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- Jan 3, 2017
Today in “Fuck Trump Supporters...”
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...and being called out for it.
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Basically, Bob's hateful, self-flattering Manicheism fails to recognize that if you place mainstream positions and concerns in the camp of "literal Nazis," "people who don't matter," and "the dumbfucks," then -- surprise, surprise! -- perfectly normal, nice, reasonable people will turn to the literal Nazis, people who don't matter, and dumbfucks because you've given them nowhere else to go. As a political strategist, he makes a really good diabetic film critic.
This limited, unimaginative, black and white view of the world has been a key component of the Thing What Am Bob since he was a wee lad, apparently. Strangely unmentioned on this thread (so far as I can tell, so correct me if I'm wrong -- I got it from his ED page) is the AOL website he maintained when he was 15, "MSTMario." Take this actual line Bob wrote as a kid and see if you can distinguish the thinking, or lack thereof, from how he bloviates now, absent the flowery language often missing its connotations:
"I also enjoy Video Games that don't suck, sucky being anything made by SEGA of America."
(Remember, the Console Wars were his personal Vietnam.) The whole hilarious clot of juvenilia can be found here:
Just seeing the Muller report blowing up in their faces is priceless.
I'll admit seeing Rachel Maddow literally in tears was pretty delicious.