Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

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Listening to Champagne Sharks (CS 004: Bill Maher and Civility Rights)

This week I discuss Bill Maher using the word nigger, the impotence of black public intellectuals, and the concept of Civility Rights.

Articles discussed include "What Are The Drums Saying, Booker?"
Book discussed briefly is The Image by Daniel Boorstin.

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the previous free episode with the rankings of conservative publications was fun but i wish they'd structured it a bit differently than having will just read chunks of the author's own article back at him

― alcohol aficionado zane lamprey (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, June 8, 2017 5:44 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^this was kinda weird

I've been enjoying Champagne Sharks though he could use an editor - the Hamilton one really didn't need to be a full 2 hrs

yeah Will is being such an edgelord saying it's "great" that Corbyn likes the IRA and Hamas.

fran drescher go on chapo

http://www.vulture.com/2017/06/fran-drescher-how-to-be-more-fabulously-radical-in-2017.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=s3&utm_campaign=sharebutton-t

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— Touchstone Books (@TouchstoneBooks) June 8, 2017

'socialism meets jackass' eh

seems like somebody has gone #corporate

Enh, blame the marketing folks

lame

that champagne sharks thing is great, thanks for posting it

Chapo should book declared Hollywood-London socialist Angela Lansbury

i stand with morbs

book deal the least surprising thing in the world

the concept of Civility Rights

thought this was really cool. the idea that branding oneself as polite/not rude being more important than the content of what you are saying/doing? he ties it into a lot of current things but is not super serious about it, just exploring different perspectives on these topics.

seems like somebody has gone #corporate

― black covfefe in bed (voodoo chili), Thursday, June 8, 2017 9:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously looking forward to these guys getting hired for corporate gigs, ted talks. Gotta embrace the orb

their post-uk-election euphoria on today's episode is fun

it's nice to hear them jubilant about...anything, really

mind you if i never hear them attempt an ulster accent ever again it'll be too soon

it's amazing to me that Matt can go off on these incredible & engaging monologues about leftism and existentialism, and then reverts to idiotic jokes about Tesco. it's just fucking 7/11 with a different name. whenever they do British accents or make fun of British stuff they sound like the typical and contemptible "LOL bacon" people that they love eviscerating themselves.

also I've started listening to Cum Town way more religiously than Chapo. realizing they're just incredibly insufferable nerds ~40% of the time.

tesco is not comparable to 7/11 mate

more like 9/11 amirite tesco shareholders

i mean, we could have a poll, Tesco vs. 7/11, but they're both just convenience stores. it was embarrassing hearing Matt ask Jonathan Shainin what Tesco was like, as if it were Oz or something. again, "LOL bacon" level humor.

tesco is a supermarket chain that has smaller branches called tesco metros. theses are definitely much more in the grocery store vein than 7/11s which are really corner stores and are for carbonated drinks, taquitos, freezies, cigarettes and scratch cards rather than like fruit and vegetables, things to make a meal from

ok so it's analogous to Wawa or Sheetz here in the States. last time I went to a Tesco was in Dublin a few months ago and it was an express one iirc. self-checkout and all that

Ya when I was in a state of total despair at UK politics it was oddly comforting that these dudes just saw it as a half legendary faerie island inhabited by victorian Cockney elves. Could get grating in differeNT circs

it struck me as the type of masturbatory nerd fantasy that they eviscerate other people for constantly. i'm surprised that Matt has never been to the UK.

Never visiting uk probably crucial to maintaining an interest in its culture politics and society tbh

Wait, he said he lived there for 6 months, didn't he?

He briefly mentions being in NI this episode.

it struck me as the type of masturbatory nerd fantasy that they eviscerate other people for constantly. i'm surprised that Matt has never been to the UK.

It's a running joke - not a funny one - how is that similar to the "Hillary is Dumbledore" shit they make fun of?

they're both not funny

it's amazing to me that Matt can go off on these incredible & engaging monologues about leftism and existentialism, and then reverts to idiotic jokes about Tesco. it's just fucking 7/11 with a different name. whenever they do British accents or make fun of British stuff they sound like the typical and contemptible "LOL bacon" people that they love eviscerating themselves.

― flappy bird, Tuesday, June 13, 2017 11:53 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^this

tho i was wondering about this -- a friend of mine who is also otherwise very thoughtful, makes fun of HP, is a chapo listener, etc, will occasionally go into "bad accent lord von swaddlebottom" type humor and it occurred to that if want to do some jokes about the UK (or the southern US or wherever) and part of doing the joke properly is getting the accent right, and you can't do that, then better to just go straight into cartoon comedy mode

"better" = easiest

as someone who has never been to the UK and may never go I find overblown comedy UK accents and names funny, obviously ymmv

i'll admit that as a kid this place was a consistent lol factory

https://goo.gl/maps/Tqyyc8HjHUB2

whenever i see a sign for clitheroe on the motorway i always think "CLIT HERO"

and jimmy clitheroe obv

OI MATES LISTEN TO THESE CHAPO WAPPOS INNIT MORE SPOTTED DICK

always happy to hear from Nagle, who has been hitting the 'cast circuit pretty hard. A friend picked up Kill all Normies, looking forward to getting my grubby paws on it.

Yeah, it's a good book. More SomethingAwful mentions in it than I would have expected, which on reflection isn't surprising.

sheesh, this GCC episode giving a high level view of the current state of Qatar/Saudi politics and how our current presidential administration is even less clued into reality than the average American is making me go O_O

I'll try to finish it up later, but it took a half hour to even mention how the US interacts and they haven't touched on al Jazeera yet and jeez

I confess I had a hard time following that.

these guys kind of suck and are not funny

I'm lazy and vox dot com explainers are horrible so I make do with chapo interviews ;_;

idk maybe they dont suck. but there is something very smug and self-congratulatory about them that is off-putting

they're nerds who finally got some people to like them

it's a bombastic speaking style but idk it sounds more like they're trying to be enigmatic ad&d dungeon masters than actually full of themselves

like a lot more drama club than debate club