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Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
If you don't think Tucker Carlson is a household name you are deeply out of touch with the country

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Greg12
Apr 22, 2020
tbh that mushmouth conference is a lot less about obfuscating things for cred or clout in the academic world and a lot more about graduate students and professors getting their universities' foundations to pay for them to take a trip to berlin so that they can party and gently caress each other

DER FUNKY BEATS, am I right

THS
Sep 15, 2017

tucker carlson is at least as well known as glenn beck ever was imo

Rhesus Pieces
Jun 27, 2005

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend

THS posted:

tucker carlson is at least as well known as glenn beck ever was imo

There’s a chance Tucker Carlson is more well known than any active baseball player.

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

“People who have touched a boob”

drat Amber why’d you have to call us out like that.

miniscule12
Jan 8, 2020

HAHA YEAH HE PEED IN HIS OWN MOUTH I'M GONNA KEEP BRINGING IT UP.

I will never touch a boob, come at me (don't girls are gross)

NoEyedSquareGuy
Mar 16, 2009

Just because Liquor's dead, doesn't mean you can just roll this bitch all over town with "The Freedoms."

General Dog posted:

There’s a chance Tucker Carlson is more well known than any active baseball player.

It's still amazing to me that Tucker became the next big thing on Fox News. He was always the sniveling bowtie dipshit cackling at the jokes made by big dogs like Hannity and O'Reilly, now he's neck and neck with Hannity for ratings. An inspirational story to Salacious Crumb figures the world over.

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

NoEyedSquareGuy posted:

It's still amazing to me that Tucker became the next big thing on Fox News. He was always the sniveling bowtie dipshit cackling at the jokes made by big dogs like Hannity and O'Reilly, now he's neck and neck with Hannity for ratings. An inspirational story to Salacious Crumb figures the world over.

gonna hazard a guess it's because he's on at 8pm which is the peak viewing hour for fox's octogenarian audience

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
Yeah, I always thought of him as the guy who got owned so hard by Jon "DANGEROUS MARXISTS!!!" Stewart that they canceled his show. (I've heard that he was already planning to leave, but whatever.)

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

The Muppets On PCP posted:

gonna hazard a guess it's because he's on at 8pm which is the peak viewing hour for fox's octogenarian audience

it's literally this, everyone with a 8pm eastern timeslot on a cable news channel is a 'household name' for some demographic of old news watchers, just insert your channel/politics of choice into the mix and match grid. Tucker got the prime slot so he gets to be famous for the kinds of people who watch Fox News.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/PoRiverJamBand/status/1253034825793011716

:ironicat:

Heath
Apr 30, 2008

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Typically when you put something in quote marks like that it's good form to source the quote that she definitely said, Twitter Shithead

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


Good Lord Bird is pretty good I knew I shouldn't have trusted Matt after his awful take on the best show on TV.

Pharmaskittle
Dec 17, 2007

arf arf put the money in the fuckin bag


lol if you start being on a first name basis with the people who live in your phone

Law Cheetah
Mar 3, 2012

Pharmaskittle posted:

lol if you start being on a first name basis with the people who live in your phone

matt, will, and felix are my friends

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

Law Cheetah posted:

matt, will, and felix are my friends

Felix is my friend, Will and Matt are my friend's friends who I get along with

Pharmaskittle
Dec 17, 2007

arf arf put the money in the fuckin bag

I mean in the context of this thread it's fine, we all know who you mean when you say virgil

Pharmaskittle
Dec 17, 2007

arf arf put the money in the fuckin bag

imagine coming across that tweet in the wild

who are gwen and amber, what the gently caress is a nazbol, is this a harry potter thing?

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


Pharmaskittle posted:

imagine coming across that tweet in the wild

who are gwen and amber, what the gently caress is a nazbol, is this a harry potter thing?

No it's a LotR thing

a_gelatinous_cube
Feb 13, 2005

Halloween Jack posted:

This is reaching way back, but I wanted to talk about it anyway, apropos of nothing. Something I found jarring about the interview was that the guy would say something like "collapsing the multiplicitudes of attenuated counter-hegemonies," but then when he specifically referenced Hegel, his cohost would jump in and mock-scold him about being too academic. The encounter was apparently so traumatic for them that they had to do a follow-up:


From time to time I get dismayed at how much of the left, such as it is, is bound up in academia and academic ways of communicating. Grad school apparently teaches you how to communicate in a way that demonstrates to other people who went to grad school that you went to grad school. (In the humanities and social sciences, anyway.) And then they just cannot or will not turn that off, even on podcasts and tweets where they presumably don't have to suck up to anyone. What do they think they're accomplishing? And a lot of these postgrads are underemployed and/or on a career path that results in them being on Twitter all day. So we get this extremely creepy style of writing that's part academic jargon, part slang appropriated from black teenagers, and part "I'm literally shaking and feeling so unsafe right now."

This is the announcement for an academic conference about "cognitive capitalism," whatever that is.

If I thought that these people were trying to educate the public, I would be more sympathetic, and I'd be begging them to make their work more accessible. But now I know that prestige in academia means teaching as few undergraduate classes as possible. What's the point in even pretending to be leftist if you're just angling for tenure?

