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R. Guyovich: Dec 25, 1991

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

....homework explainer, you were one of them weren't you?

edit: this poo poo is golddddddd. Most of it worse then Kahina imo

i dont think anyone said that but this definitely isn't the thread to relitigate it

# ? Dec 12, 2016 18:19

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# ? May 8, 2024 04:33

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/808362476999847936

love our large comedy boy

# ? Dec 12, 2016 18:27

Thom and the Heads: Oct 27, 2010; Farscape is actually pretty cool.

normies are becoming grey wolves and i dont like it

# ? Dec 12, 2016 18:30

Sushi in Yiddish: Feb 2, 2008

Buckle up folks, it's time for some GAME THEORY

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:getin:

# ? Dec 12, 2016 18:34

Grondoth: Feb 18, 2011

Thom and the Heads posted:

normies are becoming grey wolves and i dont like it

get out reeeeee

# ? Dec 12, 2016 18:44

Godzilla07: Oct 4, 2008

Sushi in Yiddish posted:

Buckle up folks, it's time for some GAME THEORY

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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

# ? Dec 12, 2016 19:06

Megaman's Jockstrap: Jul 16, 2000; What a horrible thread to have a post.

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.

# ? Dec 12, 2016 19:09

cat doter: Jul 27, 2006; gonna need more cheese...australia has a lot of crackers

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

# ? Dec 12, 2016 19:10

SousaphoneColossus: Feb 16, 2004; There are a million reasons to ruin things.

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

# ? Dec 12, 2016 19:13

cat doter: Jul 27, 2006; gonna need more cheese...australia has a lot of crackers

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

# ? Dec 12, 2016 19:16

PayingForTheView: Feb 20, 2011

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)

# ? Dec 12, 2016 19:50

pangstrom: Jan 25, 2003; Wedge Regret

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.

# ? Dec 12, 2016 19:59

SousaphoneColossus: Feb 16, 2004; There are a million reasons to ruin things.

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.

# ? Dec 12, 2016 20:04

Grondoth: Feb 18, 2011

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

# ? Dec 12, 2016 20:06

Sephiroth_IRA: Mar 31, 2010

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

# ? Dec 12, 2016 20:26

Kunster: Dec 24, 2006

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?

# ? Dec 12, 2016 20:34

Atrocious Joe: Sep 2, 2011

cat doter posted:

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

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

# ? Dec 12, 2016 20:43

Sushi in Yiddish: Feb 2, 2008

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

# ? Dec 12, 2016 21:02

Kunster: Dec 24, 2006

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.

# ? Dec 12, 2016 21:12

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

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.

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.

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

# ? Dec 12, 2016 21:18

Kunster: Dec 24, 2006

I will keep it in mind in the future, I've had good experiences chatting with at least most of them.

# ? Dec 12, 2016 21:23

Teabag Dome Scandal: Mar 19, 2002

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.

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.

You could DM them on twitter and maybe get a private conversation going elsewhere.

# ? Dec 12, 2016 21:30

padijun: Feb 5, 2004; murderbears forever

Well that was loving bleak

# ? Dec 12, 2016 22:11

Sushi in Yiddish: Feb 2, 2008

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.

# ? Dec 12, 2016 22:21

Neon Belly: Feb 12, 2008; I need something stronger.

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.

For the premium episodes, any of the movie review episodes are good, and for whatever reason I'm a huge fan of Elfquest, which I think is episode 43.

Atrocious Joe posted:

I'd suggest episode 10 and 52 too, especially if you're interested in foreign policy under Obama.

# ? Dec 12, 2016 22:21

Sushi in Yiddish: Feb 2, 2008

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.

# ? Dec 12, 2016 22:29

uber_stoat: Jan 21, 2001; Pillbug

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.

# ? Dec 12, 2016 22:41

Atrocious Joe: Sep 2, 2011

Here's the pastebin of the Eric Garland twitter rant that Clara Jeffery described as "a Federalist Paper for 2016"
http://pastebin.com/rZq8vfTg

# ? Dec 12, 2016 22:43

Joementum: May 23, 2004; jesus christ

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 :tinfoil:

# ? Dec 12, 2016 22:48

moller: Jan 10, 2007; Swan stole my music and framed me!

Am I missing something or did that guy say that CATO was "quite good?"

# ? Dec 12, 2016 22:49

uber_stoat: Jan 21, 2001; Pillbug

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.

# ? Dec 12, 2016 22:52

Grondoth: Feb 18, 2011

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.

# ? Dec 12, 2016 22:54

A Gnarlacious Bro: Apr 25, 2007; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Tulpa's freaken' own

# ? Dec 12, 2016 22:57

The Lobotomy Kid: Aug 27, 2011; and act like a nut.

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/808101509170925573

This guy rules.

# ? Dec 12, 2016 22:59

Atrocious Joe: Sep 2, 2011

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