Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

these people need to stop taking adderall and take a crash course in economy of words

ok that tweet from that guy earnestly bitching about how people aren't considering how hard it'll be to implement medicare 4 all or argue for it is making me really angry how the fuck does that guy have a job in... whatever field hes in

"It's so vexing watching everyone else not be as smart as me"

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hey "jobs" are just a launching pad for your thought leader career

*protests police killings of innocent black people*
"It's very vexing from my end to see how people who are advocating this have not honestly thought through the political and logistical challenges of implementing it."

"By the way I'm totally for not killing innocent black people. But how are you going to ensure police safety for example? I'd consider that *rather important*"

literally kill these people

Katie Halper has Adam Johnson on her regular show today, and Tim Faust on the patron-supported one

They both dump on the astroturf group

That’s queued up for me for doing the dishes tonight. Adam Johnson is very good. Has he goed on Chapo? I don’t think so. His citations needed podcast is good too.

he has not.

Halper is good politically but I find her show a bit dull tbh

Depends on the guest, I figure

every time someone says something to the effect of "I don't feel comfortable picking on Garland, he seems unstable" I'm gonna remind them he makes a decent chunk of change churning out shit like this

I don't wanna get all Game Theory, but I'm beginning to wonder if some people here in 2014 kinda liked what happened in Ferguson. As a PsyOp.

— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) February 9, 2018

oof that is a Bad Take

If eric garland thinks BLM is a russian psy-op i guess he's on board with white supremacist cops murdering their activists on the reg then

let me be the first to say this looks like a bad idea

https://www.amazon.com/Chapo-Guide-Revolution-Manifesto-Against-ebook/dp/B079RLXFYB/

The creators of the cult-hit podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyone who feels orphaned and alienated—politically, culturally, and economically—by the bloodless Wall Street centrism of the Democrats and the lizard-brained atavism of the right: there is a better way, the Chapo Way.

In a manifesto that renders all previous attempts at political satire obsolete, The Chapo Guide to Revolution shows you that you don’t have to side with either the pear-shaped vampires of the right or the craven, lanyard-wearing wonks of contemporary liberalism. These self-described “assholes from the internet” offer a fully ironic ideology for all who feel politically hopeless and prefer broadsides and tirades to reasoned debate.

Learn the “secret” history of the world, politics, media, and everything in-between that THEY don’t want you to know and chart a course from our wretched present to a utopian future where one can post in the morning, game in the afternoon, and podcast after dinner without ever becoming a poster, gamer, or podcaster.

The Chapo Guide to Revolution features illustrated taxonomies of contemporary liberal and conservative characters, biographies of important thought leaders, “never before seen” drafts of Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom manga, and the ten new laws that govern Chapo Year Zero (everyone gets a dog, billionaires are turned into Soylent, and logic is outlawed). If you’re a fan of sacred cows, prisoners being taken, and bars being held, then this book is NOT for you. However, if you feel disenfranchised from the political and cultural nightmare we’re in, then Chapo, let’s go...

‘Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom manga’

this is a p good joke tbh

does garland actually make a decent chunk of change though? i thought his patreon was like 12 dollars a month

I can't seem to open his page rn, but whatever he was making on Patreon + the paid subscribers to his locked twitter feed + whatever other grifts he's got going = more than he should be making to be an utter fraud. (obv nothing close to chapo bucks)

yeah, the book feels like it's going to overly spell out the theory of things that is already implied by the podcast and better left that way

#1 New Release in Radical Political Thought

‘a fully ironic ideology’ noooooooo

i’ve really enjoyed the stuff i’ve read from amber, felix and virgil in the past but i dunno if the world needs a chapo book

will probably torrent it at some point for maximum dirtbag points

like I feel like it's going to be bad for the same reason the live shows are bad. Podcasting is a particular genre and skillset. It's not the same thing as performing or doing stand-up, and it's not the same thing as writing a book.

Sounds like America: The Book

I hope the physical edition is just Lenin and Trotsky reprints.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91gROPX11PL._SL1500_.jpg

God save us from the teenage boys who take this at face value

i'll check it out of the library someday but I'm no rush to read it

This is so that Daily Show march once again, isn't it?

it's like the America book & the march combined yeah. because time is accelerated now

This is so that Daily Show march once again, isn't it?

maybe, though Daily Show's decline in relevance / influence didn't start till well after they published a book (iirc)

silby otm

how did they get the rights to reprint the baseball crank on their cover

has to be fair use, even if there is a valid trademark or copyright, which I'm not sure there would be

cover is also very boring imo

yeah it's not good

i really doubt reprinting someone's original illustration for the personal account of some National Review nobody counts as "fair use"

it's incorporated into a larger graphic, it's parody

maybe they're hoping he'll sue so they can milk the publicity lol

yeah, but it's parody of such a small, niche thing that you could argue that Baseball Crank doesn't count as a "public figure" in the same way as like, Roy Orbison

"a manifesto against logic, facts, and reason"

i'm sure they have some claim that these things are (ab)used by certain pundits and it isn't a broadside against rationality itself, just how it's deployed, but still this is an inauspicious subtitle

No fucking book company on the level of SIMON AND SCHUSTER is gonna take a chance like that for the lulz

i'm sure they have some claim that these things are (ab)used by certain pundits and it isn't a broadside against rationality itself, just how it's deployed, but still this is an inauspicious subtitle

this is commonly known as a "joke"

thank you for pointing it out it's hilarious

gonna be a lot of pictures and lists... charts too

I place decent odds at the book being passable and better than the live event from their collected backgrounds: Will was an editor at a publishing house, Amber is a longtime writer, teaches intro-comp, and edits at Current Affairs, Virgil & Felix were (sporadic) writers. Matt’s the one who’s self-admittedly horrible at writing, if better at the theoretical bits.

i know they all came up as twitter funnymen but their humor doesn't really work in text imo, needs their goofy voices and delivery. their email newsletter is pretty whatever for the same reason. amber's writing is good but isn't really the same as the chapo house style.

anyway i'm curious about this but as a young white brooklynite in the music industry i would rather ritually disembowel myself than be seen reading this in public.

Richard Wolff is going to guest, so I might listen. (Been enjoying his series on Marx)

prof richard d wolff i luv u