surely it was clearly a reference to how beastly socialists and anarchists are towards Laura?
Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags
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bluestreak
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fearless.
rekil
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Even if this thread goes on for another 1000 pages you will not see anything weirder than Laura posing in front of that shitty painting.
It is only when I zoomed in on a phone could I see the detail. Wow, burning police and fat cats
And y'know people said Arthur Scargill had a big ego, fucking hell you just wait 'til this generation of post-class, neo-liberal Oxbridge Twats currently masquerading as the Voice of the Radical Left in Britain reaches maturity. They'll make Uncle Arthur look bashful by comparison.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
1. No, it isn't wrong. It does, however, offend her sense of ego and sense of entitlement while appealing to what seems like something of a martyr complex. Somehow I doubt that the concept of constructive criticism is something she's all that keen to engage with.
2. As far as the 'drama queen' thing goes, see 1 above and also any publicity is good publicity when there's the chance of an extra byline in it. After all, why suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune for free when you can be paid to sling together a sixth-form school newspaper-standard account of how you're always suffering baseless misery inflicted by the world's entire supply of online nasties?
That's a beauty.
At least Arthur was never (as far as I know) on Twitter.
Capitalism can rest easy when all the 'rebels' are sticking their tongues out at each other on Twitter and so on-making money for capitalists in the process.
Today's society has made satire redundant.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
how?
framed
Leave it!
Steel Icarus
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Well, creative is one way of putting it.
Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
Possibly. But she's certainly part of that privileged part of the proletariat often called the middle class; upper, in her case. And we don't know how much capital she owns, since she's not open about her finances. Harry Cole off Guido's website claims she's "loaded", and she's already admitted that she inherited enough money to live in London for a year. Does she have a trust fund? In that case she basically lives largely off the rents from her capital.
He is working class.
Laura may or may not be, I suspect she has far more assets (cue laddish all laddish sniggers) than she implies.
Several ponies.
Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
It's a bloody stupid way to put it and it makes you look like a bully; I think you can see this tbh.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
If Laura sees herself as a "left-wing guru", then Shaitan save us all!!!
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this is what i thought. But until we find out for sure her true class background, the main body of criticism seems to be based around that fact that she is:
1. privileged
2. a journalist who lies.
Is that really worth 207 pages?
Fozzie Bear
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Maybe not but along the way there have been a fair few lols and a good critique of the emergence of a new generation of the "commentariat".
I am sure Laurie Penny would say a lot more about her class background if it was "cred".
Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
At least 40 of those pages are simply posts complaining that the thread is too long.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Damn right it's worth it!
And yes, firky that thing was crap and undermines the good parts of the thread - and oddly enough, makes it all about Laura, when close observers know that it's not.
And yes, firky that thing was crap and undermines the good parts of the thread - and oddly enough, makes it all about Laura, when close observers know that it's not.
rekil
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At least another 40 is lletsa going on about tattoos.
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