Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

They haven't discussed her much AFAIK, beyond maybe briefly mentioning her being less bad than the other non-Bern options. Amber's the only one who's been in a room with her and I think her pessimism on the subject has carried over

I will say that barring the DNA fiasco they haven't spoken ill of her like they have with....basically every other non-Bernie nominee

Pareene was also on Trillillies (recorded in McConnell's home state)

He's on the Majority Report today. I think he's become a semi-regular on the Friday round-up shows, as Virgil Texas has too.

ha, Gravel went on Pod Damn America (which I find unlistenable, oh well)

It’s an interesting conversation, that’s for sure, but I like the two Gravel Teenagers in Current Affairs more compelling

ha I was the one who asked about Means TV, which they answered on the show

I loved the Moby Dick appreciation segment

yes that was excellent, i needed that encouragement bc I’ve been putting off reading it all year, and when I heard that there was literally a copy on my desk

lets get a team together eh

📣📣📣SPECIAL EVENT📣📣📣

May 1st: @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE #MayDay Pub Trivia.

W/ @willmenaker @cushbomb @virgiltexas @ByYourLogic & Amber Frost.

Prizes from @VersoBooks @thenewpress & morehttps://t.co/zhv3KG9S31 pic.twitter.com/v2Z2bLb6t3

— Housing Works Bookstore Cafe (@HousingWorksBks) April 3, 2019

my knowledge of lefty history is patchy; need to fly Simon in

(also HOOS)

apparently they're each picking a category so expect 10 questions about anime furries, 10 about video games and another 10 about labor history

and MME

*MMA jfc

Felix's will be questions about the IRG and Hamas.

Brush up your Knausgaard

anyone goin to the red scare show tmrw

Lmao you couldn't pay me

cmon ill fly you out

can't believe I wandered through brooklyn last weekend and no one accosted me demanding I show my socialist card

just get the tattoo. it saves time.

The Wal-Mart planned economy guys were a bit sanguine about potential sacrifices needing to be made to confront climate change. Semi-suspicious Matt sat this out because he would have argued with them.

I finally got through that last Pareene show. They sure talk/laugh over each other a lot. Good Martin Van Buren material though.

matt’s new inebriated history on conspiracy theories fkn rules

yeah that was great, despite him sounding haggard as hell throughout

Former Trump adviser Jason Miller’s defamation suit against Chapo Trap House host @willmenaker has been dismissed. https://t.co/cNS20nuIAg

— Peter Sterne (@petersterne) April 18, 2019

he referred to being 'intoxicated' rather than 'inebriated' at the start iirc so god only knows how much adrenochrome he was on

my favorite paul simon song

I feel vindicated by his choice of topics, as my own show has put out several episodes on that in the last coupla months alone.

For those who really dig his talk, might I humbly recommend the episode we posted the same night that’s a more in-depth convo on it:

https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep-50-5-rules-to-conspiracies-with-c-derick-varn-part-1

Matt should do a series of intoxicated histories on various psychedelics. I want to hear about early 20th century socialist party splits while he's rolling.

I especially appreciated his rebuttal to the whole idea of trying to do left recruitment/conversion from the Q/Pizzagate ranks.

matt’s new inebriated history on conspiracy theories fkn rules

― Boris Bronfentrinker of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, April 18, 2019 12:55 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can't seem to find this

it’s in the subscriber feed

See also the black wolf feed subreddit

thx

lol Peterson/Zizek is a $15 PPV.

Jesus. Fuck that.

Very happy no to be on twitter anymore so I'm no hearing all about that fucken garbage

if I wasn’t about to head out I’d find the pirate feed because

he's stammering about "the crazy idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat" that somehow peterson "stumbled across" - he's started to make that dry mouth lip smacking sound and im thinking its possible he is gonna faint

— 6X Debate Champ (@gunsmoslem) April 20, 2019

My friend who's at the debate claimed he could make out Matt's chuckle

who won?

hegel

still the champ!!

Nathan J Robinson... OTM

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4j4KeMVUAEjmP0.jpg

yup

If we’re making a list of embarrassments to the left I think Robinson would rank quite a bit higher than Zizek.

makes u think

I like Robinson but I think he's a little too summarily dismissive of Zizek in that excerpt (though I'm hardly a superfan myself). Has he written one of his 15k word takedowns on him yet?

wait for it

why is Zizek an "embarrassment"

refuses to stop dressing so sexily despite being 70 years old iirc

we all know he's sexual dynamite, but what about his praxis? I saw more criticisms of him than I expected last night, some even said he was barely better than Peterson, which seems insane to me. why do some leftists dislike Zizek?