Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

idk where those people stand but the CTH posse identify as socialists and their live events tend to have DSA recruitment people canvassing the entrance

felix and lucy content refreshingly wholesome

much like council of dads

I saw the episode image and assumed that was fake

omg Felix's sister is delightful

The more I learn about the Chapo hosts and the timeline of the podcast, the more it seems to me like Amber and Virgil were brought on to do the work of appealling/signalling to an alt-right-adjacent troll audience so the original hosts could pretend their hands were clean.

— Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyderPHL) April 22, 2020

Alt-righter Virgil Texas

Amber and Matt had some pretty dogshit takes last episode, tbf

Do they not know which one Virgil is?

Felix seems like a bigger troll than Virgil to me

To me, Virgil is the closest thing they have to a traddish liberal wonk

That would make him the most fash-adjacent, true...

not even in beliefs just sometimes he goes off about the inside baseball stuff like a pretty regular type show

is it true he dated a 16 year old

That's Seinfeld I think

afaik there was some comedy event he did 7 years ago where a comedian who is now an alt-right guy did some edgelord bullshit, this is the main evidence that he’s a secret fascist.

oh i was there. bad night

those alt-right edgelord dudes were like.. the headliners. not sure what virgil was doin; he seemed shocked but also like... have some quality control over your own twitter reading

Brad doing a tight 10 minutes at Skankfest

if anyone wants reasons to write off the chapos just direct them to the much more problematic early episodes, that doesn't require knowledge of a 7-y/o standup event

If you dare expose yourself to the vile, uncensored horror of men occasionally talking over their female guests

Virgil’s been going through a juul pod per hour for the last year, can’t imagine why he’d need a break

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ffs

Feels like a lot of people want to trash Red Scare but they're not actually well known enough to get a tweet trending.

i think Dasha is more known for being interviewed by InfoWars dressed as a schoolgirl or whatever than the podcast is.

Don't let brad see this sailor moon erasure

there seems to be a camp of listeners that see CTH and a raft of other podcasts (Street Fight, etc) as kind of a leftist listening enterprise with commentary on political media and grassroots advocacy that works against the stereotype of a bunch of brooklyn-based podcasters in a scene that has a lot of bickering

honestly, I can't keep track of the latter situation at all

Azealia Banks - not a Red Scare fan

Ok but if you guys are boring and on klonopin like that terrible Red Scare podcast I’m out. Lol. Going to listen now https://t.co/KI1P0CXaYz

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIA_2020) April 23, 2020

critical support for azealia banks

I enjoy the this is sus eps. only good chapo shit imo

Emotionally manipulative network dramas are right in Felix’s wheelhouse. I want him to do Parenthood.

I'm imagining banks going on trueanon and Grimes going on red scare now and it makes an unbelievable amount of sense

When ppl talk about the Chapo-to-fash pipeline
https://media.giphy.com/media/xTcnSOEKegBnYhGahW/source.gif

When ppl talk about the Red Scare-to-fash pipeline
https://media.giphy.com/media/geEvRnbQqLYsb5WOr8/source.gif

I've never knowingly interacted with a fan but it seems like their pipeline is most likely Red Scare-to-vote blue no matter who in two promotions at work.

Is there a particular reason why professional media commentators or activist types seem to have the thinnest possible skins? Is this a class background thing? Chris Cuomo posted some shit the other day, didn’t he, that he didn’t want to be a public figure anymore because someone spotted him on the street in Manhattan and was rude to him?

Like that Gwen Snyder character(amongst others) spent an entire day having an episode of scribomania which included doubling down after getting some shit wrong.

Social media and twitter especially has proven the best/worst glimpse into their really weird & petty grievances, feuds, and position-jockeying.

Also Felix and his sister could probably have quite a successful re-watch show.

tbf having people know who you are and want to interact with you about it seems like a nightmare but otoh maybe they should've considered this before taking these highly visible public jobs

Woke Twitter people aren't even making money at it (no matter how many have their Paypal links pinned as a top tweet).

these professional internet sleuths who claim they're fighting fascism by writing severe articles about 4chan memes never get far enough into their research to learn that twitter takedowns make irony bros more popular

(in kayfabe at least - i doubt someone who solicits patreon money for "browsing the internet" is actually very concerned with chapo or trueanon failing)

I'm going to

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

^this is praxis

the person who really concerns me is the psycho with the dog avatar who spams anyone who posts about the show with years-old screenshots of out-of-context tweets that apparently prove that they're all vicious anti-semites. The one time I interacted with him he was raving at Daniel Menaker about what a terrible father he was to evil Will Menaker. He's been doing this nonstop for 6 months at least, anyway this Snyder person seems to be using him as a source for her 95 Chapo theses. I honestly hope it doesn't turn into IRL stalking (harder to do these days at least), the single-minded lunacy really creeped me out.

I just assume everyone in this world is kind of more bad than good at this point, at the very least they are predominantly white men doing things for attention which is suspicious.

The only entertaining part of this that I saw was clowning one of the people raging at the Chapo-to-fascist pipeline because he's a lead software developer for the Wal-Mart surveillance state.

Obv it’s all anecdotal but this woman has provided zero examples afaik of anyone who was actually moved towards fascism by the show, whereas I’ve seen many many people say that the show got them out of the orbit of Shapiro/Peterson/alt-right YouTube dipshits and into leftist politics/organizing.

Joe yr lil summary there makes me once again feel v v good about quitting twitter

I think the main negative effect has been that the show being rude and funny to people like David Frum has made some of its listeners think they’re just as funny when they talk shit at some middle-aged resistance mom with 200 followers.

you’re missing out on the huge baby though Simon, come back

The huge baby is really like 3 and I think his parents shave his head and dress him like a baby for the views

Well no shit