Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

Yeah, almost rendered the rest of the ep redundant

I tuned out halfway through because Virgil was talking seriously about Trudeau so much, maybe it got funny again in the last half.

An update on the socialist truck driver running for congress who basically launched hid campaign on the subreddit. Pretty damn impressive imo

joker ep was pretty good - matt’s reading of the movie was the first thing that actually made it sound interesting to me

One of their best episodes. Critics are "pushing the culture button because the power button is broken". Did Matt come up with that?

The part about people looking at Matt laughing in the theater... yeah I probably would have left.

pretty sure drunk matt came up with it and yeah it is a very neat little phrase

weird how much more i enjoy nick mullen when he doesn’t have his cumtown persona on

Great ep

I could tell I would probably feel most like Felix about the movie and probably won't go see it as a result.

haven't seen the movie and won't until it's on cable but enjoyed matt's galaxy brain take. at least as its media presence is concerned, it really does feel like it's "about" the cultural legacy of, basically, how Ledger's version of the role took on the significance it did for certain people--rather than about the origins of the comic book character.

someone on twitter said that it was a "dorm room movie poster" made into an actual movie which...if you took it as a positive (which they didn't)...sounds interesting!

I guess I don't give enough of a shit about joker, the cultural legacy of joker, comic books, or comic book movies to enjoy a movie like this on a meta level, so if it's not actually good I don't want to see it. And to me it kind of sounds like a sophomoric attempt at a character study maybe saved by a great performance. So maybe I'll watch it some day just for the performance, but I'm not particularly psyched to see it.

still finding Amber increasingly unlistenable

She makes really obvious points and often merely summarizes what prior speakers have said as though it's a new thought.

I enjoyed this especially because I pirated the movie home alone last night and found it pretty unnerving and bad. Yeah it is worth seeing for Joaquin doing a lot with a little. It's an all around shittier "You were Never Really Here"

I misread that as you pirating the movie Home Alone for a second and was thinking, yeah, there’s some class commentary in there

yeah, Joaquin is the fella with the shovel, right?

Matt almost made me want to go see this tonight but I think I'd rather just rent one of the Purges.

I like how Adam came up with the most succinct materialist read on it at the end

The Joker movie being enjoyed by both Mike & Jay from RLM and the Chapo round table makes me inclined to see it at one of the local beer theaters at a matinee

I wish they woulda let Jen talk more but Amber talked over everybody

Matt not only supplied the most intriguing take I've seen about this movie but stopped Amber from another one of her Alamo rants

Also something tells me Felix is going to stick with his “we’re trapped in the Mid-Aughts” bit for the next year at least

I’ve never been to Alamo specifically but the ability to drink in movie theaters is about the only thing saving the otherwise pitiful experience that is contemporary cinema.

I like the middle ground of one near me - recliners and a bar where you can get beer but no food beyond the popcorn staples.

Yeah I recently went to one that had a proper full bar but not a full food menu. I don’t like the whole eating dinner at the movies thing but booze is essential

sneak booze in like a normal person jfc

I’m 40 years old man

Tbh though that seems like a good idea.

sneaking booze in when you’re older just means you’re less likely to raise suspicion or get caught imo

yeah now that i've crossed the 40 threshold i;m just really leaning into dirtbaggery (and privilege obv): sneaking in booze, hitting my one-hitter in the theater restroom etc

Not gamers but will do game v/o

So I found @cushbomb in the upcoming video game #DiscoElysium he's the ring leader of communist union police force, enjoy @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE pic.twitter.com/Lj0EF2uLXK

— Andy Borkowski (@BorkowskiNews) October 12, 2019

Normally I like Naomi Klein, and maybe I’m just in a grumpy and cynical mood but I can’t help but feel like she’s out of her depth with this. Maybe anyone would be.

I guess at the end of the day an overwhelming problem requires overwhelming solutions, but her conceptualization of a world where we solve climate change while enacting perfect justice to all and also being EXTRA fair to the newer polluting countries because they didn't get as much time as we did to pollute in the past and also everyone will just consume music and art instead of stuff just made me feel more pessimistic. Like her plan seems to involve literally changing everything about the way the entire world works today at the same time. The moonshot of technological solutions seems much more realistic by comparison.

i mean geoengineering bullshit is literally the only alternative to massive changes in society globally so...

It's just not a very compelling argument to say "It's too hard to use technological solutions so we will just reengineer all of society globally in the course of ten years without most of the people currently in power on board"

i've never liked naomi klein and think your posts are otm

i agree that the changes that klein prescribes are hugely unlikely to happen

but i dunno, read up on the geoengineering projects that are touted as solutions to climate change and try not to crap your pants in terror

She has certainly put a lot of energy into describing the connections between every subject she has ever written about.

I mean, every proposed solution makes me crap my pants in terror. But I think the best we can hope for is probably some combination of carbon capture plus some reduction of emissions through renewables plus inevitably adaptation to the warming that will occur. And Klein's "the objectively best way to solve global warming also just happens to include my personal policy wishlist regarding everything" is a little much.

geoengineering might not work, is the thing.

xp- that's kinda GND tho

making all those connections is like the Green New Deal? Sure. On this interview, all I feel is I have to listen again and take notes. It was a lot.

She really gets down on squabbling between activist groups who she seems to think don't realize the interconnectedness of all these issues (and has hope for kids who see it all clearer, something like that). And while I'm sure talking to so many different groups and seeing relatively little positive change has to be demoralizing, it's like, what exactly is she expecting out of fragmented movements that hold little power even if they were to form a proper collective? Could you please be the next NDP leader or something?

more like Naomi decline

I kind of want this absolute boy tee even though I can't see myself wearing it other than to the gym
https://jimll.co.uk/products/terrorist-synthesizer-t-shirt?variant=30752384909346

"We're joined by philosopher Slavoj Žižek to discuss the 1994 Jim Carrey film "The Mask"."

Adomian, I assume?

Apparently not

https://t.co/gUC01SAPIc pic.twitter.com/TQGTaVD0xQ

— Texas Chainsaw Menaker 🐄🔨 (@willmenaker) October 17, 2019

Amazing.

Father and Son pic.twitter.com/QhmJKevmSu

— andrew (gotta get out there) (@intellegint) October 17, 2019

What is that location? Is that where they record? It looks like a restaurant.

“And sho what the mashk represents ish a kind of mashk” is what I’m imagining this will be like.