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

[redsquirrel]

Aw let him stay on this time, hes like a pet Victor Meldrew.

He fucking loves being banned.

 

[Nice one]

She's not evil. Hitler was evil, Laurie's just growing up in an age where all her mistakes are documented. She might be a bit silly and naive but she's not evil.

all her mistakes seem to be documented here. For over 2 years on a daily basis. That's a lot of time and energy expended on someone who's just a bit silly and naive.

 

[equationgirl]

all her mistakes seem to be documented here. For over 2 years on a daily basis. That's a lot of time and energy expended on someone who's just a bit silly and naive.

Are you sure you've grasped the concept of a forum?

 

[Greebo]

all her mistakes seem to be documented here. For over 2 years on a daily basis. That's a lot of time and energy expended on someone who's just a bit silly and naive.

Think of this thread's subject as a somewhat unhelpful Marriage Guidance Counsellor who manages to get the warring couple to agree on one thing - that he/she is useless at his/her job.

 

[ymu]

all her mistakes seem to be documented here. For over 2 years on a daily basis. That's a lot of time and energy expended on someone who's just a bit silly and naive.

Five posts a day on average would be a lot of time and energy for one poster, but hardly for dozens of them.

The way it works is, people read an article and think "oh, that would be of interest to that thread on urban, I shall go and post a link along with a line or two saying what I think about it", and then other people see it on new posts and they read it and some of them respond if they think they have anything useful to say.

And lo, the thread did develop.

 

[Nice one]

Five posts a day on average would be a lot of time and energy for one poster, but hardly for dozens of them.

The way it works is, people read an article and think "oh, that would be of interest to that thread on urban, I shall go and post a link along with a line or two saying what I think about it", and then other people see it on new posts and they read it and some of them respond if they think they have anything useful to say.

And lo, the thread did develop.

Replies: 14,603
Views: 380,573
Those are impressive figures

 

[equationgirl]

Replies: 14,603
Views: 380,573
Those are impressive figures

Over two years? Not especially considering some of the threads on here.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's not just about one person - tis multifaceted

 

[Nice one]

Over two years? Not especially considering some of the threads on here.

over two years is an impressive figure

 

[JimW]

over two years is an impressive figure

Thanks, I like to think i played my part. And I've done it again!

 

[equationgirl]

over two years is an impressive figure

But if you view different threads and keep going back to the LP one, each visit is a page view, so no, it's not.

 

[JimW]

But if you view different threads and keep going back to the LP one, each visit is a page view, so no, it's not.

Don't spoil it, I've never been involved in anything impressive before.

 

[Firky]

The thread was pretty much dead up until Christmas anyway. About 300,000 of those impressions were made since then.

 

[Firky]

Think of this thread's subject as a somewhat unhelpful Marriage Guidance Counsellor who manages to get the warring couple to agree on one thing - that he/she is useless at his/her job.

 

[editor]

Replies: 14,603
Views: 380,573
Those are impressive figures

Not as impressive as:
Replies: 34,597
Views: 882,320
for a thread started around the same time. These are busy boards!

 

[8115]

Not as impressive as:
Replies: 34,597
Views: 882,320
for a thread started around the same time. These are busy boards!

That's got to be one of the busiest threads ever though. Up there with dinner. I do think this thread is a bit out order tbh.

 

[equationgirl]

That's got to be one of the busiest threads ever though. Up there with dinner. I do think this thread is a bit out order tbh.

In what way is it out of order?

 

[8115]

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[Frances Lengel]

He generally grasses himself up. But besides that, the only reason he keeps needing to reregister is that he refuses to apologise for taking the piss out of disability hate-crime. He's not Fred West, no, but he is supposed to be a grown adult.

Soz for arriving late to the party, but did old LLETS really take the piss out of disability hate crime? I don't think he did really. And he's from miles platting which, according to the pretty good Ian Hough is the electric fence that separates quadrant one from quadrant two.

www.thenamelessthing.com/four-quadrants-of-manchester

miles platting is quite an exhilerating, beautiful and thrilling place and LLETSA's from there - That's all I need to know.

 

[Firky]

That's got to be one of the busiest threads ever though. Up there with dinner. I do think this thread is a bit out order tbh.

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Why is this thread out of order?

Laurie and her peers are public speakers and a self appointed leaders / critics of the left. They're here to shepherd the working classes and preach to "us", this is "our" response. Fuck bum licking.

 

[frogwoman]

it's not just about one person it's about that entire milieu. sunny hundal owen jones molly crabapple the whole lot of them.

 

[Firky]

Don't forget Nick Lez' - the putrid puss filled boil who compares himself with big issue sellers because he spunked his wage before pay day on skinny lattes and taxis.

 

[equationgirl]

it's not just about one person it's about that entire milieu. sunny hundal owen jones molly crabapple the whole lot of them.

Aye it's about the whole commentariat and their presumptive way of speaking for us without asking our opinions.

 

[equationgirl]

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Why did you edit your post - I didn't get to read what you wrote

 

[frogwoman]

In fairness though I don't think it's a problem that's confined to the commentariat (although its certainly magnified x10000 in that bubble). I think a lot of left-wing parties and activist groups and so on end up producing bubbles whose conditions are isolated from everyone else (i'm including myself/this place in this btw).

 

[8115]

Why did you edit your post - I didn't get to read what you wrote

Sorry. Not being very good at articulating myself today and I don't want to write things which I don't want to stand by if that makes sense.

I just feel like the continual criticism might be a bit upsetting, it gets quite personal sometimes.

That's pretty much exactly what I wrote.

 

[frogwoman]

I think that activist/bubble thing has been touched on before but I reckon it's a topic for another thread.

 

[8115]

I do laugh myself sometimes, fwiw.

 

[Firky]

I don't really give a toss about hurting the feelings of the echelons of the upper-middle-class liberal elite.

"Gutted".

 

[Nice one]

it's not just about one person it's about that entire milieu. sunny hundal owen jones molly crabapple the whole lot of them.

i'd like to think that was the case (and i'd throw alex andreou in there as well), but really it's not. Most of the vitriol is directed at her, almost out of compulsion - from what she writes to the clothes she wears and the place she lives to the places her has visited. The question is, if she's not that important why all the attention? If she is that important, why is she important?