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Imperial Rome did way more than that. They would fund border tribes in Germany and the Danube to fight each other and break tribal confederations that were perceived as a threat to roman regional power, and the foederati often would go rogue and do a lot of damage to the romans(Aleric sacking Rome is a textbook example of that).Hiring foreign weirdos to join your army isn't the same as giving guns to druglords and terrorists that were way beyond your control
Fuck, this thing gives me Bioshock flashbacks about Andrew Ryan and the "Great Chain of Progress". But now that i think about it, old Andy shares a lot with Moviebob... Except being a successful businessman.Because they removed God from their lives, and they need something to replace Him. Communists replace Him with their ideas of a "superior future", while capitalists replace Him with the "Invisible Hand of the Free Market", with many capitalists thinking that it can regulate itself.
Judging by all the woke corporations that have monopolized tech and entertainment while working alongside the power of the state and censoring anyone they despise, the latter has proven to be completely false.
Oh yeah, the Goth rebellion was a huge hit for Rome. But what happened with Alaric is that he fought with the western empire against the eastern empire and when the fight was done, the Romans didn't honored the agreement of giving him and his people land to settle in. And on top of that, when he went to renegotiate with the roman general he was attacked by roman forces and so he decided to just go to Rome and take what he was owed.Imperial Rome did way more than that. They would fund border tribes in Germany and the Danube to fight each other and break tribal confederations that were perceived as a threat to roman regional power, and the foederati often would go rogue and do a lot of damage to the romans(Aleric sacking Rome is a textbook example of that).
And having sex with an actual woman.Fuck, this thing gives me Bioshock flashbacks about Andrew Ryan and the "Great Chain of Progress". But now that i think about it, old Andy shares a lot with Moviebob... Except being a successful businessman.
That is just human nature. Brutal dehumanization of the adversarial other makes things easier than seeing them as actual humans beans, and overall that isn't exclusive to Bobby ideological corner(see how circa 2003 Iraq stuff was basically looked like a parody, with new channels showing footage of the war with the same pomp of a Super bowl game and flashing the american flag and cheering every time a bomb hit).This is what happens when people learn their morality from movies.... the "good guys" can mow down hundreds of Nazi mooks without feeling a thing, and play it for laughs too by not just killing them, but doing it in brutal and slapstick ways like dropping boulders on them or impaling them on fences... they don't matter, they're the enemy, why they probably don't even have mothers. But just one of them gets lucky and snipes even the most inconsequential member of the hero's side? Well, watch as the entirety of WWII grinds to a halt for 10 minutes so they can emote over the corpse, "Poor kid, what are we going to tell his Mom? Fuckin' Germans just offed him like he didn't matter.... animals..."
Most terror groups and criminals the USA funded(and still funds) had a similar role in the preservation of the American-led global order, even if that wasn't their goal per se. It is just that moral concerns aren't actually that relevant(and by that I mean that they are basically a afterthought at best) in geopolitics.And also don't forget that a lot of the germanic tribes in the north were essentially the border patrol of the Roman Empire.
Not just actual women. One audio log says Ryan was nailing supermodels.And having sex with an actual woman.
Akshually, that's the reason this works; Blob doesn't think.Marshal Mannerheim said:Your mistake is assuming that Blob thinks.
Really? I'll have to look into that. Last I checked, Alaric was actually IN the Roman Legions before he was denied a promotion and he went rogue. Most of his army were Foederati troops who served Rome directly until the Romans lynched their families in a race riot and they went berserk and joined Alaric in response.Imperial Rome did way more than that. They would fund border tribes in Germany and the Danube to fight each other and break tribal confederations that were perceived as a threat to roman regional power, and the foederati often would go rogue and do a lot of damage to the romans(Aleric sacking Rome is a textbook example of that).
Exactly. Replace God with profit, and you get a society where the people will kill you for a few dollars. The only difference between Andy and Movieslob is that he put in the work to build his capitalist utopia, while Bob can't be bothered to build for shit.Fuck, this thing gives me Bioshock flashbacks about Andrew Ryan and the "Great Chain of Progress". But now that i think about it, old Andy shares a lot with Moviebob... Except being a successful businessman.
