Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

The Alamo experience is what you’re paying for. If you don’t like it, go to one of the many other movie theaters housed in the mostly large towns they’re in.

Oh no, this theater is full of narcs, however will I see Infinity War in New York City?!

tbf Amber thinks everyone is a cop

The Alamo experience is what you’re paying for. If you don’t like it, go to one of the many other movie theaters housed in the mostly large towns they’re in.

I get the idea that big dumb shitty movies don't require absolute silence like you're watching The Passion of Joan of Arc but that's why you find an empty matinee (okay, not really an option in NY) or pirate that shit and watch it on Virgil's floor TV.

The best moment I've had in a theater was from audience participation (a teenage girl stood up during the reveal of Orphan and yelled "Esther got titties!") but Matt complaining and farting would not be pleasant.

audience reaction/participation can be amazing

but ime it's only been when the audience member/whole audience was completely focused on and in tune with the movie

They're not the first ones to denounce complaints over cinema talking/texting as bourgie affectations - classic Hollywood audiences didn't sit in silence, neither do Bollywood audiences, etc. It's whatever, I still like to watch movies that way.

The woman w/ aspergers who got thrown out of a BFI screening of "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" for laughing too loudly at comedic moments was a real bummer tho, fuck the narcs in that case.

being loud/reacting to stuff on screen is fine, pulling out yr fuckin' cell phone in a dark theater is vile

we need narcs

― flappy bird, Tuesday, May 1, 2018 9:48 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

this explains a lot about your politics.

what if it's a couple out on a date with their kid at home w the babysitter and they want to periodically check on how things are going? what if it's somebody with a sick parent waiting to hear news from the hospital?

i guess fuck that, "Oh mr theater authority! They are cheating!"

you are in public ffs. if you want to watch movies in a hermetically isolated chamber you can do that.

how about maybe a new thread for this topic

Yeah, I would post in it a lot

okay, maybe not a new thread for this topic then

what if it's somebody with a sick parent waiting to hear news from the hospital?

The woman w/ aspergers who got thrown out of a BFI screening of "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" for laughing too loudly at comedic moments was a real bummer tho, fuck the narcs in that case.

There's a story on the latest This American Life about the class of kids who got kicked out of a screening of Schindler's List and became the media's face of black antisemetism

Alamo Drafthouse and also politics of talking during the movies thread

Which CTH episode is this all stemming from?

what if it's a couple out on a date with their kid at home w the babysitter and they want to periodically check on how things are going?

“periodically”? over the course of a two hour movie?

what if it's somebody with a sick parent waiting to hear news from the hospital?

they shouldn’t go to a movie theater, they should be pacing up and down the sidewalk smoking cigarettes & saying prayers for their sick parent while they wait for the phone call

there’s a leap between good movie theater etiquette and being hermetically sealed, which is overrated anyway

Which CTH episode is this all stemming from?

― jmm, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 7:16 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

most recent one

i haven't listened to it but generally people talking in theaters or looking at their phone are annoying. i don't narc on them but i will give them shit over it. equally being overly fucking sensitive to other people in the movie theatre is annoying too, an old guy gave my wife shit for looking at her phone during a fucking car commercial before the film and we both gave him an earful which i think will dissuade him from ever doing that again.

and i should've posted that in the other thread doh

Oh that guy was obviously wrong, nobody gives a shit about the ads, they haven’t even put all the lights down at that point. Once the lights are down tho it’s like, they do that for a reason, the reason is obvious, don’t be a cunt

talking & phones during commercials & even trailers is acceptable imo

especially trailers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6iE-MJJmY

Which CTH episode is this all stemming from?

― jmm, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 9:16 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Episode 199, the Patreon show where they review Ready Player One. (Not the most recent one.)

How do we feel about the nu-left YouTubers?

One thing the left needs to do, I argued recently, is a better job of both engaging conservative arguments and using all forms of media effectively. I specifically mentioned YouTube, a dark realm that we have essentially ceded to the other side. YouTube is overflowing with videos from people like Dave Rubin and Jordan Peterson and Dennis Prager (plus about a zillion miscellaneous reactionary ranters), but who is doing well-produced left-wing explanations of why all of these people are full of crap?

Well, I can tell you who is doing them. ContraPoints is doing them. And she’s doing them very well indeed. She’s on a one-woman blitzkrieg against the YouTube right. She knows how to use the medium as well as anybody, and she’s found a brilliantly inventive and totally unique way to convey left political ideas.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/god-bless-contrapoints

I like ContraPoints a lot. Not a huge fan of the vlog format but can't fight the future man.

yeah, the vlog format loses a lot of the convenience of pods for me (not great on transit or at work) but I'm glad there's finally a growing ecosystem to counter the chud glut. I did watch her Peterson video and thought it was hilarious and pretty thorough.

