47s: "...the best good guys are often very humble [...] they're constantly assessing their own faults [...] the worst bad guys are completely convinced that they aren't. They're completely convinced that they're actually the good guys [...] they often advertise it overtly because they're incapable of considering any reality otherwise.
Case in point: Moviebob, who claims to be "
Chaotic Good" despite being observably Chaotic Evil.
1m, 7s: ...you end up with [...] a lot of self-proclaimed "good guys" doing a lot of bad-guy things [...] generally bullying their will onto others because they believe these wrongs are justified if they're done in pursuit of their righteous ends.
Moviebob, 2014.03.16: "TACTICS aren't good or bad, only TARGETS."
1m, 35s: Nobody ever thinks he's the bad guy until he stops to consider that possibility [...] the bad guys convinced themselves that they were actually good, and so they wrote themselves blank moral checks to do whatever they want in pursuit of their ends.
As Moviebob does all the time regarding "moral intelligence", despite having levels of morality and intelligence that hover microscopically above zero.
2m, 9s: "Ghoulish, but necessary" [...] the philosophy of every bad guy of the past. "Sure, what I'm doing is [...] just a little bit wrong, but it's in pursuit of the right ends [...] if you just ghoul correctly, you sprout angel's wings."
Or, in Moviebob's wettest of dreams, Thanosing the troglodytes who stole the fyuuchaa he EARNED would automatically grant him the first-ever ticket on an intergalactic space flight and be the first person to speak face-to-face with alien life forms.
2m, 54s: [L.A. Times columnist Michael Hiltzik is] now advocating responsibly contextualized and restrained mockery and laughter at unvaccinated deaths...
Moviebob doesn't restrain his laughter at the deaths of those who are unvaccinated. Moviebob laughs loud, he laughs hard, and he laughs with vile obnoxiousness.
3m, 1s: [Hiltzik] has urged vaccine caution under the prior [Trump] administration. But that was when the bad guys were in power.
Moviebob is on record as saying that he would never take a vaccine developed under the Trump administration even if it were injected rectally by Asian Budweiser girls... or something to that effect. Bob quickly changed his mind once Fuckwit in Chief Joe Biden took over.
3m, 8s: Now that the good boys are back in town, it's not only time to impose our vaccine will on others, it's time to mock them if they don't submit and dance on their graves in gleeful celebration of their deaths.
As Moviebob has demonstrated many times already.
3m, 38s: The title [of Hiltzik's article] calls [Kelly Ernby, a Republican deputy district attorney from Orance County, CA] "anti-vax" while the column body acknowledges that her opposition was to vaccine mandates.
Again, Moviebob supports mandates just as much as he demands lockdows.
4m, 1s: Turns out, mocking her for her political decision is a lot easier when you misrepresent her political position. So, too, is mocking her death when you misrepresent her death.
Moviebob wouldn't care about either the latter because he'd ope. He'd treat her like Ebenezer Scrooge would treat Tim Cratchit: "Let her die and reduce the surplus population."
4m, 19s: ...a closer look at the circumstance of her death shows more complexity [...] the column just says she died "of COVID"--which makes you think she's hacking up a 'rona lung on her death bed--but that isn't what happened. She was gardening at home and died suddenly from a blood clot. [...] there's no indication she suffered any symptoms [of COVID-19] at all. This sounds [...] like a death that would have otherwise happened anyway, and she simply tested positive for corona incidentally.
Moviebob would never look deeper into Ernby's death other than it being "one of nearly a million deaths Orange Man is directly responsible for".
(Besides, the "Blame Trump™" card expired when he left the White House for that last time on January 19, 2021. As per the rules set by Moviebob and other Leftist idiots, aren't all the COVID-19 deaths since January 20, 2021, now Biden's responsibility? If my interpretation is correct, that means Biden's now responsible for more COVID causalties than Trump.)
4m, 53s: ...this article is more fundamentally about broader moral concepts [...] it is also horrifically wrong [...] a perfect representation of everything wrong with a growing "ends justified the means" mentality, a belief that moral recklessness today [...] leads to moral purity tomorrow.
Moviebob, tactics, targets.
5m, 13s: If you listen carefully, you'll hear variation sof this column's basic logic all the time. [...] In this case, it's "sure, the hallmark of civilized thought is a recognition that all life has value, but... if some lives live differently, perhaps the value is just a little lower."
You repeatedly see this from Moviebob, as he frequently says "you're not a person" to someone who dares challenge the Bostonian Benito by using his own words against him.
