They won’t shut the fuck up about it
AFAIK "The Blob" is essentially Obama-era liberal speak for the Deep State, with little discernible difference from there.
The military-industrial complex and the elements that aid it.
Libs like the Pod Johns use it to excuse that Obama had terrible foreign policy because "the blob" has such extreme institutional inertia, but Biden just showed that the commander in chief can actually do what he wants with the military if he is determined.
virgin "The Blob" lib substitute for the deep state vs chad "de BLOB" where you 'explore and liberate an alien city from the evil, monochromatic INKT Corporation that has taken over the city and outlawed all color and fun from daily life'
ok what the fuck this game is actually based
Told through a combination of pre-rendered cinematic sequences and in-game dialog, de Blob tells the story of Chroma City, its invasion by the INKT Corporation and its subsequent liberation by the titular Blob and the Color Underground.
Initially a lively and colorful city populated by its equally colorful and diverse citizens, the Raydians, Chroma City is suddenly invaded by the INKT Corporation. A corporate military dictatorship, INKT is led by the villainous Comrade Black and dedicated to the eradication of color through its "War on Color". Chroma City quickly falls to the invading army of Inkies and color-draining Leechbots, leaving its landscape barren, its flora withered and its fauna in hiding. The citizens are rounded up and turned into "Graydians", encased in homogeneous gray prison suits distinguished only by a bar code on the back of each shell. The Graydians are forced to serve as both menial labor and as a living resource of ink, the latter of which is mined literally from their sadness.
Blob witnesses the takeover of Chroma City from his jungle retreat and goes into action, first rescuing the only remaining pocket of resistance, the Color Underground. Blob joins the group, and under their orders, begins to win back sections of the city and arouse the vicious ire of Comrade Black. In response, Black orders everything from propaganda campaigns to the creation of super soldiers in an attempt to stop Blob, though to no avail.
With nearly all of Chroma City in control of the Color Underground, Comrade Black desperately orders all his troops to retreat to his spaceship in Lake Raydia, and attempts to launch all the stolen color into a black hole where it will be lost forever. However, Blob manages to stowaway onto the spaceship and defeat Black, then detonates a device that devours the spacecraft in a burst of color and whimsy. With the Raydians finally safe, Blob returns to his jungle retreat, napping on a tree as he was at the story's beginning.
If you lurk liberal sites they keep bringing up this thing called “the blob” and blaming them for Biden being less hawkish.
I think they’re referring to a handful of Dem policy makers who are less anti-interventionist who are connected cuz they went to the same college or something. But it’s making them sound like conspiracy turds.
Edit: apparently I’ve gotten it backwards, the Blob are hawkish Libs, the idea being that the DNC establishment is far more hawkish than then the voting base and the blob is to blame. I guess there’s just some firery debate over whether this is a good thing or not.
That's the opposite way I've heard blob used. Usually it refers to the bureaucracy, think tanks etc. that drive US imperial policy. It's described as a blob because, like the monster in the movie, it has no head and just pushes forward relentlessly aligning other elements of the state with itself.
Edit: just saw your edit. It doesn't refer just to libs but the entire engine driving the empire. This includes the military, intelligence agencies, think tanks, and defense industry. These groups in turn have successfully coopted most of the media (usually thru being special sources) and electeds (often thru pork barrel). These groups make up the blob.
