Rob has updated his Twitter likes and follows

[Asclepius]

Jeez.

Led to the Doug and Rob twitters after reading on Cookd and Bombd of Doug’s ‘There’ll be no more tweeting from the official account’ etc. tweet it led me to dig into Rob’s twitter.

Heck. I think we see what Chris might be like if he had social media rather than just an HTML editor.

The first ‘liked’ tweets I saw were from Martina Navratilova on, of course, trans issues. And then came the Nigel Farage bank account thing.

Cripes, who does he follow to be liking this sort of stuff, I thought…?

His follows list is an odd one. As any fool doth know, Twitter sticks your lists of who you’re following into chronological order of when you started to follow them.

From that we can see Rob’s journey of following RD related accounts and those of other comedians to an account whose profile includes the lovely ‘women don’t have cocks’, then Andrew Doyle, that awful Birbalsingh headteacher, Kemi Badenoch, Spiked, then straight to – one after another – Laurence Fox, the current SDP leader (!), James Dreyfuss, Navratilova, and Farage.

A little while later he starts to follow our own Ian Symes and Jonathan Capps! Possibly after their excellent interview with him a few months back?

Anyway, they say ‘never meet your heroes’. The 2020s version should probably be ‘don’t click on your heroes’ Twitter likes and follows’.

Yes, I probably didn’t need to be so nosey, but what a cess pit.

Maybe he could have chipped in helping Doug with Timewave…

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[Unrumble]

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Shoulda done Richard III so Rimmer would have grimaced in pain then said “ow.”

Okay apparently the editor thinks that putting the quote before the gif is the stupid way around because no matter what I do, it keeps reverting back to gif first, quote second.

[RunawayTrain]

“ow … somethig somethig somethig”

*shakes head* Actually that’s just Shakespeare with a cold.

[Moonlight]

Oh, somebody just start the Dark Rob Grant meme already. We all know it’s coming.

[Captain Bollocks]

as a white, CIS male
It’s not all caps, it’s not an acronym. Don’t know what the deal is with people capitalizing it all over the place like that

I can’t believe people keep forgettig about this: 

I knew a Cappsy who once played, 
For Red Star Belgrade. 

[Captain Bollocks]

[Moonlight]

Where are you getting all these unflattering pictures of Cappsy? I could have been Photoshopping the shit out of him this whole time.

[Flap Jack]

Where are you getting all these unflattering pictures of Cappsy? I could
have been Photoshopping the shit out of him this whole time.

Anniversary livestream VOD, probably. And hey, they aren’t that unflattering. That’s just what cis men look like I’m afraid.

[Flap Jack]

Oh, somebody just start the Dark Rob Grant meme already. We all know it’s coming.

The question is, would “Dark Rob Grant” be evil, or would he be the opposite of real Rob Grant i.e. have progressive political views?

I’ll just start with an undeniable one.

[Moonlight]

[Moonlight]

[The Data Doctor]

If we’re gonna police people’s Twitter follows (and yes, I am pro-trans and loathe Farage, KJK and all the other idiots Rob follows)… I’ve noticed you, Moonlight, like to retweet extreme left, anti-Western Twitter accounts on an almost daily basis. I’m not saying you yourself hold those views, but it does seem… problematic. You know Russia and China are extremely homophobic, don’t you? And don’t say ‘it’s the West’s fault’ as that is demonstrably false. 

[Captain Bollocks]

[Jonathan Capps]

Oh good, it’s The Data Doctor and his Moonlight fixation again.

[The Data Doctor]

Oh good, it’s The Data Doctor and his Moonlight fixation again.

No, I just don’t like commies. Which most of you seem to be. Good day, sir.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

*sigh*

Really, Data Doctor? Really? Are we gonna do this?

[The Data Doctor]

Yes. I think we ought to know if our queen sympathises with Vladimir Putin because ‘Western capitalism bad’ or some shit. I know she’s your mate but when she retweets daily a cartoon squirrel who denies the Uyghur genocide then it’s important we have words.

[Ridley]

He wuz robbed, you know.

[Jonathan Capps]

Yes. I think we ought to know if our queen sympathises with Vladimir Putin because ‘Western capitalism bad’ or some shit. I know she’s your mate but when she retweets daily a cartoon squirrel who denies the Uyghur genocide then it’s important we have words.

Both siding really rots your brain, it seems.

[The Data Doctor]

 Both siding really rots your brain, it seems.

[Jonathan Capps]

While it’s probably a fair assumption to make that a Sonic fanatic is probably communist, suggesting she condones the Uyghur genocide makes it seem like your brain worms have been having a good old feed.

[The Data Doctor]

While it’s probably a fair assumption to make that a Sonic fanatic is probably communist, suggesting she condones the Uyghur genocide makes it seem like your brain worms have been having a good old feed.

I’m not saying she does (I’m sure you’re wonderful Moonlight) but she regularly retweets someone who does deny it. The fact you are all okay with that troubles me.

[Jonathan Capps]

You are very welcome to be troubled and to fuck off accordingly.

[The Data Doctor]

You are very welcome to be troubled and to fuck off accordingly.

Oh so you are okay with it then? Nice to know far-left extremism is tolerated (nay, encouraged) on here. I will happily do what you asked and fuck off.

[Jonathan Capps]

You are very welcome to be troubled and to fuck off accordingly.

Oh so you are okay with it then? Nice to know far-left extremism is tolerated (nay, encouraged) on here. I will happily do what you asked and fuck off.

The problem here is I don’t know the first thing about the account you’re making this false equivalency about, but what I do know is that every time you turn up here you’re being very weird about something or other and I’m not interested in taking anything you say in good faith.