5m, 59s: You wonder how all of history's greatest atrocities were committed? It's that exact philosophy: "Human life has value, but." You get those atrocities when you treat the value of human life not as inherent, but as conditional [...] If the life we're abusing has no value or less value, it's not really abuse, is it?
Moviebob absolutely demonstrates this behavior. As Moviebob
recently said on January 10, 2022, "Just as one cannot bully a bully or visit cruelty upon the cruel, you can't be 'fash' to fascists--you can only bring down justice." The problem with Bob's alleged logic comes down to basic ignorance: Those who were bullies growing up are capable of introspection and are oftentimes willing to confront their victims and atone for their misdeeds. Moviebob is clearly not capable such self-improvement, seeing as how he's better than "the stupids that make up 98% of the U.S. population and 100% of non-Democrat voters".
6m, 43s: Secondly, this article is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of freedom. The whole premise is "har, har, har, you advocated for freedom, and that freedom cost you your life", as though that's some sort of malfunction or failure.
You'll hear this thinking all the time: "What freedom do you mean? The freedom to die?" Yes, I do mean the freedom to die, and I accept the consequences of my choices, even if they do lead to my death, and I don't trust you to control my life to supposedly prevent it.
DAMN!!!
"...and I don't trust
you to control my life and supposedly prevent [my death]." Perfect statement. I don't trust Moviebob for insight on film, so why the ever-loving FUCK would I ever trust Moviebob to control my life in order to prevent me from dying?
(Since I voted "for" Trump as a "fuck you" to Führer Hillary, Moviebob would only control long enough to walk directly into a live wood chipper. "No bad tactics", you know.)
7m, 16s: There are fates worse than death, among them, slavery. That's what "liberty or death" means. [...] in what other context do we think this way? If a mountain climber dies pursuing his dream of summitting Everest, do we laugh at him for his supposed misuse of his freedoms? Do we ban anyone from ever attempting it again, or do we recognize that is the life that he chose? [...] if he could do it again, he probably would, because he knowingly accepted his potential death as a potential risk inherent to his choices.
I can attest to this sentiment. About eight years ago this coming week, I went on a day trip ATVing with my brother near Mojave, CA. I was excited because ATVing was something I'd never done before, and my brother and I were enjoying ourseves for about four hours. (I even went so far as to call it "a roller coaster without restraints".)
But as he and I were about to call it a day, I was driving an ATV up a dirt berm, and I made the mistake in shifting my weight forward instead of backward, and I crashed face-first into something hard. Despite wearing a helmet and safety goggles, I was conked out (for how long, I don't remember) with a mild concussion, a fractured right cheek bone that required plastic surgery (which took place about ten days after the accident), and a weakened muscle in my right eye that resulted in a 15°-20° vertical discrepancy between my eyes' lines of sight (which was corrected via surgery in September the following year).
I knew what risks I was taking going in (because I had to sign a disclaimer), knowing serious injury was possible... and while I had fun riding those ATVs before disaster struck, I don't plan on doing anything like that in the immediate future.
7m, 46s: And maybe you say, "Ah, well, that's different. That was something admirable that killed him." Fine. Take any vice that you want: The alcoholic whose liver quits, or the smoker who plugs up his lungs. Do we laugh at their graves for their refusal to go to the [Alcoholics Anonymous] meetings or try Nicorette, or do we give those lives the proper respect of their own choices, even if their choices are unwise?
Moviebob's completely blind to thinking about anyone but himself. Whether it's his disdain for red-state America or his perpetual loyalty to the historically evil Democratic Party, that's up for debate.
8m, 10s: ...lastly, this column is a perfect representation of recurring, very broken philosophy: "If it works, do it." "Ghoulish, but necessary" is another way of saying exactly that. [...] "Sure, it's evil, but it produces the effect that we want, and that's what really matters." [...] What's the limit on "ghoulish, but necessary"? We can reduce the murder rate by putting everybody in prison. We can reduce traffic deaths by demolishing every road in the country. We can slow the spread [of COVID-19] by executing anybody who tests positive.
Moviebob would happily oblige the execution the unvaccinated who contract the Coof... or at the very least, he'll be happy to board then on a one-way cruise to isolated gulags (as
he wrote on December 5, 2021, "Can we at least talk about putting [the unvaccinated] all on some kind of archipelago? If climate change [...] is going to keep making new islands, we might as well use them." As usual, he falsesly claims this statement to be a joke.)
