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

[Casually Red]

Marlboro Lights have been around since the late '70s.

and ive only been around since the early 70s...fuckin nerve of him . Young people these days..i remember during the woer..

 

[SpineyNorman]

I think Laurie might be looking at this thread again. She's running at about 2 tweets a second about not being able to write without getting the piss taken out of her laboured writing style, fabrications and political naivety misogynistic abuse and how much better it is in the US.

 

[butchersapron]

The very democratic flat shite she talked about in the OP's article, means, you can run, but you can't hide.

 

[butchersapron]

You was a bum over over and you're a bum over there. It's because you're a bum, not where you are.

 

[rekil]

Louise Mensch wants to have coffee and show her round her house. Instead of telling her to get fucked, Laura says she can't because she's leaving NY. You couldn't make it up.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed 3m
Spending time in America makes me a better writer, unquestionably. Their literary and journalistic culture is so much healthier right now.

Which raises a troubling question - how bad would she be if she hadn't spent time in America? It's a horrifying thought

I've just realised what she means by their literary and journalistic and literary culture being healthier - she's on about Malcolm Harris and his twendy new york wadical set isn't she?

Personally I don't think his porn obsession and misogyny and homophobia apologism are indicative of a healthy literary culture but I'm just a normal so what would I know?

 

[cesare]

Louise Mensch wants to have coffee and show her round her house. Instead of telling her to get fucked, Laura says she can't because she's leaving NY. You couldn't make it up.

It's all about the social currency.

 

[rekil]

ChrisJDavies ‏@ChrisJDavies

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@PennyRed In New York in general, it's easier for ANYONE to do ambitious creative things. Britain just sneers at ambition and creativity.

 

[SpineyNorman]

What the fuck have they got against sneering anyway? I love a good sneer, me.

 

[DotCommunist]

ChrisJDavies ‏@ChrisJDavies

14m​

@PennyRed In New York in general, it's easier for ANYONE to do ambitious creative things. Britain just sneers at ambition and creativity.

thats why we cunted david blaine off. Nothing to do with a healthy disdain for charlatans people making it up as they go along eh

 

[el-ahrairah]

who is that shitwit?

also, any radical who is so radical that former tory mp invites them round for coffee to show off the furnishings is clearly not doing a good job.

 

[cesare]

What the fuck have they got against sneering anyway? I love a good sneer, me.

The best thing she ever came out with was hateweasels

 

[butchersapron]

Being disciplined by the wider movement = run away, i'm not subject to their laws. All so predictable and sordid now.

 

[rekil]

The best thing she ever came out with was hateweasels

And the unintentional bit of genius that was "radical downtime".

 

[frogwoman]

I'm going to write an article called "My Train Journey" and submit it to the new ink wirry.

"The disembodied voice calls out that my train is cancelled, but our vibrant young future is not" etc

 

[Firky]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed 3m
Spending time in America makes me a better writer, unquestionably. Their literary and journalistic culture is so much healthier right now.

Which raises a troubling question - how bad would she be if she hadn't spent time in America? It's a horrifying thought

In other words her paypal account is now bulging with dollar and sycophantic yanky concern.

 

[Firky]

Isn't it strange she was selling a Macbook pro and a few hours later she comes out with some bullshit about being robbed? It's almost as if she was skint and selling her Mac wasn't making her a buck quick enough. Transparant as...

Hey boys and girls, I am selling my laptop as I am a bit skint. It has revolutionary and radical stickers, anyone want to buy it?​

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[No interest]​

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Hey boys and girls, I have been robbed in NYC. Oh woe is me, I am so skint, what can I do? BTW my paypal is lauriepenny@gmail.com​

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[Suddenly the US is great again and better then Britain]​

 

[Firky]

I have Mads Mikkelsen to watch (the Scandinavian Cillian Murphy), I always feel a bit stupid letting that daft twat wind me up.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Isn't it strange she was selling a Macbook pro and a few hours later she comes out with some bullshit about being robbed? It's almost as if she was skint and selling her Mac wasn't making her a buck quick enough. Transparant as...

Hey boys and girls, I am selling my laptop as I am a bit skint. It has revolutionary and radical stickers, anyone want to buy it?​

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[No interest]​

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Hey boys and girls, I have been robbed in NYC. Oh woe is me, I am so skint, what can I do? BTW my paypal is lauriepenny@gmail.com​

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[Suddenly the US is great again and better then Britain]​

Guess it's possible she was taking her laptop to sell and someone robbed her for it.

It's the boy child of indeterminate gender who cried wolf Laurie, let that be a lesson for you.

 

[J Ed]

So the proposal on a black students officer came up for debate in union council today. Left-wing councillors who asked critical questions were told that they were 'too white' to comment.

Identity politics is a cancer.

 

[butchersapron]

councillors?

 

[tufty79]

cesare, weepiper, equationgirl,red cat, dotcommunist, tufty79, kittyp, muscovyduck - ffs, 10 seconds thought (and even more as i'm typing).

 

[J Ed]

ChrisJDavies ‏@ChrisJDavies

14m​

@PennyRed In New York in general, it's easier for ANYONE to do ambitious creative things. Britain just sneers at ambition and creativity.

lol, she'll be an ex-pat Thatcherite whining about entrepreneur-bashing Britain in 5 years max

 

[DotCommunist]

 

[J Ed]

councillors?

Student Union Councillors, unpaid elected student politicians

 

[J Ed]

https://twitter.com/sarahljaffe/status/327490622502076417

Check your privilege Laurie!

 

[butchersapron]

This was?

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed

49m​

For example: recent meeting with London radicals wanting to expand media platform. Refused to consider lack of women editors a major problem

 

[rekil]

This was?

A little dig, a disingenuous one most likely, at Aaron Peters there I think.

eta: yep, Aaron pipes up with "there are no editors and the hope is to get people involved who don't already have 80k followers"

More lies and snide accusations of misogyny against your own friends Laura? For shaaaaame.

 

[butchersapron]

A little dig, a disingenuous one most likely, at Aaron Peters there I think.

So nothing, and still nothing on:

I'm actively involved in a number of campaigns that aim to change and challenge the bourgeois commentariat model.

i/m starting to have suspicions here.

 

[cesare]

I didn't want to mention it in case you self identified as female, tbh.