That was what I was getting at. Many of these tribes weren't just paid by Rome to fight other tribes, they were part of the Roman army itself. Had Rome simply honored their agreements with these tribes, the western empire would still be standing today. I suppose it is a stroke of irony that the medieval version of the Western Roman Empire was entirely controlled by Germans. I suppose they finally got what they were owed for all their fighting-the Roman throne.Oh yeah, the Goth rebellion was a huge hit for Rome. But what happened with Alaric is that he fought with the western empire against the eastern empire and when the fight was done, the Romans didn't honored the agreement of giving him and his people land to settle in. And on top of that, when he went to renegotiate with the roman general he was attacked by roman forces and so he decided to just go to Rome and take what he was owed.
And also don't forget that a lot of the germanic tribes in the north were essentially the border patrol of the Roman Empire. Too bad they were scared shitless when Attila arrived and they joined other tribes into invading the Roman Empire.
And having sex with an actual woman.
Women love men with money and power. They'll put up with nailing a crusty old fart if it meant that they can spend his money.Not just actual women. One audio log says Ryan was nailing supermodels.
It's basically a tradition at this point. Joss Whedon, Harvey Weinstein, even Movieslob himself-they all do stupid things with women while proclaiming to love and defend women and feminism. Male feminists are oppressors of women in disguise.In much the same way that the incorruptible leaders of the Religious Right of the 80's and 90's who could see the "hidden Satanism" everywhere in cartoons and video games were ALWAYS getting caught in bathrooms with their secretary or young men, those who howl the loudest about having found the hidden racists are more racist than the average person, they have to be to keep finding the "hidden" ones.
You can bet that the local Witchfinder General is one of the Great Old Ones who didn't want to share any of the magic energy permeating around the local area where the village is, so they rile up the local villagers to go burn the witches.You can put money down that the Witchfinder General is actually a closeted warlock.... every single time.
Basically, yes. Unlike the men of the past who take into consideration even their enemies and are willing to negotiate with them for a swift end to the war (see: Grant and Lee negotiating so that both their armies can go home) most modern liberals have this antifa-style mentality where everyone on the other side is an inhuman monster who can be gunned down without any guilt or shame on the part of the hero, but the moment one of the hero's friends gets their head blown off, it's suddenly tragic. At least with video games, most of the time, they're honest about the player being a killing machine, and some games even let you play both sides of a conflict so you can see how the other side feels like when you're on their shoes.This is what happens when people learn their morality from movies.... the "good guys" can mow down hundreds of Nazi mooks without feeling a thing, and play it for laughs too by not just killing them, but doing it in brutal and slapstick ways like dropping boulders on them or impaling them on fences... they don't matter, they're the enemy, why they probably don't even have mothers. But just one of them gets lucky and snipes even the most inconsequential member of the hero's side? Well, watch as the entirety of WWII grinds to a halt for 10 minutes so they can emote over the corpse, "Poor kid, what are we going to tell his Mom? Fuckin' Germans just offed him like he didn't matter.... animals..."
They're angry that the enemy force isn't just made up of redshirts who miss all the time. Hell, just imagine how it was like for those rebels who got gunned down at the opening and imagine seeing all your friends get gunned down by these faceless mooks as a tall, masked man in a black outfit chokes you to death with his hands. "THAT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN IN MY TOTALLY SAFE POWER FANTASY WHERE THE ENEMY CAN'T FIGHT BACK!" Which kind of explains why Stormtroopers are fucking buffoons in the newer SW media, whereas in the older media, they can be a threat when there's nobody on the heroes' team the bad guys want alive. (re: Leia and R2 getting shot in ROTJ)That's how they veiw the world, they're the protagonist of history, and everyone else is either a bit supporting part or an Imperial Stormtrooper to waste, the fact that the real world Stormtroopers not only shoot back but blow off your commie arms at the shoulder when they don't kill you is them "Not following the script" so you bet they're angry about that!
