Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

i don't listen to the show much anymore, but he's sparked a sub-bill simmons-level discussion on twitter about "dumb smart" and "smart dumb" film directors

nfc east / democratic party

- love sidelining their best players
- heavy presence in nyc and dc
- washington finally made least-they-could-do concessions in 2020 after decades of protest
- had a presence in texas a long time ago
- not interested in doing anything
- losers

— Jon Bois (@jon_bois) January 4, 2021

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— dr. professor kashiwagi, esq. (@kwamurai) January 9, 2021

I'm sure everyone is going to be super chill about this

haha what the fuck did they do?

Felix was extremely good at guessing the neolib nudges on the latest Patreon Trashfuture.

the Will Sommer episode was terrible, they should never have guests with both Matt and Amber on because they never get a chance to say anything

plus Amber started talking a bunch of specious conspiracy stuff right away and Felix's lol quit overreacting thing gets dumber the more we know about it

more and more it feels disjointed, like Virgil is basically done with it, Will, Matt and Amber seem to be going in different directions, Felix just seems to double down on saying "This [shitty person] is so rad" facetious schtick but often feels like he's probably just not paying attention

the movie watching episodes seem like everyone has fun with

man the QAnon Anonymous people found a rich, dependable lane huh

that video of matt super drunk from that livestream still gives me the creeps man lmao he's like poltergeist drunk

That's not just alcohol, trust me.

the QAA people were on vacation during the riot. lol.

sorry if wrong thread but loooool

Absolutely incredible. pic.twitter.com/NJRplehf08

— Marc ⛳️ (@ethnicohioan) January 10, 2021

Nick Mullen is the president of the DSA? or is this some sort of injoke incomprehensible to outsiders? Also I knew he dated one of the Redscare weirdos but is he uhh suspect or crypto fascist?

that is a long running joke

i think he dated the less shitty red scare weirdo

the people who think that the DSA either is, or has been taken over by, sexist male edgelords were also very anti-Mullen on twitter

so, the sarcastic joke is “yes, Nick Mullen, DSA president”

i think he dated the less shitty red scare weirdo

― here 1st (roxymuzak), Monday, January 11, 2021 12:19 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

he didn't, adam did

oops

QAA Capitol episode very good so far

Just got to the clip of Trump’s speech where he whines about Oprah before sending off his minions to try and kill Senators.

https://i.imgur.com/w8MIaFC.jpg

cuuuuursed

It's very Giamatti

Not unexpectedly so, tho

the show is very lazy and bad right now. please just do an episode about the khashoggi movie thank you

I watched First Blood the other night and was thinking that would be a fun one for them to do

Yeah it's absolutely wretched at the moment, barely ever funny at all and you can feel their "Actually, Trump was good" contrarianism master-class take coming.

seems like a stretch

well, maybe a stoned Amber could galaxy-brain her way there idk

I wouldn't go that far but it's embarrassing to hear them guffaw over anticipated fuckups and disappointments of their own imagining

I mean,,, $1400 after winning GEORGIA with the promise of $2k is kind of Charlie Brown purposely missing the ball

and let’s be real: 1400 probably ain’t happening either after it’s been poked and prodded and pragmatized to death

Matt's own streams are a mess right now too, but it's interesting hearing him trying to work out his thoughts

they were already on the "trump was actually good for foreign policy" a couple months ago then making chicken shit little asides to acknowledge that the drone program was worse under Trump and more secretive

they seem pretty invested in sticking with the "lol the capitol riot was nbd" despite more and more evidence we've seen since the day it happened continue to point to the fact that is was serious and coordinated

They're going big on the odds of little changing, seems pretty safe, and if they're wrong then they'll be happy about it. They're so dedicated to this that i don't think they bothered to mention Bernie's new job? I am owning myself now by thinking that could be anything at all?

sometimes i need to remind myself that they rake in $170k a month on patreon so they aren't exactly that worried

Are they cool with Sinophobia? It seems the online left was far more concerned with making fun of liberals worrying about Russia that they missed the boat on Trump’s new cold war with China. Just last week the US and Taiwan exchanged high level diplomats, breaking precedent since the Nixon era.

Bernie’s new job is indeed rad and lord please keep the angel of death from grandpa’s door.

xposts

I’m not on Twitter so can’t really speak to the online left but it did seem like Biden got clowned pretty hard for leaning into Sinophobia back in the spring and his folks kinda dropped that thread? (for now)

Just remember, there is no left

They sounded so reenergized clowning the $2000 $1400 stimulus plan. I think Biden is going to be great for the show. They're back, baby!

Yeah it's absolutely wretched at the moment, barely ever funny at all and you can feel their "Actually, Trump was good" contrarianism master-class take coming.

Dumb people have been predicting this since March of 2016 and yet...

The "online left" has been pretty consistent in opposing ginning up global conflicts, whether that's Iran, North Korea, China or Russia.

Just last week the US and Taiwan exchanged high level diplomats, breaking precedent since the Nixon era.

― Boring United Methodist Church (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 15 January 2021 14:57 (two days ago) link

I'm not sure I understand tbh, diplomatic relations with a democracy should be seen as bad by the left because it offends a repressive authoritarian regime that puts minorities in concentration camps?

Though symbolic It’s an escalating gesture that will probably to more tense encounters in the region and hawk talk and increased military spending

why would this offend the US?

less flippantly why should anyone believe US foreign policy is motivated by the things it publicly claims to be motivated by for once in its entire history

I certainly wouldn’t, but opposing this bc don’t make China mad is an extremely bad look imo

Doing it precisely because it tweaks the Chinese is also bad, though.

As with every whine that ‘the left’ is too easy on Trump and the GOP... what is the online left supposed to do about this?

What is this podcast about, I don’t want to listen to it

dudes with beards doing coke in brooklyn i think

Oh like every podcast

I listen to 6-10 podcasts a week by women from other countries and cities but tbf afaik they are not posting video footage of themselves recording, so could be just putting on voices

tbef I do listen to one by some guys from NYC, but not from Brooklyn, and clean-shaven. also one of the guys grew up in England.