then bitching everyday about the heat if it's too hot for you move somewhere else.
If he hates the Electoral College so much go to the UK, Ireland, Canada, any European Country or his beloved China. Also sorry to anyone from those countries I just threw under the bus I wouldn't wish Bobert on anyone except perhaps North Korea or some other vile shithole but making point that Blobby should put up or STFU.
If for no other reason than the Dems themselves know that they'll lose a shit ton of their own cash and the favor of dozens of industry lobbyists that they're in bed with in the process....
This, more than anything else, is why they bought off Bernie... he was dumb enough and committed enough to sign it.
The main reason on why the Dems, or anyone really, will never really put work on this green new deal non-sense is quite simple really, logistics.
Have you read the proposal the new green deal? it is just 16 pages of unrealistic goals and proposal that goes against workings of the current economic system, whitou a single hint on how the fuck they will get to that.
It isn't enough to just pass bills and talk big game, if you don't have a plan for that, and no, just saying "we are going to tax the rich" ain't a plan, the issue isn't just money, but coordination of what has been proposed to be the most complex operation seen in human history. You think twitter princess AOC will have enough time to look away from her phone to pull that off?
There is a good reason on why the Obama care became such a joke, and that's incompetence. Obama and his team also talked big game, but when it came time to sit in and do the work to organize a viable health system, it turned out to be a confusing mess that no one could fully understand or agree with, because it was a sloppy job from the administration.
And things got worse from then, right now if it isn't about mugging for the camera and who can call the USA the most racist the hardest, then it ain't worth the time for any liberal politician.
Saw it with my own eyes, from 1986 to 1996 it went from "The Earth is cooling, we're all doomed unless we do something major that will require a total reform of society and an end to consumerism as we know it!" to "The world's getting hotter, we're all doomed unless we do something major that will require a total reform of society and an end to the consumerism as we know it!"
And they never said WHAT exactly was causing this sudden change from one extreme to the other, inside a decade, which on a geological time scale is a practically unmeasurable micro-second.... but they were SURE it was happening and there was no time for debate: there was, in fact, only enough time to empower government to regulate everything you drank/ate/bought/slept in and if you said "no" we'd all be sizzling like bacon in a pan by 2006.....
Spoiler: didn't happen. Hence the need to invent the term "climate crisis" to spur action.... claims of rising or lowering temperatures can be looked up and checked, but just calling every day where the temperature is above or below the average "a crisis" is harder to fight the hysteria of. You get a severe thunderstorm in your town, bad enough to knock down trees, knock out the power, and flood roads, about once every 2 years, right? It happens.... but I've seen 20-somethings react to one blowing through with hand-wringing about how it's all the fault of "the climate crisis" , even when I tell them I've been around long enough to have seen a dozen such storms, nope, doesn't count, these are 'different' somehow.... or "never happened before" , yeah, from your perspective, you aren't old enough yet to have experienced say, the 20 year flood cycle....
And that's before you get to the insanity of them throwing things into the "climate change" bucket that aren't even weather.....like earthquakes, avalanches and fires that were the result of accidents or deliberate arson.
Before that, there was a book called The Population Bomb, published in 1968. It brazenly stated that "[t]he battle to feed humanity is over." The book went on to explain how Earth would run out of food by the 80s and how by the new millennium Britain as an entity would cease to exist, Africa would've torn itself apart in food wars, the hordes of Asia would've been culled by starvation, and America would no longer be the top dog on the world stage. The author, Paul Ehrlich, is still held in esteem in environmentalist circles, and he brazenly stands by the book- despite how utterly wrong he was. Who's the believer here, Bobby?
Environmentalism- the modern movement, anyway- is a sick combination of eugenics and Malthusian mathematics. Back in the day, it used to be that niggers and Africa needed to be culled for overpopulation to be combated. Nowadays, it's still largely nonwhite people who're targeted, but there's a notable shift in that white people are now fair game.
Ehrlich didn't just predict overpopulation, he also predicted we'd hit not only peak oil by 2000, but, peak coal, peak iron, peak copper..... basically thought we were going to run out of all the basic resources from food to paper by 2000 because, well, everyone in the green corner just had an unshakable religious obsession that something bad was destined to happen by the 21st Century that would plunge us into a LARP of Soylent Green ....
A couple economic/geology professors laid a bet with him that he could pick any 8 resource commodities he wanted, and, they counter-bet that the base price to buy a ton of them, adjusted for inflation, would be DOWN by 1988 vs what they cost in 1978....
