Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

I’ve never been to Alamo specifically but the ability to drink in movie theaters is about the only thing saving the otherwise pitiful experience that is contemporary cinema.

I like the middle ground of one near me - recliners and a bar where you can get beer but no food beyond the popcorn staples.

Yeah I recently went to one that had a proper full bar but not a full food menu. I don’t like the whole eating dinner at the movies thing but booze is essential

sneak booze in like a normal person jfc

I’m 40 years old man

Tbh though that seems like a good idea.

sneaking booze in when you’re older just means you’re less likely to raise suspicion or get caught imo

yeah now that i've crossed the 40 threshold i;m just really leaning into dirtbaggery (and privilege obv): sneaking in booze, hitting my one-hitter in the theater restroom etc

Not gamers but will do game v/o

So I found @cushbomb in the upcoming video game #DiscoElysium he's the ring leader of communist union police force, enjoy @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE pic.twitter.com/Lj0EF2uLXK

— Andy Borkowski (@BorkowskiNews) October 12, 2019

Normally I like Naomi Klein, and maybe I’m just in a grumpy and cynical mood but I can’t help but feel like she’s out of her depth with this. Maybe anyone would be.

I guess at the end of the day an overwhelming problem requires overwhelming solutions, but her conceptualization of a world where we solve climate change while enacting perfect justice to all and also being EXTRA fair to the newer polluting countries because they didn't get as much time as we did to pollute in the past and also everyone will just consume music and art instead of stuff just made me feel more pessimistic. Like her plan seems to involve literally changing everything about the way the entire world works today at the same time. The moonshot of technological solutions seems much more realistic by comparison.

i mean geoengineering bullshit is literally the only alternative to massive changes in society globally so...

It's just not a very compelling argument to say "It's too hard to use technological solutions so we will just reengineer all of society globally in the course of ten years without most of the people currently in power on board"

i've never liked naomi klein and think your posts are otm

i agree that the changes that klein prescribes are hugely unlikely to happen

but i dunno, read up on the geoengineering projects that are touted as solutions to climate change and try not to crap your pants in terror

She has certainly put a lot of energy into describing the connections between every subject she has ever written about.

I mean, every proposed solution makes me crap my pants in terror. But I think the best we can hope for is probably some combination of carbon capture plus some reduction of emissions through renewables plus inevitably adaptation to the warming that will occur. And Klein's "the objectively best way to solve global warming also just happens to include my personal policy wishlist regarding everything" is a little much.

geoengineering might not work, is the thing.

xp- that's kinda GND tho

making all those connections is like the Green New Deal? Sure. On this interview, all I feel is I have to listen again and take notes. It was a lot.

She really gets down on squabbling between activist groups who she seems to think don't realize the interconnectedness of all these issues (and has hope for kids who see it all clearer, something like that). And while I'm sure talking to so many different groups and seeing relatively little positive change has to be demoralizing, it's like, what exactly is she expecting out of fragmented movements that hold little power even if they were to form a proper collective? Could you please be the next NDP leader or something?

more like Naomi decline

I kind of want this absolute boy tee even though I can't see myself wearing it other than to the gym
https://jimll.co.uk/products/terrorist-synthesizer-t-shirt?variant=30752384909346

"We're joined by philosopher Slavoj Žižek to discuss the 1994 Jim Carrey film "The Mask"."

Adomian, I assume?

Apparently not

https://t.co/gUC01SAPIc pic.twitter.com/TQGTaVD0xQ

— Texas Chainsaw Menaker 🐄🔨 (@willmenaker) October 17, 2019

Amazing.

Father and Son pic.twitter.com/QhmJKevmSu

— andrew (gotta get out there) (@intellegint) October 17, 2019

What is that location? Is that where they record? It looks like a restaurant.

“And sho what the mashk represents ish a kind of mashk” is what I’m imagining this will be like.

4 minutes in, I’m not going to be able to finish this. Someone get the man a Neti Pot.

OMGGG

Naomi Klein not so bad now huh

more like naomi decline

Oh man it’s so bad. And the it’s not even worth it, what he says is not all that interesting.

Although I did like his point about why it’s sort of trite and unsatisfying to make a sociological origin of the joker story.

Zizek otm

big lol at zizek claiming he won't see joker until he can get a pirate version of it

same, brother, same

He does have some claim to being a key ancestor if not the godfather of the dirtbag left

and very possibly the actual father of matt christman

i enjoyed the ten minute teaser of this ep and will happily listen to the full length when i can get a pirate version of it

*ahem*

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackWolfFeed/

https://incendiarynews.com/2019/10/18/kansas-city-anti-revisionist-confrontation-of-dsa-event-ends-in-bloodshed/

took me a while to realize that wasn't a parody

The local branch in Kansas City (KCDSA) has misled the masses into think that the fight for socialism amounts to little more than hosting book clubs, film screenings, and ineffectual rallies. KCSDA has served as a magnet for cast-off activists and protest hoppers, as well as doing the leg work of local Democratic candidates.

yes, the masses are all brainwashed by the film screenings of the kansas city DSA

tankies are fucking dipshits

way to build a coalition, dumbasses

surely the better approach would be infiltrating the dsa and radicalizing people instead of creeping out the people most likely to be sympathetic to... whatever the hell it is they’re doing?

the mask guys scared me. i’m only going to centrist groups now

Groupuscules dont want to build coalitions

These aren’t tankies so much as they’re Shining Path larping students

Maoists are a kind of tankie imo

The best kind of tankie imo

uuuuuuhhnnnnnnn this zizek episode so good

"ohhf fuck my wvife ids going to be scho mad at me, oh fuck it, lets go another 20 minutes"