Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

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

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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

Brace is bullying Nathan J. Robinson on Twitter and I approve.

The 'lo-fi beats' Youtube aesthetic is an interesting choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdQrz4ke4Jw

Death, the ultimate hot couch guy.

I've now heard the linked episode, was good. Agree the quoted movie has a weird use of "groceries" but I imagine it's perfectly cromulent somewhere. I really glaze over when he starts rambling about squibs and little movie things. But I don't bother with superhero or action movies nearly as much as he does. You have to admire his sacrifice.

yeah I neglected to mention you can safely stop that stream I linked when he starts going off about squibs lol

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

― contorted filbert (harbl), Wednesday, September 2, 2020 2:37 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

in the context he was talking about?! i have never ever heard that and i am shocked it's a thing!!!

oh i never actually found where he said it, i was thinking this was some kind of "food shopping" vs "grocery shopping" thing

he's saying once you bring groceries into your home they are no longer groceries. they are food (or more specifically, they're bananas, peanut butter, beef, etc.) the line in the movie is something like, some people look in their fridge and see that it's empty, and proclaim, "we're out of groceries"

GROCERY BAG

“I’m out of groceries” is some kind of uncanny valley of language. It doesn’t sound right but it’s not wrong either.

"out of groceries"
About 7,490,000 results (0.42 seconds)

have to be more specific

"well dear it looks like the grocery store ran out of groceries"
About 7,489,999 results (0.42 seconds)

"i'm out of groceries"
About 1 result (600 seconds)

https://www.thefabulous.co/qa/what-is-your-go-to-meal-when-running-low-on-groceries/

so alienated from the concept of "food" are the fabulous

tbh I think "we're out of groceries" is fine and "I'm out of food" is correct but the singular "I'm out of groceries" sounds wrong

You're out of food
I'm out of groceries
But I'm out of my head
When you're not around