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

[rekil]

Discordia decorated V masks next, I bet.

She sells iPhone cases on her site so yeah, merch with doodles of some greek person's graffiti surely on the way.

Spud Middleton's comments on LP NS article. Brutal but fair.

More so than any depth of wanton depravity, any amount of unemployment, penury, destitution, political corruption and rampant inequality, the sign that this country has become truly dysfunctional will be the day Laurie penny appears on, say, Newsnight as more than entertainment or a curiosity. By sheer weight of 'service', these people actually acquire a sort of credibility. I fear in the future we'll have our political and cultural agenda set by public school types suspended in a sort of permanent adolescence, forever striving for a degree of radicalism which will shock the middle-class from which they're trying to disassociate themselves. They're everywhere; it's the future.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

It's now.

 

[rekil]

It'll be even more now than now is.

 

[DaveCinzano]

It'll be even more now than now is.

THEN IS THE NEW NOW

 

[rekil]

And...Maybe More?

 

[weepiper]

New now, I am in you.

 

[The39thStep]

She sells iPhone cases on her site so yeah, merch with doodles of some greek person's graffiti surely on the way.

Spud Middleton's comments on LP NS article. Brutal but fair.

I like the cut of Spud's jib. His comments over the year on LP have been spot on.

 

[U N Arrator]

'More so than any depth of wanton depravity, any amount of unemployment, penury, destitution, political corruption and rampant inequality, the sign that this country has become truly dysfunctional will be the day Laurie penny appears on, say, Newsnight as more than entertainment or a curiosity. By sheer weight of 'service', these people actually acquire a sort of credibility. I fear in the future we'll have our political and cultural agenda set by public school types suspended in a sort of permanent adolescence, forever striving for a degree of radicalism which will shock the middle-class from which they're trying to disassociate themselves. They're everywhere; it's the future.'​

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Exactly right. The anarcholeft, in Britain at least, has served nothing other than a decorative/theatrical purpose for some time now. Politics as entertainment or hobby. The likes of Penny are merely the culmination of a process.

 

[love detective]

that comment above is absolutely spot on

trying to come up with a joke for this one....

Studio in Russia slapping my Free Pussy

....but just can't get a thing out of it

 

[el-ahrairah]

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Exactly right. The anarcholeft, in Britain at least, has served nothing other than a decorative/theatrical purpose for some time now.

Decoration, I am you.

 

[barney_pig]

that comment above is absolutely spot on

trying to come up with a joke for this one....



....but just can't get a thing out of it

Saw that, restrained myself.

 

[Balbi]

Sometimes you let the ball sail by, rather than swipe at it. You can get extras that way.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Hipster boutique, I am on your shelves

 

[rekil]

The only mention of the strikes on Laura's twitter is a crabapple rt, a good one.

mollycrabapple ‏@mollycrabapple
Keep seeing protesters with the red yellow purple flag of the second Spanish republic, for whom the civil war was fought #14N


Otherwise just a load of shit about Terry Pratchett.

 

[rekil]

Discworld, I am in you.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Otherwise just a load of shit about Terry Pratchett.

Corrected for you:

Discworld, where am I?!?

 

[weepiper]

I see self-promotion of her Pratchett interview takes precedence over the woman in Ireland who died because she was refused an abortion, which merits a single tweet from the supposed queen of feminism herself

 

[rekil]

I see self-promotion of her Pratchett interview takes precedence over the woman in Ireland who died because she was refused an abortion, which merits a single tweet from the supposed queen of feminism herself

And she gets that totally wrong.

She was killed by the misogyny of religious patriarchs.

Idiot.

 

[weepiper]

So today we have a woman dying because of refused abortion, massive strike and protests across Europe, and Gaza being bombed the shit out of by F16s and offshore cannons, and this is the most important thing:

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
Here's the Facebook event for my reading in New York on Saturday. Featuring WORDS about anti-capitalism and fucking.http://www.facebook.com/events/163931887085768/?notif_t=plan_user_joined …

 

[Riklet]

mollycrabapple ‏@mollycrabapple
Keep seeing protesters with the red yellow purple flag of the second Spanish republic, for whom the civil war was fought #14N

Jesus, how embarrassingly WRONG WRONG WRONG is that.

Nu-history rewriting, I am in you!

 

[Lo Siento.]

Jesus, how embarrassingly WRONG WRONG WRONG is that.

Nu-history rewriting, I am in you!

even grammatically so. Hey Molly, a Republic is a thing not a person. Thanks.

 

[discokermit]

that comment above is absolutely spot on

trying to come up with a joke for this one....



....but just can't get a thing out of it

considering the "in you" meme that's emerging, i should be able to think of one...

...nope...

 

[rekil]

New now, I am in you.

National Geographic ‏@NatGeo
Photos: Cuba's new now http://on.natgeo.com/TYajSX

 

[Balbi]

Gaza, I am out of you.

Shall be interesting to see Penny's response - it's a big serious grown up complex news issue, not associated with yoot culture etc. She hasn't the heart or competence to actually go there, so expect a report from an Occupation is solidarity with Gaza - linking it to the Occupy movement etc etc.

 

[articul8]

To be honest, about the only thing the people of Gaza have going for them at the moment is that Laurie Penny is on another continent.

 

[Balbi]

I can imagine Penny now, heading to Gaza expecting a Yvonne Ridley experience & getting a Yvonne Fletcher one.

 

[Bakunin]

She hasn't the heart or competence to actually go there.

Haven't they suffered enough already?

 

[DaveCinzano]

I can imagine Penny now, heading to Gaza expecting a Yvonne Ridley experience & getting a Yvonne Fletcher one.

Ouch!

 

[Balbi]

Actually put me right off my usual lefty journo wank too

 

[rekil]

Gaza, I am out of you.

Shall be interesting to see Penny's response - it's a big serious grown up complex news issue, not associated with yoot culture etc. She hasn't the heart or competence to actually go there, so expect a report from an Occupation is solidarity with Gaza - linking it to the Occupy movement etc etc.

You made this happen.

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
Spend today making a video report about Israel and the Information war with @Timcast, who has decided to Teach Me Video.