Careercow Robert 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

[muina]

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

....did this egg shaped motherfucker just say the Black Plague was a good thing???

 

[The Mountain]

You could argue that the Bubonic Plague was good in that it kinda gave Europe a kick in the ass in regards to medicine. You had people studying victims, symptoms, and how it spread through populations, which are all huge in early medical research.

You could NOT argue that a catastrophic depopulation was a positive outcome. By that same logic, the Thirty Years War was great for southern Germany, since some places lost as much as 2/3 of their population.

 

[AngeloTheWizard]

wasn't there a character from The Office that said we need a new plague? Maybe Bob figures we need to cut down on population, specifically in middle america (which would kill our food production, but they voted for Trump so who cares?)

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

wasn't there a character from The Office that said we need a new plague? Maybe Bob figures we need to cut down on population, specifically in middle america (which would kill our food production, but they voted for Trump so who cares?)

 

[The Nothingness]

....did this egg shaped motherfucker just say the Black Plague was a good thing???

Something tells me Bob gets all excited when tornadoes strike the Great Plains States

 

[HY 140]

....did this egg shaped motherfucker just say the Black Plague was a good thing???

do you think he also thinks mass genocide is a good idea

 

[AnOminous]

You could argue that the Bubonic Plague was good in that it kinda gave Europe a kick in the ass in regards to medicine. You had people studying victims, symptoms, and how it spread through populations, which are all huge in early medical research.

You could NOT argue that a catastrophic depopulation was a positive outcome. By that same logic, the Thirty Years War was great for southern Germany, since some places lost as much as 2/3 of their population.

Actually, you could. For one thing, it shook up land ownership, as the remaining third of the population ended up inheriting a disproportionate share of resources from those who died. Thus, the survivors within a generation were remarkably prosperous, and fairly financially secure. Additionally, the social upheaval had a shattering effect on people's general outlook on life, and both the infrastructure and respect given to previously near omnipotent institutions like the Church.

With a new worldview and the time and money to pursue these interests, and formerly overwhelming and universal truths like religion at least partly discredited, people actually started innovating and changing at a more rapid pace than in previous centuries.

Arguably, this is part of what set off the Renaissance, starting in Italy and moving from there throughout Europe.

(You can argue pretty much anything.)

 

[Positron]

wasn't there a character from The Office that said we need a new plague? Maybe Bob figures we need to cut down on population, specifically in middle america (which would kill our food production, but they voted for Trump so who cares?)

Obesity is the new plague.

 

[The Mountain]

Actually, you could. For one thing, it shook up land ownership, as the remaining third of the population ended up inheriting a disproportionate share of resources from those who died. Thus, the survivors within a generation were remarkably prosperous, and fairly financially secure. Additionally, the social upheaval had a shattering effect on people's general outlook on life, and both the infrastructure and respect given to previously near omnipotent institutions like the Church.

With a new worldview and the time and money to pursue these interests, and formerly overwhelming and universal truths like religion at least partly discredited, people actually started innovating and changing at a more rapid pace than in previous centuries.

Arguably, this is part of what set off the Renaissance, starting in Italy and moving from there throughout Europe.

(You can argue pretty much anything.)

...Okay, you make a very good series of points.

BUT, we all know that sure as all hell isn't what Bob was getting at.

EDIT: My problem was that my brain defaulted to looking at the little picture. Visualizing piles of plague victims and thinking "yeah, good will come of this" is kinda fucked. Big picture, however, the points made both above and below this post are absolutely correct.

 

[Adamska]

....did this egg shaped motherfucker just say the Black Plague was a good thing???

Ironically it could be argued positively somewhat, since it gave more bargaining power to the peasantry. Basically, with so many of them dead, those jobs needed being done and nobles and so on couldn't just shift to other people as easily. It also killed off a lot of the priesthood and severely weakened their authority and made it easier to become a free thinker (along with Gutenburg's printing press) since the death didn't stop no matter how hard you prayed. Bobby actually ain't wrong completely, though he did phrase it in the stupidest and most Fascist way possible.

And he's still piss stupid since Europe always gave more of a shit about religion or in accruing power during that time period than they ever did about skin color. Hell, even when something like that came to the forefront, it was ethnicity that did it, not skin color. Bobby is showing his gulf of ignorance here.

 

[Emperor Julian]

it's also worth noting the plague decimation saw a massive boost in workers rights as supply vs demand shifted against the fuedal overlords. Of coarse we already know how bob feels about the lower ranks so I doubt he means this. It also most likely doesnt occur to him that an overweight diabetic in a highly populated area is unlikely to survive a rapidly spreading highly fatal decease outbreak with a potential bodycount about 60% of the Western population.

Ironcially the trailer trash he despises are proportianatly more likely to survive and prosper due to greater pop dispersial, cagey temperment and less reliance on decimated infrascructure

 

[Lorento]

Referring to the Graeco-Roman period as 'Culturally intermingled' is a gross simplification. If by culturally intermingled he means that they used foreign born slaves to mine the marble that they used to make the statues, then sure. But the Romans and Greeks definitely had a sense of superiority over other cultures and Bob has no qualification to state that.

 

[Gordon Cole]

It should be reiterated time and time again that Bob has the self-awareness of a cinderblock:

 

[Emperor Julian]

Not to mention the Romans really hated other cultures and usually erroded then as a policy.

 

[Lorento]

Not to mention the Romans really hated other cultures and usually erroded then as a policy.

Generally via 'soft' eradication, by making their elite integrate into Roman values and then waiting for it to go from there. And it was rather successful.

 

[TowinKarz]

Just another dope who thinks cataclysms break along political lines, and arrogantly assumes he'll survive while all the dregs will be struck down, it's the horseshoe theory again, he's wishing for a plague, his counterpart on the right is wishing for that Russian/UN invasion.

 

[The Colonel]

If it weren't for the Catholic church, there wouldn't be any renaissance.

 

[Gordon Cole]

Just another dope who thinks cataclysms break along political lines, and arrogantly assumes he'll survive while all the dregs will be struck down, it's the horseshoe theory again, he's wishing for a plague, his counterpart on the right is wishing for that Russian/UN invasion.

Bob hopes for the dumbest ideas (Borderless countries, the Midwest dying out and our favorite, moon wheat) through the most impossibly naïve ways possible. In this case, wishing for a farmer plague so that the speds intellectuals can rule America.

 

[Count groudon]

You could argue that the Bubonic Plague was good in that it kinda gave Europe a kick in the ass in regards to medicine. You had people studying victims, symptoms, and how it spread through populations, which are all huge in early medical research.

You could NOT argue that a catastrophic depopulation was a positive outcome. By that same logic, the Thirty Years War was great for southern Germany, since some places lost as much as 2/3 of their population.

Tbqh fam I'm convinced that Bob thinks "the Black Plague" was actually the point in time where black people moved to Europe. He generally seems to struggle with understanding any history that doesn't involve Mario.