9m, 18s: ...worse, still, at least in this case [...] it doesn't actually work. That's [Hiltzik's] justification for the "ghoulishness": Mocking the deaths of the unvaccinated is public education; there may be no other way to make sure that the lessons of life's teachable moments are heard. But what evidence is there of the necessary gholish mockery working? Who, exactly, have these tactics persuaded?
I'll cite multiple examples of Moviebob condoning this ghoulishness he deems necessary toward the non-vaccinated:
Moviebob, 2020.11.18: P
rosecute misinformation and disinformation. Make it a crime to push false science in cases that can impact public health and safety - and make that definition broad as HELL given the dangers of [...] anti-vaxxers...
Moviebob, 2021.04.04: "Vaccine Passports are a conspiracy to ban [...] anti-vaxxers, Trump-voters and Republicans in general from being able to participate in society!" is... NOT [...] the argument AGAINST the idea you think it is, folks.
Moviebob, 2021.05.29: We should've been throwing anti-vaxxers in prison back when it was "only" dumb hippies [...] Now that it's MAGA terrorists, maybe we'll grow the necessary stones.
Moviebob, 2021.05.31: ...I'd watch a reality-sports show where we just stuck anti-vaxxers and flat-Earthers in sealed stadiums and pelted them with those American Gladiators dodgeball canons until they started passing out.
Moviebob, 2021.07.22: For the safety of the least fortunate, most vulnerable and those who DON'T have a choice; with the much less important but also admittedly satisfying bonus fact that it can facilitate shoving both MAGA Trash and the broader Anti-Vaxxer set firmly into society's dumpster.
Moviebob, 2021.07.26: Responsible, thinking Americans will NOT want to go back into lockdown hell and if you point them at anti-vaxxer MAGA Trash who're making that a possibility it can only make the stakes of our present reality clearer. Thinkers versus Believers. Let's get it on.
Moviebob, 2021.09.09: "Dems" want to anger anti-vaxxers, MAGAs, all manner of right-wing fuckery. They've got 4 years of rage built up about Trump [...] and 21st Century America is ready to let it RIP on white trash America.
Moviebob, 2021.09.21: Anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers and the willfully-unvaxxed (collectively, "The Stupid") are a threat to the lives of the people in this country who actually DESERVE to be 'done with Covid' by now. End The Stupid, End The Problems. 2 1st Century America does not need the ignorant.
Moviebob, 2021.10.26:
When people say "quarantining the unvaccinated doesn't make sense because the vaccine isn't 100% effective;" I feel like they're forgetting that Anti-Vaxxers were ALWAYS [...] the most obnoxious fucking people you'd never want to be around...
Moviebob, 2021.11.15: If [a COVID-19 endgame is] not "sink the anti-vaxxer districts into the Earth's mantle and shrug when someone asks what happened" you're just kicking the can down the road.
Moviebob, 2021.12.12: I know [a vaccine mandate] keeps the people who WON'T [vaccinated] away from me [...] I don't care what happens to the anti-vaxxers, so long as the don't cause more problems on their way out...
Moviebob, 2021.12.14: I'm in favor of doing A LOT of unpleasant shit to anti-vaxxers--both in the name of safety and also just, yknow, for fun (might as well get SOME use out of them...)...
Let me ask: What are the odds of any of these proposals working as Bob intends them to?
9m, 44s: [Hiltzik's] original tweet promoting this article is ratio'd by a factor of 24 replies to every like*, and, no, this isn't simply a comment war between vaxxed and unvaxxed keyboard armies. It's a lot of criticism from vaccinated people who recognize the importance of the moral concepts at stake here.
As we have observed repeatedly since the WuFlu hit America, Moviebob dow not know of--or, more likely, doesn't give a damn about--the moral concepts at stake here.
11m, 23s: ...if you're defending ghoulishness, because, like anything else, it's OK when a "good guy" does it, you'll have to answer the question, "At what point does your ghoulishness make you a ghoul? How much action can a good guy take before he becomes a bad guy?" 'Cause if you take that time to consider how much ghoul cred your "good guy hero" status has earned you, you might just realize you aren't one [of the good guys].
And those are questions Moviebob will never answer--at least, not with any honesty. We've seen countless times that, when people call Bob out for his past behavior, he won't apologize with any sincerity. Bob will do everything he can to weasel out of valid criticism with some bullshit excuse like "taking a yeard-old 'joke' out of context" (despite still adhering to that "joke") or "changing my mind based on research" (like the Coof vaccine he took due to political convenience). And if he can't succeed with those, he'll just refer to his critics as quote-unquote "people". Regardless of his tactics, Moviebob will always be a villain who will never fool smart people into believing he's a legitimate "hero".
