Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

It's a good movie but I was a bit disappointed by how naturalistic it is compared to his more structurally inventive TV work. I understand that's probably adequate for the story he wanted to tell tho.

I held Nathan Barley about as high as Brass Eye for a long time.

Nathan Barley was decent but I can't agree with that assessment at all. Also it's only directed by Morris iirc.

Funnily enough I rewatched the Crime episode of brass eye last night - I love how it can be so absurdly broad and yet minutely memetic within the same sketch. This Ted Maul segment on youth crime ends with an interview with a family on benefits that is practically identical to most UK media treatment of the unemployed in 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-RS_yEI7IM

Xp Morris cowrote barley with brooker

And of course I meant to type mimetic there, memes are rotting my brain

Xp Morris cowrote barley with brooker

― scotti pruitti (wins), Friday, March 23, 2018 9:26 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

doh

“I’m a really big fan of Bernie. However, in many ways, I respect Cynthia even more because, while she shares a similarly progressive platform, she’s more courageous than Bernie ever was in seizing the Democratic party name and agenda,” 26-year-old data analyst Adam Sasson, who thinks Bernie will be the next president, explains. “Cynthia started her campaign by questioning if Cuomo is a ‘Real Democrat.’ This immediately shifts the frame of the conversation and attempts to take control of the party platform.”

Will Menaker, 34, co-host of the popular leftist podcast Chapo Trap House, also admires Nixon’s vision and jokes that he identifies as a #CynthiaMan. (He is listed on Wikipedia as someone who has endorsed her, although he says tweeting “Cynthia Nixon is going to beat Cuomo and be the next governor of New York” was not an official endorsement.)

Menaker cites her “solid social democratic politics” and “fairly consistent and strong stances against a neoliberal turn” in her party. “I did see a speech of hers where she said it’s not enough to just say Trump is awful, you need to offer a compelling vision, a competing vision that engages in people’s hopes and imaginations for a better future,” he says. “To get there, we’re going to have to get rid of Democratic party hacks like Andrew Cuomo and much of the New York State Democratic party, much less the national one.”

https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/bernie-supporters-back-cynthia-nixon-for-governor.html

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

Blue Jam was radio

They did the tv version tho, Jaaaaam (or some number of a's I forget), it's good even tho a lot is rehashes of the radio. I think they actually lip-sync radio bits which makes it even dreamier and creepy

I might be in the minority but I prefer a lot of The Day Today to Brass Eye, the tone has aged slightly better imo, but really it's all top-tier

But hey I'm a Canadian who watched all this on the internet in the early-mid 00's so I'm no authority

nope, just Jam, because Jaaaaam was a... remix of Jam? I don't understand anything about anything but anyway it's v good

my ex told me to listen to @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE for some good political commentary and what i got was a 20+ min long in-depth discussion abt fucking Dune so thanks a lot, ben.

— Grace Marie (@nastyradishes) March 26, 2018

Huge shout out to the hero from San Francisco’s world famous @boudinbakery who came to the show last night and brought us this lobster sourdough in honor of the bottom-dwelling invertebrate we should all aspire to be like pic.twitter.com/vyIXeVUl59

— Chapo Book House (@CHAPOTRAPHOUSE) March 26, 2018

i used to work by boudin. I used to see the carcasses of their various sourdough creations strewn all over the street. Random crab arms in the gutter. Very distressing business.

also: i love chris morris and brass eye but i feel like most americans still only know him from this gif

https://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/947926/funny-gif-man-jump-out-the-window.gif

it is a v good and useful gif tbh

me: yeah, and some of these really funny guys on twitter that follow me started podcasts that are making like hundreds of thousands of dollars

mom (confused): and so uh do you get some of this money?

me: hahaha, no. sometimes they retweet me though!

