Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

I remember when Cenk had a show on MSNBC and he was no contest the most annoying and off-putting news anchor I've ever seen.

Cenk did an AMA on Reddit and even though 99% of the questions were about his college writings about the Armenian genocide he refuses to address the subject, leaving his Armenian co-host to defend him in social media

the first part of Jon Bois and Felix's MMA documentary is up. always awkward to me to hear Felix do Serious Voice but it looks neat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oNB6tlSZ2A&feature=youtu.be

i've worked a little with cenk and even behind the camera he really is an all-surface inch-deep blowhard

he's built this totally insane culture at TYT of white livestream cowboys turned wannabe analysts who've surmised the secret to success is being simpler, louder, and more repetitive than whoever is opposing you, all of them are awful

it's real @virgiltexas pic.twitter.com/kcVXfz99Iz

— Buswolley (@btreif) November 26, 2018

lmao thank you for this valuable insider dirt HOOS. it's always satisfying to find out that people are what they appear to be

I liked the ContraPoints episode a lot
Felix and Matt even did a pretty decent job of shutting the fuck up and letting her speak

felix wasn’t on that one iirc, which may explain the slightly calmer interview

It was solid, but I hope they bring her back for a looser ep at some point

conchapoints

"Felix and Matt even did a pretty decent job of shutting the fuck up and letting her speak" this is like the nine hundredth time someone has posted something like this in this thread

full disclosure I've never listened to a chapo other than the eps of The Dollop they guested on

She’s on a recent ep of the Michael Brooks Show that’s good, too

http://michaelbrooksshow.libsyn.com/65-cancel-the-h2qscam-ben-shapiro-ft-contrapoints-corey-pein

the Felix/Jon Bois MMA series is doing a great job of making MMA seem interesting and a very poor job of integrating Felix's politics

Matt Binder has done some pretty good episodes on Pro Wrestling and left politics on his Doomed! podcast--recently one about the WWE and Saudi Arabia

oh is that what fighting in the age of loneliness is, people keep sending it to me i didn't realize it was that thing

yup.

Yeah I find the MMA history interesting but I’m not sure I buy the larger socio-political framework they’re going for. Should piss off lots of MMA fans though!

where do i talk about eve peyser becoming bffs with bari weiss

slack

i don't have slack and they wrote a big old public article about it

nice to have something to refer to i guess when someone inevitably asks me next week "why is she so bad and hated specifically by you"

yeah never reading that piece in a million years lol

i kind of admire eve for just being a character in a j.franzen novel come to life, even her name seems like the sort of thing hed come up with when wryly creating an oberlin grad with a degree in self-care that writes explainers about millennial culture for "new media"

i just read about two-thirds of it and now i'm going to get up from my desk and hurl myself down a lift shaft

You guys are who this piece is actually about maybe that explains the reaction like someone just doused you in holy water

fuck, owned

holy water????

Holy water has also been believed to ward off or act as a weapon against mythical evil creatures, such as vampires. In eastern Europe, one might sprinkle holy water onto the corpse of a suspected vampire in order to destroy it or render it inert.[38][39] Thereafter, the concept proliferated into fiction about such creatures.

The real class war was the friends we made along the way to the class war

to tie it all together

William Randolph Hearst wouldn’t have had the balls to commission an article about how he was a nice guy and people should be nice to him. #respect

— matt christman (@cushbomb) December 3, 2018

i finally know how to pronounce jon bois.

free tweet to anyone wanting to do their part in ratio'ing eve: Pee Visor

i love when ppl turn heel

jon bwah

I searched for Eve Peyser to find out what this was about, and the first result was instructions on how to cancel a NYT subscription

eve peyser already did the jogging with david frum piece https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xeg84/david-frum-is-a-political-party-of-one

jon bwah

― Master Humphrey's Cock (Bananaman Begins), Monday, December 3, 2018 2:50 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

see ive been saying this forever but also i live in quebec and only recently learned not to call the bubbly water "la-KWA"

Anyone else have thoughts on the MMA project? I feel like I must be missing something (having watched one MMA event in my life I probably am) but the writing seems really repetitive - how often does he have to repeat some variation of “weird men with bad tattoos”? And I guess the conclusion works in a symbolic “fight the inevitable unbeatable descent into shit” sort of way but I can’t help think about the effects on that guy’s brain from going out and getting pummeled for another 5 minutes.

We discussed it a little upthread. I think some of the details are interesting but I don't think it coheres.

Reminded that Peyser is friends with Olivia Nuzzi who’s kind of all about stuff like this.

olivia nazzi, call her by her name

yeah like as a history of MMA i was pretty fascinated by it but the shifts into doomy cultural commentary prognostication with some bad taste writing & low-rent visualizations made me feel like i was watching loose change 2 or something

fam this peyser/weiss thing is patently inoffensive idg why anyone would waste a holler about it

I think Natalie Shure does a good job in this short thread of getting at why it's so bad and annoying

For better or worse, a lot of people have friends whose ideologies diverge from theirs. But navel-gazing about it in the newspaper of record - without ever grappling with the impact your media pal’s writing may have on people’s actual lives - serves an insidious political purpose https://t.co/3W7xBWzMKq

— Natalie Shure (@nataliesurely) December 3, 2018

also weiss concedes not an inch in her support for the right while peyser spends a bunch of time grumbling about her alleged ideological compatriots

who navel gazes about the navel gazers

but yeah i see that latter point for sure

can't read "Bari Weiss" without hearing "Stav think he look slick in that wig" in my head