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Atrocious Joe posted:I ended up listening to "It Could Happen Here" this week, which is a former Cracked writer trying to predict what a new US civil war would look like. Cracked for a while was a more "respectable" version of Vice, to the point they would happily have listicle interviews having a Pakistani doc happily talking about the CIA Polio vaccine ordeal or have a Guantanamo worker talk on how well they treat their prisoners, so it's somewhat understandable that the people that came from there would go on to produce docs like that. The best boon the former writers for Cracked ever had was the website deciding to remove a part of their writing to be more advertisement friendly, so they could happily rebrand themselves as DSA-types without having to worry about their name being googled and let's say, finding a piece on how modern LGBTQ people are too mean about Reagan letting the AIDS crisis explode or a piece on how lawmakers who make life worse for rape victims isn't a big deal.
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Amber is messed up on a bunch of ways but in terms of trans issues she's closer to the Sonicfox crowd on it, from listening to the few times she talked about that sort of stuff.
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To be frank I find it kinda silly to go "Why would someone with a history of left-wing history entertain right wing ordeals be dismissed". Perhaps I'm saying this from somewhere that has seen former Carnation Revolution participants and Left Wing party founders go on Centre-Right orgs to argue for Right causes under the guise of "As someone who has faught actual fascism, IIII", which included arguing against nearly every strike, strangling Venezuela even more and supporting the Libyan War (Even as European MEPs and on Portuguese government places), all done under the banner of "I'm being open minded and pragmatic, why is the left being a baby about this". You could make a similar case for Eldridge Cleaver or Patrick Moore.
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R. Guyovich posted:i for one am shocked the guy who runs one of three identical broken english chinese man parody twitters posted in gbs I used to follow one of the China threads where yes, Lewon Wei was a Horsey Surprise style account but about China matters and the account is the same, to do so with CGTN broadcasts. I also recall a period where the thread kept demanding for his ID for some reason.
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She got mad at Bernie's own campaign union for making demands and then accused Jacobin's Bhanskar of sexism for being bewildered by this.
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Jul 20, 2019 12:06
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The Citations Needed episode on Nate Bronze has been released! https://twitter.com/CitationsPod/status/1174334974859853829?s=20
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TBF that's part of a larger discussion that does involve people using that banner for that stuff and not just the binary of Cum Town Liker vs Cum Town Disliker: https://twitter.com/MurderBryan/status/1176586816650174466?s=20 https://twitter.com/MurderBryan/status/1176588255216721921?s=20
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Sep 25, 2019 13:50
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A bit of column A, a bit of column B.
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Sep 25, 2019 15:04
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Wasn't Medved responsible for the Razzies?
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Oct 11, 2019 11:59
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I think the way she decided to do that is because she became big and respected enough to be this omnibus where she can introduce other figures that her corner of the web and followship may not be familiar with. She probably saw Buck and went "oh yea i guess you probably have words to say about it as a trans figure of note, also you've got poo poo from online, no I won't look at why" at him and he happily went there. (Which might be a tad more pleasant than his current twitter career) Mind you a good part of this is treating as "oh, why is this a bad thing in the first place, this is too online" and for that I wish I could drag these people to Portuguese coverage of US elections to show what they sound like.
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Yeah, i'm kind of leaning on the first case, I'm a bit more bothered as how the defense on this particular case is going.
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Oct 15, 2019 13:43
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I think they could afford at least one paper towel or hankerchief for Will to blow his nose on, Jesus.
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Pirate Jet posted:your only solution at this point is to just stop listening to all the ex-Cracked folks, everyone outside of Cody is getting stupider as time goes on and I don’t even want to think about what their crossover pod is like Karl Smallwood fascinates me as he, once in a while, will just straight up poo poo out a Pro Musk/Thiel episode and its like he's trying to keep the original spirit of reading Cracked years ago alive, while even Seanbaby actually bothered to evolve his policies despite being an internet living fossil.