He took them up on the bet, and lost. All the picked resources indeed did get cheaper, as increased efficiency of mining/processing and less waste by industry meant the overall supplies outgrew the demand the world over.
But, like you said, he never admitted he was wrong, just moved back the predicted peaks/exhaustion dates another 20 years and republished it all again.....
Again, it's not scientific to some people, it's religious.
I'm not the best person to ask since I've only recently started getting around to watching any series (despite already having built a few Gunpla). That said, the thing about Gundam is that lots of the series are self-contained in their own timelines, with UC being the timeline with the most content produced for it by far. This means you can pick pretty much any non-UC series at random and give it a whirl without needing a lot of backstory or anything.
If you want to get into UC, I'd suggest starting with the original 1979 series and going from there. Some people find it hard to get into due to its age, and it's certainly rough around the edges, but I find it charming in that way. Yeah, there's dust on the cels and the mecha are frequently off-model, but the story's been engaging enough to me so far that I either don't notice or don't mind. After that, I'd recommend what I recommend for other long-running series: continue to go in release order, not chronological, since prequels/interquels usually rely on your knowledge of the older works to make the most sense; don't forget to watch the various OVAs as well, with War in the Pocket being of particular note. Just remember that quality's going to vary along the way, even within series.
(Note that a lot of the early series have been re-edited along the way into compilation movies that serve as a quicker way to get through their stories. I'd personally steer clear of those and take the time to view the series as originally envisioned.)
The only other timeline stuff I've seen is G Gundam and Iron-Blooded Orphans. I've already discussed my love of G Gundam, but IBO never really grabbed me. I got about halfway through the first season before my interest fell through. I might revisit it at some point, but right now I can't give a recommendation for it.
I think it's no secret that Gunpla are what saved Gundam from being just another forgotten mecha series; the original show's declining ratings led to its early cancellation, and it was only due to the massive success of the toy sales that caused them to greenlight new series. From what I gather, by the time G Gundam aired, Gundam's popularity was waning some, so they felt a reboot was needed to get people (mostly kids) interested (to buy more toys).
Apparently, their attempt wasn't hugely successful as G Gundam only did slightly better than the previous series Victory Gundam, but it was enough to keep the franchise going, eventually setting up a pattern where they'd more or less alternate between UC and non-UC productions (the former to pay tribute to the series that started it all, the latter to try out new ideas and keep things fresh without being tied down to the UC story).
Yeah, that's what they say anyway, but the problem is how every one of their predictions has failed to pan out. There has been some form of climatic doomsaying going on for decades now (and you can find references to the idea of the climate killing us all going back even further), and they've been wrong every single time. Remember, in the 70's they were talking about how we were about to enter a new Ice Age thanks to mankind's industry, which they changed to global warming in the 80's and 90's. I forget if it was Michael Mann or someone else in his orbit, but one of them went before Congress in the middle of a particularly warm summer to testify about how global warming was going to kill us all, and he deliberately shut off the A/C so that they'd all be sweating on camera. I'd personally think if the science were so ironclad that he wouldn't have need of such theatrics, but I guess I'm not a scientist. And then when those predictions didn't pan out, they moved to the more broad and vague "climate change" so all their bases were covered; no matter what happens, it's our fault!
This is also why they stopped setting actual dates where we were supposed to see the effects of our horrific actions. An Inconvenient Truth is probably the worst-aged documentary of the modern era; sorry, but Florida isn't underwater, Al. Now it's just a vague threat of "we have to make these changes NOW or else we'll be past the tipping point and everything will go to shit at some date in the future!"
I don't like that lefties have basically taken over any sort of environmental cause, to the point that a die-hard lefty will actually be shocked to hear that a right-winger might actually care about the environment too! What differs is in what each side wants to do. Conservatives who focus on the environment are generally for conservation (go figure), being respectful of nature while not abandoning humanity's technological progress, often focusing on a local level. Lefty environmentalists tend to pursue broad, sweeping changes to society as a whole to scale back on human industry, with the most extreme elements agitating for the destruction of modern civilization to save the planet. Put another way, a conservationist group would cut down trees for timber but manage the forest responsibly and replant trees to encourage new growth, while an environmentalist group would ban logging and any other forest management to keep nature pristine. (That the latter approach could be argued to be making wildfires in lefty states considerably more dangerous and leaving forests in a much worse state afterward is left as an exercise to the reader.)
