Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

hahaha

Speaking of which, Matt went on the Qanon Anonymous podcast:
https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/episode-19-jfk-feat-matt-christman-of-chapo-trap-house

(About halfway thru)

Back in the USSR:

The ladies discuss the latest Drake/Kanye feud, Houellebecq's pro-Trump hot take in Harper's, Hillary's Indian wedding jaunt, and the meaning behind Melania's changing hair color.

I honestly didn't think anyone stuck with red scare

Houellebecq's pro-Trump hot take in Harper's

Things I would sooner gouge out my eyes than read.

Wtf, Simon Reynolds went on there to talk about Mark Fisher?

I did listen to that episode and it wasn't bad. Mostly Simon talking.

neat!

I'm as suspicious of liberal identity politics as the next leftist grouch but I've never really seen what people see in "exiting the vampire castle" which doesn't really engage with pro-identity politics voices, just lots of ad hom from a trad marxist about the "petit-bourgeois", "post-structuralist", "moralizing", "mccarthyite", "'left'" throughout and, on the other hand: praise of Russell Brand.

i think it was just an early critique of idpol from the left and therefore seems somewhat prescient for ppl sympathetic to critiques of liberal identity politics today but i never felt like beyond its historical significance it was the definitive take on the topic - and also his personal narrative lends sympathy vis-a-vis the blowback he got for the article, etc and how that relates to the contemporary debate.

good point.

does give me "there is nothing new under the sun" vibes when i think about the traditional class focused marxist vs eurocommunist culturalist discourse in the CPGB in the 70s.

https://graphtreon.com/creator/chapotraphouse

Amazing that the Patreon continues to grow given how little of a shit they seem to give about the show.

vampire castle is aight but mark fisher's empathy and insight had a big impact on my life and i hate seeing his work reduced to a cudgel in twitter slapfights over cum town or whatever

it’s one of his stickier works but far from Fisher’s most interesting writing. ppl want to tear down the academy, but lives next door to the academy

catching up here, I haven’t checked out the mma doc but am interested and we should do a thread. a little less than a decade ago I’d done a fair bit of mma watching and my friend’s bf was working in the video editing trailer for ufc, going around the world but stuck in a metal box in the parking lot cutting up clips for promos. lots of weird shit and opinions on Dana White and the money

the SNL episode felt like listening to some people read our SNL thread aloud

I was gonna say, I was glad when they moved on from that cause it was just too depressing to even think about

lmfao will and amber incredulous at matt for saying he actually watches SNL

Been enjoying Street Fight lately quite a bit, love these dudes

i very much relate to matt's inability to stop watching SNL no matter how bad it gets

I would pay like a good dollar for a monthly guide to the best of that month's Street Fight. it's just too much damn pod

I get so many Patreon emails from Street Fight, I don't even read the episode descriptions anymore.

A movie ep where they giddily praise a DCEU flick

hellworld is full of surprises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nojrpd2WL30&pbjreload=10

broken link

not loading - the Matt/Will/Virgil talk about Starship Troopers

Matt's dressed like an adult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nojrpd2WL30

oh sick, thanks for sharing - will watch asap

Virgil snuck in a good unremarked-upon line in the tabletop ep: “I’ll be back in two gifs,” with a hard g.

Amber solidifies her place as the crew's true Berniebro

https://thebaffler.com/all-tomorrows-parties/its-bernie-bitch-frost

warren's pitch of "i'm the good parts of bernie + hillary" is going to drive some people insane

yeah she should take that off her bumper stickers

Lmao: And what we moved onto was Bernie—our indefatigable, unwavering, incorruptible Bernie! And we very nearly won, despite despicable sabotage from the DNC.

Debate scheduling

No no, it's even better. That sentence includes a link to the Donna Brazile article. Looooooool.

Ya focusing on the dnc's ultimately rather trivial machinations too much absolves all the ordinary schmucks who figured hilary clinton wd be a good presidential candidate lol

she should stick to the advice column tbh

Yeah I'm very much team Bernie as is known but also very much never bought into the "sabotage" narrative. It's not really shocking that an upstart didn't have the backing of party insiders. I think in teh US we don't even really have a good concept of what a political party is in most democracies -- the Democratic party is WAY more up for grabs than most parties.

Does anyone know if Amber A’Lee Frost is on Twitter ?

— John Cusack (@johncusack) January 16, 2019

john trynna slide into those dms

every time i look at my podcast app and consider listening to chapo the newest episode description is too unappealing for me to bother. last 3 times I've looked it's been an episode discussing aquaman, christmas episode/one of their dumb radio play things, talking about this bernie article with amber.

the xmas ep surprised me by being actually funny but they need to stop doing those interminable "tabletop" eps

counterpoint: the latest tabletop two-parter was good not bad, actually, and i say that as someone who couldn’t sit through the previous ones

i don't know who to believe here

Counter-counterpoint: the latest one was 2x2.5 hours long and fuck that shit

what else am i gonna fill my time with on this interminable march to the grave

I'm definitely noticing a widespread creep lately in podcast length. Lots of folks bumping up against or even crossing the two-hour mark. personally I think one hour should be the cutoff. podcasts that exceed that almost always involve a whole lot of shambling, unfocused bullshit. I know the Chapo guys are doing something aesthetically different from him, but Chris Hayes' podcast never exceeds an hour and he digs in to some pretty cpmplicated shit (e.g. this week's episode on trade).

Mine are 44 mins on average and I plan to keep it that way

what's your podcast? i know i've seen you mention it on here before but I can't recall the name

I love the tabletop episodes