Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

Let's ask Elon Musk.

“pedo guy”

hey President Twat, fuck your country twice!

I am wounded

I don't know if the Chapos still use the r slur but they did when I was listening regularly and tbf it was super shitty, an instance of their sneering at lib sanctimoniousness spilling over into just being assholes for the sake of it.

The fact that the reaction to calz bringing that up itt was this whataboutery is nagl.

I'm probably at fault here to some degree as well really - I should had adequately got this out of my system by now and took the better option of ignoring the thread forevermore!

I didn’t mean that as whataboutery as much as I was poking fun at calz, which made our following comments that much funnier

Primates as types of guy was good riffing.

It's too bad that more podcasts can't do the ALAB thing of just releasing eps whenever they have time and feel like it - every episode is enjoyable and consistent whether it's light or heavy.

also I am beginning to suspect that podcasts are generally more enjoyable when the hosts' day job isn't "podcaster"

I’m reminded of something Tony Wilson wrote in his book on Factory Records, about never fully quitting your dayjob because you’ll detach from regular people and become like Bono

looking forward to bono trap house

releasing podcasts whenever you have something to say does not build you an audience. people just want their scheduled chatter on tuesdays and the fridays even if the quality wavers.

I am aware of the perils of the "release when you have something to say" model

Ask Glenn Danzig

Chapo adjacent podcast And Introducing is currently doing a very fun Our Band Could Be Your Life series of episodes, although if you've read the book, there's not a lot more going on, but fun to hear people chat about it. Felix is on the Replacements ep.

Regular pod releasing when you’re a one- or two-person operation can be a very difficult process

I am gearing up a new (film) pod, maybe, and it'll be monthly and a strictly limited run for exactly that reason lol

biweekly works ok for me, weekly would kill me

I used to do biweekly and am now monthly. Too much other work going on.

I keep thinking about starting a pod but the ROI seems absolutely idiotic

And Introducing is never really satisfying but I like Chris and Molly. It works much better when they’re into the band than only vaguely aware.

I’m still cracking up about a guy I knew starring a podcast in the early days, right after Apple latched on to the coining of “podcasts” starting one with a “beet” non-pun in the title and it just being him editing bad riffing with friends together

they could have made it if he’d tried later. but not too late

releasing podcasts whenever you have something to say does not build you an audience. people just want their scheduled chatter on tuesdays and the fridays even if the quality wavers.

This is true from a business pov but frankly, as in other media, I'll always ride for the people who think "well fuck that" and just do whatever the fuck they want. So much more excited when a podcast w/ inconsistent regularity drops in my feed.

Simon, tell us more (perhaps on the podcasts thread)?

at some point I will make a post there with all my advice for the podding-curious

I think consistency is crucial, it's like anything, some weeks you just aren't going to be feeling it but you committed to doing it so you get it done.

mine is also a (very small) part of a larger patreon funded thing so you have to deliver what you promised

I just feel like if you don't commit to a schedule (and not to say that it's not possible) 9/10 it's just going to fade out

whether it's monthly, weekly, whatever doesn't matter as much

or maybe that's me, I think even hobby stuff I have to make into a "job" in a sense especially in the sense of feeling like I owe it to other people to finish or I'll just procrastinate and let it go

I think a consistent schedule is quite important for myself as a podcaster too, I just don't rate it at all as a listener.

yeah I would agree, I personally tend to fall behind then get in a mood and listen to like 3 in a row

I do feel like we are in the minority on that though

Consistency yes, but it's consistency of schedule vs consistency of quality?

Elizabeth Bruenig knows that having children is a costly choice, but she wants to have children, and she thinks everyone else should pay for it. Christian nationalists approve this message.https://t.co/XtTXcXdwTP pic.twitter.com/3m2Hatm7rq

— Joel M. Curzon 🇫🇷 (@JoelMCurzon) May 10, 2021

Liz Bruenig’s best quality is her ability to break these peoples’ brains.

lol

We should actually fine people who have children, to own the Christian nationalists

— tps12 (@twepius) May 11, 2021

I'm troubled by Noah Smith's and Elizabeth Bruenig's white extinction anxiety, which imo informs their shared fixations on immigrant/latina/mexican motherhood. I wish publications hired latina critics and opinion writers. For now, everything is about us... yet without us.

— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) May 10, 2021

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing this woman it was a tremendous personal achievement to be repeatedly knocked up by an Internet troll she met in high school pic.twitter.com/eU30fZfUDB

— Jude Ellison S. Doyle (@sadydoyle) May 9, 2021

twitter should be shutdown for public health reasons.

public health sounds like a nazi scheme

pic.twitter.com/4d0iwOCUSb

— Foreskin Majeure (@_JackDump_) May 10, 2021

I do like the visual of having the woman-hating trans menace loom out of the darkness at the delicate white cis lady, but you could put some extra sauce on it. Should I be in a bathroom, perhaps, or injecting hormones into one of her precious white babies? Things to consider. https://t.co/7zDDol9v6h

— Jude Ellison S. Doyle (@sadydoyle) May 10, 2021

afaict there are no good guys

I have no idea why ppl are losing their mind at that essay, I could barely get through it it was very boring

which essay? the 2019 washington post one?

no, the nyt mother's day declaration of race war

oh, i just opened it and started scrolling but my eyes are not capable of reading about this topic. i do want to reiterate that i hate amanda marcotte, though.

I don't understand any of this

A bunch of very online people got very mad at a slightly less online person for the most anodyne column about how having kids is cool even if you’re not ready and the government should help you more.

If it starts to make sense, that’s when you should worry.

it's pretty simple really, people hate her for being anti-abortion and look for any excuse to get mad at even her mildest op-eds about having kids even though she seems to take pains to never ever reference abortion (because she's not a complete dummy and knows there's absolutely no demand for a "left" anti-abortion position). I agree with everyone calling the op-ed boring tbh - I get it, you like having kids. in fact it's only the vitriolic responses that make them noteworthy at all xp

also it really seems like anti-natalism is becoming more prevalent online but that's just my feeling

having kids, and especially not being depressed about it, is an offense against people who can't have kids or don't want to have kids. And asking the government to fund things like pre-K and paid maternity leave is right wing because it encourages more white people to have kids. And birth rates.

What

outlining the position of her detractors

That's absolutely batshit