Thank you - there was I thinking that I was just being exceptionally thick last night while trying to decipher those posts.
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rekil
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Dunno if this was put up before. Dippy liberal bingo - epic OWS, Lennon, Steve Jobs. Does Crabapple reckon the problem is that we don't have 'proper' capitalism?
How is it possible to get Lennon wrong? And here, I assume she's attempting to draw comparisons between people protesting against Albuquerque coppers habit of killing people and those in Venezuela and/or maybe Ukraine as well.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
That's your basic rich-girl market-libertarianism isn't it? Here's something on Steve 'doing capitalism proper'Jobs btw: Newly unsealed documents show Steve Jobs’ brutal response after getting a Google employee fired
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
that's exactly what it is. she's not got a problem with capitalism really, you could replace the word 'entrepreneur' in that rant with 'capitalist' and not lose anything. she's basically decided that the problem is that she's not the oligarchy.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
she's been reading PJ O'Rourke and taking it seriously i reckon.
Theisticle
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The Pale King
Well-Known Member
"Expenses like giving my employees benefits"
A benevolent lady of the manor. Christmas bonus for the groundskeeper.
A benevolent lady of the manor. Christmas bonus for the groundskeeper.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
And I bet a lot of those expenses are tax deductible too.
The Pale King
Well-Known Member
Quite so. As long as other employers are as benevolent and enlightened as Crabapple wants to advertise herself as, she does not have any problems with the economic system or its inherent exploitation. Her politics are of the wateriest variety - not even countercultural.
captainmission
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I wonder what those six figures are? She's definately in the top 10% of US incomes- i wonder if she makes it in to the top 1%?
edited from 5% to 10%
edited from 5% to 10%
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
unlike those elites
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Or heat, light and a cheap source of almost renewable energy - if she has indeed monetized her hotness by hooking it up to some form of steam turbine.
*enlightenment dawns* That would certainly explain why some Americans have called me everything from unpatriotic to communist for expressing what seemed only slightly left of centre ideas. eg suggesting that all the tenants in the same block clubbed together to pay for the removal of a large wasp nest on a communal landing instead of leaving it to the one whose front door was nearest.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
And this is also where you get 'big this' or 'big that' as a synonym for what is wrong with the world. E.g. lashing the pharmaceutical industry for being 'big pharma' - the fact that that industry is big is one of the good things about it.
Theisticle
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I think I've finally worked out why I dislike Suey Park. For reasons like this:
Her degree of involvement in a hashtagged cause, she said, depends on how much “free time” she has at the moment, and whether a particular issue piques her interest. “It’s not like I enjoy missing ‘Scandal’ to tweet about ‘The Colbert Report,’” she said.
Park suggested that she, like West, is playing to a part and, in the process, satirizing what we might expect from a twenty-three-year-old hashtag activist. “There’s no reason for me to act reasonable, because I won’t be taken seriously anyway,” she said. “So I might as well perform crazy to point out exactly what’s expected from me.”
I know she does other work outside of Twitter but her attitude just rubs me the wrong way, again she must be the focus of the story. That NewYorker piece is a good read.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo...witter-campaign-to-cancel-colbert-report.html
Her degree of involvement in a hashtagged cause, she said, depends on how much “free time” she has at the moment, and whether a particular issue piques her interest. “It’s not like I enjoy missing ‘Scandal’ to tweet about ‘The Colbert Report,’” she said.
Park suggested that she, like West, is playing to a part and, in the process, satirizing what we might expect from a twenty-three-year-old hashtag activist. “There’s no reason for me to act reasonable, because I won’t be taken seriously anyway,” she said. “So I might as well perform crazy to point out exactly what’s expected from me.”
I know she does other work outside of Twitter but her attitude just rubs me the wrong way, again she must be the focus of the story. That NewYorker piece is a good read.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo...witter-campaign-to-cancel-colbert-report.html
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Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I've not been following this thread as closely as some but what I don't get is why she's seen as important at all? I don't really see a problem with what she's saying there as far as it goes - so she sticks some stuff up on twitter when she can be bothered, nothing wrong with that in itself - but how does it get to the point where we're discussing her?
Like that interview with her a few pages back going on about how she 'decided to start a hashtag' as if it's some momentous achievement.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
how long have you been on urban? haven't you yet realised that we discuss everything - and nothing?I've not been following this thread as closely as some but what I don't get is why she's seen as important at all? I don't really see a problem with what she's saying there as far as it goes - so she sticks some stuff up on twitter when she can be bothered, nothing wrong with that in itself - but how does it get to the point where we're discussing her?
rekil
to menny cranks
My problem with Suey Park is not that she's from a great big road full of Billy Bragg style houses in an area of Chicago that might as well be another planet as far as almost all the other city residents are concerned, yet pretends to be oppressed, but that she occupies a political space that rightfully belongs to PD. Perhaps we should approach her in a comradely manner.
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rekil
to menny cranks
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i thought you could read without moving your lips
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
the inevitable check shirt
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
is teh checked shirt supposed to be a signifier, i wonder. or does he just like checked shirts.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
That fucking shirt.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Despite generally looking about 12, he still has the haunted eyes of a man who has Gone Too Far, and Seen Too Much.
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