Contra's doing excellent work. Nice that she's getting more attention.

Oliver North back in the news as well

Seemed like the most appropriate place to stick this trash

Here are some things that you will hear when you sit down to dinner with the vanguard of the Intellectual Dark Web: There are fundamental biological differences between men and women. Free speech is under siege. Identity politics is a toxic ideology that is tearing American society apart. And we’re in a dangerous place if these ideas are considered “dark.”

I was meeting with Sam Harris, a neuroscientist; Eric Weinstein, a mathematician and managing director of Thiel Capital; the commentator and comedian Dave Rubin; and their spouses in a Los Angeles restaurant to talk about how they were turned into heretics. A decade ago, they argued, when Donald Trump was still hosting “The Apprentice,” none of these observations would have been considered taboo.

Today, people like them who dare venture into this “There Be Dragons” territory on the intellectual map have met with outrage and derision — even, or perhaps especially, from people who pride themselves on openness.

It’s a pattern that has become common in our new era of That Which Cannot Be Said. And it is the reason the Intellectual Dark Web, a term coined half-jokingly by Mr. Weinstein, came to exist.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html

It almost deserves it's own thread. Fucking hell, that was an exhausting read.

Yeah, even by the dim standards of the NYT op-ed page it's a real ordeal to get through. Klion's thread p much covers it for me

The piece is extremely bad, and Weiss and Bennet alone can’t be blamed for that. NYT assigned a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist who covered the Obama campaign to do a flattering spread of some of the biggest charlatans in the country. This is appalling, an affront to journalism.

— David Klion (@DavidKlion) May 8, 2018

EXCLUSIVE: I got some hacker friends to help me find images from Bari Weiss' Dark Web. It's chilling, shocking, and appalling what these brave dissidents have had to resort to - the dangerous places they've been forced to go to - just to be heard. pic.twitter.com/lA6RiX8wAr

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 8, 2018

Was Bari Weiss the one who complained about being called out for using tweets by bots? Or am I confusing the very bad people at NYT?

If we want to take these fraudsters seriously (which doesn't mean taking them at their word, obviously) this is the central paragraph:

But they all share three distinct qualities. First, they are willing to disagree ferociously, but talk civilly, about nearly every meaningful subject: religion, abortion, immigration, the nature of consciousness. Second, in an age in which popular feelings about the way things ought to be often override facts about the way things actually are, each is determined to resist parroting what’s politically convenient. And third, some have paid for this commitment by being purged from institutions that have become increasingly hostile to unorthodox thought — and have found receptive audiences elsewhere.

I almost want to do a point by point demolition, but then I realized that it begins with describing qualities that they 'all' share, and then the third point is that 'some' have been purged. It's inconsistent on the most basic level of argument, just an absolute embarrassment.

i look forward to matt christman screaming his way through the chapo nuking-from-space of this garbage

lmao everyone is dunking on this POS

Until now, I didn't realize how oppressed I am. I mean, sure, I get to write for the Times, am very well paid, and am invited to speak to audiences all over the world. But sometimes people criticize me and my ideas. Why, it's positively Stalinist! https://t.co/zj9yBuZ0WI

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) May 8, 2018

lollllll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFELNIpeTjY

comedian Dave Rubin

i just

anyone who gives the NYT any money needs to reconsider

And yet, when Ms. Owens and Charlie Kirk, the executive director of Turning Point USA, met last week with Mr. West at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, just outside of the frame — in fact, avoiding the photographers — was Mr. Weinstein. He attended both that meeting and a one-on-one the next day for several hours at the mogul’s request. Mr. Weinstein, who can’t name two of Mr. West’s songs, [...]

'Well, there's 'Jesus Walks', obviously. And then you got your 'N***as in'... n***as in.. hmm, now where were those n***as?'

is that the Evergreen guy?

ya

i haven't read the weiss piece and i don't think i will. i have a very specific and detailed hatred of everyone involved, i don't need this shit.

Attn Simon:

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-36-maplewashinglooking-behind-canadas-progressive-veneer

Episode 36: Maplewashing — Looking Behind Canada’s Progressive Veneer

May 9, 2018

For decades, Canada has been a go-to point of reference for American progressives as a country the United States can and should strive to be. And while there are many parts about Canadian society that are measurably preferable, leftists in Canada find their country's glossy, socialist paradise image to be overblown and often a barrier to meaningful change.

This episode examines this tension, the reality versus perception, what we can learn from each other, and the common and existential thread we share of white settler-colonialism.

With guests Eriel Tchekwie Deranger of Indigenous Climate Action and writer Luke Savage.

lmao I downloaded that to my phone like two hours ago, will listen on the commute tomorrow

so far it's very easy to read every article from Resistancehole in Felix's lib-mocking voice