Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[rekil]

That "I am in you" thing has to stop.

 

[love detective]

they all say it, all those cunts

that and 'stay classy'

 

[temper_tantrum]

Stay classy, LD.

 

[barney_pig]

Stay classy, LD.

stay first classy

 

[butchersapron]

Little matchstick Owen won the Stonewall (the charity of choice for socially liberal extremists) journo of the year award.

 

[Delroy Booth]

Is this now the generic thread for ripping into any prominent left-wingers who win awards? Or who don't win awards? The odd sock drawer for sticking the boot into random lefties.

This thread is funnier when it's just laughing at Laurie Penny's tweets. Definitely funnier than Nathan Barley was anyway.

btw butchers what's "little matchstick" a reference too? Sincere question.

 

[butchersapron]

 

[nino_savatte]

That "I am in you" thing has to stop.

Could this be her song as she waves goodbye to wherever she's been?

 

[rekil]

Could this be her song as she waves goodbye to wherever she's been?

Epic squee!

 

[butchersapron]

yep, Ellie Mae O'Hagen, UNITE Community Union organiser

And now CLASS national advisory panel member.

 

[cesare]

Is that the same Ellie Mae O'Hagen that wrote that dreadful self pitying piece in the Guardian today?

 

[butchersapron]

Quite probably! Not seen that piece though. Will have a look now.

 

[butchersapron]

Yep, same one: "peaceful activists like me" now i know what everyone was on about earlier.

 

[cesare]

Peaceful activists being psychologically oppressed etc.

Edit: yes, that's it

 

[love detective]

 

[Captain Hurrah]

activist.

 

[butchersapron]

Yet...they rise.

 

[love detective]

she's really throwing herself into the relief efforts since arriving in New York

Excited to be doing the introduction to the German edition of the Pussy Riot book. Will try to find somewhere to put eng. version online.

In NYC? Come and see me and @daughteroffury talk about women, writing and her excellent new book next Friday

Walking through Wburg in the cold. Today is Finish Chapter Plan day. Steeling myself up like a ninja to start this book for real

I just backed The Sky is Calling: Kim Boekbinder's @Kickstarterhttp://kck.st/O5D9PK you should, too - she's at 98% with 1 day to go!

Apparently this is because:-

No earthly way to get down to volunteering sites so heading out to give blood for the #sandy relief efforts

So, I won't be able to come and help out personally but everyone can have a little bit of my blood instead

In a previous tweet she said she would only go to a volunteer site if it was within walking distance of where she was

 

[love detective]

she might not be able to give blood as authorities are concerned she may have mad cow disease

(not a sexist comment btw, apparently it's a genuine reason as to why americans won't accept british blood)

 

[Bakunin]

In a previous tweet she said she would only go to a volunteer site if it was within walking distance of where she was

How incredibly enthusiastic and truly committed of her. Does her idea of the 'disaster area du jour' also include being within walking distance of a Starbucks and Pizza Hut (both of which will no doubt be expected to deliver) as well? Still, I don't suppose her not being physically there or genuinely willing/possessing the kills to actually be able to do something useful will spare us a series of breathless 'first hand' accounts (for a fiver a paragraph, naturally).

 

[Random]

she might not be able to give blood as authorities are concerned she may have mad cow disease

(not a sexist comment btw, apparently it's a genuine reason as to why americans won't accept british blood)

They also ask this in Sweden

 

[love detective]

she's now saying that she'll go to a volunteering site, but only if somebody drives her there

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

They also ask this in Sweden

Loads of countries don't except our blood for this reason.

 

[butchersapron]

Meanwhile in red hook, brooklyn:

The comparisons to Katrina have been everywhere, of course, but for me they hit home when, safe in my Crown Heights apartment that never even lost power, I saw friends and acquaintances who’d been involved with Occupy Wall Street tweeting their relief activities under the hashtag #OccupySandy. I couldn’t help but think, as I watched them tweet their setup of a hub in Red Hook, of Common Ground, of Malik Rahim, of New Orleans’ mutual aid after the storm, and how leftists and radicals (Rahim, a former Black Panther, learned about community care from the Panthers’ free food and tutoring programs) step quietly into the spaces that are left vacant by the wrecking crew that’s laid waste to social welfare programs and the churches and charities that Republicans keep telling us will step up to provide care.

 

[love detective]

funny how all that's going in in Brooklyn, meanwhile

Brooklyn I am in you

No earthly way to get down to volunteering sites

 

[phildwyer]

funny how all that's going in in Brooklyn, meanwhile

Brooklyn is rather bigger than you seem to imagine.

 

[rekil]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
@anamariecox hey I'm organising volunteering stuff tomorrow, also a journolady. Want to co-ordinate? L xx

Out of all the people in the city she could roll up her sleeves with, she managed to home in on somebody from GQ with over a million twitter followers. Looks like a bit of a fib to make herself sound important as well.

 

[The39thStep]

she's now saying that she'll go to a volunteering site, but only if somebody drives her there

Ryan Gosling?

 

[DotCommunist]

Loads of countries don't except our blood for this reason.

anyone would think we were fucking riddled

 

[gosub]

anyone would think we were fucking riddled

I'd be more worried about Hep E that nobody is screening for