Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

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!"

@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

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

And Chapo hosts as guests were how I first started watching TMBS in 2018, I think.

I guess it was my idea but I’ll let someone gifted with witty pun titles have at

I guess it was my idea but I’ll let someone gifted with witty pun titles have at

^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 I resorted to outdated/inaccurate terms to do so because I had a class to teach and I wanted to hit "submit post" and make my point.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.

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)

He seems to have gamed the Youtube algorithm with constant drama

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.

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.

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

Deadlifting tips and tricks.

Youtube/Twitch are a different beast than podcasts as they are often about raking in realtime donations

streams I mean

He's hot

He's mainly for zoomers tho afaict,don't think many here would be interested

twitch and twitch chat is at the top of my 'things that make me feel insanely old' list

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

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.

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.

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.

I suppose I also could have just posted "I am old and not afraid to admit so on the internet" instead, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

RobbiePires are you Left?

idk if it's lazier vlogging so much as it's talk radio with a webcam

Clint Eastwood, moisture vampire

She’s often very, very wrong, but damn, I had no idea how much I missed Amber

they stole our US politics thread name :O

I think skipping to 1:06 after Venom talk got past Felix re: Assange.

Oh rod dreherpaws

I watched the first venom movie partly because of the chapo praise and folks… it fuckin sucks

was that praise? I honestly couldn’t tell wtf was going on

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.

as much as i use the internet i barely know what MCU is and i'm happy that way

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

i know what it stands for but it sounds bad and dumb

Missouri Christian University

oh actually the c is for cinematic not comics as i had assumed

i'm reading about it on wikipedia

Rod Surveyor

venom is gay and ridiculous therefore i like watching it more than most superhero movies

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.

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

the Eminem song at the end was a highlight

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

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.

there has never been a need for Stalinism in the west, that's why it has come across as wishy washy liberal market place of ideas pick your ideology shag Nick Clegg's daughter who went to glastonbury does pills once a year family worked hard for everything they've got bovine philistinism.

playacting