As far as I understand it, foederati were de facto independent, with its military forces being generally self-organized while fighting in roman service.Really? I'll have to look into that. Last I checked, Alaric was actually IN the Roman Legions before he was denied a promotion and he went rogue
Not only that, but a lot of SJW types, when they create something like a game or a history, they are fully determined to make the bad guys faceless and intangible. Not even a monster, or death robots... They baddies will have a general name and they will be very nebulous and weird. This is because they know that some people emphatize and, even worse, admire the bad guys. Some people might even root for the bad guys to have their way and you don't want that. They are bad and everyone should see them as the worst scum of the earth, to be hated and loathed. Look at Terminator, a damn killing robot. Or Godzilla, a giant monster born of radiation. Or without straying far from the point, the Helghast from Killzone, which are essentially the main thing the Killzone fanbase liked about the game and they are ersatz nazis (tho they have a justification for their actions, even if they are evil fuckers).Basically, yes. Unlike the men of the past who take into consideration even their enemies and are willing to negotiate with them for a swift end to the war (see: Grant and Lee negotiating so that both their armies can go home) most modern liberals have this antifa-style mentality where everyone on the other side is an inhuman monster who can be gunned down without any guilt or shame on the part of the hero, but the moment one of the hero's friends gets their head blown off, it's suddenly tragic. At least with video games, most of the time, they're honest about the player being a killing machine, and some games even let you play both sides of a conflict so you can see how the other side feels like when you're on their shoes.
People like Bob don't want that. SJWs don't want that. Remember the Extra Credits episode where they got pissy that you can play as German soldiers? "HOW DARE YOU EMPATHIZE WITH THE ENEMY! THEY EXIST ONLY TO GET SHOT!"
Older media? Unless you're talking about say the Star Wars TRPG or maybe the books, because in the movies the Stormtroopers couldn't hit for shit.They're angry that the enemy force isn't just made up of redshirts who miss all the time. Hell, just imagine how it was like for those rebels who got gunned down at the opening and imagine seeing all your friends get gunned down by these faceless mooks as a tall, masked man in a black outfit chokes you to death with his hands. "THAT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN IN MY TOTALLY SAFE POWER FANTASY WHERE THE ENEMY CAN'T FIGHT BACK!" Which kind of explains why Stormtroopers are fucking buffoons in the newer SW media, whereas in the older media, they can be a threat when there's nobody on the heroes' team the bad guys want alive. (re: Leia and R2 getting shot in ROTJ)
Definitely.Judging by all the woke corporations that have monopolized tech and entertainment while working alongside the power of the state and censoring anyone they despise, the latter has proven to be completely false.
Bob is to his waifus what a battered housewife is to the husband she crawls back to.Even after they do, he'll still try to get on their good sides, not realizing that they want him gone from their sight.
Mild powerlevel, but I used to be a Zionist. The way Blob accuses his enemies of anti-Semitism for the crime of disagreeing with him really reminds me of how Zionists act, right down to cherrypicking Jewish groups that agree with him and ignoring any Jewish opponents or comparing them to kapos.People like Bob need to learn that not every person who believes that the Deep State exists will blame it on Jews.
I remember Solzhenitsyn comparing Tsarist serfdom to the gulags and finding that, on average, life was better for the serfs than it was for the zeks.HOW DARE THEY LEAVE THEIR PROVIDERS WHO USE THEM AS PAWNS FOR EVERY ELECTION! THEY'RE NOTHING MORE BUT UNCLE TOMS FOR THE RIGHT-WING!
If memory serves me rightly, many of the foederati were immigrants to Rome who rebelled because the state wouldn't give them handouts.Oh yeah, the Goth rebellion was a huge hit for Rome. But what happened with Alaric is that he fought with the western empire against the eastern empire and when the fight was done, the Romans didn't honored the agreement of giving him and his people land to settle in. And on top of that, when he went to renegotiate with the roman general he was attacked by roman forces and so he decided to just go to Rome and take what he was owed.
And also don't forget that a lot of the germanic tribes in the north were essentially the border patrol of the Roman Empire. Too bad they were scared shitless when Attila arrived and they joined other tribes into invading the Roman Empire.
The thing is that Blob would be cheering that on if houses in Birmingham instead of Baghdad got bombed.(see how circa 2003 Iraq stuff was basically looked like a parody, with new channels showing footage of the war with the same pomp of a Super bowl game and flashing the american flag and cheering every time a bomb hit).
Until they took all the money the West gave them and decided to pursue their own goals. Case in point: in Afghanistan we armed and funded the Islamic mujahideen to fight the Russians, because we thought they'd gladly accept guidance from America. One of those groups was called the Students.Most terror groups and criminals the USA funded(and still funds) had a similar role in the preservation of the American-led global order, even if that wasn't their goal per se.