To put it simply, I much prefer a targeted approach to cleaning up waste sites and managing our land responsibly over a broad and overbearing government dictating every single thing you're allowed to do in the pursuit of some nebulous goal, especially when any gains we might have made towards that goal are offset by other nations continuing to not give a fuck (cough cough China cough). I know Bob gets a kick out of imagining the Mayo Ghouls being forced to do shit they don't want, but that's not for me.
That was James Hansen (of NASA) that got them to shut off the A/C in congress during the hearing in which he testified. Bob likely knows nothing of that little detail, nor the failed predictions, because he fucking loves science.
OH man, with that business about Bob and Bolsonaro, he was caught saying the quiet part out loud but then switched to his standard weaseling, "It was jokes lol, just like the eugenics thing." But this just proves that Bob wants to gas the mayo ghouls worldwide, not just America.
(Link; archive in case he replaces it with a shitty vid)
I'm sorry to report that, even among MCU fans, there are people hopelessly stuck in Inferior (read: white male) Past:
Because wanting more of your favorite character is "toxic".
When Bobby looks at art, he thinks orgy:
(Do you think Bobby's fap folder has this Waterhouse classic yet?)
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Zzzzzzzz...
Nutters want to jail people who refuse to get jabbed:
Something about lockdowns; I won't twist my neurons into pretzels trying to decode it:
To answer the question of the last poster: logic is nothing but algorithms that derive true statements from other true statements. If your premise is untrue (e.g. "An ignorant person is an evil person"), your can't guarantee the truth of your conclusion.
Capitol rioters:
Uncharacteristically, Bobby supports Biden taxing the shit out of Big Corps. He even thinks Biden is taxing crypto:
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An Uncle Tom points out that the Derek Chauvin trial is rigged; Bobby spergs incoherently about capeshit and Jesus camps:
David Dorn is not a saint like Fentanyl Floyd because he was a cop; his death in the hands of BLMers is a mere "bad event" in a much bigger story:
Yup shut up about David Dorn and talk about St. Flyod instead!
More nigga bullshit:
Nope, this isn't because the PRC wants to stick to the hypocritical Communist name. It is always the fault of those damn white people.
Indeed. I would be able to take the GND a lot more seriously if it wasn't full of progressive causes which have absolutely fuck all to do with the climate.
Remind me, how many people did the ”believer” Russian Empire kill from 1721 to 1917? And how many people did the ”thinker” Soviet Union kill from 1917 to 1991?
The thing is that, much like the threat of being sent to an island in Brave New World, those of us who Moviebob doesn't want in the Technocratic Dominion of God-Empress Kamala don't want to be part of it in any case.
I see Jacobin have never heard of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
The AAA was a New Deal programme that regulated the amount of food and animals that could be grown on one piece of land. In a lot of the South black sharecroppers rented from white landlords who legally owned the land. Those landlords ploughed up their tenants' crops, which they could legally do because they owned their land, and left their crops untouched while still meeting the AAA quotas.
I'm not surprised that he has a low opinion of Mortal Kombat fans, as he was probably bullied for playing the Virgin Super Nintendo port of the first game instead of the Chad Sega Genesis port.
The main reason on why the Dems, or anyone really, will never really put work on this green new deal non-sense is quite simple really, logistics.
Have you read the proposal the new green deal? it is just 16 pages of unrealistic goals and proposal that goes against workings of the current economic system, whitou a single hint on how the fuck they will get to that.
It isn't enough to just pass bills and talk big game, if you don't have a plan for that, and no, just saying "we are going to tax the rich" ain't a plan, the issue isn't just money, but coordination of what has been proposed to be the most complex operation seen in human history. You think twitter princess AOC will have enough time to look away from her phone to pull that off?
There is a good reason on why the Obama care became such a joke, and that's incompetence. Obama and his team also talked big game, but when it came time to sit in and do the work to organize a viable health system, it turned out to be a confusing mess that no one could fully understand or agree with, because it was a sloppy job from the administration.
And things got worse from then, right now if it isn't about mugging for the camera and who can call the USA the most racist the hardest, then it ain't worth the time for any liberal politician.
It also didn't help that Obamacare fundamentally didn't understand health insurance and then told it to people that also didn't understand health insurance. Without also telling people that universal healthcare is also a collective responsibility that requires everyone like Blobert to do jumping jacks. Which reminds me of a late King of the Hill episode about everyone prefers carbon offsets instead of doing the hard work of gardening. You can say the ending is unsatisfying dramatically, but it does accurately depict what people do when it comes to the environment. It's not the appreciation thread, but that show keeps finding ways of being relevant long past its air time.
