those are not mutually exclusive, they go hand in hand. you could say the exact same thing about Camille Paglia.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 October 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
contrarian implies opportunism; imho anna is a principled bigot
― flopson, Thursday, 4 October 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
I don't think RS really works as a comedy podcast because they spend too much time on their dogshit opinions tbh
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 4 October 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
someone on reddit pointed out that Dasha and Anna look like young Walter Becker and Donald Fagan and now it's all I can think about whenever someone mentions red scare
https://scontent-frt3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/afed116f26fd455295314e3d1f49bb37/5BFF5D42/t51.2885-15/e35/39184831_1880895528655732_7217063384053710848_n.jpg?se=7&ig_cache_key=MTg1Mzc5NDA5MDcyMDA1ODE4NA%3D%3D.2
https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/screen-shot-2017-09-03-at-9-52-42-am.png?w=807
― soref, Thursday, 4 October 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
omfg
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 October 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, October 4, 2018 1:52 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is the comedy for me
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 October 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
if i wanna engage with dogshit opinions i’ll post on ilxor dot com thx
― shrek and han solo kinda dress the same (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 4 October 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
they spend too much time on their dogshit opinions
Probably a function of the fact that Anna takes up 75% of the airtime.
― jmm, Thursday, 4 October 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
but doctor i am paglia, c
― All right! A new season! (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 4 October 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
lmao
― latebloomer, Thursday, 4 October 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
AK’s schtick really hammers home for me just how empty and reactionary contrarianism is as a mode of commentary, since it can’t exist without something to bristle against. She would be lost without her lefty/liberal media peers to piss off.
― latebloomer, Thursday, 4 October 2018 22:26 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUJUmMU4X7s
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 October 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
The reading series are getting kind of exhausting too now unfortunately, way too much commentary and not enough reading the article. Having five people jumping all over a Rod Dreher piece really kills the fun.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 15 October 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
yeah, just listening to something stupid play out is much more fun than hearing people yelling "This is so stupid!" after every sentence
― President Keyes, Monday, 15 October 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
They should cap people on the mic at three, including guests.
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 15 October 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
I do a show with four hosts - it can work as long as you have someone conducting/moderating, which I think Will tries and mostly fails to do. Even less of an excuse for crosstalk since they usually record in the same room.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 15 October 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
Bring back the talking stick/VHS box
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 15 October 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
I love jon bois but why on earth would anyone let Felix narrate a doc
working on stuff pic.twitter.com/iXKrHK2UZV— Jon Bois (@jon_bois) October 16, 2018
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 03:58 (five years ago) link
Must be a MMA video
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 05:04 (five years ago) link
what do you usually post about sir?— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (@Ahmadinejad1956) October 16, 2018
okay lmao
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
oh my god
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
wokemadinejad one of the top 5 weirdest developments in a very weird year
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
mahmoud ahmadinejad, go on chapo
― himalayan mountain hole (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
lets fuckin go
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
Dude’s been active and weird:
The #NFL season will start this week, unfortunately once again @Kaepernick7 is not on a NFL roster. Even though he is one of the best Quarterbacks in the league.#ColinKaepernick #NFL— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (@Ahmadinejad1956) September 3, 2018
Dear Mahmoud, We have much bigger problems here. #Michigan is 8-8 in its last 16 games under @CoachJim4UM . #GoBlue Also, college football is the only authentic football.Cordially,Fred— fredzannarbor (@fredzannarbor) September 3, 2018
With a hard work ethic Inshallah the U of M will return to its glory days.— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (@Ahmadinejad1956) October 16, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
great now my fav sports team has the mahmoud seal of approval
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
really confused by that tweet, if it weren't 2018 i would be befuddled by it
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
the guy’s a born shitposter, glad he’s found his niche at last
― himalayan mountain hole (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
v good posting style imo
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
His username having his birth year is a perfect touch.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
Only way to make it better would be Xahmadinejad1956X
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 01:10 (five years ago) link
this just keeps getting better
https://preview.redd.it/ial3nmubgls11.png?width=852&auto=webp&s=9762dbd98bc3a6ddd738de871f21da278d1846bf
bigger:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DppkoQJX4AA5Xwy.jpg:large
― himalayan mountain hole (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 10:25 (five years ago) link
this article about chapo and Jordan Peterson is too long and not all good, but I liked these bits:
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/10/clean-rooms-and-dirtbags/
Conservative Canadian professor Jordan Peterson and socialist Brooklynite podcast Chapo Trap House have a lot in common. They each make around a hundred thousand dollars a month from Patreon donations. They each inspire both adoration and revulsion, while rejecting, in different ways, forms of political correctness. And they share an audience—what Angela Nagle, writing in the Atlantic, called “lost boys” and what the Chapo guys call “failsons”—fans in their mid-20s, very frequently white, overwhelmingly male, with little direction in life but an aching need for purpose and meaning.
