Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

absolutely have her blocked on twitter, however

I don’t really have any beef w EB and probably agree w her 90% of the time, but I do think it’s a little fucked that the only unapologetic socialist with a legacy media job in this country is a pro-life catholic

I honestly don't know what that spat was about. She made a joke about not wanting to chaperone rich kids around. who wants to fucking do that? all the back and forth afer that seemed like people not reading the tweets they were responding to. After that she mainly said she didn't let grandparents watch her kids because they were too loose with the N word.

Bruenig’s princeling comment isn’t objectionable if you completely ignore the context, yes!

Prep school kids are probably little shits and all their future wealth should be taken by force if necessary.

It’s also 100% okay for them to correct their grandparents for being racists or transphobic.

If your tweet involves getting on a thread agreeing with Bari Weiss and Conor Freikorps, it’s probably a bad tweet.

Important to know

why does the online left love this religious reactionary and her obnoxious nerd husband so much

because fuck off

eat shit

is this praxis?

I don't follow either of them closely but I sometimes read Liz Bruenig's columns and they're generally pretty good! Far better than the vast majority of opinion writers, not that that's a high bar. I don't get the feeling that her personal feelings about abortion are doing much that's measurably harmful but perhaps i'm mistaken.

Matt seems pretty good on economic stuff, particularly when dismantling hack neolib fantasies. and Liz's personal thoughts on abortion aside, wouldn't you rather her have that gig than Bari Weiss?

what if, and hear me out here, those two weren't our only choices

shit yeah and hear me out heere i mean i'd be all for NYT & WaPo hiring actual leftists. i think Briahna Joy Gray should have a show on MSNBC and Sam-Adler Bell & Matthew Sitman should be on NPR

but the guys who sign those checks probably don't agree with me on most things

I'm saying you don't have to pay attention to those two, you can dedicate even more time to paying attention to the folks you just mentioned for example

and Liz's personal thoughts on abortion aside

I was raised catholic so I give her a pass on that because she is not, to my knowledge, advocating for the repeal of Roe v Wade which puts her in line with probably half the catholics I've ever known. she has written great stuff on the death penalty. sometimes she tweets dumb things. her op-eds are pretty good. whatever, she's neither the greatest person in media nor the worst.

hey guys nothing would make me happier than to choose who gets to talk on cable news or pen op ed columns in the paper of record

you can dedicate even more time to paying attention to the folks you just mentioned

where i direct my attn probably doesn't have much impact

i'm more interested in a cohort of comfortable and inordinately powerful suburbanites (whose politics mostly boil down to hating Trump and binging MSNBC and praising David Brooks as "one of the good ones") getting exposed to actual good ideas/ people who aren't cynical jabbering idiots. and yes, it's a bummer that Liz seems to be one of the few leftists with a mainstream platform.

not that *she* has one, per se, but that so many smart deserving folks do not.

and i think that's more or less by design.

It’s a bit odd that some people think LB is somehow occupying the NYT socialist columnist position that would surely go to someone better if she just resigned after realizing she was bad

ok fine I'm thankful for the scraps we're given

0 people think that

Troll on

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whenever some microceleb from this subculture does reasonably well in some hated establishment forum their fans just seem to suspend any suspicion of said forum in their case, instead of asking why this forum is interested in this person in particular, or what interests they might share

would you rather have trump than biden? probably not but that doesn't make biden good or ok. the reasons he's not good are the reasons why he was allowed to win

lefties sniping at each other online while lawsuit millionaire (who now supports tort reform) Greg "Wheels" Abbott is on Fox telling tens of millions of guileless dipshits that *windmills* are why Texans don't have power tonight

love the bruenigs. f the haters

Nobody who puts “momma” in their Twitter bio is a friend of mine

man the QAA episode about 5D reality and Champ Parinya is really stressing me out, just bizarre delusions about Trump being some kind of Maitreya figure and corporations and the military being saviors.

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— QAA Podcast (@QanonAnonymous) February 18, 2021

Will and Matt Bruenig are surprisingly sober and fair minded on this ep

you could hear Will's physical pain at possibly having to give the dems credit for something

the Limbaugh death roast was their best segment in ages

felix isn't gaming...no amber....the guest talks sometimes...no cringe takes....this is the stuff

I had decided to quit listening to every episode and then bitching about it in this thread, but this was a really great episode, felt like they were engaged

"the future is quite literally just one end of the political spectrum taking turns owning the other while everything burns, until we've had enough" has also been the feeling I've plucked out of the air recently

Matt's pessimism agrees with my feelings generally but I also worry about him popping a blood vessel in his brain.

it doesn't even feel like pessimism to me anymore tbh

dropped in on true anon this week because the topic (purdue/mckinsey) interested me, was not expecting brace to seriously discuss his own experiences in detail with a minimum of wisecracks

Yeah it was kind of good to hear Brace be earnest about something

Time For My Stories is Matt and my look at American collapse through, in our opinion, our 20 most important TV dramas. from Gunsmoke to This Is Us. first episode will release at midnight on Stitcher premium

— Ape’s Delight (@ByYourLogic) February 23, 2021

Don’t know if this is a bit but lol if $120k a month in Patreon isn’t enough so they had to do a Stitcher Premium spinoff.

looking forward to listening (via the black wolf subreddit)

I really appreciated their takedown of r/childfree. The idea that you can have a left politics centered on anti-humanism/antinatalism is disgusting to me.

Get to pirating

ok I have successfully waged war and defeated my brain damage and 30 concurrent learning disabilities to make our first episode visible on our Stitcher page https://t.co/28DOxN49j0

— Ape’s Delight (@ByYourLogic) February 24, 2021

I really appreciated their takedown of r/childfree. The idea that you can have a left politics centered on anti-humanism/antinatalism is disgusting to me.

Davos*

So, in advance of our 500th ep I put out a listener poll asking people to vote on their all-time favorite eps. Excited to now share the results: pic.twitter.com/fzS8fOuWTj

— Chris Wade (@saywhatagain) February 23, 2021

pisspig ep too low tbh

the best ones are nearly all in the first couple hundo tbh

For topic coverage maybe, but I so hated how bad Matt’s mic would sound back then. Like none of these guys had the proficiency of your basic college DJ or dive bar sound guy just to record a basic voice

The tables have turned in the new series. Matt sounds fine, Felix sounds like he set a phone on a table across a bare room.