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They're not quite alt-right terrible, but close by Gas 'em. 02/12/2018, 6:08pm PST
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/chapo-trap-house-dirtbag-left/

From the now deleted post (beware, it’s a bit involved):

My boyfriend and I have been dating for about 5 years. We get along very well and he is very kind, caring, sweet, our sex life is great, we rarely ever have serious fights, etc.



When we met just after graduating, we were both underemployed creative types with somewhat useless art-school degrees; since then some combination of luck and hard work on my behalf has meant that I started to have a decent career (marketing for a tech company) and now make a decent salary (~$65k.) I am a photographer on the side which is what I (stupidly) went to school for, but I don’t mind my day work, and I think I am lucky to have a good work/life balance. I don’t know if I will ever make good money on my creative pursuits but I am happy I still get to do that on the side and I generally like my day job well enough.



My boyfriend, however, has just been temping since he graduated 5 years ago, but very rarely gets more than a few days here or there. He works on some creative projects (painting & sometimes writing), but never seems to finish anything and does not make any money off it. He also recently got taken off his parents’ health insurance, so he has none, which worries me as much of his family is diabetic and he has had some health issues in the past. His parents are pretty wealthy and will help him out in a pinch with things like rent and health expenses. (I do not have this luxury, my parents do not have money. His family isn’t, like, crazy loaded but they have a nice house and go on loads of vacations and his parents drive BMWs and give him any money he asks for, etc.)



For a while this didn’t really bother me—again, we were both recent art school grads when we started dating, being broke is kind of par for the course—but since we’ve moved in together 2yrs ago, it has started to bother me. We were happy when we were both young and broke, but I am getting to a point where I would like to do things like go on a vacation or buy kitchen chairs instead of sitting on apple crates. It would make me feel great if he was able to contribute to things like this as well. But I feel very bad because he doesn’t seem to care about these things and always says I am being very bourgeoise.


These conversations have been exacerbated in recent months due to politics. He and I are both left-leaning people, but he recently has become very obsessed with a series of popular far-left podcasts, and while I don’t disagree with much of their politics I find them very abrasive, and I find him constantly parroting them back at me. It feels like every conversation now begins with “Well today on CTH so-and-so said,” and every serious conversation about money or healthcare or rent or work ends in “The spineless Democrats couldn’t commit to actual socialist change and Obamacare didn’t do enough to make healthcare accessible, I can’t possibly get health insurance” or “Neoliberalism has just totally fucked the job market, what do you want from me? Until the state actually makes an investment in the people, it’s basically impossible,” or whatever. These don’t devolve into crazy screaming matches or anything, but it just is starting to bum me out that any conversation I try to have that involves any sort of financial/family/health planning just always gets shut down with a snide remark about how the system is fucked and there’s nothing he can do.



I also find it annoying that he had little-to-no interest in politics before this and was not at all politically active; he’s honestly not even registered to vote. Regardless of your political leaning left or right, I find it a little upsetting to be lectured by anyone who refuses to participate in the system because “it’s so broken.” (I am not an especially outspoken person but I do vote in local and national elections, volunteer in my community, and regularly give money to causes and charities I care about.)I feel shitty because he thinks I’m being very bourgeoise and making too much of a big deal over money, which is the last thing I want to do. But it’s starting to make me feel crazy.

I also sometimes get the feeling that he resents me for “selling out” or something like that—that I’m “part of the problem” because I have a corporate day job. On top of that, I think I sometimes feel resentful since as a white dude who comes from a lot of money, I feel that life has given him more opportunities than me (child of immigrants & female) and it frustrates me—I know that’s not always just how the system works, but it really does feel that I have had to work much harder for many things.
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Review Request from MM: El Chapo Trap House podcast NT by Heard it called the PA of the left 11/11/2017, 9:19am PST NEW
    I'm into Majority Report right now. by Mischief Maker 11/15/2017, 6:18am PST NEW
        That sucked, do you have something better from Majority Report? NT by Saltlord 11/15/2017, 7:06am PST NEW
            Well now I'm REALLY into the Majority Report by Mischief Maker 11/30/2017, 8:20am PST NEW
                El Chap Trap House makes fun of Gorka too :( NT by El Chapo fan 11/30/2017, 6:37pm PST NEW
                    National Lampoon's Chap House NT by Vested Id 11/30/2017, 10:11pm PST NEW
                Now I have a bunch of directors that I'd rather have rape my daughter instead NT by Sam Seder 12/02/2017, 10:58am PST NEW
                My hope was for entertainment and poignancy, not another lib on the defensive by Saltlord 12/02/2017, 12:28pm PST NEW
                    Holy shit does Chapo Trap House really get that much a month (checks) Yes NT by Fucking DINK Bernie bros 12/02/2017, 1:07pm PST NEW
                ...AAAND MSNBC just cut ties with Sam Seder. NT by Mischief Maker 12/05/2017, 2:54pm PST NEW
                    It's like corporate fucks could never be trusted in the first place NT by Saltlord 12/06/2017, 6:13am PST NEW
                        They should be humiliated. by Mischief Maker 12/06/2017, 10:32am PST NEW
                            First against the wall when the revolution etcetera. NT by Saltlord 12/06/2017, 11:43am PST NEW
                                You've been saying that for 100+ years NT by It's current year 12/06/2017, 12:16pm PST NEW
                                    Yes! Ever since I heard Lenin say it in 1917. NT by Saltbolshevik 12/06/2017, 12:31pm PST NEW
                    Relax by Vested Id 12/07/2017, 10:46am PST NEW
                        Fucking pussies couldn't be trusted to confirm a story before going live by Saltlord 12/07/2017, 2:47pm PST NEW
                Jesus! Now Weird Mike's going after David Pakman. by Mischief Maker 12/13/2017, 9:46pm PST NEW
    So is every fifth episode only posted as a teaser for non-members? by MM 12/16/2017, 10:34am PST NEW
        I'll review political several podcasts/youtube shows because why not? by MM 12/16/2017, 11:47am PST NEW
            Wow did I sound like a dumb bitch NT by Kora 12/16/2017, 1:48pm PST NEW
        Every second episode is a backer reward and there are occasional bonus ones. by Saltlord 12/17/2017, 8:07am PST NEW
    Don't know about Chapo Trap House but I read their subreddit and I think I'd be NT by ok if Hitler gassed their posters 02/12/2018, 5:57pm PST NEW
        They're not quite alt-right terrible, but close by Gas 'em. 02/12/2018, 6:08pm PST NEW
        Wait, what? You read the subreddit for a show you don't even listen to? by Mischief Maker 02/12/2018, 6:35pm PST NEW
            Looks like we found Mr. Single Male from the link I posted. NT by Gas 'em. 02/12/2018, 6:43pm PST NEW
                You think I'm a Bernie or Buster with no previous political experience? NT by Mischief Maker 02/12/2018, 6:52pm PST NEW
                    I can't believe he thinks you're a male. NT by Injustice 02/12/2018, 7:01pm PST NEW
    With the exception of "This is Sus," hasn't really been funny since Bernie lost. by Mischief Maker 11/10/2020, 8:35pm PST NEW
        Agreed NT by Starbucks-Drinking Hologram 11/10/2020, 9:27pm PST NEW
        I guess you knew some really funny depressed teens then by Saltlord 11/13/2020, 12:54pm PST NEW
 
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