Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

The underlying principle of MMT makes sense to me, it's just the whole "and therefore the govt can do infinite spending" conclusion that I take some issue with.

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, November 1, 2018 1:52 PM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well nobody's tried it yet!

Fwiw I endorse derailment itt

Marshall Steinbaum is the economist that badly needs to go on chapo

the dual-pronged attack of MMT and bitcoin/blockchain has made talking to econ-curious leftists so painful

Those are ideologically opposed projects!

MMT is enjoying a renaissance on the young left due in no small part to Bernie's economic advisor being a booster

I don't even know any leftists who like BTC/blockchain. It's ancaps and techno-libertarians all the way down.

I work ~in this space~ at the moment so it's particularly annoying to me lol

xp hoos- maybe that made an impact, but i think the MMT people actually put a lot of work into making it into a movement. it's actually kind of impressive tbh

This prompts me to recall the time I was watching a friend play a Civ-style game and he asked "how much should I spend on transportation infrastructure" and I said casually 'spend it all, money is fake,' to which he says "whatever you say I do, Robert Mugabe!"

Yeah flops you're right about that--and the advisor I have in mind thinks of herself as one of those people!

xp simon- blockchain has a hold on the left; different circles than MMT but it's there ime

if you c an direct me to where they congregate I'd be interested to see what they're on about

https://majorityreportradio.com/2018/10/31/10-31-a-very-dumb-dumb-halloween-unlocked

A little obscure maybe, but this parody of Jimmy Dore and like Youtube leftists is a bit like a Chapo opening bit extended to an hour. Some parts very funny.

ugh jimmy dore

jimmy dore on leftist blockchain

jimmy don'the

the only good left youtuber, AFAICT, is Contrapoints

the only good left youtuber, AFAICT, is Contrapoints

fixed it

yes how silly of me

They're doing an election results livestream on Tuesday which might serve as a nice alternative for folks stressed out by CNN and the like

ooh yeah that does sound good

Virgil wins with line of the show about Ted Cruz as the subject of a clickbait article

Chapo Election Twitch stream will have EVERYTHING! Wonks, wags, whigs, journalists, cut-ups, and candidates. But most importantly...YOU! Starting 7:30 tomorrow night at https://t.co/KYnxdl89kg pic.twitter.com/DDIpUUFMMT

— Gray Wolf Blitzer (@cushbomb) November 6, 2018

I bet Felix is going to be Twitching at the same time, the first internecine conflict begins.

Oh my, Matt is fuuuuuuuucked up

https://i.imgur.com/ZBu8PfV.jpg

Virgil has done yeoman's work tonight in trying to hold the ship together

Matt was drunk enough that even Breetbort reported on it

i’ve been drunk before but never beetbort-reporting-level drunk, great job matt

https://i.redd.it/wlmcxo6zwuw11.jpg

ahahaha

but seriously man be kinder to yr liver

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Jeez yeah that's grim

Posted 16 hours ago

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp27BG1lF6y/

that breitbart tweet is so fucking funny

did matt just assume it was his job to get insanely fucked up last night? feel bad for virgil.

is the stream archived anywhere?

the 'oh fuck this is a shitshow' look on will's face after matt almost falls over

archive of the stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXObKJzOWfY

Ha, the cut away at 4:31:00

http://michaelnorthrop.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/technical-difficulties.png

will def bringing the ‘exasperated kindergarten teacher’ vibe to the stream

i'll wait for the highlight/lowlight supercut

I’m so mortified at just the stills, you could not pay me to watch that

the fucking screencap in that youtube lmao

never noticed before but matt kinda looks like late-period warren zevon

I’m so mortified at just the stills, you could not pay me to watch that

we've already established on the thread that christman is going to be the chapo host to go to rehab

I checked out after one of Matt's first rants - either the initial Senate results coming in & eliminating any chance of the Dems taking it back, or how our electoral system is broken & dysfunctional, and intentionally so, "a bipartisan effort to suppress the vote," so depressing... then I watched a movie and by the time I tuned back in Dasha had replaced Matt lol

Dasha's not as bad as Anna but that's still a depressing dip