Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

if it winds up including "wreckers" in the title or synopsis I'm going to stay far, far away

Hot couch guys might be my favorite Chapo bit ever

Amber's book is about labour organizing history, I think.

Man, Mother Jones going thru some rough times to run Kevin Drum’s shitty column.

So there you have it. These are both proposals for old-school socialism, with the government (or “the workers”) controlling the means of production and doling out money equitably to everyone who needs it. The details are different, and Bruenig at least pretends to have a path for getting there, but you’re not going to like either one if you have a soft spot in your heart for private enterprise.

Which I do. Government-run enterprises are almost inevitably run badly and government controlled paychecks are almost inevitably corrupt beyond all imagining. Still, would that be worse than the immense amount of wealth and income inequality that we put up with today? That requires a bit of thought.

No, wait. It doesn’t. It would be worse. A lot worse. I think I’ll stick with social democracy aka regulated capitalism, thankyouverymuch. Until the robots show up, of course, at which point we might as well just let them run everything

the first part where they're talking about Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz is great because it literally just sounds like they're using the Stavbot, he has almost nothing to say beyond "whoa," "hell yeah," "nice," "noo, fuck no dude," "oh for real?" and his various cackles. But Stav sorta carries the hot couch bit. Great ep

Strasserism: Actually Good by Amber A'lee Frost

That’s more of a Red Scare take, innit

Just arrived. Breaking out the good specs to see what the commotion's about. @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE @willmenaker pic.twitter.com/kzf9VvL5LN

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) August 31, 2018

Chapo: Dr Morbius approved

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE

oh my God

Haha

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— congress-edits (@congressedits) August 31, 2018

A positive review:

Of course, fans of Chapo Trap House will find much to like in The Chapo Guide to Revolution. What about the uninitiated? Well, a book like this demands a certain level of tolerance for vulgarity and alike. Those turned off by masturbation jokes or by passages praising the stunning perfection of the albino twins from the second Matrix film are unlikely to stick with this volume for long.

http://artsfuse.org/173403/book-review-the-chapo-guide-to-revolution-laughing-at-catastrophe/

Politico review otm

Yes I am aware you disagree

Not liking them or the book is fine but you sure you want to co sign all that other stuff in there

I already have it tattooed on my back

I don’t view Scher as a “Politico” writer btw. He’s a freelancer with multiple podcasts and a host of dumb takes who happens to share much of my view about the Chapo a holes

I’m also a union member and I don’t really view us as the best path forward for human relations

Sorry yr union sucks

Also the r/neoliberal subreddit can't be v happy with their erasure in this piece

Have you lived through the past three presidents and managed to still believe that Republicans and Democrats share a single corporatist overlord?

yes

Do you casually use “neoliberal” as an insult, even though nobody has spotted a neoliberal in the wild since Gary Hart’s 1984 presidential campaign?

Loaded question

Do you enjoy history lectures, but only when they are delivered by sarcastic, self-righteous people who conveniently omit anything that conflicts with their ideological worldview?

No

Well then do I have the book for you!

nice

My union remark came across more dickish than I meant it to. What industry are you in PK, and what is it about yr union that disinclines you towards them

My exposure to this crew is limited and the bits I’ve picked up make me think I’d find this entire enterprise insufferable but I want to know if I’m wrong. All immediate contact says smug young Brooklyn beardo dude nerds who live on Twitter and get their kicks from like clever room-of-mirrors in-jokes, think everyone else is dumb, have read some books (let me tell you), are expert leftists but just don’t ~give a fuuuuck~ about decorum and know how the world works and should be at 30.

Like that is probably only a partly true and shallow read, surely really good if you dig into it etc., but there’s so much right up front that’s hard to hurdle.

maybe that Politico writer shoulda taken it to 4 presidents

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Guy in my social circle lives in the Weird Twitter Rad Left hole (for real, obsessive) and it’s hard to disassociate him from anything that might be worthwhile from that corner. Insufferable at parties. Sometimes shows up with ppl he introduces as Twitter Friends. Took me a while to figure out who they reminded me of but it’s totally (sorry) a Fallon SNL bit:

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/the-bloater-brothers-at-shooters/n11478

All immediate contact says smug young Brooklyn beardo dude nerds who live on Twitter

and get their kicks from like clever room-of-mirrors in-jokes

think everyone else is dumb, have read some books (let me tell you)

are expert leftists but just don’t ~give a fuuuuck~ about decorum and know how the world works and should be at 30

The decorum thing is overblown - basically what you see on the John McCain RIP thread or Gawker or basically anywhere else that isn't MSNBC/CNN.

