maybe carpet_kaiser is a Maoist and Chapo are insufficiently revolutionary?
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Thursday, 20 July 2017 03:43 (six years ago) link
Nah, I joined the Communist Party when I was 12 years old, and parted pretty quickly after. I've got my own political philosophy worked out, which isn't something you can guess at.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 20 July 2017 03:53 (six years ago) link
whatever it is it's remarkably persuasive
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 20 July 2017 04:01 (six years ago) link
If this was Twitter that would start a 100-reply 'beautiful self-own' thread.
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Thursday, 20 July 2017 04:06 (six years ago) link
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, July 20, 2017 3:53 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://m.baklol.com/baks/Funny/Best--guess-----memes-_1709/A-smug-look-_21466
― The Marmadook (latebloomer), Thursday, 20 July 2017 04:29 (six years ago) link
Carpet_kaiser, what was your previous login name on here?
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Thursday, 20 July 2017 08:06 (six years ago) link
B@ngbvsd00d69
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 20 July 2017 08:13 (six years ago) link
Also, Scott Benson had a great point when he summarized it all as "the Mean Left," rather than the alt-left or whatever bullshit formulation.
Sooo many professional media/pundity types are freaking out because they're getting snarked on in their preferred social media networks. It's not just that (ex)Gawker types are mocking them, but people are actually @ing them and shit.
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Thursday, 20 July 2017 08:14 (six years ago) link
No, the opposite. After seeing murder, torture, death, exploitation, human trafficking, and all sorts of horrors of the world, it changes your mind about things; my own mind is about advancing the world, not staying in the same pile of shit we're in now, which is Chapo firmly stuck in. But keep on lollin, you inexperienced naif.
o hai larry appleton
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 20 July 2017 09:49 (six years ago) link
Just a few slices of apple, Servant.
― assawoman bay (harbl), Thursday, 20 July 2017 12:03 (six years ago) link
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 20 July 2017 12:06 (six years ago) link
not reading Jeet's article about how rude we are till he takes David Frum's dick out of his mouth
— RusticBaller (@ByYourLogic) July 19, 2017
Finally someone bold enough to say that giving a blow job is the ultimate in degradation. Revolution!
― President Keyes, Thursday, 20 July 2017 12:37 (six years ago) link
weird that the one who's the biggest asshole and slings around retard and casual homophobia should be a fan of MMA huh
must be a good chance of him doing a full alt-right heel turn at some point
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 20 July 2017 12:40 (six years ago) link
Does Trump have to actually blow Putin? Is that what it wld take?Flagrant D, balls gargling the leader of the Russian Federation? Jus asking
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) July 19, 2017
how about a Chapo/Real Time crossover episode?
― President Keyes, Thursday, 20 July 2017 12:41 (six years ago) link
yeah Felix did a bad tweet
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 20 July 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
reading back through their posting history I'm sure c_k's politics are ilx-approvable, even if their abrasive and patronising style isn't
― imago, Thursday, 20 July 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link
We can throw Colbert in there, too.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 20 July 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
Felix's twitter more often than not is kind of a hypocritical shit show. Pushing the false flag narrative about the chemical attack in Syria was maybe a low point.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Thursday, 20 July 2017 16:22 (six years ago) link
oh look they made the WaPo editorial page
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 20 July 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, July 20, 2017 2:49 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ah. all is clear now. the narcissistic fantasist has logged on
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 July 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
fairly even handed outlinehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/07/20/the-millennial-lefts-war-against-liberalism/?utm_term=.1f4cf4d7eb55
― ||||||||, Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
ah. all is clear now. the narcissistic fantasist has logged on― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, July 20, 2017 12:57 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, July 20, 2017 12:57 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
If you call PTSD being a "fantasist", fair enough. Not surprising from people who LOL at calling other people "retards".
I guess my deal with Chapo boys is they're the wrong direction, IMO. It's Felix's game, and he's basically a new wave Bill Maher. One of my own ideas is, for example, taking assertive action to make penance for slavery and racism against black people, for a large variety of humane, ethical, and practical reasons. It's amazing to me that we still haven't done this yet. Top priority.
Instead, we have these dudes who punch and beat at weak targets and empower themselves on the backs of others. On top of stacking left organizations with their numbskull followers. And are hailed as the new face of the left. Not a big fan of that. Guess I just take it all too seriously.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
"Around 15,000 people pay $5 per month for weekly subscriber-only episodes"
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/324417-maddows-trumps-tax-return-reveal-delivers-41-million-viewers-for-msnbc
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
Despite the URL, that's 4.1 million
I like the WaPo piece. But I think they're flying way too close to the sun. Felix's Frum tweet is obv nagl, and it's a sign of things to come - if he's flipping out that much over a fairly mild critique by Jeet, I suspect another tweet or quote from the show will sink them and lead more and more people to dismiss them. Glenn Beck was a sensation for a year or so and then he flamed out. I disagree that "Felix is Chapo" - like someone said upthread, Matt and Amber are the ones that articulate the ideology of the show and have the most substantive things to say. They may have gotten a lot of young people to go to DSA meetings after the election and exposed those kids to leftist ideas, but Whiney's right, their reach is grossly exaggerated. Jacobin and Occupy are just as responsible for surging leftist movement as CTH.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
just ftr i kept hearing about this surging DSA membership and apparently it has surged to 24,000 dues paying members. which isn't to say that it won't continue to "exponentially" grow but when the exponential growth is from 6,000 to 24,000 it is a huge increase in % but still a pretty small real number.
