Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

Are you talking about Felix’s description of his neighborhood?

I know nothing about their respective Brooklyn (or Queens?) neighborhoods but I’ll say the response in Atlanta seemed weirdly muted, except for only the whitest, toniest (and tbf, gayest) part of Midtown.

I think it was the "I felt nothing when Obama won" thing

im pretty sure he (Matt) was taking about the Biden win and feeling nothing vs when Obama won,and Felix comparing it to when ppl were celebrating OBL getting got. but entirely possible it flew right past me

yeah you're right

I mean those things and also it's just glaring in general

I mean they just handwave race issues all the time

Amber’s crematorium joke was very good though.

Looking forward to this one, was just talking about Mothership with a friend, specifically the fact that I started receiving 50+ campaign emails a day, mostly for McGrath or Jaime Harrison, which featured horrible graphic design and had the tone of an unstable and abusive partner trying to convince you to stay. Sometimes I'd get an email shouting that McGrath was up in the polls and then half an hour later I'd hear that it was a disaster, McGrath was down in the polls and we were all failing her!

(those emails are all created by Mothership)

Clearly they work on some level -- Dems raised a shit-ton of money. But they failed in spite of raising all that money, and I can't help but think these emails don't endear voters to Democrats.

Clinton significantly outraised Trump iirc

I do give dem candidates a bit of a break this cycle, esp wrt to ground game as, for the most part dems were trying to be more responsible wrt covid

Who is in charge here? pic.twitter.com/GcIuBR5l5P

— Arthur Tarley (@arthurtarley) November 14, 2020

Mothership is on the case in Georgia

recently patreon'd Death is Around the Corner, good stuff, nice to hear from someone who can string a sentence together and has a non-goofy voice

I've been avoiding Bad Faith but they're about to sucker me in with the one guest I've longed for, Boots Riley

I’ve only listened to a few Bad Faith episodes due to the fact that “the centrists and center-left do not share our goals” isn’t wrong, but when it’s the single button one of the hosts pushes without a lot of nuance, it gets boring

This happened like 2 minutes ago but before I forget Yung Chomsky just RT'd a Geir tweet from 2011.

what the fuck

lol this one

I have written "baby boomers" more than anybody else in the last thirty years.

— Geir Hongro (@GeirHongro) April 28, 2011

haha he only has like 10 tweets, one of which is just "Hitler."

yeah i wonder if that was an ilxor doing a bit now that i look at it

you are probably right

The better educated you are, the better music you will make. There's no scientific evidence to support this, but it is fact.

— Geir Hongro (@GeirHongro) April 28, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEolSjlcqng

Some leftpod grad students had on Matt Christman to respond to his vlog topics https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/z5yitj4rsMKw8P7QA

i really enjoyed the zizek/cornel west talk on tmbs. the moderator couldn't get a word in edgewise. just two old guys going "i totally agree with you" over and over.

haha he only has like 10 tweets, one of which is just "Hitler."

― superdeep borehole (harbl), Monday, November 30, 2020 2:36 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

they really just want to be a movie podcast don't they?

avatar episode was fun

oh my god my street fight shirt came and @StreetFightWCRS threw in the greatest sticker of all time pic.twitter.com/1MvPsmLvCK

— Matt B. (@Boco_T) December 8, 2020

Every time I see Jimmy Dore’s name I think it’s the Utz pitch man from Mad Men.

I just always remember him saying that it was ok if Trump got elected because the Dems could filibuster all his SC nominees

god help us all

Updated** #ForceTheVote #HoldTheVote for #M4A we need everyone on board. If you disagree with this strategy, don’t just slap it down, provide an alternative! pic.twitter.com/YIouq1zyWG

— Aussie Oracle (@AussieOracle) December 21, 2020

Ben Dixon has really become their target. Wonder why?

Oh no, another scripted holiday special. Still, casting Stav as the cop is a nice touch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHIF7B5NBfI

The movie episodes are better when it's not complete trash

I needed this after trying to watch WW84

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

https://newrepublic.com/article/160738/modern-monetary-theory-left-debate

(about Chapo adjacent internecine podcast drama, not just MMT)

The knobs who’ve pushed all in on the idea of DSA careerism are amazing.

I already joined the dsa and attended their general. It was filled with careerist speakers and ngo representatives. They made no attempt at greeting new members or reaching out personally to anyone. It was an entirely cliqueish affair. Totally dysfunctional org

— talk about unions now please (@dirtbag_atx) December 31, 2020

what do i do if i enjoy matt's politics takes but his art/culture takes make me want to never go on the internet again?

the safe answer is probably just to never go on the internet again

whenever he says "squib" skip ahead 15 minutes

https://newrepublic.com/article/160738/modern-monetary-theory-left-debate

(about Chapo adjacent internecine podcast drama, not just MMT)

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, December 31, 2020 4:03 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

it makes sense that a large portion of the US left would eat up some anti-tax pro-workfare snakeoil but it’s still depressing to me

As one listener put it on Twitter, their podcasts have “just enough Heidegger to confuse the economists. just enough economics to confuse philosophers. all of it not specific enough to even be wrong. an interdisciplinary mish mash making even the film theorists blush.” Likewise, another wrote, “*MMT humanities bro rips bong* MMT bro: the ontologic historical problematic mediates and reifies through the univocal application of a transhistoric monetary epistemology that mediates the primordial ooze that is ‘your hand’ and ‘toothpaste.’”

loool this is accurate

i like this substack a lot tho https://vebaccount.substack.com/p/production-dsirante-and-the-investment

this tweet quoted in the piece says it all really

*love* the MMT humanities guys. just enough Heidegger to confuse the economists. just enough economics to confuse philosophers. all of it not specific enough to even be wrong. an interdisciplinary mish mash making even the film theorists blush. am subscribing to their patreon

— BO H (@bo_austin_) December 5, 2020

(xp!!)

One paper by members of the Money On The Left project called for the creation of a Fed-backed, university-issued currency, known as “the Uni,” to both support operations and provide an academic jobs guarantee, insulating scholars from questions about whether their work is a worthy use of “taxpayer” money.

The Uni project is a model: Instead of funding the project by taking existing monetary wealth from rich people—and thus ultimately granting the propertied classes the privileged place they enjoy in our politics as “tax payers”—it undertakes public investment using the state’s unique money-creating power. This has some profound political implications: if investment in public projects like universities or infrastructure ultimately stems from the state’s money-creating powers, not taxes, then a politics that fully harnesses that power would make the rich politically irrelevant. The government still taxes, but to check inflation and accumulations of unproductive wealth.

so painfully dumb and embarrassing. this is as bad as the crypto currency people

but his art/culture takes make me want to never go on the internet again?

― shabbat bloody shabbat (voodoo chili), Sunday, January 3, 2021 8:00 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is one of the primary reasons why i just can't

I mean I agree with him about squibs vs CGI blood but also that's a ten-second opinion at most

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