Like most stereotypes there are elements of truth, as well as elements that don't really fit. Felix and Matt for instance are huge softies if you read/hear any solo interview, and for all the talk of their ignorance, the show has covered a lot of topics their critics just don't care about (most recently the prison strike)

enjoyed the hot couch and dvd menu riffs. I went to a big state u and the campus I lived on had an entire low-rise on-campus apartment project for hot couch guys.

I enjoyed Matt's refusal to believe Will had ever encountered a hot couch guy.

wtf, is the concept of HCG just a way to be snobby towards the lumpenproletariat?

not a class phenomenon, hot couches exist at every socioeconomic strata

I searched for “hot couch guy” and got porn

wtf, is the concept of HCG just a way to be snobby towards the lumpenproletariat?

How on earth would that be your takeaway from a group of people recounting their favorite hot couch guys?

yes the segment was very affectionate

there probably aren't, like, wealthy hot couch guys, but otherwise yeah I think it exists as a phenomenon all the way from working class to college-educated professional class.

I dunno, Richard Branson seems like a billionaire hot couch guy but the couch is a chaise on an island.

there probably aren't, like, wealthy hot couch guys, but otherwise yeah I think it exists as a phenomenon all the way from working class to college-educated professional class.

azealia banks got me wonderin if elon musk is a hot couch guy

Insane ego/braggadocio about shit that no one else cares about or believes - yes, definitely

chaiselongue musk more like amirite

Weed unites people across many boundaries

surprised they didn't discuss the hot couch guy apartment smell, that dormy mix of socks, body spray, liquor and weed.

Sophomore year I lived in a mostly cool house of ag school students who were studying organic farming and that sort of thing, but there was this guy I'll call paul who, at every single house party we ever had, (which were otherwise mostly fun affairs), would at some point put on either Pinkerton or Paul's Boutique, take off his shirt, and enthusiastically put an old wooden door up on two chairs for beer pong, even though there was absolutely zero demand for beer pong in that crowd.

Paul was a tall lanky dude with long blonde hair and in my memory he is always on rollerblades. He was a huge Opie and Anthony fan and couldn't shut the fuck up about Whip-em-out Wednesdays (WOW), and made his own girlfriend flash the crowd at an Opie and Anthony show. She left him not long after that. He often bragged about her "great fuckin tits dude, great fuckin tits" to us. Everything was a "great fuckin x dude, great fuckin x." Maybe just a hair too alive to be a true hot couch guy.

There were others, like the guy who actually smuggled cooking wine from the dining hall for drinking purposes. A lot of memories of being in an efficiency campus apartment with seven other dudes and two girls listening to Meddle, making an extremely blurry late night run to quik chek, and later waking up on the hot couch. The pink floyd asses poster was probably the crucial piece of decor.

Hot couch guy is basically a dirtbag but with no style or aesthetics.

the off campus houses that were just giant hot couches

This ep gave me intense flashbacks of scratched up family guy DVDs face down on coffee tables and broken guitar hero guitars

Hot couch guy is basically a dirtbag but with no style or aesthetics.

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, September 3, 2018 9:30 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

doesn't even have his own raw mattress

Woken up by my feet being licked by a couch guy’s pit bull (named Turbo)

there probably aren't, like, wealthy hot couch guys, but otherwise yeah I think it exists as a phenomenon all the way from working class to college-educated professional class.

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, September 3, 2018 4:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

may I point you in the direction of silicon valley

or really anyone involved with bitcoin who isn't broke by now

I still have dreams of the hot couch I slept on in Cincinnati in 2014. I got the cool spot. My bandmate woke up in cat pee.

or really anyone involved with bitcoin who isn't broke by now

I guess technically this is going to include me soon, oh fuck am I doomed to see my couch heat up???