Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

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though she is still the worst chapo I consistently enjoy Amber's advice column

https://thebaffler.com/your-sorry-ass/accomplish-something-frost

Simon H., Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link

@getfiscal is a great troll yea. socially conservative catholic and hardline revolutionary communist is a clever edgelord ideology profile

flopson, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link

Chapo introduced the online far left to irony twitter and now the global proletariat has to rise up every time Christian drunkenly calls a mufo "Mr. Homo"

— Ryan (@Integrity_Guy) February 8, 2018

flopson, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link

getfiscal got his fame in the something awful leftism shitposting board

global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link

“But it wasn't even a remotely good own. And to anyone who thinks it was: Explain to me your values. Now.“
Don’t tell this cop anything.

Nerdstrom Poindexter, Thursday, 29 March 2018 04:46 (six years ago) link

Dasha & Friends have their own dirtbag leftist women’s podcast:

https://soundcloud.com/red-scare-727066439/infowhores

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 29 March 2018 07:32 (six years ago) link

Shanti Singh was a great guest. If she lived on the right coast i'd argue for her to take Amber's spot.

Simon H., Thursday, 29 March 2018 08:01 (six years ago) link

Promotion/relegation system for chapo pls

Google lobster hierarchies (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 29 March 2018 09:12 (six years ago) link

What’s wrong with amber

flappy bird, Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link

I liked her a lot too, but Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests although I've noticed it with male guests too. They are not *that* funny that every single fucking point needs to turn into a three-minute tangent about some minor youtube figure or yet another encapsulation of Matt's marxist philosophy of things.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link

She literally had to redirect the conversation *herself* multiple times to stuff they had specifically just asked her to talk about

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link

Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests
Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests
Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests
Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests
Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests

gbx, Thursday, 29 March 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link

mansplain alive

Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 29 March 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link

I mean yeah, very much so in this past episode -- you have a guest who both worked in tech AND is an activist in SF housing, we really don't need to hear YOUR take on these subject based on the fact that you visited facebook once and read some articles

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 29 March 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link

Yeah, Shanti is great.

The riffing gets annoying(sometimes Matt, usually Felix) and they’d do better to tamp down on the morning zoo tendencies when actually having a guest on who knows her shit.

I’m seeing their live show on Sunday, so we’ll see how that goes.

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 29 March 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link

Live show was good. Extended riffing on K Williamson.

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 2 April 2018 07:09 (six years ago) link

Impromptu AMA time to make up for the local of episode:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/895ovk/an_impromptu_ama_with_the_hosts_of_chapo_trap/

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 2 April 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link

"Jeff Fuck" is the funniest running gag and has made me laugh randomly at least a dozen times in the last week lmao

flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link

new ep is up, i enjoyed it. east coast tour in august

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-198-asked-answered-4318

flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link

And drew their animal people character personas according to the descriptions of their answers! pic.twitter.com/gwMoH41ABb

— kunsypt (@kunsypt) April 4, 2018

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 6 April 2018 03:13 (six years ago) link

Virgil seems to be much more assertive and generally a presence in the recent, west coast editions. Does being out of Brooklyn help? Maybe its having the chance to catch up with his mom Alexis.

Google lobster hierarchies (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 6 April 2018 08:38 (six years ago) link

Matt V Brady's Ready Player One review was worth my $5 this month.

louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 7 April 2018 05:16 (six years ago) link

the rockabilly player one riff was v good

star wars ep viii: the bay of porgs (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 7 April 2018 08:02 (six years ago) link

that was one of their best in a while, surprisingly, though it got a bit wearying near the end

Simon H., Saturday, 7 April 2018 08:38 (six years ago) link

And each of em got reeeeeeaaaal schticky at parts

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 7 April 2018 09:05 (six years ago) link

There's such a wealth of stuff dunking on RP1 now, I'm not exactly complaining but it's a bit exhausting.

Shout-out to IDEOATV for being ahead of the curve on it.

Daniel_Rf, Monday, 9 April 2018 09:55 (six years ago) link

Red Scare is really good

flappy bird, Monday, 9 April 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link

Not a fan of the Kurt Eichenwald bit (even w/ Adomian), he's really too pathetic to be funny

louise ck (milo z), Monday, 9 April 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link

The only time I really get heated about Chapo Trap House is when Amber rags on the Alamo Drafthouse!

