Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

what I've seen has not been pro-assad so much as countering the narrative that the US has not been involved and needs to do more

a lot of tankies are reflexively ant-NATO/the west when it comes to foreign policy. so for instance they will defend or minimize serbian war crimes during the yugoslavian civil war because serbia was backed by russia and bombed by NATO.

in Syria were the opposition forces have been western funded jihadists http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/world/middleeast/jihadists-receiving-most-arms-sent-to-syrian-rebels.html?mtrref=www.google.ca&gwh=F89CC97711B83E8283EE22C80058A4E3&gwt=pay, western funded YPG https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180130-what-is-behind-the-us-support-of-the-ypg/ and the regime is backed by russia, and iran, for a lot of tankies this is basically a manichaean good vs bad, imperialism vs anti-imperialism sort of situation. as obtuse as that may sound

of course tankies literally think that stalinism was good and that the dprk has a good system of government

This should be good

Journalist @sarahljaffe and labor historian @gabrielwinant on the WV strike and the coming Supreme Court ruling on Janus. https://t.co/UcYgIDupwH

— Jacobin (@jacobinmag) March 14, 2018

this is amazing

lmao dasha rules @nobody_stop_me pic.twitter.com/mRf9awWm6c

— darcie wilder (@333333333433333) March 13, 2018

damn anime daria got owned

her actual answers were mostly not great (mostly because people tend to freeze up when faced with bullshit "gotcha" framings which is why they get used) but her delivery/outfit combo more than make up for it

honestly tho the correct response when faced with 1nfowars / rebel med1a assholes is to walk away

yeah IW will run this as a "win" all day long. just tell em to OD on BRAIN FORCE and fuck off

dasha won

'anime daria' gtfo

the fash have no respect for sailor mercury it seems

In my experience, best way to handle Infowars creeps is to just reply "that's what THEY want you to believe" to anything they say and if they ask you to clarify mumble about the deep state.

xpost flappy bird no need to dignify the 'bag with an answer

dasha calling her 'honey,' looking at her phone the whole time, and the last exchange - "what question? / healthcare / free healthcare" - she wins

oh yeah wait lmao how could i forget "you people have worms in your brain"

is this the same dasha thats dating adam?

yeah

she's really great in a new movie called Wobble Palace, that's why she was at SXSW

she's very charming

dating that damn bug tho lol

The best thing about the actress drinking iced coffee is that she’s repeating chapo memes on camera so I end up not seeing her as an elite.

given that the de facto leader of chapo is a native manhattanite son of a new yorker editor i don't think they really lend a non-elite cred? nor is that the appeal of the show?

but being an actor is obviously beyond the pale, as is drinking ice coffee

havent you guys heard actors have really reliable and lucrative streams of income, it's like guaranteed $$$

i put out a resume to be in the next marvel movies, fingers crossed :)

Hollywood dumped me, my family disowned me, religion is now a crime, and any sense of community has been completely corrupted. We have become a dog eat dog world. The less trust we have, the smaller our forces. And the more we feel alone, the less we are a threat.

— Ashton Whitty (@ashtonbirdie) March 13, 2018

getting disowned by my family to own the libs

what chapo memes did dasha say? all she said was that health care should be free. and that infowars employees have worms in their brains

They bring up Venezuela like four times in the full clip

https://youtu.be/febVuHWGx5Y

venezuela isn't a chapo meme also dasha is only in like a minute of it

Oh, I didn't mean that in response to you. I just thought it was amusing that they kept bringing up Venezuela.
('They' = the Infowars people)

o right

hell yea

did you know they eat rats for dinner there?

I agree her dismissiveness is the best way to handle an infowars gotcha thing and just laughing at/refusing to engage with the Venezuela questions as well is pretty much perfect. I think I was just seeing a lot of fawning on my twitter feed this morning.

Her deadpan reactions remind me of this classic(from _thirty-two_ years ago, christ)

https://youtu.be/8ISil7IHzxc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc

thingfish

Fans of Adomian’s Gorka should check out the newest Comedy Bang Bang where he appears

The return of Frost/Christman

Brendan James chronicles the decline of Ricky Gervais

https://thebaffler.com/latest/what-happened-to-ricky-gervais-james

Or, "Those of us who hated him since The 11 O'Clock Show Are Totally Vindicated."

Meanwhile, his previously neglected contemporaries have all risen up: Iannucci conquered America with Veep, Steve Coogan got an Oscar nomination for writing Philomena, and Chris Morris made the best comedy in twenty years with Four Lions.

Struggling to see how any of that trio were 'neglected' in any form?

I think he's speaking strictly from an American POV.

Yeah, at the height of Gervais' success Ianucci and Morris were definitley cool insider things to be into outside the UK (Coogan's profile a bit higher, I think).

fwiw I had to Google Iannucci and I've watched 4 seasons of Veep and had never heard of Four Lions or Chris Morris before

not to get all corny uk fuxx0r here but time spent catching up on the chris morris ouevre is time well spent

even if the current hellscape of broadcast news makes brass eye look a bit redundant nowadays

Brass Eye is essential viewing. (xp!)

blue jam is i think my favourite of his tv stuff, but four lions is the best thing he's ever done imo

FL doesn't quiiiiite come together for me but I appreciate the effort to communicate how silliness and horror can coexist

I think I love the animals episode of <i>Brass Eye</i> best of all. It's an experience where you you're still processing one joke and another has already passed.

I honestly think the first time I saw the pyramids reveal is the hardest I've ever laughed at anything

had never heard of Four Lions or Chris Morris before

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 23, 2018 9:44 AM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same. here in the US, Chris Morris is just a mediocre NBA player from the 90s.

Four Lions was released in the US, it's okkkkkkkk