I went and listened to that Superstructure episode tonight, and you know what, I take back any criticisms I've made of Matt's streams. If that is indicative of the discourse going on in the online leftist spaces than it is completely worthless, and now I am going to log off and grill some hot dogs.

Farm Frenzy
Jan 3, 2007

amber

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

as someone from indiana

Dr.Radical
Apr 3, 2011
The Superstructure hosts seemed to be pretty defensive whenever Matt mentioned college.

I sort of disagree that people in the US don’t identify themselves by class. They do but in largely useless ways, like when they’re talking with each other about how rough they had it as kids. Not in any sense to organize which would actually be useful. Humbling someone on the internet because “aw boohoo first world problems” is way more important to most people.

inferis
Dec 30, 2003

If people don’t sort themselves by class then why was everyone so surprised that juggalos had mostly okay politics

The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015


Americans don’t have a conception of class, they just have a general sense of how well-off they are compared to other people.

THS
Sep 15, 2017

class but no solidarity

The Chad Jihad
Feb 24, 2007



You've got some nerve stirring up trouble with a post like this

The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015


No, “class without solidarity” would be recognition that you are a member of the proletariat but you identify more strongly with something else like your race or religion.

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend
Why would anybody want to primarily self-identify as “poor”? You identify as something you can feel good about- you religion, your race, your gender, your team, your gaming console, etc.

The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015


yeah.

E: but the idea that the proletarian must be “poor” is sort of what I’m talking about here.

The Kingfish fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Jan 16, 2021

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
The Useful Idiots this week is pretty drat good. They have a guy from World Socialist Website who spits some real hot fire.

THS
Sep 15, 2017

PostNouveau posted:

The Useful Idiots this week is pretty drat good. They have a guy from World Socialist Website who spits some real hot fire.

did they talk about the innocence of roman polanski and how harvey weinstein has been treated terribly unfair

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

THS posted:

did they talk about the innocence of roman polanski and how harvey weinstein has been treated terribly unfair

Didn't come up. A lot of that vein of conversation is about how allowing tech overlords to dictate who gets to use the common spheres of speech will lead to suppression of leftists, from a guy who's experienced it first-hand because Google cracked down on his website's rankings.

Heath
Apr 30, 2008

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PostNouveau posted:

Didn't come up. A lot of that vein of conversation is about how allowing tech overlords to dictate who gets to use the common spheres of speech will lead to suppression of leftists, from a guy who's experienced it first-hand because Google cracked down on his website's rankings.

Try bringing that idea up elsewhere on the forums and marvel at how quickly you get called an idiot

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
And I think that dude's right. It's along the same lines of what Matt has been talking about in the vlogs, both the conservatives and the libs want to continue unfettered capitalism that allows the very rich to pull the copper wire out of the walls of society while blaming outgroups. The libs cheer it when the outgroups are racist dickbags, but they're still functionally redirecting the anger the working class should feel together at the failures of capitalism toward an outgroup.

inferis
Dec 30, 2003

there’s people that still believe in objective fact-checking sites so of course they love more netcops

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

PostNouveau posted:

The Useful Idiots this week is pretty drat good. They have a guy from World Socialist Website who spits some real hot fire.

Did they ask him about this take?

https://twitter.com/having__trouble/status/1350259122600435712

Heath
Apr 30, 2008

🍂🎃🏞️💦

You could try reading the article that explains it in detail instead of just reading a screenshot of the headline in a tweet


https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/16/amaz-j16.html posted:

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has given the go-ahead to the union recognition vote at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, just outside of Birmingham. Workers are expected to vote later this month on whether to certify the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which is affiliated with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union, as their official bargaining agent.

Working conditions at BHM1, like Amazon warehouses around the world, are exploitative and dangerous. Sara Marie Thrasher, who worked as a “stower” in the facility before getting fired, told The American Prospect, “They work you to death. It’s crowded. Sometimes you can’t even find a station. We would get reprimanded if our stowing time was above 20 seconds or higher, with rates needing to be done in 8 seconds per item.” Another worker Bryon added, “It was almost set up like a sweatshop.”

Workers urgently require organization and leadership to fight for their rights against the transnational retail giant. But they cannot advance their struggle against Amazon by voting in the RWDSU or any other trade union. Far from “representing” workers, the unions function as bureaucratic tools of corporate management, suppressing democratic discussion among workers and their strivings to improve working conditions and living standards, and protecting the profit interests of the employers.

Because of this, the International Amazon Workers Voice (IAWV) calls on BHM1 workers to cast a “no” vote in the upcoming certification election. Instead, workers should form a rank-and-file committee, democratically controlled by workers themselves, to fight against speedup, poverty wages and management abuse. BHM1 workers should link up with Amazon workers to build similar committees throughout the US and internationally, and to unite with workers across all industries and services to fight the dictatorship that billionaires like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos impose in their workplaces and over society as whole.


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Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


AnimeIsTrash posted:

as someone from indiana

Dies from COVID or opioid addiction

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