Bobert's mental diarrhea points towards him being severely sub-normal intellectually. The boy shouldn't be allowed in public without his tard wrangler and helmet. If a drooling imbecile like him is "decisively average", it says some rather alarming things about how low IQ levels have sunk in the last 40 years.Intelligence is important and needed as well but we've all demonstrated that his word-salad tweets are only their to mask how decisively average he actually is in that area.
This was an excellent analysis.TL : DR - Life to an average person is large swaths of normalcy punctuated by occasional good fortune. To the Bobbos of the world, life is constant disappointment, punctuated by moments of being given only what barely passes as "good enough".
That's just him desperately trying to hide his subnormal intellect, given he does get really pissy over IQ tests and is desperate to be called a nerd despite, you know, not being smart or finding academics cool.Bobert's mental diarrhea points towards him being severely sub-normal intellectually. The boy shouldn't be allowed in public without his tard wrangler and helmet. If a drooling imbecile like him is "decisively average", it says some rather alarming things about how low IQ levels have sunk in the last 40 years.
No, it seems more like they were mercenary clans in Rome's service, and they were just supposed to do as they're told if they wanted to get paid.As far as I understand it, foederati were de facto independent, with its military forces being generally self-organized while fighting in roman service.
That reminds me of what happened with the Fallout fanbase and their love of the Enclave. Fallout 2's writers tried to make them be everything evil from America, instead, the fans loved the Enclave and wanted more of this patriotic, badass faction that had no problems machine-gunning mutants. Just like Darth Vader and the Imperial Stormtroopers, the faceless, sinister, power-armored Enclave legions became a favorite of the fans, which made certain lefties exasperated that people want to have a "fascist power fantasy" every time they ask for a playable Enclave campaign.Not only that, but a lot of SJW types, when they create something like a game or a history, they are fully determined to make the bad guys faceless and intangible. Not even a monster, or death robots... They baddies will have a general name and they will be very nebulous and weird. This is because they know that some people empathize and, even worse, admire the bad guys. Some people might even root for the bad guys to have their way and you don't want that. They are bad and everyone should see them as the worst scum of the earth, to be hated and loathed. Look at Terminator, a damn killing robot. Or Godzilla, a giant monster born of radiation. Or without straying far from the point, the Helghast from Killzone, which are essentially the main thing the Killzone fanbase liked about the game and they are ersatz nazis (tho they have a justification for their actions, even if they are evil fuckers).
Oh, I can see the lefties using 40K just as well. They'd probably write a Tau campaign where they bash the "fascist" Imperium for not being enlightened enough.In a very picturesque thread in this forum @Jaimas played the game Extreme Meatpunks Forever (people should check the thread, it's amazing) and the author managed to make the bad guys in the game the most unappealing and forgettable people in existance. The "Fash" are people that are defined by the sole characteristic that they are bad and thus, they deserve to get killd. Everything just boils down to that for the average SJW. The enemy deserves no mercy nor pity, only death, which would be at home in Warhammer 40K. Too bad that the rules are too complex and they hate the fact that humanity lives in a militar dictatorship.
Stormies can hit targets just fine. We see this in the original SW movie where they had no problems hitting targets. They only miss when it's Luke's friends and Vader wants them alive, and they instead try to drive them back to the Falcon so that Vader can follow the ship instead.Older media? Unless you're talking about say the Star Wars TRPG or maybe the books, because in the movies the Stormtroopers couldn't hit for shit.
An unregulated free market either becomes a messy free-for-all, or becomes a corporate oligarchy under robber barons and other unscrupulous corporate heads. This is what the right-wing fails to understand, especially since many corporate heads have similar opinions to Moviebob.One of the main reasons I'm a distributist is because an unregulated free market inevitably turns into an oligarchy, and oligarchic rule is equally as bad as communist rule; in fact, it's worse, since commies at least pretend to have principles.
The most I see Bob getting is a restraining order at best, and a bullet to the head at worst. At best, once the revolution settles down, people like Lindsay "Hotdog Girl" Ellis would put a restraining order on Movieslob. At worst, the fact that Bob clearly has time to waste on video games and is not a member of the proletariat would end with some Commissar who used to be some gangbanger going to his house and forcing him to share his wealth, and when he inevitably refuses, said Commissar would put him out to pasture.Bob is to his waifus what a battered housewife is to the husband she crawls back to.