My best guess about what distinguishes a Peterson lost boy fan from a Chapo failson fan is that the two will tend to have different capacities. Peterson’s cleanliness emphasizes broad, shallow learning, aprioristic thinking, simplicity, symbolism, and sincerity. Chapo’s dirt emphasizes obsessive knowledge of various elements of modern culture (message boards, left-wing politics, film, anime, etc.), social reasoning, clever witticisms, complexity, the concrete, and irony. But Peterson’s logic does not really cohere in Twelve Rules for Life. And The Chapo Guide to Revolution isn’t a remotely clever book.
― soref, Thursday, 18 October 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
thanks for linking a pro trump publication itt
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 18 October 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
the author seems like a really great guy and not an absolutely crushing bore "classical liberal" pretentious bard graduate https://arcdigital.media/what-being-a-liberal-used-to-mean-c84a11b3aae
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 18 October 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
message boards, left-wing politics, film, anime, etc.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 18 October 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
Peterson and Chapo: a study in contrasts
― flappy bird, Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
con-traps
― President Keyes, Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
I never finished the Guide to Revolution, he's not wrong about it not being clever.
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 18 October 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
while I'm sure it isn't - i'll never read it, so i'll never know - "this book is not clever" is not a very compelling argument against an irreverent book by the hosts of what is essentially a political comedy podcast.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 18 October 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
and the utility in comparing it with peterson's book, which is deadly (self)serious, makes no sense.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 18 October 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
Wasn't 'failson' just a basically self-deprecating joke? I don't think it says much about the actual makeup of Chapo's audience.
― jmm, Thursday, 18 October 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
they defined their fanbase as comprising of a majority of failsons, with a minority of success daughters, in the new yorker profile
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 18 October 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
Jason Miller adds Will to his defamation suit, time to finally put those Chapo funds to good use
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-trump-adviser-jason-miller-sues-will-menaker-of-chapo-trap-house-over-tweet
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 18 October 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
Amber and Will down, Dana White will probably sue Felix for whatever he says in the Jon Bois video.
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 18 October 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
Virgil will end up in a CIA black site for his relationship to Ahmadinejad before he gets sued.
man people are really into this civility shit huh
Chapo is obnoxious as hell and abusive too. So while I admit that they should win, if they end up shutting down over legal fees I’ll still feel a little smug.— J.R. (@KYCol_JR) October 20, 2018
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 20 October 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
"Behaviour or speech appropriate to civil interactions; politeness, courtesy, consideration. In later use frequently with negative overtones: the minimum degree of courtesy required in a social situation; absence of rudeness." so yeah ppl are into it, it's the underpinning of civilization.
― Mordy, Saturday, 20 October 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
Enjoying it is one thing, taking delight in someone (hypothetically, in this case) sued into oblivion for trespassing against it is entirely another.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 20 October 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
I think that goes beyond civility, sounds more like one of the many people who've never heard the show who believe the "racist Berniebros rating women on a scale of 10 or gulag" stuff.
― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 20 October 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link