Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

The Star Wars thing shows that so many of us have been kept at the psychological age of children

Going off on people for having "their balls chopped off" and being "virgins" shows that so many of us have been kept at the psychological age of early adolescents, who are way worse than children

OK, update it with your preferred idioms. The goal is to capture the concepts of strength, power, self-determination, and worldly experience in one phrase or word.

the force

afaict this is just a throwaway joke in the dude's personal Twitter bio, doesn't seem like something near worth getting worked up about.

That shit's all over the place. "MNRRR We're like Harry Potters gang of wizards going against VOLDEMORT!!!"

Holy fucking hell, no wonder Trump is steamrolling over his opposition, when it's people like this.

you're really confusing c_k

I'm a complex person

It's a big tent and it takes all kinds. I am not into "resistance" talk either, whether it's meant to refer to Star Wars or occupied France, and I don't use it. But the people who do use that language are busting their asses just the same as I am. If you feel like it's a waste of time to call legislators, protest in the street, run for office, write checks to progressive candidates, fine, I get that, it's a view people have, though not mine. But if you think taking those actions are a waste of time, then yeah, that's the point you want to make, not that some of the people taking those actions are nerds.

Fair enough. I think we're at the point, though, where they also have to be willing to risk getting their heads cracked open or go to prison. Which is pretty fucked up, but here we are...

It's hard to separate, too, who's what here. I'm just using it as a jumping off point to vent, because of all the bullshit going on right now. I got onto the bus to work today, and people looked SO FUCKING MISERABLE. It's frustrating as hell.

There have been plenty of activists taking those sorts of risks. Whether or not they're likely to be the sorts to be hashtagging #TheResistance or working for Democrats is another issue I suppose xp

The shallowness of people's popcult reference pulls tends to annoy me, but it doesn't surprise me, since marketing for blockbuster franchises is omnipresent and reinforced in every social channel folks come in contact with for years.

Also, yeah, I'd kinda dial back on how much of a hypermasculine metaphor gets thrown around as indicator of ideological or personal robustness.

Point taken

I got onto the bus to work today, and people looked SO FUCKING MISERABLE.

do u really find that most random ppl you run into who are miserable are so bc of the current political climate? ime 70% of ppl aren't even paying attention + don't care. (which come to think of it u should probably save yr ire for them.)

you need help c_k

I got onto the bus to work today, and people looked SO FUCKING MISERABLE

counterpoint: they're on a bus

I've been on buses where everyone (incl the driver) were singing Billy Joel songs so ymmv

it's just i see loads of ppl every day who look miserable and i don't think it's bc trump is president bc i don't remember ppl seeming much happier 2 years ago

I've been on buses where everyone (incl the driver) were singing Billy Joel songs so ymmv

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lmao amazing

do u really find that most random ppl you run into who are miserable are so bc of the current political climate? ime 70% of ppl aren't even paying attention + don't care. (which come to think of it u should probably save yr ire for them.)

They were all office workers of different races, men and women. The social climate is pretty bad in the US right now if every single poll on it is any measure, and it's just getting worse. Yesterday was a pretty bad news day re: transgender and the ACA repeal, if you have any sort of humanity in you. And for anyone with a brain in their heads, it's a bad sign of more things to come. Whether or not it happens is another thing.

dude ... stop

Who the hell are you people? It's like you guys are conservatives masquerading as the left.

Appleton, you read a lot of Chris Hedges' stuff?

Chris Hedges is pretty good from what I've read of him.

wait this is larry appleton

it's all so clear now

Appleton, you read a lot of Chris Hedges' stuff?

In fact, I might read a little more now. For some reason he keeps falling off my radar.

I think the thing we're missing is that the guy with the Star Wars quote works for a congressman. How edgy is his bio going to be?

not subscribing to yr hystrionic apocalyptic jeremiads /= "conservative"

xp

Yes, nothing that's happening around us is real. It's like you're living in a reality distortion field.

like I said, you need help. posting here isn't doing you (or anybody else) any good.

Yeah. Warping reality is a family trade, and the job I have now. I know it when I see it.

I bring up Hedges because he's the one of the biggest downer, immiserative, and demoralizing guy to listen to

Chris Hedges does a ton of good for people, and has put himself and his career at risk to make humane moral stands. And he's a bad guy to you?

Holy crap.

fwiw c_k timothy snyder agrees w/ u that a totalitarian fascist takeover of our government is in process and he's a scholar of WW2 so it's not like you can't find any agreement for yr existential fears. but i think snyder is irresponsible and i think you've probably been traumatized. it's a big nuance btwn "things are terrible and must be resisted w/ all our might" and "things are existentially bad and we'll be shipped to FEMA camps soon" and i think most ilxors are probably in the first camp and you're in the second camp and you should be cool that most ppl in the US aren't there right now. trump seems too incompetent to execute any kind of hitlerian agenda. but i respect that you see things differently.

Never once have I suggested we're going to be "shipped to FEMA camps soon". The furtherest I've gone is violence, including mortal violence, and that's already happening. So my greatest fears have already been realized, and are only increasing.

back away Mordy

Hedges endorsed Jill Stein in 2016. Good writer though.

Ehhhh. Well, nobody's perfect.

Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left has new answers

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I am dreading the inevitable What Happened reading series (almost as much as I'm dreading What Happened in general)

is that Donna Brazile's book?

Hillary's

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I would be interested if it was called What Had HAPPENED Was...

Title has a real IF I DID IT feel

I have seen at least two dozen variants of If I Did It and Wha' Happen' jokes over the last couple of hours

i dont know anything about chris hedges but i figured he was a crank bc he gave a talk here a couple years ago in support of a book called 'The Algebra of Revolution' and the poster for it had his face with a bunch of math symbols swirling around it like that one meme

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