― Mordy, Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
True - but that doesn't take into account everyone that loved Bernie and was fucking livid at HRC, DWS, and the DNC for knee-capping him in the primaries, even if he had his blindspots with black voters. Been said upthread but his campaign (like Trump's) didn't start out with an aim to win. Most of those people aren't joining the DSA or even aware of it. There is a large & growing voting bloc that is sympathetic to leftist ideas.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
i don't disagree. just think DSA membership is maybe not the most accurate measure of that sentiment.
― Mordy, Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
I agree, but a four-fold increase in membership, even if it's just 24,000 people, shows that hitherto unviable positions are gaining support, even if it's runoff compared to the more mainstream enthusiasm for Bernie's socialism-lite.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
that washington post article barely mentions the 2008 financial collapse until the second to last paragraph. you want to know why millennials are down on capitalism? its because their formative experience with it was watching it spectacularly fail, hurt a fuck ton of people, saw the people who were responsible for it totally bailed out and people who had nothing to do with it slapped with crushing austerity.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
for a lot of people my age (33 this week) i know that the combination of the iraq war and the financial crisis has completely coloured our worldview
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
carpet_kaiser at 10:53 19 Jul 17Nah, I joined the Communist Party when I was 12 years old, and parted pretty quickly after. I've got my own political philosophy worked out, which isn't something you can guess at.best Mussolini impersonation I've seen without an anime avi
― goole, Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
I'm 38 so I'm lucky. I was able to get into the job market and have a good base of skills built up when the bloodletting began. My wife is your age and was basically just hitting the job market when lehman exploded.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
that washington post article barely mentions the 2008 financial collapse until the second to last paragraph. you want to know why millennials are down on capitalism? its because their formative experience with it was watching it spectacularly fail, hurt a fuck ton of people, saw the people who were responsible for it totally bailed out and people who had nothing to do with it slapped with crushing austerity.― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, July 20, 2017 1:54 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, July 20, 2017 1:54 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
for a lot of people my age (33 this week) i know that the combination of the iraq war and the financial crisis has completely coloured our worldview― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, July 20, 2017 1:55 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, July 20, 2017 1:55 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm... I'm 24 and 9/11 was the formative experience of my world view... obviously it all starts there: endless war, incomprehensible amounts of money lost or wasted, incompetent and outright evil politicians, total confusion and frittering away of all good will we had on 9/12... I barely remember the Pax Americana of the 90's.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
I like the WaPo piece. But I think they're flying way too close to the sun. Felix's Frum tweet is obv nagl, and it's a sign of things to come - if he's flipping out that much over a fairly mild critique by Jeet, I suspect another tweet or quote from the show will sink them...― flappy bird, Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:31 (fifty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this happened in the UK, on a much smaller scale, quite recently with the realpolitik podcast, where the young lads tweeted something p.stupid and then got a full takedown doxxing in the daily mail
― ||||||||, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
best Mussolini impersonation I've seen without an anime avi
Nah, it's based on the Franciscan Catholic teachings I grew up on. Radical compassion, tolerance, acceptance, charity, sacrifice, etc. I'm an atheist now, but that forms the basis of my worldview. Better get that anime AVI going.
You guys are doing a bad job at figuring me out.
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
a riddle wrapped in an idiot
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
are you bigger than a bread line?
― President Keyes, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
xxp i think the joke is that mussolini was a communist b4 he became a fascist - pretty good ref imo
― Mordy, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
I guess my deal with Chapo boys is they're the wrong direction, IMO. It's Felix's game, and he's basically a new wave Bill Maher.
You keep saying this and everyone who actually pays attention to this keeps pointing to the other four hosts and how 3/4 of them are more fundamental to the podcast.
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Thursday, 20 July 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
it's weird he gets attention for calling people tards and dicksuckers like it's 1988 when he's so next level. suck it libs.
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Thursday, 20 July 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
Suddenly I feel lucky for being formed by Vietnam and Watergate
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 July 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
"we have learned well the simple lesson of vietnam: stay out of vietnam"
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 20 July 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link
what's chapo's line on john stewart/colbert/maddow
― ||||||||, Thursday, 20 July 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
the above heinous felix tweet appears to be ripping off colbert's jokes
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 20 July 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
― carpet_kaiser, Thursday, 20 July 2017 18:36 (two hours ago) Permalink
https://cdn-webimages.wimages.net/0511fab616163b9502673d1eff6beacf0f9074-wm.jpg?v=3
― The Marmadook (latebloomer), Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, July 20, 2017 8:47 PM (thirty-two minutes ago)
mort sahl is wittier than these guys for sure
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
afaict (and i may be off base here) - feckless, smug snark monkeys who were suspiciously chill with adult-in-the-room Obama's neocon-lite fp and neolib domestic policies. and they're not necessarily wrong, but sometimes they can go a little hard on highly visible ppl who are/ could be very sympathetic to a dem socialist movement.
now if they wanna bag on the Chaits and yasss kween Clintonistas on twitter who just long for "decency" then i'm all for a good duck hunt.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
perfectly okay with 'republican said a thing' humor falling by wayside
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
Fwiw, Felix did apologize for his dumb posts and mentioned how he's bad at reacting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/6oc45o/im_a_chapo_fan_but_this_is_not_great_right/dkglzpx/
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Thursday, 20 July 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link