- Joined
- Jan 3, 2017
We've talked about this before (I think @Mola Ram was the first to really articulate it, but I could be mistaken), but it's scary how good of a barometer Bob is for the leftist mindset at large. I don't know which is worse: that they've come around to thinking his way, or they truly always were like this and finally feel comfortable enough to say it.
The funny thing is when I first came here -- and it was Bob who led me to find the farms, because I was just roaming the internet looking for a place where others might be discussing this weird, hateful, ignorant, yet somehow fascinating sadsack -- I tried to make an effort to distinguish Bob from the greater mass of the left, because I didn't think tarring an entire political "side" with his oddities was fair. But the Trump years drove so many people nuts, that he stopped being so much of an outlier and just seemed to become his party's unrestrained id. You can find people saying nearly as hateful things or worse: there's a funny archive out there of reddit meltdowns post-election, one of which featured a guy who got banned for saying "Now's the time to find the Trump supporter in your life and kill them in their sleep."
Worse than Bob? Maybe! But not all that far off, and really just the exact same sentiment with the winking and nodding and snark stripped away. It's almost as scary as it is entertaining.