sexpig by night posted:

same, this election was hilariously radicalizing for so many people. Like, it's not 'worth' Trump just ramjamming this country for profit but it's hilarious how me and many of my old neolib friends went from 'guys come on she's right slow but steady progress is the way forward here' to 'gently caress it do it now or get out of the way of people who will, also the juggalos are friends to the worker'.

Breadallelogram posted:

I don't get how that photo is more offensive than all the Fogle, Epstein, pizzagate jokes they make on the show

Henchman of Santa posted:

Again, a lot of people getting mad at it are actual leftists. Otherwise they wouldn't be apologizing.

CortezFantastic posted:

It's two things: one, most of the people on left twitter were sharing molestation stories and poo poo involving men for the last few days, and two, Josh is a comedian and a podcaster, but also DSA LA co-chair. If the DSA is a serious political group, it needs serious leadership. It shows a lack of judgment on his part to think that would fly, especially knowing his audience and being a chair. It's just incredibly tone deaf. And it wasn't even a good joke!

Relin posted:

i just hope this peer pressure just doesnt make them lose their edge and go for a safer, wider comedic appeal in the future

Weembles posted:

So the consensus I'm picking up on here is that the whole "we're the New American Left and we're gonna get poo poo DONE" thing is over and everyone's back to infighting and purity tests.

Saagonsa posted:

I'm going to assume most people who dismissed it at first thought the criticism was coming from the same people who got pissed about the whole "bend the knee" poo poo and had no idea about the surrounding twitter context (or at least that was the case for me). When the actual, like, context is explained I think you'll find a lot more people will side with you.

Famethrowa posted:

man, I'll take people mildly criticizing a bad joke that made them uncomfortable any day over a bunch of nerds flipping out that their precious podcast hosts got owned online.


the boys, and the DSA chair they were with, both apologized soon after, because they realized they had a lapse in judgement. hopefully, they will be more mindful going forward, and hopefully people will forgive them for something lovely but minor.

I think that will be the case. The tone of most of the criticism wasn't the liberal "drag him!!!!!!!", it was a lot more measured.

honestly, the reactionary backlash of "it's jsut JOKES" is way more concerning to me. it seems waaay disproportionate to the criticism actually coming from the left.

hint: if your kneejerk reaction, as a leftist, is to demand people "not be so sensitive", you are being a really lovely ally.

Pomplamoose posted:

Any Struggle Session listeners know why Johnathan Daniel Brown left?

uber_stoat posted:

he threatened to DMCA the podcast.

FlamingLiberal posted:

I love Watchmen but there’s no way that show is good

Kobayashi posted:

Hundreds of new posts, I’m guessing a woman podcaster said something controversial online?

i say swears online posted:

i'm pretty sure when i was 17 the gasoline fight was the funniest thing i had ever seen in a movie

uber_stoat posted:

https://twitter.com/Lubchansky/status/1372981586317225989?s=20

sexpig by night posted:

I'll accept this as a taste thing but the fact that that's not a helmet but rather a weird knife skinsuit and his head looks like that sucks poo poo

MonsieurChoc posted:

It's better than Whedon's design, but the Kirby design still wins imho.

Stickfigure posted:

im weeping for the unfunny comedian who had to look at a dick for10 minutes lol

Gripweed posted:

I've never heard of that guy before.

multijoe posted:

China's own position is that they're the extremely regular kind of reeducation camps, I think you really have to be willfully naive to genuinely think nothing bad is going down there but now it's become a proxy topic on imperialism having any kind of considered view on it seems to have gone out the window

Wizard Master posted:

does anyone else hate when will references a popular song or line of dialogue from a movie and chris edits a two second clip of it immediately after in case we didn't get it

Dr.Radical posted:

I like Struggle Session but Leslie isn’t a very fun follow. It’s mostly just him getting mad at people about marvel movies, etc. Jack’s account, on the other hand, was a hoot. Plenty of dishing on people in showbiz and just generally stirring up poo poo.

FlamingLiberal posted:

https://twitter.com/willmenaker/status/1410705957202563074?s=20

Mr. Lobe posted:

How is that freak still alive

Futanari Damacy posted:

"An agency that theoretically keeps people from flying planes into buildings isn't the worst idea in the world"

"Yeah how do you like the taste of that BOOT LEATHER"

Okay very serious people, you win this argument

FlamingLiberal posted:

Maybe they will figure it out in June

Androies posted:

People being held accountable in the Chapo thread:
-The Chapos
-Nurses
-Those who don't post correctly re: world events
-The Simpsons

NienNunb posted:

I hope the boys had a nice day at the zoo, despite having hands soaked in the blood of innocent Ukrainians

emgeejay posted:

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Wizard Master posted:

So a bunch of schlubby “leftists” can snigger at a guy who’s not in on the joke and humiliate him for the benefit on their large audience

Scholtz posted:

idk, does Dracula condemn Hamas?

Mike N Eich posted:

This last episode was funny because I didn't even realize Felix was in the episode until about 10 minutes in when he perked up

Regarding AOC - I never got as mad and disappointed at her as other lefties have, and I think still on the whole, she's pretty good (obv as a first world Democratic Party politician), but at the end of the day - you gotta choose to keep the Left happy or play the game the Democratic Party wants you to play to keep getting committee assignments and money. And, unfortunately, we on the Left have no institutional power and we're a bunch of psychotic babies, why would she pick us over them? What benefit does it get her? It's not like there's a party apparatus to keep her honest, or to reward her when she does what we want.

It was always gonna go that way because the Left is a tiny, dysfunctional group and the gravitational force of the Democratic Party is there, eager to swallow and co-opt. We should be less angry at the person of AOC and more angry at ourselves for not creating the organizational apparatus that can actually discipline representatives.

Fellatio del Toro posted:

moved on from "the chapos are racist irony bros" to "the chapos dont get ironic racism" lol

Scholtz posted:

https://twitter.com/cushbomb/status/1775391101572239797

Gripweed posted:

Casino is great up until it becomes all about how crazy his wife is.