Remind me again why these guys are considered worth listening to? All they do is complain all day and offer up no solutions ("Doesn't every leftist?" har har har)
>>671271Speaking of The Daily Show…
Adam Friedland was profiled in GQ the other day and this was the headline. There's a cultural shift going on. I think the vibe is very nihilistic and cynical too.
>This leaks over into the way he talks about his own work. He says comedians think they’re geniuses like Noam Chomsky or Pablo Picasso nowadays, when they’re actually just “content creators.” He speaks about his show’s aims broadly—to entertain, to make people laugh and feel good, to be a remedy for a political and digital landscape that has “broken people’s brains.” “This is the most demoralized I’ve ever seen people,” he says. “Everyone’s just bummed out. In the ’90s, dude, when I was growing up, we were like, ‘This is the best year ever. And next year’s gonna be the best year ever.’ It was incredible. People were buying Hummers.”
>You could mistake the way he talks about his show for apolitical, irony-poisoned pussyfooting, but it’s really just a desire not to be didactic or sanctimonious. Friedland’s friend Brace Belden, a host of the leftist podcast TrueAnon, whose previous claims to fame include a voluntary tour of duty with a Kurdish militia during the Syrian civil war, tells me over the phone that Friedland does indeed have political convictions. While some might call him “the rudest person on Earth,” Belden says warmly, he’s actually “a great role model for people who have grown up in a pretty tough society, with either genetic or intellectual disabilities, that see somebody who resembles them on TV.” Belden doesn’t think Friedland would travel overseas to join a revolutionary socialist militia the way he did, but that that’s mostly because Friedland is smarter. “Despite his demeanor and general attitude, he does believe in things.”https://www.gq.com/story/adam-friedland >>671264I don't know what you are talking about OP, they seem pretty funny to me. this one for example was pretty good
I don't really like that felix was in dsa but on the other hand I'm not even american so I don't really care about the particulars of their line
>>671264Chapo was good because of Matt.
Unfortunately, Matt was the recipient of a surprise auto-lobotomy and now just mumbles out quips when he's even on the show.
>>671379You don't really ever recover from a stroke, just make incremental improvements. This is from his wife and its very sobering.
https://amberrollo.substack.com/p/recovery-vs-progress?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=trueI think its a damn shame because Matt was someone who actually had anything of use to say in the modern socialist sphere. Now we are all stuck with people like Hasan/Bad Empanada/Deprogram who would rather talk about internet drama or LARP.
>>671499I don't live in the west, that's your job
Get on it.
>>671644- pretentious
- parasocial
- online
- actually unfunny
just like me fr fr
>>671267They're big on Twitter and they rode the late-2010s succdem high
Also they cater to an audience that likes white stoner bro observational humor slop on top of the centre-left politics
>>671270>I think they wanted to be like Zizek but they do not have that talent.it's really weird too because by the time the podcast was blowing up between 2019 and 2020, zizek was effectively cancelled, for being a transphobe. Sam Kriss would write long takedowns about how much of a hack he was, Matt and Amber would laugh and say the dude was an obvious grifter juggling psychoanalytical babble into incoherent theory and then suddenly everyone was a zizekian overnight, Matt fully internalized the idea of jouissance into his cosmovision (this video
>>671266 is basically regurgitating zizek in plain terms), and the night before the election Amber would pretty much cite him verbally. Now Zizek is back to being a hack, but now he's an employed hack getting money from NATO directly.
>>671270>Matt was the soul of the show, i.e actually a Marxist who does historical materialism
>nothing he added really had much substance<Hell on Earth will tell the story of the Thirty Years War, the cataclysmic outbreak of violence in central Europe that lasted from 1618–1648. It’s the story of the long crisis of the 17th century, the birth of Protestantism and the collapse of Catholic Christendom, and ultimately, the gleaming T-800 Terminator skeleton of Capitalism emerging from the rotting corpse of Feudalism. It’s a story of lurid violence from a bygone age, of hot death on the battlefield, and cool intrigue in the palaces of Kings and Emperors. But it’s also the story of climate change, financial collapse, moral panics, speculative bubbles, pandemic, crisis in institutional legitimacy, of conspiracy theories driving policy, and an information revolution that changes the way everyday people relate to their political leaders. Sound familiar? This is the birth of modernity."WWII never ended"? more like the 30YW never ended!
>Amber is fucking unbearable nowthe Occupy Wall Street/Berniecrat years were historic events that we must reckon with, read her book:
https://annas-archive.org/md5/250a89007a4277f8082af53102513e29>>671744>They're big on Twitter could a group project like CTH ever be created today? Young people are increasingly atomized, there aren't really open, non-privatized forums for opportunities to form internet friendships like Twitter used to be good for
>>671454Ans this is why people should stop postponing procreation for thirty -plus.
Either that or just remain child-free.
>>671274Once again, the alt right and alt left showing camaraderie both in association and craft.
>>671346How common is it to have strokes before senescence?
This sounds a bit worrying
they are cringe
also, obligatory "people's millionaires" moment:
>$181,000 per month on patreonhttps://graphtreon.com/creator/chapotraphouseUnique IPs: 38