Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

they spend too much time on their dogshit opinions

Probably a function of the fact that Anna takes up 75% of the airtime.

but doctor i am paglia, c

lmao

AK’s schtick really hammers home for me just how empty and reactionary contrarianism is as a mode of commentary, since it can’t exist without something to bristle against. She would be lost without her lefty/liberal media peers to piss off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUJUmMU4X7s

The reading series are getting kind of exhausting too now unfortunately, way too much commentary and not enough reading the article. Having five people jumping all over a Rod Dreher piece really kills the fun.

yeah, just listening to something stupid play out is much more fun than hearing people yelling "This is so stupid!" after every sentence

They should cap people on the mic at three, including guests.

I do a show with four hosts - it can work as long as you have someone conducting/moderating, which I think Will tries and mostly fails to do. Even less of an excuse for crosstalk since they usually record in the same room.

Bring back the talking stick/VHS box

I love jon bois but why on earth would anyone let Felix narrate a doc

working on stuff pic.twitter.com/iXKrHK2UZV

— Jon Bois (@jon_bois) October 16, 2018

Must be a MMA video

what do you usually post about sir?

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (@Ahmadinejad1956) October 16, 2018

okay lmao

oh my god

wokemadinejad one of the top 5 weirdest developments in a very weird year

mahmoud ahmadinejad, go on chapo

lets fuckin go

Dude’s been active and weird:

The #NFL season will start this week, unfortunately once again @Kaepernick7 is not on a NFL roster. Even though he is one of the best Quarterbacks in the league.#ColinKaepernick #NFL

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (@Ahmadinejad1956) September 3, 2018

Dear Mahmoud,

We have much bigger problems here. #Michigan is 8-8 in its last 16 games under @CoachJim4UM . #GoBlue

Also, college football is the only authentic football.

Cordially,

Fred

— fredzannarbor (@fredzannarbor) September 3, 2018

With a hard work ethic Inshallah the U of M will return to its glory days.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (@Ahmadinejad1956) October 16, 2018

great now my fav sports team has the mahmoud seal of approval

really confused by that tweet, if it weren't 2018 i would be befuddled by it

the guy’s a born shitposter, glad he’s found his niche at last

v good posting style imo

His username having his birth year is a perfect touch.

Only way to make it better would be Xahmadinejad1956X

this just keeps getting better

https://preview.redd.it/ial3nmubgls11.png?width=852&auto=webp&s=9762dbd98bc3a6ddd738de871f21da278d1846bf

bigger:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DppkoQJX4AA5Xwy.jpg:large

this article about chapo and Jordan Peterson is too long and not all good, but I liked these bits:

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/10/clean-rooms-and-dirtbags/

Conservative Canadian professor Jordan Peterson and socialist Brooklynite podcast Chapo Trap House have a lot in common. They each make around a hundred thousand dollars a month from Patreon donations. They each inspire both adoration and revulsion, while rejecting, in different ways, forms of political correctness. And they share an audience—what Angela Nagle, writing in the Atlantic, called “lost boys” and what the Chapo guys call “failsons”—fans in their mid-20s, very frequently white, overwhelmingly male, with little direction in life but an aching need for purpose and meaning.

My best guess about what distinguishes a Peterson lost boy fan from a Chapo failson fan is that the two will tend to have different capacities. Peterson’s cleanliness emphasizes broad, shallow learning, aprioristic thinking, simplicity, symbolism, and sincerity. Chapo’s dirt emphasizes obsessive knowledge of various elements of modern culture (message boards, left-wing politics, film, anime, etc.), social reasoning, clever witticisms, complexity, the concrete, and irony. But Peterson’s logic does not really cohere in Twelve Rules for Life. And The Chapo Guide to Revolution isn’t a remotely clever book.

thanks for linking a pro trump publication itt

the author seems like a really great guy and not an absolutely crushing bore "classical liberal" pretentious bard graduate https://arcdigital.media/what-being-a-liberal-used-to-mean-c84a11b3aae

message boards, left-wing politics, film, anime, etc.

Peterson and Chapo: a study in contrasts

con-traps

I never finished the Guide to Revolution, he's not wrong about it not being clever.

while I'm sure it isn't - i'll never read it, so i'll never know - "this book is not clever" is not a very compelling argument against an irreverent book by the hosts of what is essentially a political comedy podcast.

and the utility in comparing it with peterson's book, which is deadly (self)serious, makes no sense.

Wasn't 'failson' just a basically self-deprecating joke? I don't think it says much about the actual makeup of Chapo's audience.

they defined their fanbase as comprising of a majority of failsons, with a minority of success daughters, in the new yorker profile

Jason Miller adds Will to his defamation suit, time to finally put those Chapo funds to good use

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-trump-adviser-jason-miller-sues-will-menaker-of-chapo-trap-house-over-tweet

Amber and Will down, Dana White will probably sue Felix for whatever he says in the Jon Bois video.

Virgil will end up in a CIA black site for his relationship to Ahmadinejad before he gets sued.

man people are really into this civility shit huh

Chapo is obnoxious as hell and abusive too. So while I admit that they should win, if they end up shutting down over legal fees I’ll still feel a little smug.

— J.R. (@KYCol_JR) October 20, 2018

"Behaviour or speech appropriate to civil interactions; politeness, courtesy, consideration. In later use frequently with negative overtones: the minimum degree of courtesy required in a social situation; absence of rudeness." so yeah ppl are into it, it's the underpinning of civilization.

Enjoying it is one thing, taking delight in someone (hypothetically, in this case) sued into oblivion for trespassing against it is entirely another.

I think that goes beyond civility, sounds more like one of the many people who've never heard the show who believe the "racist Berniebros rating women on a scale of 10 or gulag" stuff.

I wonder if they can even get personal jurisdiction over Menaker in a Florida court over a tweet.

It seems like there are some real due process concerns if a tweet becomes enough to bring someone into court anywhere in the US.

As much as I'm on his side here fwiw (100%), I think this was kind of dumb and irresponsible of him. Tweeting about a lawsuit involving someone close to you is a bad move.

Oh, he definitely knew it was dumb when he did it.

Unless it has changed recently, Florida explicitly allows libel action against non-residents for online posts.

prophet matt strikes again

So apparently the sticker on the bombs said "Git Er Done" in a faux ISIS font with silhouetted mudflap ladies? What the hell.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 24, 2018

@WarOnXMASVet @randygdub @GitRDoneLarry @mcurryfelidae07 @dankmtl @Stefan_BC "Git R Done"-- Larry the ISIS Guy, talking about jihad.

— Matt "The Dang Deficit" Christman (@cushbomb) January 6, 2016

Fuck me running