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Famethrowa posted:I remember discussing the crank Grover Furr in DnD with a bunch of weird-rear end tankies who also said that North Korea being bad was CIA propaganda i dont think anyone said that but this definitely isn't the thread to relitigate it
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https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/808362476999847936 love our large comedy boy
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normies are becoming grey wolves and i dont like it
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Buckle up folks, it's time for some GAME THEORY <thread> ![]()
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Thom and the Heads posted:normies are becoming grey wolves and i dont like it get out reeeeee
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Sushi in Yiddish posted:Buckle up folks, it's time for some GAME THEORY That's gotta be the next Chapo Reading Series, though they're gonna have to divide up that up like the Megan McArdle book because it's 2800 words long
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:isnt adam curtis actually a libertarian or something equally stupid Listening to the ep, there's no way he is a liberterian in any way that an American listener would understand.
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not sure patton oswalt is a "normie" until your dad is talking about listening to chapo during his power walks over a bowl of oatmeal I think we're in the clear
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Thom and the Heads posted:normies are becoming grey wolves and i dont like it i think there's something to adam curtis's theory that the left doesn't really want power
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SousaphoneColossus posted:i think there's something to adam curtis's theory that the left doesn't really want power seems like if the left's unifying political ideology is "hey maybe don't treat people like garbage" then perhaps that explains the lack of power hungry career politicians
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:I've listened to a few episodes and I really love this podcast so far. Are there any standout episodes you guys could recommend? ep 4 with all the Antonin Scalia roasting is a personal favorite of mine the second episode is also really strong in my opinion (it's where kevin d williamson and hamilton first get hilariously murked)
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cat doter posted:seems like if the left's unifying political ideology is "hey maybe don't treat people like garbage" then perhaps that explains the lack of power hungry career politicians Sure, but if you care about that outcome (say, more than you care about not touching elbows with normies) then you should want some muscle behind that idea.
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pangstrom posted:Sure, but if you care about that outcome (say, more than you care about not touching elbows with normies) then you should want some muscle behind that idea. Agreed but it seems like a significant portion of the left would rather be in a perpetual underdog/oppositional stance than actually have the responsibility to do anything they say they want to do, so consciously or unconsciously they work against ever becoming actually relevant or influential.
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pangstrom posted:Sure, but if you care about that outcome (say, more than you care about not touching elbows with normies) then you should want some muscle behind that idea. Man there was a talk someone gave talking about how no one in the left-wing organization he talked to in a big football state school ever went to football games at all, and how this meant they couldn't talk to anyone about their ideas and how the gently caress were they going to help these people and there was a question where a guy was like "yeah but those types of people used to make fun of me in high school, they're not my type of people" and it's haunted me ever since because that pathology is visible as a clear line through so many things the political left is reluctant to deal with
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Grondoth posted:Man there was a talk someone gave talking about how no one in the left-wing organization he talked to in a big football state school ever went to football games at all, and how this meant they couldn't talk to anyone about their ideas and how the gently caress were they going to help these people and there was a question where a guy was like "yeah but those types of people used to make fun of me in high school, they're not my type of people" and it's haunted me ever since because that pathology is visible as a clear line through so many things the political left is reluctant to deal with https://youtu.be/m-1_8NZ2At8
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Ok I can't get over Curtis's "The Syrian Lone Wolf Attacks" Example as a bookend to his thesis on how the left should conduct. Did I honestly mishear that part as an endorsement for folk to start attacking concerts and train stations to denormalize the middle class or some poo poo? What did he meant by that?
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cat doter posted:not sure patton oswalt is a "normie" My dad listens to Chapo sometimes. He thinks they're all careerist media people, but still likes them. I'm sorry for ruining the podcast guys
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Kunster posted:Ok I can't get over Curtis's "The Syrian Lone Wolf Attacks" Example as a bookend to his thesis on how the left should conduct. Did I honestly mishear that part as an endorsement for folk to start attacking concerts and train stations to denormalize the middle class or some poo poo? What did he meant by that? I thought he was talking about terrorists realizing that targeting politicians wasn't really worthwhile, but it would be easier to scare and manipulate the middle class since there isn't a coherent ideology. I don't feel like he was saying that it's something to be emulated by the left. His advice for the Left was to have a strong, coherent ideology and a vision for what they want to do or else it may end up like Occupy or the Arab Spring, where a movement's momentum can get co-opted by groups like the Muslim Brotherhood
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Thank you so much! I've been honestly stumped for the whole day as I listened to it after weird noggin times. I have honestly heard similar ordeals from communists in Portugal and Brazil, so hearing this "hard medicine" wasn't such a shock until I started hearing the Al-Suri part when he started describing "targetting the liberal middle classes as they don't believe in anything". I was honestly worried that they were starting to go a deep end of "Ok who didn't tell our podcast off recently" sort of poo poo. I can't quite provide the question to them on twitter since when I argued this with others, I was starting to get odd faves from "Davos" type folk on their profiles. Don't wanna destroy them, just wanna address matters within them.
