will mennaker blocked me on twitter for some reason and, 2 me, that is pretty hilarious
― gbx, Thursday, 30 September 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
jimmy dore sucks ass
― flopson, Thursday, 30 September 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
dismissed him after that time he read up on right-wing Brazilian smear campaign Lava Jacto and was all "we should have something like this in the US! to weed out corruption!"
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 1 October 2021 10:45 (two years ago) link
@thewufs - I apologize bc reading back it seems like I was going in on you specifically and that really was not my intent! but yes perhaps another thread would be useful, as this title alone may be a deterrent for some posters
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Friday, 1 October 2021 12:26 (two years ago) link
yeah, it was a bit weird that this was the only thread where we talked about Michael Brooks' death, even though he was barely associated with Chapo
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 1 October 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
And Chapo hosts as guests were how I first started watching TMBS in 2018, I think.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 1 October 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
I guess it was my idea but I’ll let someone gifted with witty pun titles have at
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Friday, 1 October 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
^I mean christ I can’t even post
No offense taken. And of course I share your frustration with the disappearance of class politics from mainstream discourse and the disintegration of class consciousness in this country. I was trying to summarize what probably puts a lot of people off of Chapo, mostly. I resorted to outdated/inaccurate terms to do so because I had a class to teach and I wanted to hit "submit post" and make my point. Also, linguistic precision is fucking hard, and my brain is fucking slow.
― thewufs, Friday, 1 October 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
I've never seen anyone who owns up to being a Jimmy Dore viewer. He gets a lot of views so they're definitely out there but they don't seem to crow about it. (or it's all hate views now)
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 1 October 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
He seems to have gamed the Youtube algorithm with constant drama
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 1 October 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
I occasionally see screencaps from his show on Twitter and have the same “how could anyone stand to watch this man for hours” reaction that I have with Tucker Carlson.
― JoeStork, Friday, 1 October 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
but back on the Chapo tip, just finished up Hell of Presidents and throughly enjoyed it. Pretty masterfully done IMO. Highly recommend, even if you don’t want to commit to the whole saga. You could probably hop in on the FDR ep or even JFK and get a lot out of it.
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Friday, 1 October 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
I watched Hasan Piker's twitch stream the other day and was completely dumbfounded as to how this dude has tens of thousands of viewers every stream
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 1 October 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
Deadlifting tips and tricks.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 1 October 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
Youtube/Twitch are a different beast than podcasts as they are often about raking in realtime donations
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 1 October 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link
streams I mean
He's hot
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 October 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
He's mainly for zoomers tho afaict,don't think many here would be interested
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 October 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
twitch and twitch chat is at the top of my 'things that make me feel insanely old' list
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 1 October 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link
yeah the entire concept of twitch celebrities makes me want to turn inside out but i guess it's just lazier vlogging, which also made me feel 100 years old when i was 25
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 1 October 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
I have never felt as elderly as when I looked in on a Kenny Beats Twitch stream. There are three thousand people typing constantly in the chat, I don’t know how anyone can ever see, much less read, what anyone is saying.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 1 October 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link
shame none of these celebrities won't deign to read the old moor on political understanding, but hey.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/08/07.htm
Noone will remember these people as having any lasting political contribution in 10 years time. Pure hot take economy and nothing else.
― RobbiePires, Friday, 1 October 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link
There are three thousand people typing constantly in the chat, I don’t know how anyone can ever see, much less read, what anyone is saying.
I've always wondered this myself, esp when it's a gaming streamer. Just the visual overload of playing a FPS and also somehow taking in even the occasional stray viewer comment kind of breaks my brain.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 October 2021 22:02 (two years ago) link
I suppose I also could have just posted "I am old and not afraid to admit so on the internet" instead, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 October 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link
RobbiePires are you Left?
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 2 October 2021 10:49 (two years ago) link
idk if it's lazier vlogging so much as it's talk radio with a webcam
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Monday, 4 October 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
Clint Eastwood, moisture vampire
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 4 October 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
She’s often very, very wrong, but damn, I had no idea how much I missed Amber
― thewufs, Monday, 4 October 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
they stole our US politics thread name :O
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 13:09 (two years ago) link
I think skipping to 1:06 after Venom talk got past Felix re: Assange.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
Oh rod dreherpaws
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link
I watched the first venom movie partly because of the chapo praise and folks… it fuckin sucks
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 02:33 (two years ago) link
was that praise? I honestly couldn’t tell wtf was going on
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 09:31 (two years ago) link
I hate MCU as much as the next guy but ppl's attempts to make us believe DCU or those Sony movies are superior are always eyeroll worthy.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 10:32 (two years ago) link
as much as i use the internet i barely know what MCU is and i'm happy that way
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 11:39 (two years ago) link
this is the new i don't even own a TV for me. as i get older, i don't know anything anymore
I think you know
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 12:24 (two years ago) link
i know what it stands for but it sounds bad and dumb
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 12:26 (two years ago) link
Missouri Christian University
oh actually the c is for cinematic not comics as i had assumed
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 12:28 (two years ago) link
i'm reading about it on wikipedia
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 12:29 (two years ago) link
Rod Surveyor
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 12:31 (two years ago) link
venom is gay and ridiculous therefore i like watching it more than most superhero movies
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
It wasn’t worse than any of the Avengers or X-Men films, or most Spider-Man films. I can’t think of any recent DC film I’ve watched but I can’t imagine they’re vastly superior to Venom.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
of all the superhero movies ive watched in the last few years (I intentionally watched about 5 or 6 a couple of xmases ago after eschewing them for years, and have watched a few since) venom was one of the better ones. although I don't remember that much of it
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
the Eminem song at the end was a highlight
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
reading a novel about the iraq war ('cherry' by nico walker) and listening to s1 of blowback. enjoying it so far. it's a fun form of revisionism where they do the material of the jon stewart era of political humour but with contemporary twitter brocialist humour. like joking about which sopranos characters saddam hussein's sons are
― flopson, Thursday, 7 October 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
RobbiePires are you Left?― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 2 October 2021
No, marxist-communist. aka not the wishy washy left stalinist/social democrat kind (because stalinism is big push industrialisation for agricultural economies eventually dissolving in social democracy.) See the PCF and PCI.
― RobbiePires, Friday, 15 October 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link