He recently courted a public-relations disaster when he offered a platform to Magnus Panvidya, a member of the Boogaloo Boys, a militant group that threatened violence ahead of Biden’s inauguration.
I’ll take “sentences that sound like Felix bits” for $600
the funniest thing about this article, is that Red Scare, Jimmy Dore are not staples of the left, lmao.
They do have a Matt Christman quote completely randomly thrown in there too though.
Chapo Trap House’s Matt Christman avowed in an interview with the TrueAnon podcasters last year: “There are two basic premises to QAnon, one is right and one is wrong, … That’s why I say it’s a 50/50 thing. The premise of, ‘We are ruled by a cabal of cannibalistic psychotic sexual abusers and all the institutions that they create are to further their dominance over us’: Correct. And that ‘Donald Trump is going to stop them’: Incorrect.”
Imagine living through #MeToo and thinking “people in power exploit their authority to commit sexual assault” is a conspiracy theory.
Hope this is this week’s reading series.
This is, of course, the tip of the iceberg. Far-right blog Counter-Currents noted that @kantbot hosted another “unwoke Left” podcaster, Aimee Terese, who was praised by white nationalist group American Renaissance for retweeting Bronze Age Pervert and supposedly rejecting “the war on white heritage.” Counter-Currents further appreciated @kantbot hosting Sean McCarthy, of the “Dirtbag Left” podcast Grubstakers. McCarthy in turn hosted Chapo Trap House’s Matt Christman on Grubstakers for a two-part episode chatting about QAnon for hours, along with another of their cohort, Nick Mullen. (Neither Terese nor McCarthy responded to requests for comment.) Mullen is fairly notorious for his controversial podcast Cum Town and his use of racist slurs, including dropping the n-word multiple times on Bill Maher. Mullen also joined The Sitdown podcast to talk about pedophilia in Hollywood back in 2018, which a host introduced by saying, “We’re here to talk about probably the biggest cartel that I know of, and it’s full of Jews.”
Mike Recine has hit the fuckin’ big time, ayy! :AyyyyyOC-big:
This article is hilariously grasping at straws, it’s pathetic.
Yeah I’m looking at that now like what??? I guess it’s referring to a Cum Town bit about Bill Maher using the N-word? Funny where the author places blame in this whole affair.
Someone posted the clip on the old sub once – Nick Mullen started the episode by singing “Bill Maher the n****r guy” to the tune of the Bill Nye theme, and the other hosts riffed on it. It was pretty disgusting, but it definitely didn’t happen on Bill Maher’s show.
EDIT: this is it, CW: slurs of course
Say what you will about that Cum Town bit, but I think the article should at least mention Nick was doing it to rip on Maher because HE SAID THE N-WORD ON HIS OWN HBO SHOW. It’s a fairly important detail.
How long until Gwen Snider gets invited onto CNN to discuss the chapo-to-fash pipeline?
Idk but I threatened to start a podcast with Gwen Snyder and Charlotte clymer and call it hexbear while I was drunk posting yesterday lmao
Let’s make fun of this article of course, but it’s not wrong about Aimee Therese, red scare, even jimmy dore. Heck throw vaush in there too and you have a legitimate problem of this bullshit in “left media”
I’m trying to throw these people out of the left as hard as I can* but they just don’t seem to go away
(*Im just telling them to eat shit on twitter occasionally)
Aimee Terese is so funny to be put on there. I mean she belongs on the list maybe more than anyone, but a lot of the “irony left” and “dirtbag left” on twitter basically tells her to eat shit nonstop every time she makes a new account. Like while she personofies the phenomenon that the author is trying to describe, him trying to slander the broader dirtbag left becomes difficult when you center a figure that is nearly universally hated.
Eh, Liz Franczak sure is fond of her. But that’s the only “major” dirtbag figure I’m familiar with who seems to like her unironically.
Oh yeah, there’s definitely some reactionaries who are adopting leftist aesthetics (or genuine leftists who have drifted more reactionary). The article loses credibility when it paints with a broader brush, and clearly it’s more concerned with influential leftist alt-media than whether or not there are reactionaries on the left. Hell, I doubt the author even genuinely cares about stopping reactionaries from gaining power.