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Ace of Baes posted:everyone points out "amber defenders" but all of the same people would also be calling you idiots if you were posting dumb and made up poo poo about will or Matt or Felix, for some reason despite having nearly identical politics and problematic associations all of the hatred and vitriol gets aimed at Amber though 🤔 That would only make sense if the other Chapos were as profilic on writing on a serious tone for other publications as her. If, let's say, Will Menaker went around on publications talking about the issues facing the left as a figure of authority on it, he would get as much poo poo! I can find her writing printed here and translated, and I heavily suspect she was behind that Financial Times piece praising the left wing coalition that our press shat their pants about for weeks a few months ago. Now that I have my hand on the baking dough: I do have a problem with something she wrote recently: On her piece on why Busytown likes Bernie, she pairs Graphical Designers (in particular freelance types) with like heads of NgOs and such. Ok, then why do I, every few days or so, get frenetic adverts on my feed for artists and such telling they really need commissions desperatly for rent and grocery money? Kunster has issued a correction as of 11:30 on Nov 25, 2019 |
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I'm worried that she put, on the same box, comics successes like Charlie Trotman and ko-fi Twitter artists begging for commission work and went "yeah there's probably no income level distinction here"
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Ok is Pod Save America having right now some sort of marketing push in Europe? I've had at least several publications here do a "Catch-all of podcasts" and the only US "Essential" one being talked about is theirs. I don't mean like they're recommended along with let's say any of the McElroy ones or whatever. I mean on the sense its the only one being recommended that's US based. It's bizarre because... I can go to more fancy magazine places and see Amber published there, but no peep about every other single pod, left or right or "apolitical".
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Nov 30, 2019 14:38
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I feel bad for Robert Krulwich there! I liked what he had to say.
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It used to be! https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Krulwich&oldid=660219703 Just peep the discussion on the edits for it slowly getting more and more smaller until its fully redacted.
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Dec 5, 2019 23:03
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Dear God I don't know if this is any dumber than the time Mike Rowe's rant about "Safety Third" became popular among some webcomics figures purely by "Oh you see, OSHA is tumblr teens basically, but to blue collar work, so its extra classist"
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Wondering if there's gonna be a twitch stream/live event thingy for UK election time. Or, if I'm thinking out loud here, a chance for the Chapos to be on the same room as Immolations.
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gh0stpinballa posted:i remember reading some long twitter thread about how virgil and felix were hired by some tech billionaire to write for a site like cracked? the thread connected the billionaire to like the CIA and all that. iirc red kahina and that lot were quite keen on the idea when chapo first came out. and now the way they seem to have banned matt from talking about the epstein scandal has stirred it all up again lol Cafe Dot Com, as part of the Digger thing, yes. But I wouldn't say it's intelligence connected. Cracked however? For years they used to host articles defending stuff like the Mujanhadeen aid , the fake Polio Immunization campaign and Reagan letting the AIDS crisis explode. The biggest boon former writers had from Cracked dying was the new investors deleting from the archives nearly every weird article like that so no one can bring that up during one of their threads or something on twitter. I wouldn't be surprised if part of why John Cheese's position was kept for that long was due to some spook keeping tabs on the site for "Hello, here's 5 things as a totally liberal waifish hipstery gal from Eastern Europe wants to tell you about why Azov Battalion is actually woke" pieces to keep rolling.
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There was a good reason why let's say, Splinter and Gawker and Deadspin were mourned while Cracked just faded away, currently on a Escapist-style husk being entirely held by Seanbaby's occasional piece there. IT was a different time what with people centering way, way more on a lady's occasional writing on feminism than let's say, the piece where they taunted the Australian Government for not murdering every Sentilense or the John Cheese bit where he devotes part of a "Here's how to spot Fake News" article to poo poo on people worried about destroyed and covered up rape kits to go on how that's not a concern of the working class.
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Peter Coffin's big rant re: Joe Rogan was probably far more damning on Joe Rogan watchers with him basing them entirely on the shifty things he was condemned for in the first place.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Because the smart thing to do is to realise that it's pretty easy to gently caress up being physically unattractive while plenty of ways to work around it, while the whole thing about having money is that it makes your failures not matter at all while not having money means you can be hosed over fatally at any time no matter what you do There's like also a side on this on which you have initially not very bodily active comedic actors having outright huge transformations of getting jacked up to hell for movie roles and elaborating on Instagram that yes they required an absurd investment of both money and lifestyle to get to that point and some twitter person summing that up with "Yes, there's a certain level of able and monetary privilege to get to that point, specially at that starting point" only to get jumped on by dipshits screaming on how much this harms the left and reposting the exact same posts they were quoting as these huge owns. And another side on which you do have bodybuilders that go on anti-M4A and anti-welfare tirades to sell supplements and the like being passed as wisdom for the proles rather than self-admitted advertisements.
