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

[John Andrews Stan]

Positron, and other Kiwis like them, are nothing less than saints for wading through that filth to get us our laughs.

When I was still fairly new to Robert, I was so aghast at his output that I felt someone had to catalogue the insanity for the day when he inevitably goes on a shooting spree or just kills himself and blames mayo ghouls. I started trying to do so, but quickly plunged into unforeseen levels of disgust and disdain. Rarely have I felt such relief and gratitude as when I realized @Positron had it covered and was way better at it than I’d ever be.

 

[Free the Pedos]

How, exactly, does putting a flag on the moon reduce poverty?

I think that when we have absolute poverty in our own country it's ridiculous to say that we should compete in what's basically a pissing contest with China while children starve.

What children are starving in a country to with SNAP, WIC, TANF, and free school meals?
This was not the best example you could’ve picked.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

What children are starving in a country to with SNAP, WIC, TANF, and free school meals?
This was not the best example you could’ve picked.

”Both children and adults were food insecure in 6.5 percent of households with children (2.4 million households).” - the USDA website.

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

I've heard this argument so many times during the years that it's starting to truly bother me. By all means, let's stop spending money on anything that can arbitrarily be considered frivolous, so long as poor people exists on this Earth. When the last case of poverty is "solved" by the welfare state, only then can we engage in such things as space exploration. Please don't pay attention to the numerous technological advancements the Space Race of yore led to, which in turn brought about many desired things, such as reduced poverty.

I don't think most people here believe that space development is unhelpful in all other spheres of life. Rather, it's to point out the rupture between CinemaRobert's virtue signaling over being a good progressive who cares about the disadvantaged, unlike le Nazi orange man, and his willingness to spend massive amounts of money on something only indirectly beneficial to those same people—but only because he deserves to be in a moon condo growing space wheat, not because of any other reason.

 

[BScCollateral]

And no one took umbrage over what the researchers wore (cf. this).

And incredibly enough, there is an actual story there. You didn't notice because it was reported by journalists. Even beyond the IMHO very obvious, "Dude, that is not appropriate" which should start and stop with being chewed out by his bosses.

The shirt was designed by a friend of Taylor's, who sells them. Meaning he chose to do product placement for a friend's business during extensive media coverage of a major government project. NASA astronauts got reamed out for doing things far less obviously sketchy.

 

[Free the Pedos]

”Both children and adults were food insecure in 6.5 percent of households with children (2.4 million households).” - the USDA website.

Thank you, that page has a lot of interesting information. Though it also prompts the question “why aren’t those households using federal programs?”

 

[Godzilla@1989]

If there’s one good thing about 2020, it’s Bob getting fired from the same gig twice.

 

[BScCollateral]

How, exactly, does putting a flag on the moon reduce poverty?

"Reducing poverty" does not, in fact, reduce poverty.

The iron rule is that you get what you pay for. Give money to people for being poor, and you make more poor people who want that money.

 

[Carlos Thin]

I want to know why I, an engineer who is not from the US, has seen more classic American films than Bob.

His desk description of "Gabriel Over the White House" is fucking insane. The movie predicted the failure of the Battleship in WWII and the post war mutually assured destruction of the nuclear age.

This is akin to saying "The Godfather" is about a wedding reception.

More than likely he's parroting what he learned in some film class (he did go to college?) about fascism in pre-war American media (comparisons to Hitler in Gabriel.., western narrative of the Crusades in The Crusades). Or he's getting it from some lesbian/sjw film blog based on the lesbian scene from Sign of the Cross

 

[ConsoleWarVet]

or just kills himself and blames mayo ghouls.

There's an alternate universe where after being BTFO by Lindsey Ellis Bob mailed her a bomb of AIDS needles and blew his face off while naked on camera à la Ricardo Lopez.

 

[Jetpack Himmler]

Positron, and other Kiwis like them, are nothing less than saints for wading through that filth to get us our laughs.

Heaven knows I would chug on Draino if I constantly waded through the cesspit that was Bob's Twitter feed. These gents are doing the Lord's work.

 

[Slowboat to China]

Came back to this thread after a week to find Bob ... Exactly the same. Even on Christmas Day, just the same. I guess he didn't go to Mass? Even if he's an edgelord now, it would do him nothing but good to get out of his routine and actually spend time with other people. Churches are doing masks and social distancing, and it's a good time of year to support local businesses and restaurants. He can't be THAT immunocompromised.

Heaven knows I would chug on Draino if I constantly waded through the cesspit that was Bob's Twitter feed. These gents are doing the Lord's work.

I don't know how the regular Bob archivists and commentators do it. I get so burned out just reading the secondhand analysis. Semper fi, y'all ...

 

[Gaear Grimsrud]

I've heard this argument so many times during the years that it's starting to truly bother me. By all means, let's stop spending money on anything that can arbitrarily be considered frivolous, so long as poor people exists on this Earth. When the last case of poverty is "solved" by the welfare state, only then can we engage in such things as space exploration. Please don't pay attention to the numerous technological advancements the Space Race of yore led to, which in turn brought about many desired things, such as reduced poverty.

I know you're not necessarily making this argument, mr. Mannerheim-kun, but a vein bulges out on my shapely buttocks from the strain caused by reading the described line of argument.

I agree with this. There will always be poor people. Frankly, some of them are poor because they are too stupid or mentally impaired for anything else, no matter how much help they get.

No need to abandon all over endeavors.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

I guess he didn't go to Mass?

He thinks the Church is for mayo ghouls, so no.

 

[Malagor the dank omen]

He thinks the Church is for mayo ghouls, so no.

Isn't he the kind of fervient atheist that things God is just magical man in the sky that doesn't exist?

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

Isn't he the kind of fervient atheist that things God is just magical man in the sky that doesn't exist?

Yeah.

 

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Isn't he the kind of fervient atheist that things God is just magical man in the sky that doesn't exist?

Yeah, but he doesn't bang that drum quite as much as you'd think.

I think he's just self-aware enough to know about the fedora atheist stereotype, so he doesn't make being an atheist his entire personality, unlike somebody like Amazing Atheist, or Lucas Werner.

He really only brings it up when talking government policy.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

He really only brings it up when talking government policy

True, but he can definitely sound like the bastard child of Richard Dawkins and Ian Paisley if you start him off about Catholicism.

 

[Judge Holden]

Saw this while trawling through gimmick /pol/ trek twitter. Thought it might give some nibbas here a chuckle

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Thank you, that page has a lot of interesting information. Though it also prompts the question “why aren’t those households using federal programs?”

It's because these studies are ridiculously retarded in that they determine food insecurity by asking "are you or have you been hungry in the last x days?"