Turning Point UK's 'S*** Champagne Socialists Say' video

[Monsieur Verdoux]

For those who are not familiar, Turning Point UK is a an offshoot of Turning Point USA, an astroturfing organisation funded by dark money to stoke the flames of culture wars on college campuses and build a narrative about conservatives being oppressed in academia, well now for all those living in the UK you get your own Turning Point trying to do the same thing on UK campuses!

Anyway, they put out this bizarre video today which is a Tim and Eric level work of art, watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAx6FZXSqP0

[idunnosomename]

lol are they using a laptop mic

[Jumblegraws]

I'm not great on political stereotypes, but would a champagne socialist be caught dead doing a #FBPE? That and some of the other shite there seems more like centrist dad territory.
Still, at least they managed to hit the same comic notes as The Half-Hour News Hour at a fraction of the budget.

[Twed]

They really dissed those Hillary-loving communists that exist(?)

[Monsieur Verdoux]

those fucking Corbyn-loving #FBPE Hillary worshipping Marxists who love the Guardian

[Blumf]

Holy crap, they could have hired Sargon for peanuts and it would have been 1000x better than this flat mess (so, just plain shit)

[imitationleather]

Is it crap on purpose or something?

[idunnosomename]

their twitter account reminds me of the parody one for (not) shippams paste (sadly abandoned) for how sad and lonely it is

[kittens]

this better not fuck up my youtube recommendations. i got them pretty good right now

[chveik]

RIP COMEDY CHAT

[Funcrusher]

Few more views for them courtesy of this thread.

[Monsieur Verdoux]

shut up bitch

[ajsmith2]

'Orange Man Bad' is like 'Brown Shit Stinky'. Just cos the basic message it conveys is an interminably repeated banality doesn't make it any less of a fundamental truth. I will still never ever understand how so many right wing intellectuals have managed to debase themselves into respecting Trump. It is truly one of the weirdest things about this weird weird decade.

[pancreas]

That man cannot sing a minor third.

[idunnosomename]

Few more views for them courtesy of this thread.

they dont have a big enough channel to profit off it in any way

sorry wait no
oh wait they fucking do. how the fuck

[Twed]

'Orange Man Bad' is like 'Brown Shit Stinky'. Just cos the basic message it conveys is an interminably repeated banality doesn't make it any less of a fundamental truth. I will still never ever understand how so many right wing intellectuals have managed to debase themselves into respecting Trump. It is truly one of the weirdest things about this weird weird decade.

The point of "orange man bad" (and the reason I thought it came from the left) is that a lot of centre-right politics is based on that idea, like everything was fine and dandy before Trump came along. The biggest battle for leftist/socialists is trying to candidates past the liberal "anything but Trump will do so here's a polite institutional racist" blockers.

[jobotic]

Paulie's made a video?

[Johnny Yesno]

I doubt this will go on those struggling actors' showreels.

[idunnosomename]

Honestly is the first line he says "true centrism has never been tried". I mean I assume it's supposed to be socialism. But it doesn't sound like it because the audio is fucking terrible.

[phantom_power]

Right wing cunts in politically unaware and terminally unfunny shocker!

[gilbertharding]

Well, if the title of the video had just been the first word, at least they would have got something right.

[idunnosomename]

Right wing cunts in politically unaware and terminally unfunny shocker!

[Sebastian Cobb]

PJW is hilarious tbf.

[gilbertharding]

Shame he got #cancelled, because this was good:

https://samkriss.com/2017/02/22/voyage-to-the-prison-planet/

Oh... Sam Kriss is back, and he's turned into (?) a massive centrist :(

[phantom_power]

[Citation Needed]

[ajsmith2]

The point of "orange man bad" (and the reason I thought it came from the left) is that a lot of centre-right politics is based on that idea, like everything was fine and dandy before Trump came along. The biggest battle for leftist/socialists is trying to candidates past the liberal "anything but Trump will do so here's a polite institutional racist" blockers.

Don't want to get into a big back and forth, but I think you're being way too kind/optimistic about how the phrase was conceived and the faith in which it's commonly used.  In practice it's nearly always just another dumbo  left-baiting edgelord phrase with none of the positive nuance you ascribe to it above. I take the point that Trump is a symptom and his phenomenon is useful for shedding light on more insidious and often greater evils of others who pose as liberal normalcy, but on the other hand, right now at this moment he's in power, he's shit and he shouldn't be excused his own list of failures and horrors and idiocies just cos they're on plain view for once.

[ajsmith2]

Surprised this video only has 2000 odd views and that it's mainly got positive upvotes on YT. It's getting torn apart all over Twitter so you'd think more would have seen it and it'd be lower rated.

[idunnosomename]

while it's just a fringe thing on twitter, racism is a big thing on YouTube. its more entertaining for angry white men to sit watching videos you see.

I only really know of it from Shaun etc. but the guy who you join the "mug club" for so you can have a fucking mug that says "i like a conservative man on the internet". fuckin hell.

[Twed]

Don't want to get into a big back and forth, but I think you're being way too kind/optimistic about how the phrase was conceived and the faith in which it's commonly used.  In practice it's nearly always just another dumbo  left-baiting edgelord phrase with none of the positive nuance you ascribe to it above. I take the point that Trump is a symptom and his phenomenon is useful for shedding light on more insidious and often greater evils of others who pose as liberal normalcy, but on the other hand, right now at this moment he's in power, he's shit and he shouldn't be excused his own list of failures and horrors and idiocies just cos they're on plain view for once.

Maybe. I guess I haven't seen it used much and when I did it was by the left (perhaps appropriating it ironically)

[Huxleys Babkins]

How many socialists does it take to change a lightbulb?
None. They'd get us to do it for them!

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Hillary.
Nope, we're not opening your cell!

Why did the woman cross the road?
To accuse a perfectly decent man of sexual assault because of one drunken grope, the fucking whore, and what else was she expecting dressed like that!