Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

I’ve started now that it’s not behind the Stitcher paywall.

the chapos must be overjoyed about the demise of the subreddit

Street Fight product placement in the news pic.twitter.com/8oGQK7VF4j

— Bяyan (@MurderBryan) July 1, 2020

You never see anyone in a Chapo shirt getting arrested.

https://imgur.com/Qd5Xy9u

their hatred of their fans, who directly supply them with their livelihood, is consistently one of their better bits

Did they get rid of it because they needed a somewhat high profile 'left' subreddit to go alongside the binning of the donald subreddit?

That's the narrative reason, but tbh they'd been flirting with a ban for ages because Reddit doesn't differentiate btwn "killing slaveowners is/was good" and white supremacist shit

Yeah, seems like a pretty easy one to bin off. But it does leave you wondering what would they have done if there wasn't such an obvious choice

Twitter addicts feeling superior to anyone else is the ultimate bit.

even in reddit’s free speech days edgy-left subreddits got banned v quickly unlike the nazi/MRA/paedophile ones

that said cth sub also had a lot of bigoted roganesque dickheads alongside the anarchists/marxists/tankies trying to “radicalise” them so idk

How did the chapo reddit get like that? (or was it from the beginning)

reddit

Far be it for me to suggest Left is talking shit but general opinion is that it was the most trans-friendly space on reddit, which seems to be rather not-Rogany.

at least the most trans-friendly space on reddit not explicitly created for that purpose, AFAICT

Will scored an interview with Wallace Shawn? nice!

I'm pretty much okay if they just go ahead and fully transition into a podcast about watching expanded basic cable TV shows

a big part of why the reddit admins hated the chapo subreddit especially was because the community loved to harass right-wing subreddits etc. which is one of the biggest no-nos on reddit

I only saw them ask reactionaries who posted there to send dick pics. “Show hog” IIRC.

nobody on the actual podcast ever liked or interacted with the subreddit, I think? that was the vibe

They hate all their listeners for not being cool enough.

Man, Monday’s episode was fucking bleak

WELP here's an episode I'm absolutely skipping (Taibbi guests and it's about The Letter and Amber is on it, a perfect triangle of hell)

(I like Taibbi on some issues but his piece on this subject was bad)

Best response I’ve heard re the letter (and I’m not on Twitter so possibly I’ve missed other good takes) was Citations Needed short ep this week. Just absolutely nailed it.

I’ll probably listen to the Chapo tomorrow but I’ll probably be annoyed.

good luck comrade

I'd rather hear Taibbi being wrong about something than the entirety of twitter being right about it

Taibbi's on twitter so you've got an existential conundrum there.

lol these wankers

new chapo episode was so awful i couldn't make it even halfway. matt taibbi and amber talking about how "actually not all cops are racist murderers" and "did you know communities of color want MORE cops???" made me want to self-defenstrate and i'm currently in the basement

— ㋐esthetic🏳️‍🌈boysposter (extra ACAB edition) (@anarchotokonoko) July 10, 2020

"Bernie Sanders is the only acceptable left wing candidate because the others are just fronts for the bourgeois PMC" i mutter to myself as I wander into my Bushwick loft podcast studio “shit fuck shit” i scream as i realise my track pants are covered in cum stains

— Hayley🤝hayley (@hayleyglyphs) February 14, 2020

xp. the first thing is just a fact, tho not germane particularly. I'm going to guess "did you know communities of color want MORE cops???" is them saying that "defund police" isn't a policy that has majority support in any community, which it doesn't

not going to listen to the ep to find out but of course neither are you.

wow my mind is blown. next you’ll be telling me most people aren’t communists

and of course I’m not going to listen to it

and your next post is by someone who likes chapo and has been on the pod

yeah but she doesn’t think much of this episode. seen a lot of “long term fans” expressing disappointment in fact, idk what they expected

the amount of complaining these ppl do about liberalism has to be some kind of self loathing projection

It is not a good episode

I'm sure it isn't but Left is bringing some especially weak attack lines today

The actual attitudes of POC toward the existence of police seems pretty important to me tbh.

my attack line hasn’t changed, fuck this racist misogynist alt-liberal media clique

the amount of complaining these ppl do about liberalism has to be some kind of self loathing projection

Too obvious to be a new board description, but still worth preserving

xxp POC is not a community, do you mean Black? I believe there are a variety of opinions funnily enough. but there are specific demands being made, appealing to some putative average view to dismiss them is just shitty. you know this approach would be condemned as liberal idpol if it wasn’t convenient for the argument they currently want to make. are they preparing to justify endorsing biden or something

appealing to some putative average view to dismiss them is just shitty

they are neither, by any stretch of the imagination, anti BLM or pro cop. acknowledging the difficulty of the task at hand at the current time, and talking strategy isn't the same as "being dismissive" even if you don't agree with the prescription

left and esby are the ying and yang of ilx

all social democrats are pro-cop

esby is not as bad as yang, come on xp

lol simon

all social democrats are pro-cop

quite a few of them are active on the police abolition thread iirc

POC is not a community, do you mean Black?

I believe there are a variety of opinions funnily enough.

appealing to some putative average view to dismiss them is just shitty.

Who is doing this? Recognizing the “variety of opinions,” most of which do not amount to “abolish police,” is useful a) in not being shithead white saviors and b) figuring out how to bring more people around to something resembling police abolition.

centrist bs