Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

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.

The Citations Needed on house flipping shows is good. I liked Rehab Addict for being a This Old House with less flannel, showing the work going into remodeling etc., but I had no idea there were so many flipping shows now.

i keep meaning to listen to that house flipping show episode. there's always one going on one of the gym TVs, which is also where i listen to all podcasts now, so that will be a nice background.

anyway

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL JAMAL BROOKS!!
Here are 37 book titles for Michael's 37th birthday.
Thank you @Danny_Celentano for the video, it's perfect. pic.twitter.com/RxqjA1Q6zt

— TMBS - The Michael Brooks Show (@tmbsfm) August 13, 2020

Lucky. I can barely read anymore unless it’s light fiction. My attention span has been so battered that even during the current moment, trying to consume 20 pages of history is a chore.

audiobooks have been a godsend for me during the COVID era

Matt's vlogs have been more reliable entertainment than the pod for a while. This was a good one, which ended up being mostly about love:

https://youtu.be/3_ZcNxRvlX8

Definitely. There is an RSS feed someone automated so you can get it as a podcast..

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/cushvlogs-audio-matt-christman-chapo-trap-ItrHqPV-6e7/

As a copy of the YouTube copy of the Twitch, there's a substantial delay. i look forward to this one you mentioned.

He mentioned there'll be a proper podcast later, and extra time on Twitch for paying Katamari Damacy! Big plans

Playing

nice.

he had me up through “groceries” (def southern, partic AAVE) lol, but that doesn’t dismantle his theory that those movies are written by algorithm

He looks like someone from an old tv show or movie now (with the button up shirt vs. the oversized baby clothes) that I just can't place.

Like a wild-eyed advisor to the President or Governor in something

i've been saying "groceries" my whole life and i'm v. northern and not a speaker of AAVE???

this is similar to, but not as bad as the time felix thought you couldn't leave butter out

then that makes it even weirder! I mean it’s a very minor point in his off the dome rant but I was like “he’s probably very literally never heard ‘Grits Ain’t Groceries’ on the radio”

tbh i'm not sure what the right word is supposed to be, am i stupid

Brace is bullying Nathan J. Robinson on Twitter and I approve.

The 'lo-fi beats' Youtube aesthetic is an interesting choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdQrz4ke4Jw

Death, the ultimate hot couch guy.

I've now heard the linked episode, was good. Agree the quoted movie has a weird use of "groceries" but I imagine it's perfectly cromulent somewhere. I really glaze over when he starts rambling about squibs and little movie things. But I don't bother with superhero or action movies nearly as much as he does. You have to admire his sacrifice.

yeah I neglected to mention you can safely stop that stream I linked when he starts going off about squibs lol

i've been saying "groceries" my whole life and i'm v. northern and not a speaker of AAVE???

― contorted filbert (harbl), Wednesday, September 2, 2020 2:37 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

in the context he was talking about?! i have never ever heard that and i am shocked it's a thing!!!

oh i never actually found where he said it, i was thinking this was some kind of "food shopping" vs "grocery shopping" thing

he's saying once you bring groceries into your home they are no longer groceries. they are food (or more specifically, they're bananas, peanut butter, beef, etc.) the line in the movie is something like, some people look in their fridge and see that it's empty, and proclaim, "we're out of groceries"

GROCERY BAG

“I’m out of groceries” is some kind of uncanny valley of language. It doesn’t sound right but it’s not wrong either.

"out of groceries"
About 7,490,000 results (0.42 seconds)

have to be more specific

"well dear it looks like the grocery store ran out of groceries"
About 7,489,999 results (0.42 seconds)

"i'm out of groceries"
About 1 result (600 seconds)

https://www.thefabulous.co/qa/what-is-your-go-to-meal-when-running-low-on-groceries/

so alienated from the concept of "food" are the fabulous

tbh I think "we're out of groceries" is fine and "I'm out of food" is correct but the singular "I'm out of groceries" sounds wrong

You're out of food
I'm out of groceries
But I'm out of my head
When you're not around

i'm so lost but i'll probably never watch that and find out what the hell's going on

in certain parts of new orleans you make groceries

We're just dancing around the fact that we all love each other very much

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— bad posts for bad people (@saywhatagain) September 9, 2020

Briahna Joy Gray and Virgil have a new podcast.

first ep ft. Glenn. seems like a great way to keep tedious bullshit safely stowed away on a pod I'll never listen to.

I assume it's going to be wonkier and that's a hard pass from me. The Virgil and Matt horserace episodes were unlistenable

yeah, the only two strains of content I need from any of these ppl are the reading series and some of Matt's more cogent/reflective big-picture solo stuff. and as little amber as possible

and the occasional movie ep. I ended up watching and sort of loving Assassin 33 AD.

xxxpost sounds like it will be better than CTH to be honest

Hit/ miss ratio def ain’t what it once was but I still get a lot out of it. Last one on the main feed was good as hell imo

Not all the way through the Pepe episode but really enjoying it. Will is such a sharp and articulate guy and a very good interviewer, and I think his energy gets kind of squashed by the others at times, or he focuses it more on keeping the show moving. I'm sort of bored of Felix and Amber and Virgil and would really listen a lot more to content consisting solely of Matt's rantings and Will's interviews.

Pepe episode was very good - they are often good at those kinds of episodes when they aren't filling space as they often seem to be recently.

Amber should stick to writing - this book review / screed is solid.

As it functions now, a hashtag campaign is largely an exercise in liberal networking. It offers in-group recognition, the illusion of power, the potential for moral absolution, and sometimes, conveniently enough, professional advantages for the enterprising white-collar progressive. For the more earnest social justice advocate — who probably works at a “job” rather than a “career” — Twitter allows them to participate in “the conversation,” where they can bear witness to suffering among like-minded people, even if it results in little more than a collective, therapeutic wailing into the privately owned digital void. If the authors’ political goals are largely PR campaigns, therapy, and consciousness raising for a more merciful middle class, it’s fair to say that Twitter has been wildly successful.

Only a few paragraphs of #HashtagActivism refer to the potentially nefarious machinations of Twitter — and they are all buried in the book’s afterword. In a publication about politics on social media, fewer than six pages are dedicated solely to the politics of social media. Net neutrality, surveillance, censorship, trolls, misinformation campaigns, and bots all appear to be minor concerns in the otherwise auspicious estimation of Twitter as a powerful and positive force. The authors do, however, appear to be concerned about Russiagate.

This paranoid insularity and PMC subculturalism can only exacerbate atomization and political obscurantism, even more than the New Left ever could. Yet there is a resistance to any consideration of its weaknesses, and a failure to even to address its potential detriments. Much of this stems from a fetish for novelty that has flourished since the cultural turn pronounced the death of dusty old class politics. Social media’s newness is taken as evidence of its potential, even when its own partisans write a book explicitly chronicling its 100 percent failure rate. At the heart of this denial is an ideology of will; this has to work, because it’s all that we have left — all the while, its greatest advocates sing its praises amid an unbroken record of defeat.

https://catalyst-journal.com/vol4/no2/the-poisoned-chalice-of-hashtag-activism

They're very good at selling movies that otherwise sound terrible.

The Richard Jewell ep really is driving home how the majority of modern media critics are either too craven or too stupid to actually do their jobs anymore

yeah I actually stopped listening partway through cause I decided to actually watch it, which is impressive because I hate every latter-day Clint movie I've seen

the long TrueAnon interview w/ Mike Davis is some really heavy shit. Do not listen if you can't handle a heavy dose of (totally reasonable) pessimism.