Ehrlich didn't just predict overpopulation, he also predicted we'd hit not only peak oil by 2000, but, peak coal, peak iron, peak copper..... basically thought we were going to run out of all the basic resources from food to paper by 2000 because, well, everyone in the green corner just had an unshakable religious obsession that something bad was destined to happen by the 21st Century that would plunge us into a LARP of Soylent Green ....
A couple economic/geology professors laid a bet with him that he could pick any 8 resource commodities he wanted, and, they counter-bet that the base price to buy a ton of them, adjusted for inflation, would be DOWN by 1988 vs what they cost in 1978....
He took them up on the bet, and lost. All the picked resources indeed did get cheaper, as increased efficiency of mining/processing and less waste by industry meant the overall supplies outgrew the demand the world over.
But, like you said, he never admitted he was wrong, just moved back the predicted peaks/exhaustion dates another 20 years and republished it all again.....
Again, it's not scientific to some people, it's religious.
Which is why I consider Avengers: Endgame a bad movie. It fails to address the dramatic question--the most basic part of storytelling--posed by Thanos. No character in the movie recognizes that their innovative thinking refutes Thanos on an ideological level. Their reaction is just to punch him a lot. Which also happens to reveal the storytelling limits of the MCU; whatever smart premise they have going has to inevitably end in punching.
Global warming is a long term problem, it's not one we're really gonna see the consequences of, but our grand kids or great grandkids absolutely will, We need to do something about it soon though, because by the time the consequences really start to show, it's gonna be too late.
Unfortunately humans can't work with long term plans very well.
This is massively off-topic but can I just point out that a convert to Islam calling herself Amy Ramadan is about as retarded as an Arab convert to Christianity calling herself ”Rashida Christmas”.
Think of it like namesake of months for Arab culture. Just like western months, some are kinda acceptable e.g. April, May, June; others are not. Ramadan is firmly the former.
I'm sorry to report that, even among MCU fans, there are people hopelessly stuck in Inferior (read: white male) Past:
Because wanting more of your favorite character is "toxic".
Basically Bobby can't believe that someone who fits all the demographic profiles of someone that should agree with him - does not, in fact, agree with him. And it's upsetting to him.
Global warming is a long term problem, it's not one we're really gonna see the consequences of, but our grand kids or great grandkids absolutely will, We need to do something about it soon though, because by the time the consequences really start to show, it's gonna be too late.
Also I know someone who is a great-grandmother now and still has a good 20 years left of life (and general trends of human life expectancy) people would actually be alive to see the consequences. The fact that you made an incredibly vague prediction that allows for a shifting deadline date is just another exhibit in what we were on about earlier.
It also didn't help that Obamacare fundamentally didn't understand health insurance and then told it to people that also didn't understand health insurance. Without also telling people that universal healthcare is also a collective responsibility that requires everyone like Blobert to do jumping jacks. Which reminds me of a late King of the Hill episode about everyone prefers carbon offsets instead of doing the hard work of gardening. You can say the ending is unsatisfying dramatically, but it does accurately depict what people do when it comes to the environment. It's not the appreciation thread, but that show keeps finding ways of being relevant long past its air time.
Which is why I consider Avengers: Endgame a bad movie. It fails to address the dramatic question--the most basic part of storytelling--posed by Thanos. No character in the movie recognizes that their innovative thinking refutes Thanos on an ideological level. Their reaction is just to punch him a lot. Which also happens to reveal the storytelling limits of the MCU; whatever smart premise they have going has to inevitably end in punching.
Didn’t help matters that it was three hours long and contained boring as hell scenes that should’ve been cut out like Tony and Thor catching up to their parents. Those scenes were just pure wastes of time and cutting them out would’ve made the movie pace better.
That may be the only truth in his babblings, but you wouldn't know it because it's surrounded by a field of lies and misconceptions.
The 1040 form for my 2020 taxes asked if I had bought or sold any cryptocurrency for that fiscal year, but went no further.
The government most certainly is trying to find out exactly how much of it is moving around in the public as a precursor to taxing the most lucrative part of it now that they realize it's not some fad the kids are doing and that some people are trying to go full crypto and mean it.
Placing a crypto tax into the BTC blockchain may not be happening right now, and may not be Biden's doing, but the IRS is certainly devoting time to figuring out how to do it and pressuring Congress into passing the laws they need to have the authority. If it isn't true right now, it's only because they haven't actually said "Execute Order 66" just yet.... but the paperwork is being drawn up, you can bet your *snerk* bottom dollar on it!