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Kunster posted:Thank you so much! I've been honestly stumped for the whole day as I listened to it after weird noggin times. I have honestly heard similar ordeals from communists in Portugal and Brazil, so hearing this "hard medicine" wasn't such a shock until I started hearing the Al-Suri part when he started describing "targetting the liberal middle classes as they don't believe in anything". I was honestly worried that they were starting to go a deep end of "Ok who didn't tell our podcast off recently" sort of poo poo. you could hit up Will on curiouscat.me. If you have a sincere thoughtful question I imagine it will get answered. https://curiouscat.me/1450298610
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I will keep it in mind in the future, I've had good experiences chatting with at least most of them.
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Kunster posted:Thank you so much! I've been honestly stumped for the whole day as I listened to it after weird noggin times. I have honestly heard similar ordeals from communists in Portugal and Brazil, so hearing this "hard medicine" wasn't such a shock until I started hearing the Al-Suri part when he started describing "targetting the liberal middle classes as they don't believe in anything". I was honestly worried that they were starting to go a deep end of "Ok who didn't tell our podcast off recently" sort of poo poo. You could DM them on twitter and maybe get a private conversation going elsewhere.
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Well that was loving bleak
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padijun posted:Well that was loving bleak It's a good bookend to the episode with @bro_pair where it's like "oh christ we really are hosed aren't we" types of Chapo eps.
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:I've listened to a few episodes and I really love this podcast so far. Are there any standout episodes you guys could recommend? This gets asked kind of often, from myself included a few weeks back. Could we get some favorites added to the OP? Here's some posts I've found naming some favs: Famethrowa posted:Oaxaca Flocka Flame (21?) is an incredibly interesting look at Mexican politics and the teacher strike. Joementum posted:Of the free ones, both the Ross Douthat episodes (3 and 30), the Ron Fournier episode (12), the Silicon Valley episode (42), the post-election episode (58), the James Adomian episode (46), and the mad online Catholics episode (38) are my favorites. Dispersal posted:Exactly what Joe said. Atrocious Joe posted:I'd suggest episode 10 and 52 too, especially if you're interested in foreign policy under Obama.
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The one I always come back to are the movie reviews, especially Reign Over My Face So this explains a lot: https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/807743513622351872 https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/808412187337363456 This is a tweet from an undoubtably incredibly sane person.
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it would be pretty easy to put together a sizeable list of mentally ill media people who should be barred by court order from twitter for the sake of their health. something about the format exacerbates their paranoiac tendencies.
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Here's the pastebin of the Eric Garland twitter rant that Clara Jeffery described as "a Federalist Paper for 2016" http://pastebin.com/rZq8vfTg
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If anything, a management consultant who's mad about family court taking a bunch of adderall and writing up his crazy theory about Russia controlling everything, then getting retweeted by all the dumbest media twitter accounts seems a little too perfect for the Chapo guys ![]()
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Am I missing something or did that guy say that CATO was "quite good?"
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Joementum posted:If anything, a management consultant who's mad about family court taking a bunch of adderall and writing up his crazy theory about Russia controlling everything, then getting retweeted by all the dumbest media twitter accounts seems a little too perfect for the Chapo guys he's a Tulpa willed into existence by the collective will of the Grey Wolves. if we stop believing in him he will vanish in a puff of smoke.
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Joementum posted:If anything, a management consultant who's mad about family court taking a bunch of adderall and writing up his crazy theory about Russia controlling everything, then getting retweeted by all the dumbest media twitter accounts seems a little too perfect for the Chapo guys If Eric Garland wasn't real, we would have to create him.
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Tulpa's freaken' own
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https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/808101509170925573 This guy rules.
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Joementum posted:If anything, a management consultant who's mad about family court taking a bunch of adderall and writing up his crazy theory about Russia controlling everything, then getting retweeted by all the dumbest media twitter accounts seems a little too perfect for the Chapo guys ![]() Vladislav Surkov would be proud of Chapo right now.
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https://twitter.com/missokistic/status/808183743554822144
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Atrocious Joe posted:Here's the pastebin of the Eric Garland twitter rant that Clara Jeffery described as "a Federalist Paper for 2016" More like a Federalist article in 2016
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moller posted:Am I missing something or did that guy say that CATO was "quite good?" https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/808052412808359936
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Yup gotta love that heritage foundation https://twitter.com/heritage/status/808431949375307776
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Meanwhile from Fournier's America https://twitter.com/deep_beige/status/808446531896426497
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