— andy s (@CIAGoFundMe) March 26, 2018

This is funny because it’s his life but with podcast hosts pic.twitter.com/pycn0xy4Ng

— Zeru (@DoubleStraps) March 27, 2018

https://www.wikihow.com/images/thumb/2/24/Windmill-Dunk-Step-10.jpg/aid3935-v4-728px-Windmill-Dunk-Step-10.jpg

not a Chapo fan but that twitter thread's so bad I think I would've donated to their patreon if it had kept going much longer.

tbh i didn't read the thread, i just thought the joke was p good

yeah it was a clean dunk

folks' whinging about their subscription income is extremely tiresome though

yeah, esp since it always makes me think about that Current Affairs essay about earning wealth v retaining wealth

like, it's not awful to take in a million dollars if a million ppl give you a dollar apiece, but it's probably bad to then hold on to all that wealth

That joke doesn't really work, not even as hyperbole

yeah i don't get it

Can't believe people are still complaining about how much money they make

we should all be making more money; wages lag well behind productivity and our bosses are greedy. they're not hurting anyone and the business model is (relatively) non-exploitative so who gaf. (also it's really easy to pirate their show and they do nothing to stop anyone from doing it AFAIK!)

i thought the whole point of internet socialism is that you get to tell other people who have more money than you how they should be spending it. is there any other aspect to it?

no, dipshit. the point is that people should be taxed more/models of ownership should not allow for hyper-wealth at all

simon is otm

Defending Chapo from good owns is total :corncob emoji:

why didn't you just post the corncob emoji... it's a good emoji

...is this a joke?

Fire departments work closely with the cops. If you’ve got a fire in your apartment, teach yourself to handle it with your community, don’t call the cops with hoses. Most times they just end up making things worse - water damage, insurance bullshit, moralizing accusations.

— Donald (@getfiscal) March 27, 2018

yes

lmao yes

I know that twitter makes it difficult to tell the difference sometimes

parsing the replies was what confused me

he has a knack for this

Bitcoin has not lost value. One bitcoin is still one bitcoin. This is just a temporary adjustment in the exchange rate to obsolete fiat currencies. Calm down.

— Donald (@getfiscal) December 22, 2017

Defending Chapo from good owns is total :corncob emoji:

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 1:34 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But it wasn't even a remotely good own. And to anyone who thinks it was: Explain to me your values. Now.

though she is still the worst chapo I consistently enjoy Amber's advice column

https://thebaffler.com/your-sorry-ass/accomplish-something-frost

@getfiscal is a great troll yea. socially conservative catholic and hardline revolutionary communist is a clever edgelord ideology profile

Chapo introduced the online far left to irony twitter and now the global proletariat has to rise up every time Christian drunkenly calls a mufo "Mr. Homo"

— Ryan (@Integrity_Guy) February 8, 2018

getfiscal got his fame in the something awful leftism shitposting board

“But it wasn't even a remotely good own. And to anyone who thinks it was: Explain to me your values. Now.“
Don’t tell this cop anything.

Dasha & Friends have their own dirtbag leftist women’s podcast:

https://soundcloud.com/red-scare-727066439/infowhores

Shanti Singh was a great guest. If she lived on the right coast i'd argue for her to take Amber's spot.

Promotion/relegation system for chapo pls

What’s wrong with amber

I liked her a lot too, but Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests although I've noticed it with male guests too. They are not *that* funny that every single fucking point needs to turn into a three-minute tangent about some minor youtube figure or yet another encapsulation of Matt's marxist philosophy of things.

She literally had to redirect the conversation *herself* multiple times to stuff they had specifically just asked her to talk about

Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests
Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests
Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests
Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests
Matt and especically Felix need to STFU more often when a guest is speaking, especially female guests

mansplain alive

I mean yeah, very much so in this past episode -- you have a guest who both worked in tech AND is an activist in SF housing, we really don't need to hear YOUR take on these subject based on the fact that you visited facebook once and read some articles

Yeah, Shanti is great.

The riffing gets annoying(sometimes Matt, usually Felix) and they’d do better to tamp down on the morning zoo tendencies when actually having a guest on who knows her shit.

I’m seeing their live show on Sunday, so we’ll see how that goes.