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get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Fentry posted:

Knowledge Fight
https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/

Keep up with what Alex Jones and the most insane people in the world are up to without destroying your brain actually listening to their shows. They examine Alex Jones episodes and debunk all of his bullshit, currently the episodes split between modern day and episodes from the immediate aftermath of Sandy Hook to see how much legally actionable poo poo Alex said (spoiler alert: so much legally actionable poo poo). Also occasionally does episodes on lesser known conspiracy nuts.
i'm still shocked that the guy who was once so anti-authority that he accused W of 9/11 being an inside job, at the height of america blindly following authority, is now pro-government

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Feb 10, 2007

it's not political (well, not every week) but i like Report This Post. it's reading off terrible posts and making fun of them

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Feb 10, 2007

haiti owns in general. france can go gently caress themselves for saying "pay us all the money and we won't re-invade" while the US can for essentially being their second colonial power

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Feb 10, 2007

i understand that Anna isn't a sports fan, but saying that Boston racism is more restrained than southern racism is laughable. if you actually believe that poo poo, go to Fenway Park and see what happens when an opposing black player does something. and the only worthwhile culture there is imported by people who teach at the colleges. all of the trashiest Italians, Jews, and Irish in the northeast live there

calling her a crypto-fascist implies that she has a core set of beliefs. she doesn't have any, she's a kneejerk contrarian

Gripweed posted:

Basically, New York is a bad place where people shouldn't live.
i live here and i won't argue with that. i love it but it's unnatural

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Feb 10, 2007

people born and raised in NYC are better than the people who flock here from Ohio

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Feb 10, 2007

the only thing stopping me from making a podcast where i get cynical and negative about sports is the fact that i'd have to promote it constantly on twitter and elsewhere for it to get any traction

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Feb 10, 2007

MizPiz posted:

Tbf, I do think "leftist drama is the only thing 'interesting' about leftism" does play a bit into the reasoning. Just look at how almost every thread in C-SPAM rings up some sort interpersonal fighting over petty bullshit. It's negligent to ignore that the media is explicitly hostile towards the left, but we do have some really entertaining conflicts.
we're a drat sight more united than the far right, and less hilarious about drama to boot

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Feb 10, 2007

Radio War Nerd is coming to a place not too far from me. i never listened to any episodes but i've heard good things

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Feb 10, 2007

amber is self-described appalachia trash so that means she's probably scots-irish, right?

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Feb 10, 2007

Captain Billy Pissboy posted:

That dork is real mad about retweeting etiquette
i'll never get people getting bent out of shape for stealing memes

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Feb 10, 2007

Gripweed posted:

It's also kinda dumb to go "lol it's just twitter who cares" when twitter is the way a lot of comedians/podcasters/artists/etc. build their audience nowadays.
nobody should have to use twitter for anything, and the fact that it's necessary for promoting stuff for your career is just another reason why the San Francisco economy is worse than control by Wall Street. although a lot of Wall Street people went there and that's why the tech industry is the way it is, so :shrug:
now that Dasha and Adam have broken up, i no longer feel compelled to listen to Red Scare or give them $5 a month for new episodes. the good insights there are constantly buried under a mountain of eye-rolling takes

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Feb 10, 2007

a Loving Dog posted:

why the gently caress were you ever even giving them $5 a month in the first place lol
because i'm loving stupid

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Feb 10, 2007

i don't welcome the pile-on itt but i can't say i don't deserve it

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Feb 10, 2007

i put my freed $5 to something that isn't a podcast because i need less of them, not more. i got a hell of a backlog

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Feb 10, 2007

i ought to recommend Trillbillies to one of my friends. she lives in Oklahoma, she returned there a couple years ago after making getting the gently caress out of there her first priority when she got a divorce in her mid-30s. that state's politics has disgruntled her like nothing else

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Feb 10, 2007

I've heard that the only reason Chapo Trap House never apologized for taking a picture in front of the Bill Cosby Hollywood Walk of Fame star is because Amber demanded that they don't. Seems to have worked out well for them.