I think their food is really good >:(

Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link

The one in SF has terrible food

Fetchboy, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 00:57 (six years ago) link

I hate theaters with food on principle but Alamo is the least bad of the lot.

When the first Studio Movie Grill opened up here, the seats were shitty office chairs.

louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link

Not even good Hermann Miller shit, the $19 cubicle farm special

louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 01:00 (six years ago) link

I thought that Ready Player One show was great. Also really enjoyed Amber's "Klassic Krusty" quip.

in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 06:20 (six years ago) link

Good thread on their (pretty icky tbh) abortion discussion from the last ep, one of the few times I missed Amber

“Abortion, technically, still is the red line.”

I’ve yelled about how leftist men are completely incapable of effectively contemplating or discussing the politics surrounding abortion but this segment of Chapo was a train wreck that is illustrative of what I’ve been saying.

— the arizona rose (@oppenfailer) April 10, 2018

Simon H., Tuesday, 10 April 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link

yeah I couldn't believe how wishy washy they were

flappy bird, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link

Lately I'm just finding them harder to listen to in general, but I have spent nearly 200 hours of my life with them -- more than some people I consider friends. So it's not totally surprising. I feel sort of like their grand point (an important one) has been made very effectively and they're just rehashing it while acting as the sort of gossip podcast for the world of second-tier centrist political media figures and the extremely-online contingent.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link

I feel sort of like their grand point (an important one) has been made very effectively and they're just rehashing it while acting as the sort of gossip podcast for the world of second-tier centrist political media figures and the extremely-online contingent.

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, April 10, 2018 10:15 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree with this. my patreon subscription stopped working because the credit card it was on is maxed out and i didn't bother to rectify the situation. gone from a must-listen twice a week on the day of release to an occasional listen

Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link

Plus there's always the black wolf subreddit in case a particularly tempting one comes up.

Simon H., Tuesday, 10 April 2018 17:25 (six years ago) link

oh good to know (i knew the premium content was easy to find but didn't know where - I've never visited the site reddit iirc)

Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link

re: that thread, there are some leaps

Like:

There are individual democrats who deeply believe in Roe v. Wade and want to protect it but to think that there’s something natural in a liberal ideology that requires abortion as an issue is just ignorant. It’s 100% negotiable for the center left.

— the arizona rose (@oppenfailer) April 10, 2018

doesn't contradict Matt's line about being pro-choice - that they're so weak ideologically makes them susceptible to finding compromise and wiggle room. She's also conflating "Democrat" and "liberal" in those posts - the Democratic party line is that you "don't have to be pro-choice" but that's because Pelosi and Schumer still want to sell the idea of a Blue Dog contingent and a big tent with centrists and etc..

louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link

Virgil’s out making new friends again

Please pray for Barbara Bush, who is currently in critical condition after attempting to give birth to a goblin.

— Virgil Texas (@virgiltexas) April 15, 2018

The goblin is currently in stable condition and will be elected Texas Railroad Commissioner in 2044.

— Virgil Texas (@virgiltexas) April 15, 2018

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 16 April 2018 00:15 (six years ago) link

i want an episode of amber and ernest talking about moving

flappy bird, Monday, 16 April 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link

we need to hear from ernest

flappy bird, Monday, 16 April 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link

FWIW my impression is that there is a pretty strong divide among the center-left over whether abortion is an absolute redline or not. There are definitely otherwise center-ish democrats, especially but not exclusively women, who think the party should never back a non-pro-choice candidate.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 16 April 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link

So I think "it's 100% negotiable for the center left" is kind of a simplification. There are many centrists for whom it is non-negotiable.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 16 April 2018 01:38 (six years ago) link

A majority, I think! What a crock of shit to claim that anti-choice has a place in the mainstream of the democratic party. Scum like Lipinski are rightfully on the margins, and widely reviled

Dan I., Monday, 16 April 2018 02:51 (six years ago) link

I don't even know why (because it was business as usual) but I found their segment on Syria pretty repellent. I think I'm out on these jr. high dipshits.

President Keyes, Monday, 16 April 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link

what did you find repellent about it? I found it more inoffensive and unfocused.

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 16 April 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link

Although the Power/Slaughter takes were pretty hilarious in a dark sort of way

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 16 April 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link

Would really love to know how and why you guys listened to a 90 minute podcast that dropped right before midnight last night

like æ duce says, smell my anvil vapre (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 April 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link


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