[Flap Jack]

So, you’re talking about zei_squirrel, who I don’t follow, but from scrolling their feed for a bit, I can see generally just posts fairly normal leftist/liberal political opinions, but recently did a “it’s hypocrisy to give Israel a pass for things China gets media scrutiny over” thread, which culminated in them boosting Uyghur genocide denial. That indeed does fucking suck.

But there is a bit of a difference between following / retweeting someone who occasionally says dodgy shit, and following like 10 of the leading members of a hate movement, who put out nothing but dodgy shit.

[Ian Symes]

And also, Moonlight isn’t the co-creator of the programme this website is about. Her social media usage is (in the nicest possible way) irrelevant. 

[Podey]

Moonlight isn’t the co-creator of the programme this website is about

Shit I’m on the wrong site.

[Unrumble]

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Moonlight isn’t the co-creator of the programme this website is about
Shit I’m on the wrong site.

Moonlight productions fan site when?

[Flap Jack]

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

[Frank Smeghammer]

[Stephen Abootman]

Is now a good time to post this:

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

He sounds like he’s a complete git.

[Ridley]

Oh so you are okay with it then? Nice to know far-left extremism is tolerated (nay, encouraged) on here. I will happily do what you asked and fuck off.

[Exit, pursued by a bear]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Firstly, I’m a little concerned with Data Doctor’s fascination with Moonlight and her Twitter history. Why is he following her and going through her follows?

It’s so tiring hearing arguments that because you’re critical of one thing you must indeed whole heartedly support the other too. 

Being critical of western capitalism doesn’t necessarily mean Moonlight (or indeed myself) is a “Commie” – which at this point has stopped actually meaning communist and just means anyone that disagrees with republicans and just an undefined catch all like “woke”.

You can, and should be critical of the things you’re involved in, the communities and the societies you live. You should never unquestioningly just go along with anything. There’s always room for improvement. 

Not that I would want to dare accuse Moonlight of being a capitalist, but that doesn’t necessarily make her, or me, or anyone else that sees massive wealth gaps leaving millions of people impoverished a commie. 

Though to be fair we probably are. But that’s not the point. 

If Rob had simply been critical of Coutts and their actions towards Farage, I wouldn’t have said Rob supported Farage. Just that he sees a problem in the way banks treat customers. But following him and a bunch of other particularly nasty people leads you to certain conclusions.

[Starbugger]

as a white, CIS male
It’s not all caps, it’s not an acronym. Don’t know what the deal is with people capitalizing it all over the place like that

[Jenuall]

Fucking hell, who rang the data doctor bell?

The hilarity of people invoking the “extreme left!!” label will never cease to entertain. Like what the fuck are you even trying to invoke by saying that?  “Ugh, I hate these people, they’re so extreme about treating people equally and holding those who don’t accountable! Bastards!”

[Flap Jack]

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

I think he might have actually fucked off this time. Not that I expected that he’d respond to any kind of reasonable debate if he had stuck around. Tragic, really. Potentially bright lad. Just a great shame he’s got a hate boner for radical leftist ideas like respect, tolerance and being nice to people (and I say that as an radical extreme centrist).

[Unrumble]

[Moonlight]

If we’re gonna police people’s Twitter follows (and yes, I am pro-trans and loathe Farage, KJK and all the other idiots Rob follows)… I’ve noticed you, Moonlight, like to retweet extreme left, anti-Western Twitter accounts on an almost daily basis. I’m not saying you yourself hold those views, but it does seem… problematic. You know Russia and China are extremely homophobic, don’t you? And don’t say ‘it’s the West’s fault’ as that is demonstrably false. 

I don’t like Russia or China either, but I have serious problems with America, the place I live, which affects me more than other places. I’m way more likely to retweet stuff that actually pertains to the place I live that fucks me over non-stop.

Just because I retweet a tweet I agree with doesn’t necessarily mean I agree with everything that account says, it means I agree with that tweet.

There really aren’t “good guys” on the world stage.

And if you think I’m either pro-China or pro-Russia you are sorely mistaken because those are corrupt authoritarian garbage countries. I’m not a tankie, I lean toward anarchist.

Also I’m not sure what business this is of yours anyway. 

[Moonlight]

I can’t help but feel you even calling me out is comparing the content I engage with to Rob following genocide-wannabe TERFs, and, shut the fuck up. I get it, you don’t like me, leave me alone.

[Jonathan Capps]

Considering TDD has been very specifically weird about Moonlight twice now (and not because of any political differences, I hasten to add) he’s been banned. The cardinal rule of this place is “don’t be a dick” and I think that rule has been broken multiple times at this point.

Corbyn wuz robbed.

[Moonlight]

For it to be about genuine political differences he’d have to have not blatantly lied about the contents of my Twitter account which would have required some light cyber stalking to even find.

I have an idea. Let’s be sad about TERFs without slandering me. That sounds like fun.

[Rudolph]

I guess that the cast and crews diverse political opinions at least form some sort of checks and balances. Rob and Chris’ right-wing conspiracy dives levelled by Bobby’s woolly-jumpered liberalism.

[Jonathan Capps]

I see Craig and Danny as doing the balancing by genuinely socially conscious. In my opinion, Robert’s liberalism is utterly useless.

[Rudolph]

I see Craig and Danny as doing the balancing by genuinely socially conscious. In my opinion, Robert’s liberalism is utterly useless.

Sorry, on a Peep Show kick at the moment.

[Jonathan Capps]

Excellent

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