Anna legitimately seems like a miserable person and incapable of feeling positive emotions. I'm not entirely sure what Dasha's deal is.

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Feb 10, 2007

Felix is a midwestern boy through and through and his disdain for the coastal elites is nothing new

Deified Data posted:

Amber thinks #metoo is a wedge and not really worth considering at best, and actively something to work against at worst.

And of course there's a bit of truth to that because idpol in the hands of disingenuous people will spoil anything, but to my knowledge she's never stopped to make that distinction. There's an increasing amount of nuance to issues within labor and left politics that I think she just doesn't want to engage with, but if we don't, others will assume our positions for us. I think she can do a lot better.
i remember that when MeToo started, it was a way for women to say that they've been sexually harassed/assaulted before and that any women who feels alone, shouldn't. in other words, it was originally a solidarity movement. unfortunately, it ended up becoming confined to a movement for women in upper-crust, highly visible industries like Hollywood and the media, which then became just another crutch for liberals to lean on in the absence of ideological solutions. meanwhile, women in other walks of life have been ignored. do you remember the national walk-out by women McDonald's workers a year or so ago as a protest against continued sexual harassment by management? i only knew that through the Fight For $15 email campaign, because it sure as hell wasn't reported on by cable news outlets

it's possible to criticize what MeToo has become, but you have to be very, very careful in how you phrase it. and while Amber hasn't phrased it exactly like i have, and has managed to come off as abrasive in the process, i'm almost certain that's what she means

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Feb 10, 2007

andrew yang is an obvious shill for the interests of San Francisco, but i respect the hell out of his hustle being centered on NEETs

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Feb 10, 2007

of course there's a podcast bubble

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Feb 10, 2007

wasn't Karl Marx in communication with Lincoln during the Civil War?

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Feb 10, 2007

freckle posted:

sending my dick portraits to lincoln
there were dick pics in the 1860s, it just took a long time for the camera to warm up and there was no guarantee you'd still be hard by the time it was ready

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Feb 10, 2007

even among internet nazis, cernovich has become increasingly irrelevant

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Feb 10, 2007

anna's a troll whose only purpose in having a podcast is to piss people off. amber is cool as hell and has actual politics. also apparently the Chapo subreddit banned a ton of people for defending amber, which lol

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Feb 10, 2007

Amber has been a socialist long before a decent chunk of the current political climate warmed up to the movement. but a different group of idiots think she's a cryptofascist because to them, words speak louder than actions. there's some overlap between that group and the people who have become socialists since 2016

just because someone comes off as abrasive and puts their foot in their mouth occasionally doesn't make them your political enemy

Xaris posted:

why would you ever read a subreddit devored to a podcast lol
i didn't, the mod logs got leaked and posted all over. i saw a screenshot of multiple permabans with the reason "defending Amber"

Mr Interweb posted:

whoa there, kimosabe

have you seen williamson get interviewed by david rubin? she's legit now
my reaction to williamson's fanbase is that line in FF6 where kefka accuses your party of sounding like a self-help booklet

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Feb 10, 2007

it was an ill-advised interview but it's hardly the first time she's done something stupid

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Feb 10, 2007

THS posted:

so glad i have a bunch of nice pals here in cspam to discuss my opinions on podcast personalities with, whenever i start bringing this up to my friends they start loudly shouting and roll me in a carpet rug and leave me outside
unless you want to move to brooklyn (don't, it sucks here) that's what the internet is for

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Feb 10, 2007

WampaLord posted:

My main takeaway from Amber is that she emphasizes over and over that only real life activism matters and all this online poo poo is pointless frivolity.
i mean, spot the lie

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Feb 10, 2007

AnEdgelord posted:

Im there right now and it sucks worse but in different ways
how much of it is because people won't shut up about The Office and how much of it is because they play up its blue collar background?

