Bobby shares his tricks in dealing with the Unintelligent:
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Y'know, I'm reminded of that old adage: "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." I feel that if I were going around and noticing a large amount of people who not only didn't like me but were actively going out of their way to tell me as much, I might wonder if they might be on to something. A genuinely good person is not going to have everyone shit on them all day long, after all, so it might be time to do some self-reflection and figure out what I might need to change.
Bobby hasn't a single introspective bone in his body. He continues to see the world as black and white, that anyone who's against him must be nothing more than a simple bully, that he's being hated on for telling it like it is. He never once learned that oftentimes, bullying is...well, I'm not gonna say justified, but I will say it's understandable. A kid runs around mouthing off and acting like a jackass, you better believe he's gonna piss off someone pretty quick. If they're smart, they'll realize that maybe they're not just an innocent victim and change their behavior to fit in better.
If they're dumb, well, they'll grow up to become a 40-year-old who says things like:
No Bad Tactics. Bobby advocates using force and bribe to crush the Red States:
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"crush Red America into paste while there's time," "right-wing regressives [are] vestigial throwbacks," and "We're 156 years and counting overdue to put Garbage America in its proper place." Never once does Bobby stop and think that maybe, just maybe, people don't want to associate with a colossal asshole who says things like this unironically.
Bob: People don't hate you because they ain't you, or whatever delusion you use to cope with being shit on constantly. People hate you because you're objectively a bad person. Like, I honestly cannot think of a single positive thing about you as a person. It's truly remarkable just how awful you are, and because you've blinded yourself to your faults, you'll never change. Enjoy the hell of your own making, lardass.
Heath Ledger's untimely death is one of the things that immortalized his turn as the Joker. Hell, The Dark Knight still has more cultural cachet than half the MCU, partially because it was elevated by his show-stealing performance. If anything, this proves how badly BP has aged- talented lead, two capable antagonists, and all the hype it could possibly hope for- and now, 4 (?) Years on, it's basically a footnote in bygone pop culture ephemera.
It helps that TDK was second in a trilogy of well-crafted movies that were given room to breathe in between releases, whereas BP was entry #18 in a film series that was already a decade old by the time it came out, and was the first of three movies to release
that year alone. There's definitely something to be said about how oversaturation dilutes any potential impact that the MCU movies could have had. I'm sure I'm not the only one who saw pretty much every Marvel movie (except Captain Marvel because haha fuck Brie Larson), and for the life of me I barely remember what happened in any of them. Compared to a great film, or even just a decent one, these movies are completely forgettable pablum.
Also, even if TDKR was a bit of a letdown overall, Baneposting will live on far longer than any cringy "Wakanda forever" shit.