# Gobb is Pitted **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 2, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604 "2025-10-02T16:46:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/129 "2025-10-03T19:23:41Z")
> [@On another topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1023706/30): > > They deserve to be debated, not killed or attacked. Attacking and killing people for their views is wrong. Nobody “deserves” to be debated. Nobody “deserves” to demand someone else’s time. And nobody here said to kill or attack them, so you are using a straw man, which is an example of the type of dishonest tactics that are often used in debates. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/130 "2025-10-03T19:25:54Z")
Gobb beats dolphins to death with sex toys. I don’t have cites but shouldn’t need cites for something everyone knows. You can’t call me a liar, you can’t demand proof from me, that’s unacceptable. You need to **listen** to me, and **rebut** it. And when I just repeat my previous accusation, you must still _listen_ to me. So what did those poor dolphins do to you, Gobb? I also heard you started feeding them rat poison and anthrax-riddled sardines from the prow of a yacht. Why do you hate them? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/131 "2025-10-03T19:29:35Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > And when I just repeat my previous accusation, you must still _listen_ to me. Actually, what you should do is tell people about Gobb’s habit of stripping the skins from live kittens (something I heard from many right-wing sites, btw) while they are busy trying to disprove the original fact. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/132 "2025-10-03T19:30:28Z")
Maybe Gobb’s got a point. If notorious bleeding heart Bono can be friends with Jesse Helms, maybe we can follow his example. /ducks ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/133 "2025-10-03T19:32:42Z")
Sonny’s _alive?_ ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/135 "2025-10-03T19:36:00Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Actually, what you should do is tell people about Gobb’s habit of stripping the skins from live kittens (something I heard from many right-wing sites, btw) while they are busy trying to disprove the original fact. Thank you for spreading more facts! I feel more educated now. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/136 "2025-10-03T19:37:15Z")
> [@On another topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1023706/31): > > True. But Jesse Watters on Fox every night is tying every social media post critical of Kirk to the Democratic brand, causing apolitical people to believe this. There are no apolitical people watching Fox News. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/137 "2025-10-03T19:37:51Z")
> [@On another topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1023706/31): > > But Jesse Watters on Fox every night is tying every social media post critical of Kirk to the Democratic brand, causing apolitical people to believe this. But we’re supposed to “listen to them?” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/138 "2025-10-03T19:41:41Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Nobody “deserves” to be debated. Nobody “deserves” to demand someone else’s time. 'There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’ – Isaac Asimov, _Newsweek_, 21 January 1980 ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/140 "2025-10-03T19:50:30Z")
> [@On another topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1023706/32): > > Loomer has every right to spout her garbage as much as Al Sharpton. No one is disagreeing with that. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/141 "2025-10-03T19:51:59Z")
Obligatory reference: [![](https://i1.wp.com/leftycartoons.visionmule.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/08/silenced.png) ](https://i1.wp.com/leftycartoons.visionmule.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/08/silenced.png) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/142 "2025-10-03T20:01:04Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CPNZTtoQBmA/maxresdefault.jpg "Conservative Voices are Being Silenced") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNZTtoQBmA) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/143 "2025-10-03T20:01:25Z")
Y’all are arguing with this guy about why it’s not worth the time to ‘debate’ with republicans, meanwhile he’s doing all those things. It may be time to stop feeding him. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/144 "2025-10-03T20:02:11Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Y’all are arguing with this guy about why it’s not worth the time to ‘debate’ with republicans, meanwhile he’s doing all those things. I’ve never even replied to this entity, rather I engage in insults and mockery, which I think is all that is warranted until the eventual banning. I don’t even point my comments directly at this despicable creature, rather I talk _about_ it. That seems the most productive thing to me. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/145 "2025-10-03T20:25:37Z")
There is no more Dope-ish pastime than constantly engaging with trolls. See: Gobbs, Pedro, Smapti. “If only we refute them with logic, they’ll come to see we’re right!” Atamasama has the right of it: mockery is the only thing they deserve. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/146 "2025-10-03T20:25:55Z")
> [@On another topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1023706/22): > > I am a Independent voter. I am not a MAGA and I am not a lefty either. I’m straight in the middle like most Americans. For the record, I’m right-wing (Reagan right, not the new Andrew Jackson/George Wallace “right”) and I did notice that, somewhere, you said that you were opposed to Trump but that was after I’d already posted here, in this thread. Apologies for the assumption, I didn’t look deeply through your posts and presumed that the others had classified you correctly. In general, I’d recommend that you try to stick around. Not to say that the people here are all reasonable and free of any demagoguery, but you can probably find a person or two who are worth arguing with and focus on them. It’s good to practice developing your ideas and opinions, when someone is actually pushing you to support your argument with facts and to vet those facts, not just trust them despite all evidence that it’s bunk Treat everyone with the respect that their opinions deserve (even when they don’t), and you should be able to enjoy a long and interesting life on here. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/147 "2025-10-03T20:28:33Z")
Oops. NM me ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/149 "2025-10-03T20:46:33Z")
We have forums that aren’t about politics, you know. Maybe add some value somewhere with sports, a book recommendation, a nice recipe, or something where you’re not so obviously wrong all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/151 "2025-10-03T20:55:27Z")
> [@On another topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1023706/34): > > There are local Fox affiliates across the country There’s a huge difference between Fox affiliates and Fox News. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604/152 "2025-10-03T20:56:20Z")
> [@On another topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1023706/34): > > There are local Fox affiliates across the country. Local Fox affiliates are _not_ Fox News Channel. The point is that effectively 100% of the people who are choosing to watch Fox News Channel (or Newsmax, etc.) are MAGA conservatives, who are tuning in to hear and see biased news coverage and opinion which reinforces what they already believe. Such people don’t watch the mainstream news, and have been taught that they should not _trust_ the mainstream news. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gobb-is-pitted/1023604.md?page=8)