Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags
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Must be terribly uncomfortable sitting on that wire fence, nice one.
I think there's like a builder's black list but for media bubbles and our names are on it.
I think there's like a builder's black list but for media bubbles and our names are on it.
Because those things are what LP appears to think it's important to write about.
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just find it weird. Call it the LLETSA defence
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and stalkery.
First rule of the internet - if you don't want it ever repeated or commented on, don't post it.
I agree though, it would freak me out a bit if I saw a 500 page long thread with nearly half a million views going through my internet bowel movemnts.
Yet she's part of the internet generation who grew up with it as a child so maybe not. She knows how to use it to her advantage/
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There are a few posts on here where she is actually being congratulated, same goes with our Owen. Owen was briefly a hero amongst some people on here because he made IDS squirm a bit for a couple of moments. I Don't think Sunny has ever been complimented though - not that I am aware of.
Yet she's part of the internet generation who grew up with it as a child so maybe not. She knows how to use it to her advantage/
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There are a few posts on here where she is actually being congratulated, same goes with our Owen. Owen was briefly a hero amongst some people on here because he made IDS squirm a bit for a couple of moments. I Don't think Sunny has ever been complimented though - not that I am aware of.
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the thing is why is she important enough to expend all this energy on? I'm not really interested in her, in a positive or negative way, she isn't writing for me and i'm not her intended audience, i'm just amazed there is all this interest in detailing her online activity, as if it mattered.
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Who else?
the thing is why is she important enough to expend all this energy on? I'm not really interested in her, in a positive or negative way, she isn't writing for me and i'm not her intended audience, i'm just amazed there is all this interest in detailing her online activity, as if it mattered.
It's a meme.
the thing is why is she important enough to expend all this energy on? I'm not really interested in her, in a positive or negative way, she isn't writing for me and i'm not her intended audience, i'm just amazed there is all this interest in detailing her online activity, as if it mattered.
You're still focusing on Laurie, it isn't just her. It is the whole bunch of them.
Laurie probably gets the focus of it on here because her name is in the title and she spews the most shite.
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No-one ever needs to grass the daft cunt. His own prose and fixation with certain subjects does that for him.
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Thank You. It needs to be repeated loud and often. I am sick to death of these condescending, pseudo intellectuals stating rehashed history. Yes, Penny, Jones et al., we are all so fucking stupid that we need to be told about the glaring obvious.
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"Many a true word is spoken in jest".
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Your problem, my friend, is that you have the true anarchist's conception of numbers, where we believe that any figure over 100 is "impressive".
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Frankly, they see themselves (in a romantic rather than politically-pragmatic way) as a vanguard to a true form of socialism, if only the damn proles would listen to them with the same intensity and belief that the middle classes do!
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Whenever I read anything by Nick lezard, the voice in my head is of Rob Newman's repulsive Jarvis the Pervert character.
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Thing is, they have similar aims when you think about it (convincing people that a particular "path" is the right one/the best choice), so it's not surprising if the produce similar and overlapping bubbles.
That character was brilliant
"I do my bit for the local parish, I don't want to come over all Mother Theresa. Well..."
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Like a head of celery?
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That character was brilliant
"I do my bit for the local parish, I don't want to come over all Mother Theresa. Well..."
"What's that you ask, little homeless girl? What brings me here? The likes of you, my dear, the likes of you...."
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the thing is why is she important enough to expend all this energy on? I'm not really interested in her, in a positive or negative way, she isn't writing for me and i'm not her intended audience, i'm just amazed there is all this interest in detailing her online activity, as if it mattered.
It's what she represents, what she exemplifies: A thoroughly middle-class take on life that aims to appropriate working-class sentiment and culture for its' own purposes, that "does" activism but always miraculously manages to derive more benefit from bog-standard, even quotidian activism, than anyone who doesn't "do" activism, but rather live it.
The reason people look at the detail of her activity is because of the large potential it holds for exposing hypocrisy and downright fibs. Similar attention to Johann Hari exposed him as a fantasist.
"All those poor little boys, sleeping rough, naked skin on the pavement... it's enough to make one, *inhales cigarette* "
Brilliant stuff.
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It was worse than that - he said "little homeless person" and he was addressing a head of indeterminate sex sticking up out of a heap of blankets etc.
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