Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

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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

Thank god they gave Felix the day off.

Wolff is an old crank imo, chapo should have Marshall Steinbaum on

wolff is a cranky but beloved grandpa imo, i want him to feed me werther’s originals and tell me about class struggle

chapo old marxist economists house - they should get bob brenner on

thought this was v nice. i like how he went into the naturalization of economics: supply and demand being accepted as a natural law a la gravity, etc. in school classes i often heard "People are born greedy/selfish, that's just the way they are" nice to see such intellectual laziness called out

Yeah, I liked this ep and wish they’d do more of them. We need a shit-ton more introductions to the history & theory and whatever at you can to ease the on-ramping and (incremental?) left radicalism of people, the better.

Keeping Felix out of the theory eps(remember the book club ep on Mark Fisher last year?) is indeed a really good idea

I appreciated Matt in the last episode - “does it make anyone else feel old as shit when he does that?” Yes, yes it does.

A week late but when I read that Amazon description of Chapo the Book that Simon posted I can only hear it in the voice of Adomian's Gorka impression.

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Yeah, you’ll wanna skip the first 5-10 mins of the show this week

peterson vs. zizek. love it

Felix's first bit as Jordan Peterson in the cold open is hilarious. "I am so sick of women hitting the dab on young men! They say the have to do it to 'em--you never have to do it to somebody!!!!"

cum town jp riff from the latest premium episode was very powerful.

i enjoyed menaker sr. apparently not understanding a single thing felix said this episode

the cold open was awful save for Menaker Sr.'s punchline

yeah, high concept bits (or bits at all, really) are def not their strong suit

I liked the Baseball Crank

Felix's first bit as Jordan Peterson in the cold open is hilarious. "I am so sick of women hitting the dab on young men! They say the have to do it to 'em--you never have to do it to somebody!!!!"

Was gonna day I liked the Baseball crank anime

“high concept”?

If only you could combine Felix and Mullen’s impressions of JP

Yeah, Felix's Peterson was fantastic.

Matt's Zizek was solid too but that's a strangely easy impression to do.

MC's Zizek is pretty good, he's done it before, and it's not a very hard impression to do but he nails the cadence & coke/cold sniffs.

haha xp

LOL @ "I can't believe I'm in Brooklyn"

the richard wolff episode was so great i could listen to him talk all day