Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

The longform reading series episodes are their peak but they never even finished Ben Shapiro's novel IIRC

the most recent premium true anon, going big picture on COVID and how comprehensively fucked the USA is, is really strong stuff. I'm guessing it'll get unlocked.

oh nvm it's a free ep!

there's a section starting 60 mins in that justifies the entire project's existence

The longform reading series episodes are their peak but they never even finished Ben Shapiro's novel IIRC

The folks on Behind the Bastards will do this from time to time, with Robert berating Ben for clearly having no idea about the military stuff he gets into hyper detail on, and Cody & Katie laughing at how tortured Ben’s prose is.

Switched my free monthly Twitch sub thing to TrueAnon to support Yung Chomsky

he is a real asset

Thought Brace was the asset

:)

I like her twitter and TrueAnon, but what does she do for a living? Where did she come from? I feel like she started showing up in my feed a couple years ago out of nowhere. Did she used to have a regular writing gig? Does she work in finance or something? Who is this woman? I like her voice.

idk, she wrote for some places at some point. you could probably find out quite a bit if you were inclined to go digging which I am not

she's cia

(that was a copypasta I saw pulled from the RedScare subreddit)

Listening to the Ben Shapiro Behind the Bastards episodes. It's weird to hear a podcast do ad reads now.

The TrueAnon Spider Network episodes (last two premium ones) are absolutely WILD.

Upped my Street Fight Patreon level to listen to their new doom metal miniseries.

It's starting to feel like a surprise when I get a notification of a new Chapo episode.

Liz is deliberately secretive about what she does but has said in the past that she has a regular job and it's not in finance.

we euros do not understand modern bread

I agree that her voice rules, and the show would be unlistenable without her. I also like when she flexes her financial knowhow as that's a weakness of many/most lefty pods

huh why did my post about bread appear here? I didn't click on this thread, am not a reader of it, was meant for the rolling food adventures one, which I have bookmarked, but not this thread, which now shows up as having been bookmarked. weird.

That was pleasantly baffling, I thought you meant bread as in mucho dinero and that it was a super vague reference to this Liz person's supposed finance background.

DHS is gathering intelligence on activists in an attempt to tie them to foreign militant groups, per intel report leaked to me.

One target was Brace Belden, co-host of the popular left-wing podcast @TrueAnonPod:https://t.co/Lh67aOVKx7 pic.twitter.com/NeMOyJDIRu

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) August 3, 2020

a very clever ruse to conceal his op status, well played

the chapo subreddit has been essentially cloned/rebuilt sans Reddit, a move I assume lots of people are making

https://www.chapo.chat/

shoulda been chatpo

chatpo trapt house

Incredible that they separated it from reddit but kept all of the worst (functional) parts of reddit - upvotes, limited time window of relevance, etc.

Kids these days don't even understand a proper forum

Last Spider Network TrueAnon ep got pretty deep into the magick weeds

someone made a large list of "bad people on the left" and then deleted it from twitter, but i just want to note it's an honor to be on here with many of you. pic.twitter.com/P7uC74MUx9

— hannah gais (@hannahgais) August 7, 2020

idk where the compiler is coming from but almost everyone I recognise on there is indeed pretty bad

truly an honour to be included with such luminaries as Vanessa Beeley, Cenk Uygur and Sam Kriss

Sure, but what's wrong with Emma Vigland, Nina Turner, Alex Pareene, Nomiki Konst etc?

or indeed hannah gais

or libby watson or tim heidecker or etc

basically it's just a big ol list

I'm trying to imagine a single person even having this many grudges

I suspect the one person "of the left" this person approves of is the vest guy (I've been off Twitter a while so names are escaping me)

lol Tim Heidecker is "of the left"?

lol Piers Morgan?

this appears to have some connection to the WASBAPPIN guy so I think investigating it further will turn your brain to sludge.

Tim Pool is on the left?

Saagar Enjeti of, checks notes, The Daily Caller, is on the left?

This is the work of a bot

lol Tim Heidecker is "of the left"?

Definitely, though he’s not particularly militant. He features a lot of left voices on his Office Hours podcast.

He’s been on Chapo a few times too!

piers corbyn nor morgan, makes sliiightly more sense

lol at them listing both chapo and amber, separately

The account is mostly retweets and fairly muddled but looks like it belongs to one of those horseshoe people

lastly alex press is good and where the fuck is nathan robinson

oh he on there.

lol nothing is more 100% guaranteed to get an inordinant amount of media attention than a random list of media people's names.

yeah I'm a sucker for even discussing it on here tbh

Probably!

There is an issue here re the desire to categorize people into good and bad boxes. Something thats perhaps inevitable in some cases but not something to be aimed for

yeah, the people in here I'd consider "problematic" are for wildly different reasons and to different degrees. some are worth engaging with, others obviously not so much.