It stinks.
I read it in 2018 and thought it was fun. It introduced me to CTH, which pushed me further left and led me to the CTH subreddit and ultimately to Hexbear. I've since given it away. So I would say, I got what I needed from it and moved on (not unlike the podcast itself -- I still listen to it, but not as much as I used to).
To put in perspective how long ago this was in my development: When I read the section complaining about liberals and democrats, I thought "Wait, I thought this was written by leftist podcast hosts. Aren't they supposed to like Democrats?"
This is the ultimate purpose of every dehydrated DSA podcaster: to bait you into radlicalisation with the promise of a few good goofs.
Matt: everyone in the liberal political environment is basically a clown and there are good reasons to laugh at them
Me, scratching my denial beard: damn he has a point
Matt: Looks like those clowns in the liberal democracy have done it again. What a bunch of clowns.
If I were registered to vote, I'd send these clowns a message by staying home on election day and dressing up like a clown.
I think you were a member of the only demographic that might benefit from the book: young liberals who haven't been completely brain poisoned yet.
I wasn't really into podcasts, but I was into online left-adjacent communities that kept talking about Chapo Trap House, especially on Reddit. I thought the book would be a better introduction than just jumping into an episode without any context. I think I was right.
As to how I knew about the existence of the book... good question. I think I must have seen it promoted on some websites that sold books.
Why would you pay money for Brooklyn podcasters thoughts on revolution when the complete works of Vladimir Lenin are available on the internet for free
Because Lenin wasn't funny. And I hoped I could use it to lure my Daily Show watching parents to the dark side.
I legitimately lol'd listening to State and Revolution in audiobook format.
Unfortunately, the value of an autograph really only goes up when the person dies, not when their career dies.
Edit: Virgil, come home :virgil-sad:
i think the title might be a joke, but i don't know
That makes two of us.
And I can barely appreciate the excellent illustrations, because the whole thing feels like it was printed on old newspaper.
Something something anti capitalist movements like punk rock can become subversive ways to attract customers in the means of commodification
Buy? No. I did read some of it, it was very of-the-times vaguely left shitposting
It’s trash, but the bit with the guys brain melting around “are you triGgErEd” is good.
I like the one chapter about the conservative brain melt about Obama getting reelected and I don't remember the specifics except some lines were stream of consciousness like "COFFEE CUP TAN SUIT MARXIST JOKER SOCIALISM"
That's the only part of the book I remember, it just descends into senseless rambling and ends with "are you triggered?" repeated over and over.
The Ben Garrison style connect the dots game was pretty fun.
Stopped reading page 3 after they got the population of a major country horribly wrong. If it was ironic I couldn't tell.
I want to get rid of it but if I put it in one of those little free libraries someone might read it.
Maybe book burning just this once?
The first section of the book has a bunch of descriptions of countries with lists of joke "facts" about them. Do you remember the specifics?
France: Population: 656 million anthropomorphic candlesticks
It's literally 65 million. Fuck chapo
That's not satire/irony that's typo/fuckup
Lol. I'm not mad, but really? I stopped reading.
If that's their fact, they suck.
If that's their joke, they suck more.
Whatevs
Just seems weird for a 1 line throwaway joke you didn't like to be too much and stop immediately.
Joke? Or ruin a book for a reader?
Tbf I never liked Chapo. I stay here for being informed of the news and for the memes
Wow Chapo struggle session, admit you're a lib
Every french person owns 10-11 anthropomorphic candlesticks, what is so difficult about this?
Yes, that part was a joke. I think a free library would be a good choice actually because liberals (the target market for little free libraries) are the only group of people who might benefit from this book.
Oh my god, I've never seen Little Free Libraries used as anything other than a slightly more polite garbage dump for James Patterson thrillers and diet advice books.
