Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

this rules, sorry if it's been posted already

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvN464imtMQ

holy shit this kid is a fucking moron

That interview has such a great moment of Matt completely blowing up at some chump refusing to engage.

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/january-20th-2017/my-dream-for-my-kids-celibacy/

His great desire for his sons is that they be celibate.

Matthew Walther is associate editor of the Washington Free Beacon and a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow

new episode is great, one of their best imo, but about 50 min. the audio starts glitching and cutting out, FFS GUYS FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT

the chapo dudes tweets are 100x better than the podcast imo

perhaps but i prefer longform audio digest as a method of consumption

genius.it annotations > podcasts > tweets imo

Unfortunately, Genius dropped all their freelancers, so Felix and Virgil got canned.

As befits the show, they found out last week while Periscoping the group reaction to the Inauguration.

Damn, back to racist teenagers for them, I guess

"....It's a living."

That Walther interview my first Chapo thing I ever heard and it was horrible. I guess I don't like these guys.

They themselves didn't like that recording enough to not release it as an episode and dumped it on YouTube instead

Ahh I did not know that... seems like they went for a real "gotcha" thing with an easy target and got frustrated when he didnt give them what they wanted and then a lady yelled for a few minutes.

yeah they normally don't bother bringing on conservative or even lib guests and I gather this is why

kurt, listen to this episode, the most recent one, imo one of the best so far: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-75-mr-chapo-goes-to-washington-12217

A critique more academic than most:

http://reallifemag.com/the-laugherators/

as literary critic Linda Hutcheon explains in Irony’s Edge, irony is inherently dangerous and unstable. The ironist cannot, almost by definition, control who is hurt and how by ironic gestures. “Why should anyone want to use this strange mode of discourse where you say something you don’t actually mean and expect people to understand not only what you actually do mean but also your attitude toward it?”

because deep down you know that your strongly held convictions are just as completely arbitrary, wrong, conditional, and useless as anyone else's
source: i have a very good brain and i've said lots of things

I think that qualifies as the "critique from the left" they've expressed hope for.

i expect the chapo brand of 'it's ok to say retard/fag/bitch if you do compensate with irony and marxism' to age about as badly as 00's hipster racism did

don't think they've ever stooped to f-bombs but I could be wrong

No, I haven't heard one

me neither. btw what is the origin of felix's 'lil homie gay ass' running joke

the lack of historicism in discussions of irony really bothers me.

like does nobody read nate west anymore or smth

lol this sux, same shit, go throw a rock ppl. lets see that shit.

ok, feel better. sorry to thread, got tired of their schtick. carry on.

a boy used to go outside and throw a rock

Taibbi on again this week, should be a good time

these guys need to start turning episodes around quicker cuz releasing an episode today which doesn't cover the events of this weekend is nagl

Oh did Hillary do something dumb this weekend?

I thought the same thing- iirc they recorded it on thursday, I know the thing doesn't take 3 days to edit- but tbf the news has been moving at light speed lately

if only they had some steady stream of income that could allow them to adapt heir output to a swiftly-changing political landscape without worrying about day jobs

their popularity is growing pretty quickly too, they're still adjusting... even the sound has improved in the last month

New one w Taibbi was really good. Always enjoyed the stories they've told on the show about the GOP primary events thy witnessed in person.

good ep

I enjoyed the new premium Chapo Book Club ep. I've never read any of Mark Fisher's stuff.

I can't seem to reach the search function right now but there's plenty of discussion in the K Punk thread.

K Punk: classic or dud?

thx Jim!

And someone posted Mark Fisher's book: https://libcom.org/library/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher

his new one was released (in the us at least) yesterday as well

It was refreshing to hear them genuinely humbled/moved by the scale of the protests

http://nymag.com/selectall/2015/12/nine-canonical-responses-to-u-mad.html

just reread this classic piece by Felix and Virgil. so funny

also, this still works: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=from%3A%40KurtSchlichter%20model%20wife&src=typd

The S@dy d0yle stuff in the followup piece (in Outline) is upsetting.

l1nk?

https://theoutline.com/post/981/new-trends-in-getting-mad-online

man i really hope that squiggly normcore bs is not the future of web design

"The Outline is filmed at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida"

Whoa, the synopsis for Mark Fisher's posthumous release sounds awesome:

What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The Weird and the Eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the aching fascination that such texts can exercise. The Weird and the Eerie both fundamentally concern the outside and the unknown, which are not intrinsically horrifying, even if they are always unsettling.

Perhaps a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of liminal concepts such as the weird and the eerie.

These two modes will be analysed with reference to the work of authors such as H. P. Lovecraft, H. G. Wells, M.R. James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Kneale, Daphne Du Maurier, Alan Garner and Margaret Atwood, and films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer and Christoper Nolan.

Hell yeah I'd read that.