Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

while I'm sure it isn't - i'll never read it, so i'll never know - "this book is not clever" is not a very compelling argument against an irreverent book by the hosts of what is essentially a political comedy podcast.

and the utility in comparing it with peterson's book, which is deadly (self)serious, makes no sense.

Wasn't 'failson' just a basically self-deprecating joke? I don't think it says much about the actual makeup of Chapo's audience.

they defined their fanbase as comprising of a majority of failsons, with a minority of success daughters, in the new yorker profile

Jason Miller adds Will to his defamation suit, time to finally put those Chapo funds to good use

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-trump-adviser-jason-miller-sues-will-menaker-of-chapo-trap-house-over-tweet

Amber and Will down, Dana White will probably sue Felix for whatever he says in the Jon Bois video.

Virgil will end up in a CIA black site for his relationship to Ahmadinejad before he gets sued.

man people are really into this civility shit huh

Chapo is obnoxious as hell and abusive too. So while I admit that they should win, if they end up shutting down over legal fees I’ll still feel a little smug.

— J.R. (@KYCol_JR) October 20, 2018

"Behaviour or speech appropriate to civil interactions; politeness, courtesy, consideration. In later use frequently with negative overtones: the minimum degree of courtesy required in a social situation; absence of rudeness." so yeah ppl are into it, it's the underpinning of civilization.

Enjoying it is one thing, taking delight in someone (hypothetically, in this case) sued into oblivion for trespassing against it is entirely another.

I think that goes beyond civility, sounds more like one of the many people who've never heard the show who believe the "racist Berniebros rating women on a scale of 10 or gulag" stuff.

I wonder if they can even get personal jurisdiction over Menaker in a Florida court over a tweet.

It seems like there are some real due process concerns if a tweet becomes enough to bring someone into court anywhere in the US.

As much as I'm on his side here fwiw (100%), I think this was kind of dumb and irresponsible of him. Tweeting about a lawsuit involving someone close to you is a bad move.

Oh, he definitely knew it was dumb when he did it.

Unless it has changed recently, Florida explicitly allows libel action against non-residents for online posts.

prophet matt strikes again

So apparently the sticker on the bombs said "Git Er Done" in a faux ISIS font with silhouetted mudflap ladies? What the hell.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 24, 2018

@WarOnXMASVet @randygdub @GitRDoneLarry @mcurryfelidae07 @dankmtl @Stefan_BC "Git R Done"-- Larry the ISIS Guy, talking about jihad.

— Matt "The Dang Deficit" Christman (@cushbomb) January 6, 2016

Fuck me running

hahaha

It's unmistakable.

The pipe bombs are using a "Larry the Cable Guy"-inspired ISIS-like meme image. pic.twitter.com/6ob6tv058y

— ➖Dustin Miller➖ 👻🎃 (@spdustin) October 25, 2018

can't believe matt christman is the mail bomber smdh

i was sure it was felix

good first-part of a piece on uk miners strike by amber

https://thebaffler.com/all-tomorrows-parties/nostalgia-mining-frost?fbclid=IwAR2KrLANcDfwLFERcVUU_GL8st3QhsrWQBsMRmly14ePW1EFB9Vlj2TteOw

lmao at the latest episode opening with Ava Adore in the morning zoo bit

ok this is embarrassing but the Ava Adore music video autoplayed in another tab as I opened my computer and started listening to the new episode. the timing was perfect trust me

Amber hating on Crass, just another problematic position.

wtf why?

ok this is embarrassing but the Ava Adore music video autoplayed in another tab as I opened my computer and started listening to the new episode. the timing was perfect trust me

Ha

possibly the ultimate flappy bird post

lol

it fit so well with the bit and I literally only noticed something was off once the theme song was over. the levels were perfect and it was like yeah, of course Ava Adore would be the bed track for a morning zoo show. they're talking over it with the airhorn, three songs going at once. Damn

lmfao

Wrong on Crass but right on Billy Bragg tbf

i hate that he mixes up speedway announcer monster truck guy with morning zoo dj.

can we also talk about politipod here
latest episode how chapo out of the water
https://m.soundcloud.com/politipod

Uh, hard pass.

#WednesdayWisdom pic.twitter.com/jXIIHOiHwg

— PolitiPod (@PolitiPod) October 24, 2018

yeah wtf is this homophobic garbage

https://www.thecut.com/2018/10/profile-red-scare-podcast.html

Say what you will about R*d Sc*re but if I had known all I would have to do to get paid for doing nothing is get a dogshit haircut and say the r word a lot i might have done it too

— zooey béchamel (@floozyesq) October 25, 2018

The podcast didn't "get a lift" from Dasha's video, it was founded directly afterwards, and would have maybe 1/30th the audience without it.

(that was in response to the Cut piece, I should clarify)

I've never heard Red Scare, but it sounds like Fuse's Rad Girls to Cum Town's Jackass

i've never listened to it either but going off of that profile they're... awful

cut piece describes cumtown as a leftist podcast lmfao

It's very weird that this article doesn't call it "Chapo Trap House" on first reference or even fully explain what it is until Dasha's quote, even in an aside like "popular lefty comedy podcast Chapo Trap House."

It's either bad writing or just the assumption that anyone reading "The Cut" is just an always-online, irony person.

(Three such men hosted a Red Scare Roundup podcast that breaks down the latest episode. One of the hosts is Ilan Zechory, a co-founder of Genius — and Gelman’s husband.)

These guys are fucking cultural barnacles, man

Also, like, lowercase b and not contextualizing this kind of niche joke makes me think the author and/or editor doesn't ... understand what a "Burner" is?

Red Scare has described Elon Musk as looking like “if Eva Braun and Hitler had survived that bunker and given birth to a baby who was a burner,”

"(A friend of mine in Berlin had heard about them through someone there who used to date the founder of K-Hole, the branding group that originated the term normcore.)"

Friend-dropping worthy of a certain old-school England-living ILXor.

kill whitey motherfuckers

"a friend of mine said some shit" is a construction that appears way too often in that piece