Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

The TrueAnon Spider Network episodes (last two premium ones) are absolutely WILD.

Upped my Street Fight Patreon level to listen to their new doom metal miniseries.

It's starting to feel like a surprise when I get a notification of a new Chapo episode.

Liz is deliberately secretive about what she does but has said in the past that she has a regular job and it's not in finance.

we euros do not understand modern bread

I agree that her voice rules, and the show would be unlistenable without her. I also like when she flexes her financial knowhow as that's a weakness of many/most lefty pods

huh why did my post about bread appear here? I didn't click on this thread, am not a reader of it, was meant for the rolling food adventures one, which I have bookmarked, but not this thread, which now shows up as having been bookmarked. weird.

That was pleasantly baffling, I thought you meant bread as in mucho dinero and that it was a super vague reference to this Liz person's supposed finance background.

DHS is gathering intelligence on activists in an attempt to tie them to foreign militant groups, per intel report leaked to me.

One target was Brace Belden, co-host of the popular left-wing podcast @TrueAnonPod:https://t.co/Lh67aOVKx7 pic.twitter.com/NeMOyJDIRu

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) August 3, 2020

a very clever ruse to conceal his op status, well played

the chapo subreddit has been essentially cloned/rebuilt sans Reddit, a move I assume lots of people are making

https://www.chapo.chat/

shoulda been chatpo

chatpo trapt house

Incredible that they separated it from reddit but kept all of the worst (functional) parts of reddit - upvotes, limited time window of relevance, etc.

Kids these days don't even understand a proper forum

Last Spider Network TrueAnon ep got pretty deep into the magick weeds

someone made a large list of "bad people on the left" and then deleted it from twitter, but i just want to note it's an honor to be on here with many of you. pic.twitter.com/P7uC74MUx9

— hannah gais (@hannahgais) August 7, 2020

idk where the compiler is coming from but almost everyone I recognise on there is indeed pretty bad

truly an honour to be included with such luminaries as Vanessa Beeley, Cenk Uygur and Sam Kriss

Sure, but what's wrong with Emma Vigland, Nina Turner, Alex Pareene, Nomiki Konst etc?

or indeed hannah gais

or libby watson or tim heidecker or etc

basically it's just a big ol list

I'm trying to imagine a single person even having this many grudges

I suspect the one person "of the left" this person approves of is the vest guy (I've been off Twitter a while so names are escaping me)

lol Tim Heidecker is "of the left"?

lol Piers Morgan?

this appears to have some connection to the WASBAPPIN guy so I think investigating it further will turn your brain to sludge.

Tim Pool is on the left?

Saagar Enjeti of, checks notes, The Daily Caller, is on the left?

This is the work of a bot

lol Tim Heidecker is "of the left"?

Definitely, though he’s not particularly militant. He features a lot of left voices on his Office Hours podcast.

He’s been on Chapo a few times too!

piers corbyn nor morgan, makes sliiightly more sense

lol at them listing both chapo and amber, separately

The account is mostly retweets and fairly muddled but looks like it belongs to one of those horseshoe people

lastly alex press is good and where the fuck is nathan robinson

oh he on there.

lol nothing is more 100% guaranteed to get an inordinant amount of media attention than a random list of media people's names.

yeah I'm a sucker for even discussing it on here tbh

Probably!

There is an issue here re the desire to categorize people into good and bad boxes. Something thats perhaps inevitable in some cases but not something to be aimed for

yeah, the people in here I'd consider "problematic" are for wildly different reasons and to different degrees. some are worth engaging with, others obviously not so much.

The Citations Needed on house flipping shows is good. I liked Rehab Addict for being a This Old House with less flannel, showing the work going into remodeling etc., but I had no idea there were so many flipping shows now.

i keep meaning to listen to that house flipping show episode. there's always one going on one of the gym TVs, which is also where i listen to all podcasts now, so that will be a nice background.

anyway

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL JAMAL BROOKS!!
Here are 37 book titles for Michael's 37th birthday.
Thank you @Danny_Celentano for the video, it's perfect. pic.twitter.com/RxqjA1Q6zt

— TMBS - The Michael Brooks Show (@tmbsfm) August 13, 2020

Lucky. I can barely read anymore unless it’s light fiction. My attention span has been so battered that even during the current moment, trying to consume 20 pages of history is a chore.

audiobooks have been a godsend for me during the COVID era

Matt's vlogs have been more reliable entertainment than the pod for a while. This was a good one, which ended up being mostly about love:

https://youtu.be/3_ZcNxRvlX8

Definitely. There is an RSS feed someone automated so you can get it as a podcast..

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/cushvlogs-audio-matt-christman-chapo-trap-ItrHqPV-6e7/

As a copy of the YouTube copy of the Twitch, there's a substantial delay. i look forward to this one you mentioned.

He mentioned there'll be a proper podcast later, and extra time on Twitch for paying Katamari Damacy! Big plans

Playing

nice.

he had me up through “groceries” (def southern, partic AAVE) lol, but that doesn’t dismantle his theory that those movies are written by algorithm

He looks like someone from an old tv show or movie now (with the button up shirt vs. the oversized baby clothes) that I just can't place.

Like a wild-eyed advisor to the President or Governor in something

i've been saying "groceries" my whole life and i'm v. northern and not a speaker of AAVE???

this is similar to, but not as bad as the time felix thought you couldn't leave butter out

then that makes it even weirder! I mean it’s a very minor point in his off the dome rant but I was like “he’s probably very literally never heard ‘Grits Ain’t Groceries’ on the radio”

tbh i'm not sure what the right word is supposed to be, am i stupid