Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

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

https://ckutnews.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/https_proxy.jpg?w=521&h=805
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I have seen at least two dozen variants of If I Did It and Wha' Happen' jokes over the last couple of hours

If you followed more black people, you'd see just as many iterations of my joke!

that inspired me to do a quick audit of the people I follow, turns out at least two people I follow RT'd that lol

(not counting DJP)

holy shit hillary is writing a book called WHAT HAPPENED??????????

yes. this will never end.

when does it come out. gonna steal from b&n

jk.................. i dont shoplift

I keep wanting to hear that Street Fight Radio episode where they apparently discuss the ethics of shoplifting w/r/t automated checkouts but I'm not sure what ep it is

Tommy Vietor describing McCain as "9 parts hero, 1 part troll" on the live Pod Save America ep(feat. Joy Ann Reid!) makes me wonder if Beltway thinking exists in powder form that political staffers just snork down rails of for 4-8 years.

Felix was unusually restrained on Intercepted a couple weeks back, esp when discussing Saudi Arabia

latest Tim Faust ep good as always

yeah Faust's are some of the best/ most informative eps

Did Felix apologize on air for his rape joke or was he lying about doing that as well?

did he say he apologized on air? if so that is definitely a lie