Twitter C/D

why does the sweatshirt triangle even exist there are so many questions

some of them are funny but i find a most of leftist twitter completely insufferable, maybe that observation isnt even worth making its just who they are xp

i mean the bizarre total confidence in the discourse is kinda fascinating but it gets old

Twitter at its absolute worst rn with thousands copycatting and tweeting 'franz Ferdinand' or '1914' -_-

like the chapo dudes revel in their vulgarity but seem completely blind to how lame and annoying they are

listening to them talk to adam curtis was like oh this is what a healthy person with something to say sounds like

yeah i'm not really into the chapo trap house thing but there's a bunch of overlap between those folks and the old SA forums and video games folks that i like so i can't really avoid it entirely

pride in negativity can produce some good content but its ultimately a dead end

Louis Kasatkin
‏@louiskasatkin
#FranzFerdinand Everyone who never studied history suddenly wants to be on trend.This isn't an intellectual exercise, this is prelude to WW3

*jack off hand motion*

^ that times 1000

one thing abt the assassination of franz ferdinand is that no one thought it wld start a world war was one of the key aspects that lead to it starting a world war

lol, UMS, how did you come to be familiar with Louis Kasatkin?

yeah but that just proves it's going to start WW3, see, xp

A dude got killed, and things are tense, and no one has a coherent theory of how this leads to WW3. Therefore, it leads to WW3.

cool people know ww3 has been going on for a while

ww3 is a cyberwar

cyber is so important

worldwide war 3.0

i dont listen to the chapo pod cuz pods are p lame and i only follow felix but i like that those dudes are just starting shit w/ all these media libs and posting mean shit. i loved when ppl got roasted on the forums.

i follow the other two who are not felix and one of them follows me, i am blocked by one of the secondary two, i never listen to pods but someone sent me a clip from the adam curtis on which was p cool

lol, UMS, how did you come to be familiar with Louis Kasatkin?

― soref, Monday, December 19, 2016 1:03 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

searched #FranzFerdinand on twitter to see what the fuss was abt and he was the first search result! what's his deal?

anyway i love these people acting like franz ferdinand is some super obscure knowledge nugget like i know jackshit abt history and i remember that from high school

we even did a thing in class where one person wore a black glove (to represent the black hand of serbia) and threw a dodge ball at some kid who was supposed to be franz ferdinand

our teacher was our wrestling coach

we also had a slave auction with money that had willie nelson's picture on it :/

lmao! incredible

Omg

that is tremendous

I'm mostly a chapo stan still, definitely feels like they are losing a little steam or trying to find new footing with the Trump presidency. It's sort of like "you were right about the liberal order, it failed, now what?" Dissing all these pundits starts to lose its salience now that those pundits are actually fading/drowning.

Christman is a funny and original tweeter imo, and the smartest of the three. Felix is ok but kind of rehashes the same jokes.

I still generally like the show but prefer when they have a good interview on (Adam Curtis) or at least a good "reading series" rather than just filling the airtime with kibbutzing.

xp lol holy shit

i have pared my twitter down to locals, plus just niche stuff like personal hobbies/interests, enjoying it more this way

i wish twitter let u made lists out of block terms, i wld like to be able to log onto a trump and socialism etc free twitter sometimes but not all the time

one thing abt the assassination of franz ferdinand is that no one thought it wld start a world war was one of the key aspects that lead to it starting a world war

― lag∞n, Monday, December 19, 2016

I didn't know people liked "Take Me Out" that much!

some ppl love it... but some ppl HATE it

yeah i'm not really into the chapo trap house thing but there's a bunch of overlap between those folks and the old SA forums and video games folks that i like so i can't really avoid it entirely

Whoa, OTM. Some strong SA or NeoGAF vibes for sure. I guess that’s why it’s so horrible.

Whatever. I don’t know. People should be nicer.

love of owns and valuing kindness forever u fight inside me

i dont think niceness is always kinds. owns are so so necessary

owns shd arise naturally ppl try to force the owns

way too many forced owns, love of owns has morphed into "WATCH THIS BRUTAL AND EPIC TAKEDOWN" trash

oh yeah any own like any joke has to be spontaneous and is immediately ruined if telegraphed by a clickbait headline

pride in negativity can produce some good content but its ultimately a dead end

― lag∞n, Monday, December 19, 2016 12:56 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think I justified to myself something like "well I only talk about the stuff I'm actually into, so if I look at it with a critical eye, at least I'm joking about it" but the truth is that being critical only gives you so much if you're interested in actually making things better. have to highlight the positive sometimes or at least clown it in a pleasing way

at least we can all acknowledge the "game theory" dude was shockingly bad though

I'm now hearing this meme that says that that dude is shockingly bad etc. Guys. It's time for some game theory.

One thing I kind of hate about twitter is that the rare times I've gotten a lot of RT's/likes it's usually because I did a really good job of thinking in meta terms about what kinds of tweets people think are funny, whereas the tweets I actually thought were funniest or most original don't seem to go anywhere. Maybe that's what any kind of public/performative joke medium is like.

my fav chapo ep was probably just them talking about the insane experience of adam sandler's 9/11 movie. if they start taking themselves too seriously as "public intellectuals" or something it'll get boring real fast :-/

https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/805575826326614016

i loved this when it happened btw

putting matt mcgrory on that list is shooting fish in a barrel

i cuoldn't make it any further im sorry

feel like the bad tweeters are really victims of their bad followers

hello FBI i woul dlike to report somebody made a bad tweet

if they start taking themselves too seriously as "public intellectuals" or something it'll get boring real fast

They do mention this on the recent show following up the Adam Curtis interview that they decided just to yak with each other and talk about "Swordfish"

The Reign Over Me ep was fun.

I also really enjoyed the recent premium ep with jacob bacharach, mainly because it was mainly him & Matt seriously talking about what kinda things lead to conspiracizing(which I'm into), and less from Will & Felix throwing in jokes.

They keep declaring themselves more a comedy show that gets into politics than the opposite, but I think there'd be real value in a show foregrounding the deeper theory & reading that Matt(& Amber, to a lesser extent) bring. And "Dune" jokes.

they need to work on being good at talking

That helps too. They finally got better mics.

I was going to make the point that anyone could sit there and clown dumb shit like the movie "Swordfish" for an hour, then realized I know people who genuinely could not, then wondered what is wrong with me that I could just spew garbage about a garbage movie

The last Caleb Jacoby episode was extremely funny though