The Chapo Guide to Revolution : : a Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

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"In a manifesto that renders all previous attempts at political satire obsolete, The Chapo Guide to Revolution shows you that you don't have to side with either the pear-shaped vampires of the right or the craven, lanyard-wearing wonks of contemporary liberalism. These self-described "assholes from the internet" offer a fully ironic ideology for all who feel politically hopeless and prefer broadsides and tirades to reasoned debate. Learn the "secret" history of the world, politics, media, and everything in-between that THEY don't want you to know and chart a course from our wretched present to a utopian future where one can post in the morning, game in the afternoon, and podcast after dinner without ever becoming a poster, gamer, or podcaster. The Chapo Guide to Revolution features illustrated taxonomies of contemporary liberal and conservative characters, biographies of important thought leaders, "never before seen" drafts of Aaron Sorkin's Newsroom manga, and the ten new laws that govern Chapo Year Zero (everyone gets a dog, billionaires are turned into Soylent, and logic is outlawed). If you're a fan of sacred cows, prisoners being taken, and holds being barred, then this book is NOT for you. However, if you feel disenfranchised from the political and cultural nightmare we're in, then Chapo, let's go..."--Amazon.com.

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AGAINST Logic Facts and Reason?!?!?!?! submitted by jmwink_ on June 20, 2019, 9:46am Wait, did you say Against? Why would you argue AGAINST logic? Why would anyone argue against facts? And reason, we all want that right? Nah, none of that. The Chapos argue that all those things are what got us here, the precipice of maybe the worst period in human history since the dark ages. There's no agreement on collective truth anymore, so anyone who claims they're using it to argue is just using their version. The so-called liberal media has turned its attention to the left, lightly admonishing the building of concentration camps before full-throated attacks of the people willing to call them concentration camps. All the while the logical elements of the media and the reasonable elements within the Democratic party argue we just can't possibly use the government for good, because it might make some white supremacists sad, and we don't want to be the party that makes anyone sad, do we? Everything sucks. You know it and I know it, and it stands to get worse in our lifetime, not better. The Chapos argue for how we got here, how we might get out, and deliver a few laughs along the way. Eli Valley's art is a perfect compliment, deftly satirizing the major archetypes of politicians and media figures.

Truth: If you're already really well-read in leftist theory and ideology, you're going to find this book to be pretty light-weight, maybe even frustratingly so. If Bernard made you consider for the first time in your life that maybe socialism isn't the boogeyman you learned it to be in high school and you want to learn more without reading 100 year old tracts written by white guys with gross beards, this is the book for you.