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

[chilango]

Does anyone read *this stuff anyway?

I don't and I don't know anyone who does.

*Laurie Penny et al. Not this thread.

 

[DotCommunist]

forget about it, can't be arsed. was just expressing a suspicion of that clubbishness that's typical amongst many political types. it smells of prejudice to me.
i see a young writer whose heart is in the right place getting a kicking for the odd bit of naivety and gaucheness. i think she deserves a break. her and owen jones seem to be the only leftwing commentators the mainstream press want to speak to at the mo, so i think a bit of solidarity wouldn't go amiss.

another victim of the pink hairdo

 

[TruXta]

another victim of the pink hairdo

That's racist.

 

[DotCommunist]

Does anyone read *this stuff anyway?

I don't and I don't know anyone who does.

*Laurie Penny et al. Not this thread.

warren ellis

 

[manny-p]

there's two for a start, but a couple of more serious posts made me think, 'so what? why criticise her for that?' gimme a minute.

The punching in the face comment was a joke. Fuck sake.

 

[JimW]

It's a testament to Laurie's resilience that against the background of Britain's prevailing suppression of the middle classes, she's overcome her Oxbridge education to land a plum job jetting around the world to rehash her schtick from a variety of locations. You chippy proles just can't understand.

 

[Orang Utan]

The punching in the face comment was a joke. Fuck sake.

does it matter that it was a joke? the sentiment was expressed.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Yes you critics of Laurie Penny just don't understand that she is the Rosa Luxembourg of our age.

probably

 

[DotCommunist]

edit, allow that

 

[past caring]

warren ellis

 

[love detective]

does it matter that it was a joke? the sentiment was expressed.

stop being such a drippy little wet prick

 

[Orang Utan]

stop being such a drippy little wet prick

no need for that!

 

[andy2002]

Not that Warren Ellis, the one that writes comics, video games, novels etc.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

i read differently

Seeing what isn't there isn't reading differently. That's called making shit up.

 

[LLETSA]

Does anyone read *this stuff anyway?

I don't and I don't know anyone who does.

*Laurie Penny et al. Not this thread.

Me neither. In fact, out of the hundreds of people with whom I'm acquainted, I can't think of a single one who I could guarantee would have even heard of her.

You're always going to get people like LP. I don't see what the fuss is really. Easily ignored. Like most things actually if that's what you want.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I don't see what the fuss is really. Easily ignored. Like most things actually if that's what you want.

Disgust and outrage at ephemeral things are satisfying and enjoyable.

 

[LLETSA]

Disgust and outrage at ephemeral things are satisfying and enjoyable.

True. Despite what I say above, I pay a lot of attention to the things that annoy me just for the sheer pleasure of being annoyed.

 

[MellySingsDoom]

Thread bump (sorry) - just encountered this latest transmission from Laurie P: http://politicalscrapbook.net/2011/12/laurie-penny-vs-vodafone/

Perhaps the best solution for her is to, well, avoid using mobile phones altogether?

 

[butchersapron]

OOh can you get the INTERNET on a phone?

 

[Delroy Booth]

Thread bump (sorry) - just encountered this latest transmission from Laurie P: http://politicalscrapbook.net/2011/12/laurie-penny-vs-vodafone/

Perhaps the best solution for her is to, well, avoid using mobile phones altogether?

That's such a fucking cheapshot! What's that all about? God, she's just having a bit of a moan about her phone being cut off, I've said much worse than that when I've been cut off before. It's not a news story!

 

[audiotech]

OOh can you get the INTERNET on a phone?

You can get a 'webpack'. Vodafone charge £5 for a months access. You can stream Aljazeera from the comfort of your own bed, beats porn.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

You can get a 'webpack'. Vodafone charge £5 for a months access. You can stream Aljazeera from the comfort of your own bed, beats porn.

A stream of what from your own bed?

 

[audiotech]

A stream of what from your own bed?

Sub-consciousness and REM whilst asleep.

 

[butchersapron]

Sub-consciousness and REM whilst asleep.

I contest the last part

 

[Balbi]

Everytime anyone mentions REM to me I end up asleep, in my soul.

 

[Sue]

Dear Lord...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/22/french-exploding-breast-implants-hilarious-wrong

 

[poului]

Dear Lord...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/22/french-exploding-breast-implants-hilarious-wrong

the comments below neuter it very well. she really is fucking rubbish.

 

[Belushi]

Callinicos keeps popping up as a talking head on Russia Today.

 

[MellySingsDoom]

Jesus fecking Christ. Is she trying to channel Andrea Dworkin there? If so, she should stop right now - Dworkin, for all of her fundamentalist hardline stances, wrote with considerable thought and intelligence. This is more like a pointless Valerie Solanas "tribute" act.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm glad I was given permission to lol though, else I'd have done myself an injury holding in all thos guffaws about exploding tits