Urban v's the Commentariat

[Limerick Red]

Do ya think that maybe..,just maybe...burning down the world might mean sitting being bored to fuckin tears about two complete gowls rabbitin on bout themselves?

 

[DotCommunist]

note albert in CORRECT ATTIRE

 

[el-ahrairah]

it would be ironic if someone were to set fire to the building whilst that was happening.

 

[Balbi]

it would be ironic if someone were to set fire to the building whilst that was happening.

Inviting people to burn down the world, stating a dress code, $20 door charge.

It's actually a plea for help, they're attempting to corrall the worst elements of their own excess and success, and are inviting the denim clad jacketless masses to enthusiastic arson.

AHEM

 

[The Pale King]

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Full kit wanker into the bargain. In a concession to sensibleness, he has his jumper on underneath. You don't wanna catch your death of cold when you're smashing the zionist murder machine on the west coast of Ireland.

All the gear, no idea...

 

[DaveCinzano]

I bet Hitler would have been a prolific twitter blocker. And he was fond of formal wear too.

He knew how to let his hair down too, mind.

 

[frogwoman]

I didn't really need to see that, especially the middle photo

 

[Idris2002]

"Und next week ve vill haff ein night of long trouzers".

 

[Idris2002]

i hated Transmetropolitan when i finally got round to reading it. utter bobbins.

i read Freak Angels for a while on the basis of your recommendation but that was crap too.

Questionable Content is the web comic I follow.

 

[frogwoman]

Lol this is absolute bollocks from this Alan Johnson guy

Has he never heard of the debates in the left over 'national self determination'??

In the 19th century, most of the Left felt that assimilation was the only acceptable Jewish response to modernity and anti-Semitism. It disapproved of the survival of Jewishness – of the Jews as a people with the right to national self determination as opposed to individuals with civil rights. Instead, the Left hoped to dissolve Jewish peoplehood in the solvent of progressive universalism. The proletariat, understood as the universalist class par excellence, was to make a revolution that would solve "the Jewish question" once and for all. Actually, in the 19th century and the early 20th century, many European Jews agreed with both universalism and assimilation; it was the name of their desire too.

But world history went another way and Jewish history went with it. The failure of the European socialist revolution, the rise of Fascism and Nazism, and the unprecedented transformation of the assault upon the Jews – in the form of the Shoah, an industrial-scale genocide in the heart of Europe – left the appeal of assimilationism and universalism in tatters. In response, the Jews insisted on defining their own mode of participation in universal emancipation: Zionism and support for the creation of the state of Israel. Whether they moved to Israel or not, that was the choice of all but a slither of world Jewry. And that remains the case today.

Assimilation continues to be the choice of a huge number of people lol, more than ever following world war 2, has he not been following the news for the past few decades and resulting panic in some quarters about latge numbers of Jews marrying non-Jews (a number which is estimated to be at least 40%)

Also even if jewish people don't marry non Jews most have assimilated to some extent by having non Jewish family and friends and working in multicultural workplaces

Also most people aren't obsessed with Israel and Palestine, he comes across as a completely ignorant twat

 

[DotCommunist]

He knew how to let his hair down too, mind.

in modern times only simon cowell wears his belt so high. Co-incidence?

 

[DotCommunist]

Lol this is absolute bollocks from this Alan Johnson guy

Has he never heard of the debates in the left over 'national self determination'??





Assimilation continues to be the choice of a huge number of people lol, more than ever following world war 2, has he not been following the news for the past few decades and resulting panic in some quarters about latge numbers of Jews marrying non-Jews (a number which is estimated to be at least 40%)

Also even if jewish people don't marry non Jews most have assimilated to some extent by having non Jewish family and friends and working in multicultural workplaces

Also most people aren't obsessed with Israel and Palestine, he comes across as a completely ignorant twat

why has everyone oddsworth got their own special theory.

 

[benedict]

it's hilarious NUS conferences even think they are relevant to anything. Most students just see them as a thing to get discounts

Political kindergarten innit. Crèche for wannabe party napparatchiks of every flavor

in modern times only simon cowell wears his belt so high. Co-incidence?

Also the freudian nightmare vision of spike jonze's Her.

 

[frogwoman]

why has everyone oddsworth got their own special theory.

Fucked if I know I'm just wondering what world he lives in!

 

[andysays]

Lol this is absolute bollocks from this Alan Johnson guy...

Sorry, according to Alan

the Jews [that's all of you, obvs] insisted on defining their own mode of participation in universal emancipation: Zionism and support for the creation of the state of Israel. Whether they moved to Israel or not, that was the choice of all but a slither of world Jewry. And that remains the case today.

