Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

well, not yet anyway

^scans as glib and def that wasnt my intention.

i do often (prob too often) find myself contemplating how a series of snapshots just from the last couple of years might play out if we weren't the world's hegemonic colossus. another much more powerful nation with with opposed interests and an insanely deep-pocketed & well-oiled propaganda arm could probably make hay out of a Uvalde mom being monitored and harassed by the force (likely the only municipal endeavor her town will fund with public dollars) that was too incompetent and cowardly to stop a teenager from murdering her kid. or a homeless person in LA--possibly due to medical debt, or more likely, the flood of opioids courtesy of Sackler family greed, protected and subsidized at every level by the federal govt--being shuttled out to the desert to die of dehydration in our richest state and the world's 6th largest economy. a Ferguson resident living for years under what amounts to an occupying imperial force that murders with impunity, all while being a short drive to suburbs/ exurbs full of American flags and platitudes about FREEDOM stuck to every other 70k truck bumper. and coming soon: 11 year old rape victims being forced to carry a pregnancy to term, or women arrested and possibly imprisoned for having an entropic pregnancy who seek out a solution that would save their lives. if these people were to escape and given asylum by a world power opposed to our economy, or way of life or very existence, i suspect the rest of the 'civilized' world's already grim view of the US would be magnified and multiplied in ways that could seem like a funhouse mirror to the more comfortable among us here.

US has a perfect mix of empathetic people who nonetheless get overwhelmed and prob fatigued by everything flying at you faster and more horrific than the month or year before,,
aand those we'll call "less charitable" who can always always reason away that for most or even all of these afflicted, they’re at their very core somehow at fault and deserve it.

As much as we could do the thought experiment of "what would it look like if you just took a bunch of snapshots of US life and compared them to North Korea," I find it very hard to believe that, on average, life is better (or, indeed, not significantly worse) there than here. I mean there's like a 42% estimated malnutrition rate (1% in the US). The US's contribution to the conditions that created that situation is a different question, but I feel like it really undermines the point when we get these smug, gotcha comparisons.

there are lots of non-sanctioned countries that can match those numbers (one being Yemen, despite all the weapons we keep selling to the country that murdered one of our journalists)
i also believe that our good fortune wrt nutrition and basically everything else is very much at the expense of the global south.

i'm really not trying to do a gotcha. it's just like, where in the actual fuck do we get off, you know?

Then it’s good news that the people behind many of the things you disapprove of are pretty cool with NK now.

Really want to see a movie based on Unit 684 from the John Wick crew.

what would happen if you were able to merge the US and NK in a reality warping machine?

we’ve got a 41.9% obesity rate, which makes me wonder if someone already used such a machine to divide a hypothetical country into two in our world

they would cancel out any redeeming features of each other and it would be the most horrifying dystopia imaginable

well, that’s one take

NK: hey, they have a low BMI at least

what would happen if you were able to merge the US and NK in a reality warping machine?

they would cancel out any redeeming features of each other and it would be the most horrifying dystopia imaginable

the UK

authoritarian nanny state stripped of any non-punitive or notionally egalitarian commitments... rampant capitalist development without any dynamism or social mobility... state enforced for-profit cult over a hereditary elite whose crimes put the kims' to shame...

shame is v out of style everywhere tbh

Forget about Liz being weird, fuck this guy

Oh man, just seeing that Bill Russell died, a legend of the game who at his prime could not make a modern-day G League team.

— Matt Bruenig (@MattBruenig) August 2, 2022

long-winded excoriation of left-wingers who didn't have a strong reproduction rights stance in recent episode, I guess we'll see who's on the show in the future

I'd love another April Fools (was that the holiday?) episode where the significant others take over. Katherine's fun!

Yay! You guys won!

I’ve never understood the Liz Bruenig hate & am sad to see her leave Twitter.

— David Griscom (@DavidGriscom) August 3, 2022

“read the whole conversation on twitter”

HARD NO

Live Chapo show in Portland tmrw evening, first one in four years. Let’s see how this one goes

Liz Bruenig appears to be back on Twitter, The Silencing has ended, save your tears

She’s been harassed into deleting again. For the sake of her mental health, I hope she takes a proper break from it, as much as it sucks to have to say that.

xxp did you go, kingfish?

Yeah. The second half was a reading series on the “buying property as self-actualization for women after breakups” helped by Kath Krueger and Amber Rollo as guests. Ex-Simpsons writer and current snacks podcaster Bill Oakley joined to talk about the three-course meal of sampled local dishes that the hosts ate.

Pretty good show.

Was this the Slate Culture Podcast?

Matt sounds pretty sober for an Inebriated Past

xxp nice! I liked the episode where Kath and Amber took over and I was a Mission Hill fan so I'd be excited to see Bill tbh

cool stuff
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZ0psDyWQAA98nS?format=png

Already deleted. Although if you're emplyoying Tucker Carlson I don't really see why you would baulk at a predator.

Also Bill Kristol is catholic now??

How many "reading those articles sounds like my version of hell" responses did they get before the tweet went bye-bye?

"think about hell" otm

Guess we know the answer to "Where's Virgil?"

Virgil finally providing a guide to Hell

Virgil finally providing a guide to Hell

dasha has been DFA'd by the catholic church to clear space on the 40-man roster for virgil texas

— ryan (@baseballworId) August 10, 2022

Sam Kriss writes for that magazine too.

alas, it appears they tagged the wrong account by mistake

— 𝖋𝖚𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖎𝖓 𝖋𝖑𝖎𝖕𝖋𝖑𝖔𝖕𝖘 ◾️◼️◾️ (@punishedfuligin) August 10, 2022

from his parents' massive house or did they kick him out yet xp

much research to be done on the concerted right wing wooing of cancelled leftists but I'm far too queasy to do it myself

if it's a mistake on their part it's funny they chose someone so perfect I mean this would be the logical direction for him wouldn't it

Chapo plus Trillbillies is a good combo. T&T bring more warmth and humanity to the show but still have the wit to match with the Chapo guys, but Trillbillies alone can tend to get a bit too drifty.

yeah, agree on all points

Crossover! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmNdTFbrNoE

First Desus & Mero now

I didn’t want to do this on a show with a guest host (This week is Matt Christman) so I’m doing it here pic.twitter.com/C7qZhP4iyB

— 🔪🔪🔪bЯyan🔪🔪🔪 (@murderxbryan) September 13, 2022

haven't listened in a while, what happened in August?

Brett had a manic episode and had to be hospitalized.

TrueAnon series on Synanon and the troubled teen industry is pretty harrowing so far.

Yeah, I haven’t heard it yet but from what little I know of the history, there’s a lot of _dark_ shit that went on

lol they made the big time

Oh my fucking god pic.twitter.com/NGrRm1cF0a

— oy ye (@lib_crusher) October 14, 2022

Christman chatting with Rania Khalek about the state of things in his usual florid style:

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

don't know if it's Christman's mic or connection breaking up the past few eps but goddamn i wish they would fix it

please do less comedy bits with your friends and more reading articles and yelling