The top comments are all calling her a dumbass, especially since Dasha got vaxxed and her Covid was mild. Also some of these comments are really vicious and personal, not that Anna K dosen't fully deserve it since she is the one who cultivated this following and with all the shit she's talked in the past.
Like the old Chapo sub had a contentious relationship with the hosts but we were way more civil than this.
who is not young or healthy
Lol, that is such a bitchy little aside, and looking at this person's post history they've been active on that subs for over a year. Like this is one of their more loyal fans.
Well, actually lots of stupid people have large followings.
Top five podcasts in 2021 included Joe Rogan at #1, TED Talks at #2, and Call Her Daddy at #5. Pod Save America came in at #10.
Turns out you don't need to be smart to entertain. Loveable idiots are an enduring media trope.
That poor kid is going to have a deeply fucked up childhood
I always assumed that they were spiteful morons just based on the company they kept, but finding out that Anna almost died and Dasha took horse dewormer gives me that proof that I needed.
based on the company they kept
It’s wild (and paranoia inducing) to me that they’re the degree of separation between Alex Jones and TrueAnon
All three groups have made a career out of being "edgy" to varying degrees. I see them all as basically apolitical, so it doesn't seem so weird that they'd brush elbows.
My (shamefully too online) understanding is that Brace and Dasha are old friends, and still do work together, even post-horse-paste it seems!
Apolitical in that they aren't active politically, and that their political ideologies aren't the main thrust of their shows.
I don't know, I would compare them to maybe Citations Needed. That's a show that's 100% about political ideology, and the people who listen to it want to hear that ideology explored and explained and argued for.
"Infowars isn't political" is a volcanic eruption of a take.
how is trueanon apolitical??? actually wait how are literally any of those groups apolitical???
They all tend to be hostile to mainstream politics and the liberal democratic process. Less "apolitical" and more "political cynics".
If you aren't a political cynic in America you are a rube
Like the old Chapo sub had a contentious relationship with the hosts but we were way more civil than this.
IDK about this. I recall it regularly showing up in lists of lefty podcast recommendations on the old sub when I joined. I even checked it out and was greeted with them talking about the most boring and impenetrable NYC art world drama imaginable.
I'm confused by your comment, what does that have to do with how people on the old sub talked about/treated the host?
Just that I don't recall the relationship being very contentious
They're insiders talking inside baseball, and there's a strong bucket-o-crabs mentality in Hollywood.
Hardly an excuse. More an illustration of the conversation that happens in back rooms. Its fair to acknowledge that they're shitty people. But you're also shooting the messager.
Pretty sure they're just grifters hanging off the balls of a man with more money than sense
I never understood the "hating chapo" thing. I didn't come here through the sub, so IDGI
There's the dirtbag left that sees liberal civility politics as a way of constraining the Overton window, but in a broad sense of quashing universal justice or even discussing who/what that applies to. Chapo's wrapped in layers of irony/absurdism/bullying but it's ultimately a humanist and biocentric kind of socialism that's building more bridges between similar struggles.
There's the dirtbag left that wants economic redistribution but also has South Park brain and refuses to challenge any of their reactionary beliefs. The civility they're attacking is any kind of sincerity and intersectionality or threat to their own privilege. They're teenagers who grew larger more than they are any kind of identifiable socialist tendency, short of Nazbol.
This is a really good explanation. The dirtbag leftism that Chapo Trap House and its followers helped propel from 2016 onwards is very different from the stupidpol movement that branched off from it, as you say. The chapo boys (and girl) make fun of civility politics as a small but important part of a greater project to reduce the legitimacy of the ghouls in power and get the left in power electorally, whether we think this will work or not. The stupidpol movement sees the destruction of civility politics as the whole point of leftism with no real project beyond that (beyond occasionally saying idiotic shit like "iF wE dIdN't HaVe GeNdEr PoLiTiCs We MiGhT haVe HeAlThCaRe RiGhT nOw").
When I see r/stupidpol or r/redscarepod or r/cumtown use Marxist language I feel like I'm having a stroke. They have zero understanding of the ethics behind the words or their history or the bigger picture they represent. Cryptofascists who never learned what happens to Strasserites when they feed the dragon that hates them.
Their web presence up to that point will poison them to the people they want to be dogs for.
Eh CTH itself has flirted with blaming the problems of the left on those pesky Ess Jay Dubyas and their intersectionality. They're closer to their fellow brooklyn do-nothing political infotainers than they are to what was the subreddit.
Which is why they hated the sub, and why we'd always joke that :citations-needed: was the sub's official podcast.
They’re closer to their fellow brooklyn do-nothing political infotainers than they are to what was the subreddit.
They're electoralists and unionists at heart. They aren't particularly militant or revolutionary when push comes to shove.
But to call them do-nothing infotainers is a big stretch. They're some of the most effective Leftist organizers and agitators in modern history. They sugar coat the medicine with comedy, but at the end of the day they're consistently delivering what Leftists craze - a call to action that any listener can immediately engage in.
Lots of people bag on what that call involves - political canvasing, financial contributions, union drives - because its not radical enough. That's not do-nothing politics. It's democratic socialism.
I love :citations-needed: as much as the next guy, but Adam does not call to action nearly as consistently as Will or Felix.
you ever actually listen to their podcast? they literally hate their listeners it's only fair for us to hate them back lol
I only really listen to Christman, I find the podcast kinda boring unless they have a cool guest on
yeah me too and Christmas seems to be the most chill towards his audience. Sometimes I watch his cushvlogs and they can be pretty good with just him
I never understood the “hating chapo” thing
:wonder-who-thats-for:
I'm going to be blunt here. I have no clue what a Chapotraphouse is and I thought Red Scare was what Americans do whenever you so much as mention taxes in their presence.
I remember one of the two of them hopped on to the discord before this place was open for business. I would guess they're aware we exist, but I don't recall any specific posts
I think the stans would've roasted her still. Being mean is kind of their thing, lol.
Wow, what an utterly dogshit community - Guess it matches the podcast/hosts lmao