So you just have to accept that the decision has been made for you and get with the fucking Zionist programme, I'm afraid

 

[frogwoman]

Seriously open a copy of the Jewish chronicle where there are always paranoid articles about assimilation, intermarrying and that sort of topic, people panicking that there aren't gonna be any Jews left or the more serious bits of demographic research on the topic or better yet just TALK TO PEOPLE and then tell me that his worldview represents reality in any way. It's just fantasy stuff, it's like people saying that the vast majority of Muslims don't marry non Muslims and only have one political view

 

[frogwoman]

Sorry, according to Alan



So you just have to accept that the decision has been made for you and get with the fucking Zionist programme, I'm afraid

To be honest I want nothing to do with either side in that debate

 

[DotCommunist]

that was the choice of all but a slither of world Jewry.

I'm sure this was meant to be sliver and not a lizardly reference

 

[frogwoman]

Also the whole idea of 'national self determination' and support of 'national liberation' movements as promoted by Trotsky and Lenin is where a lot of this hamas supporting shit in the left comes from, if he wanted to criticize the Left properly he would have talked about that...

 

[andysays]

To be honest I want nothing to do with either side in that debate

No reason why you should.

And just in case there's any doubt about my previous post



Sometimes sarcasm's rather a blunt weapon - sorry if it didn't come across the way it was meant.

 

[frogwoman]

No reason why you should.

And just in case there's any doubt about my previous post



Sometimes sarcasm's rather a blunt weapon - sorry if it didn't come across the way it was meant.

I wasn't offended at all.

 

[andysays]

I'm sure this was meant to be sliver and not a lizardly reference

 

[el-ahrairah]

so would hitler pass the dress code?

 

[DotCommunist]

"homage"??

homage to catatonia

 

[frogwoman]

No reason why you should.

And just in case there's any doubt about my previous post



Sometimes sarcasm's rather a blunt weapon - sorry if it didn't come across the way it was meant.

No problem to be honest I have major problems with the whole ideology of 'anti-zionism' too, I don't like being asked between apologists for Israeli state militarism and racism and the idea thst seems to be amomg some people that if you have been to say visit family in Israel or something you are a cunt. (In a way that visiting say Russia or China or something wouldn't be) I'm not saying it's antisemitic or anything but a lot of them are really ignorant and I am not interested in either of them

 

[Nigel Irritable]

The Ellis - Crabapple, pay 20 quid to watch friends congratulate each other scam led me to notice Crabapple and a liberal writer Sarah Kendzior engaging in a bit of "you are great - no, you, you are great" mutual backslapping. Which in turn led me to notice that Kendzior is currently campaigning for Foreign Policy to employ more women writers. My male privilege had previously blinded me to the tragic and brutally unfair lack of career opportunities for women liberal interventionists and foreign policy hawks in their male dominated field.

 

[J Ed]

The Ellis - Crabapple, pay 20 quid to watch friends congratulate each other scam led me to notice Crabapple and a liberal writer Sarah Kendzior engaging in a bit of "you are great - no, you, you are great" mutual backslapping. Which in turn led me to notice that Kendzior is currently campaigning for Foreign Policy to employ more women writers. My male privilege had previously blinded me to the tragic and brutally unfair lack of career opportunities for women liberal interventionists and foreign policy hawks in their male dominated field.

Campaigning for more female waterboarders at Gitmo is a little bit feminism...

 

[barney_pig]

in medieval times there were people who would go onto the battlefield after a big engagement and loot anything they could from the corpses. Given that said armies will have been burning thir crops, stealing their food and generally acting the cunt they may have had some justification...

anywaythere's a special term for them, but I cannot recall it.

Journalists?

 

[Theisticle]

The Ellis - Crabapple, pay 20 quid to watch friends congratulate each other scam led me to notice Crabapple and a liberal writer Sarah Kendzior engaging in a bit of "you are great - no, you, you are great" mutual backslapping. Which in turn led me to notice that Kendzior is currently campaigning for Foreign Policy to employ more women writers. My male privilege had previously blinded me to the tragic and brutally unfair lack of career opportunities for women liberal interventionists and foreign policy hawks in their male dominated field.

I won't forget the time Sarah Kendzior accused another writer of plagiarism before actually approaching her because of her larger Twitter platform. Cue pitchforks from her followers and it eventually transpired that there was no plagiarism as the author had written on the topic before Kendzior had. Hilarious climbdown.

 

[redsquirrel]

Freak Angels and Transmet are good (the latter being his Hunter S Thiompson in the future 'inspired by')

His first 12 issues of The Authority are great too, went to shit after that. The lead up to the The Authority in Stormwatch was pretty good too.