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"So democratic socialism requires body fascism. Cool." , quoting a bunch of people on the Hot Guys for Bernie Hashtag.
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Amber is also like, someone who admittedly helps at least two of the chapos (and possibly Nick?) keep their poo poo together so I'm fine with her occasionally loving up on pieces like "1950's housewives were actually under UBI".
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Xaris posted:do you have a link to that article? Specially Taryn given that the Vice Crew people earnestly tried to doxx her while she was on a UN Refugee mission on a region ISIS was in control of in order to "own her" online.
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:in the recent cum town ep with amber, amber and nick said shes planning on moving to europe after the election. i guess shes gonna quit chapo? Ireland, most likely, specially with Sein Fein on the helm these days.
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https://twitter.com/StreamerBans/status/1232769557091307525 Aaaand they're back!
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Jewel Repetition posted:Well Animal Crossing and Doom Eternal came out a couple weeks ago Both have big online components, so there would be at least someone to go "oh I saw him logged in".
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Honest Thief posted:european, it was around 14 where i was, Lisbon Sic Radical was weirdly good about this.
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Also it's important in, let's say, shaping how voters in other countries keep up with matters, which in turn shapes those policies. I know Boris is now being embraced by the Portuguese News Media as this lovable and gratuitous figure for his NHS message, which was only aided by the UK Press apparatus being so dismissive of issues that one would see the access from those news orgs get shut down as soon any leveled criticism here, including the whole "kicking out a lot of people that would later become referred to as essential work". COVID-19 won't certainly help with that, making reports being far more local/national and thus far, far less scrutiny involved in discussing these matters.
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One of ours is a Brendan James mutual and I wonder how that relationship goes.
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:amber's position about how most people are instinctively distrustful of the mainstream media was dumb as hell imo, glad matt pushed back He also pushed back against Will's "For some reason... youngsters didn't show up for Bernie!" at the end as well.
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It was leagues, leagues better than the first episode, that's for sure. Matt shittalking the ChapoFym/E1 fundraiser stream on his IG was something else!
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gh0stpinballa posted:go on... 5m 18s: "Yeah, they didn't invite me on their stream! They can go gently caress off. Why do I care about what they're doing. .... The real heads are here with me! The only big stream that was around then that "he could be invited to" was the ChapoFYM/E1 fundraiser stream!
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VOD is up for that, if you don't wanna have a browser memoryleak use like MPC or VLC, and copy this link to the "open network stream" option https://d2nvs31859zcd8.cloudfront.net/1cadad0e97c20866e720_chapotraphouse_37616294912_1419843297/chunked/index-dvr.m3u8 https://d2nvs31859zcd8.cloudfront.net/1cadad0e97c20866e720_chapotraphouse_37616294912_1419843297/720p30/index-dvr.m3u8 There are other resolutions, but "chunked" is the max one, second is the default one and I'm somewhat sure you can just put 160p,360p,480p in lieu of "chunked" in case you want lower resolutions
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Yeah the reason why Matt's thing on E1 got to me wasn't even "How dare he criticize a Chapo-adjacent franchise", it's more that he's fully cognizant that the kind of stream performance that they wanted is not something he'd be able to deliver and similar situations have eaten him inside. Specially an event for fundraising. I do however think that one of his neighbors should call him a dork mid-stream at some point.
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Yeah if he sucked but didn't like, leave events midway or kick himself over it, I wouldn't have minded that.
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V. Illych L. posted:i get the impression that they're trying to take the film on its own premises, and saying that it's reasonably produced, thematically and narratively coherent and uses the time travel gimmick in a way which helps communicate what the movie wants to communicate without falling in most of the pitfalls such films usually hit - the acting isn't great but it's not offensively bad imo and this is clearly an actual attempt to use the medium of film to reflect on american evangelical christianity's issues and problems on a deeper level rather than just a lazy cash-in It's also the plot of a 30 year old metal album.
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