Bedshaped posted:

What she said about political persuasions and substituting activism in place of actual hobbies doesn't make someone interesting was a good hot take
not only do i agree with that, you can extend that to beyond politics. anyone who believes that their identity is their personality is a fundamentally boring person. i'm particularly vexed by the people who do that with psychological diagnoses. i spent my childhood and teenage years being labeled and re-labeled by psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health professionals, what have you, which did a number on my self-esteem. seeing people use labels as a crutch and a substitute for personality is something i'll never get

WampaLord posted:

I'm saying it's good and she is right
:agreed::hellyeah:

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Feb 10, 2007

AnEdgelord posted:

Its an ex mining town, Joe Biden is from here and its run by the mafia. You can pretty much let your imagination run from there
so it's Staten Island meets the rust belt? sounds next-level awful

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Feb 10, 2007

Victory Position posted:

Scranton's got ten years before it's gentrified to hell and back

Columbus is safe due to the purity of Street Fight
also the obnoxiousness of Buckeyes fans

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Feb 10, 2007

Dreylad posted:

online drama is frivolous but that doesn't really stop most people from getting involved in the frivolity
amber is a messy bitch that lives for drama

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Feb 10, 2007

Majorian posted:

I think most of her defenders acknowledge that she says dumb poo poo every now and then, just that it doesn't overshadow her other contributions.
nuance is forbidden

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Feb 10, 2007

i started seeing aimee terese's name being thrown around the last couple of months, what's her deal besides consistently wrong opinions

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Feb 10, 2007

my APUSH teacher owned, he was an obviously gay but still closeted man who had a passion for teaching history

Gripweed posted:

How does flooding stop a podcast? They can't talk if their feet are wet?
i was there, there was a monsoon outside for about an hour and there was water steadily creeping into the performance space

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Feb 10, 2007

felix has always had contempt for coastal elite cities, owing to his midwest background. i think having to live among that crowd is starting to get to him

Gripweed posted:

And he's said his friends need the money, so he can't abandon it. So now Felix is stuck playing Fortnite badly for 16 hours a week because none of his friends are funny or entertaining by themselves.
does he have to play Fortnite exclusively? all the twitch streamers i follow do their own thing. admittedly, they're almost all former SA LPers who migrated to Twitch, so they have their niche and can do their own thing, but Go Off Kings mixes things up quite a bit

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Feb 10, 2007

Serf posted:

felix streamed mgs but he was very bad at it lol
playing video games terribly is half of the appeal of one of the former SA LPers i follow, the other being his bizarre quebecois accent (psychedelic eyeball)

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Feb 10, 2007

Mario is definitely a disillusioned working class voter that was turned off by Hillary. he's come a long way since raising communist standards over castles

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Feb 10, 2007

Gripweed posted:

I've had this argument a dozen times and it gets no less tiresome. Nintendo has confirmed that Mario is not and never has been a plumber. They have also confirmed that the narrative games, the ones where Mario has to rescue Peach from Bowser, are just plays put on for the amusement of the player. So, let's look at what Mario games do reflect the reality of the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario Paint, Dr. Mario, Mario Kart, all the sports games. So what conclusion can we draw from them? Mario paints in the morning, practices medicine in the afternoon, races in the evening, and plays tennis after dinner, without ever being a painter, a doctor, a race car driver, or a tennis player.

Mario doesn't need to raise the communist flag over Princess Peach's Castle because the Mushroom Kingdom has already achieved full communism
what irony level are you operating under, private?

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Feb 10, 2007

i'd be down for a drunk-as-gently caress Matt Christman and a himself-as-gently caress Nick Mullen as regular guests on that Epstein podcast
this is funny but it didn't happen irl

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Feb 10, 2007

forkboy84 posted:

That was brutal and amazing and also it seems like there is no way Chapo doesn't get sued by someone for this episode. My money is on Dan Bilzerian.
the entire reason they started their Patreon was to form an LLC as a safeguard to cover their asses in such an event

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