The difference is that housewife might be dependent on her abusive husband and might have few other options, whilst Bob chooses to stay in a parasocial relationship because he's convinced that he'll be rewarded with coochie and/or a spaceship after the revolution for it.
Basically, that's how people like Bob operate. They cherry-pick groups who agree with them while dismissing members of said group as Uncle Toms or people who have "internalized misogyny". In their mind, they're the representatives of the downtrodden, even if they live in high-rises and have more wealth than most third-worlders.Mild powerlevel, but I used to be a Zionist. The way Blob accuses his enemies of anti-Semitism for the crime of disagreeing with him really reminds me of how Zionists act, right down to cherrypicking Jewish groups that agree with him and ignoring any Jewish opponents or comparing them to kapos.
Monkey see, monkey do.It seems that gobshites tend to imitate each other.
The overt demonization of all monarchies have overshadowed that fact. The fact is, peasants living on a farm had better quality of life conditions than workers slaving away in a factory. And especially back in the old days, when the calendar was full of Saints' holidays, which meant that over half the days of the year were vacation days. Nowadays, you can barely get a month or two for yourself without your boss screaming about how lazy you are.I remember Solzhenitsyn comparing Tsarist serfdom to the gulags and finding that, on average, life was better for the serfs than it was for the zeks.
Basically, they have the real race traitors pretend to be "rights' activists" to ensure that the slaves never leave the plantation.I wouldn't go that far when it comes to slavery, but I will say that when a slave managed to win his freedom in the antebellum South he was praised instead of vilified, as he would be today. The modern Democrats' plantation needs no Klansmen and no lashes; all it needs is ”community organisers” and leaders who encourage ignorance and call self-improvement cooning.
Mostly because the state treated them like shit and used their boys like cannon fodder. Which made it even more ironic when the Germans eventually gained control of the medieval Empire and the Roman throne.If memory serves me rightly, many of the foederati were immigrants to Rome who rebelled because the state wouldn't give them handouts.
He'd be praising it as an act of justice, as if all crimes against the descendants of "oppressors" were deserved.The thing is that Blob would be cheering that on if houses in Birmingham instead of Baghdad got bombed.
Which is obviously different when compared to the Foederati, who lived on Roman soil and were employees of the state, not just some random weirdos whom they armed halfway across the world.Until they took all the money the West gave them and decided to pursue their own goals. Case in point: in Afghanistan we armed and funded the Islamic mujahideen to fight the Russians, because we thought they'd gladly accept guidance from America. One of those groups was called the Students.
Or, in Farsi, the Taliban.
Yeah, and it worked for Western and American interest when they did it: The soviets were humiliated, expended a shitload of money in a quagmire, and lost a key satellite state right under its nose. Ironically enough, the current USA failure in Afghanistan have more to do with American unwillingness to compromise on its ideals and simple set up a harsh military junta to run the country or a USA aligned islamist regime, instead insisting on nation building and setting up a (completely dysfunctional and utterly corrupt) democracy.Until they took all the money the West gave them and decided to pursue their own goals. Case in point: in Afghanistan we armed and funded the Islamic mujahideen to fight the Russians, because we thought they'd gladly accept guidance from America. One of those groups was called the Students.
Or, in Farsi, the Taliban.
Many foederati never were settled in roman territory, being instead payed in gold and food to fight for Rome, and many remained de facto independent(ie the Ghassanids and other arab tribes in the east). The habit of settlement started later, as a result of money shortage and certain tribes invading roman territory and becoming too entrenched to be easily removed.Which is obviously different when compared to the Foederati, who lived on Roman soil and were employees of the state, not just some random weirdos whom they armed halfway across the world.
Bob is the stupidest person in any room he walks in because he believes the smartest. That's his major flaw: he has no self-awareness and think if an idea sounds good to him, it must sound good to everyone.
An actual smart person would realize "hey, everybody I meet knows something I don't. If I could see things from their perspective it'd make more sense." He isn't smart enough to have that. So he can't learn anything.
I watched Sonic the Hedgehog for the first time yesterday and thought it was fine, but unlike Bob I'm able to recognise that I have outgrown the character and the movie wasn't made for me.