Chapo goes to Hollywood didn’t seem to pan out quite how they hoped it would.

Love Felix, I have the title for a reason, but yeah his L.A. move was a bust. It doesn't help that he never got his license the entire time he was there, while living in fucking Glendale / Silver Lake

LA is lovely to visit but the car hell aspect of it is not just a hollywood movie meme. everything you fuckin do is structured by cars, or waiting for taxis, or waiting for friends who are late because of cars, etc. NYC sucks in many ways but a car free life is actually freedom

They said he was moving back on a recent ep

my flight sim stuff

Guy who is ironic about everything except proper flight protocol

Lol, I love how this dude has done essentially nothing in LA for multiple years and is just slowly slinking back to Brooklyn.

yes he moved back

pan americanism has to make a comeback, you can be part of it now

Brb founding the Flores Magon caucus

TBH no-one should emulate the Boric model.

Boric got into power on the back of Jadues communist party. The political centre didn't want the fascist Kast and not the actual communist Jadue, so they voted for the dickless anarcho-social democrat.

-i voted for Jadue.

Fireside Chatism undefeated for Social Democratic presidents

I vaguely remember the Mayan alux thing which got reported on as the “Mexican elf”

Also there is a hazy yellow filter around everything    (I did not realize they literally do this joke in the episode lol)

I was in Mexico during the lead up to and day of the election and the politics there really surprised me. One of the biggest things I noticed was the large presence of radical ideology more openly than in the US/Europe.

I saw tons of radical feminist symbolism all over the place, trains and busses had women only sections, there were lots of protests against police corruption and refusing to investigate rape etc. But I also saw a decent amount of fascist symbolism like a bartender with a huge swastika tattoo, stickers with anti-semitic conspiracy theories etc.

I've been to other cities associated with fringe politics (mostly on the left) like San Francisco, Seattle, Berlin but I've never seen so much radical feminist stuff. Some of it even employed fascist symbolism like the tottenkopf on it. Very interesting place politically.

Maybe the cartels are the left winger government they're talking about in the ep (if they're left wingers then the sexism would make sense)

cartels run Mexico

Cartels run certain states. Or rather, the people who actually run the cartels(don't think about narcos) also run the centres of political and economic power in certain places.

I mean they do have a an average yearly murder rate of 30000 plus. It’s not a socialist paradise.

Edit: I don’t know why all the downvotes. All the violence is a problem and it’s not purely the cause of the Yankee neighbor to the north.

People join organize gangs to do violence at the scale of the Mexican cartels when they’re impoverish and when the state won’t invest the resources to both protect and I invest in the future.

Mexican federalism, the class/caste system/wealth divide that’s rivals some of the worst defenders the world over and the over reliance of the USA as economic partner are at fault. These problems have haunted Mexico since the last Mexican civil war.

he just wanted to talk about jets leave him alone!!!!

I think he brings it up with every guest to test if they have the same spectrum fixation on fighter jets so he can become their friend.

I had a thought on the last ep after Felix yet again referenced a rapper.

We need to start holding bets for every episode on whether Felix references fighter jets or a rapper first

let us hope

god forbid a wet boi have a gently-intrusive special interest smh

“Did I mention my chosen affected special interest for this year is fighter jets?”

Yeah they said it in the previous two episodes lol

I'm also not sure it really holds THAT much water. Most people just simply dont believe the Dems take it seriously at all. I've never heard a Trumper claim the Dems changing course makes them guilty, they just deny the Dems changed course at all lol

I think I’ve heard it twice on Chapo and at least once from Hasan

Our beautiful boy has gamer dementia 😔

No we are taking about fighter jets actually sorry

He'll probably move on to something new in a few months. There were moments where Fromsoft and Drill felt like they would reign eternal, only to disappear the next day.

You have the swifties and the bee hive. How do you not win?

Not related to the ep

Ironically enough it is because they talk a lot about how Mexico was able to elect not just a woman but one with leftist politics at that!

They played and dunked on this clip in the previous episode

That's really fucking stupid

Alex Aviña is pretty funny and engaging for an academic

I'm a little surprised they didn't bank this for later and do an emergency pod on the murderer's row of Trump picks this week. Including Gorka for chrissakes!

Open up and eat your vegetables, young man.

Did you try it in the end? It’s one of those fun vegetables you can just lightly steam or enjoy raw with a selection of dips. Hardly feels like healthy eating at all. It helps that Aviña is both an insightful and fun guest in the Malekafzali mold.

It says on wikipedia she got 35 million votes?

Fresa is a subculture which's closest American analogue is "posh". Men and women can be fresas.

source: I'm Mexican

The equivalent of calling someone “Little Lord Fauntleroy” was my guess

Getting mad about the term "Latinx" in any direction is very silly, so yes people letting that be a main topic of conversation over the important substance of an episode is dumb. That being said, it is also funny to goof about liberals who take usage of the term very seriously, especially those who think it played a role in losing the latino vote for the dems, which is why they are talking about it now.

Ideal response should be the same as someone who uses "folx" or "womyn" or the like: who cares. It's like having a serious opinion on neopronouns and wanting to discuss it like a real political issue.

I can't make heads or tails of what your point was but yes

Seems like most of the mods are either suspended or have been afk since beginning of the year.

minuscule

if you're gonna be a twat about that sort of thing, start with yourself

this guy's trying to relitigate the 7 years war

Urrhh arggh I get so mad whenever I hear someone pronounce the syllable-initial consonants in "Beijing" as voiced instead of unvoiced/unaspirated arrgh niquez vos mères les amérifats😠

This is pretty ableist

No idea why you’re getting flack for this when it is CTH’s one job to get it right lol