Urban v's the Commentariat

[ViolentPanda]

drunk?

Hard as it may be for you to accept, posters don't have to be drunk to get the pip at your incessant swinging from doomy Eeyore, to touter of the next new "Left" thing that's sure to make a breakthrough.

 

[treelover]

give it a rest,

 

[butchersapron]

give it a rest,

Why are you trying to police the boards so?

 

[treelover]

Cos personal attacks are just not on and make no sense.

 

[butchersapron]

Cos personal attacks are just not on and make no sense.

Jesus christ, come on down.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Longtime lurker here. Joining to corroborate treelover. I've personally been put off posting and joining these forums, by your emotionally incontinent aggression.

As I've said to many posters before, if you're delicate enough that you get put off of debate on the basis of someone being aggressive, then you shouldn't post or even read - it'll be bad for you.
Of course, much of the time, when we say we're "put off", what we actually mean is that a combination of our own sense of the argument, and our ability to argue it effectively in the face of aggression, is what puts us off. In fact, the sort of thing you'd have to master if participating in a "live" people-to-people" debate.

Let's not pretend it isn't happening. You even had to preemptively give an assurance that "I won't attack you" in the OP of a thread about voting Labour in 2015.

To a single particular poster who was using their belief that he'd attack as a "shield" for not posting. Do lets not forget the context, eh?

You demand responses (and how!) But people should ignore you. For their own good. Because you relate to them as fodder for your thirsty, needy abusiveness.

Interesting personalisation going on there.

 

[ViolentPanda]

s/he's bringing a brand of cod psychology i thought we'd seen the last of here.

That's not cod psychology, it's cod psychoanalysis, which is as bad, if not worse!

 

[ViolentPanda]

Why dismiss him?


you don't do what BA and PM do on here, you post very informative and astute political info and insight.

So BA and P's M don't? We must be reading different boards.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I post very informative and astute political info and insight. Every fucking day. You don't

Self-praise is no recommendation, young man! Make sure you confess the sin of pride, and do your penance!

 

[rekil]

This is reminiscent of workers power's blue skies thinking classic but might as well go in here.

Horrible design. Wake up sheeple. Let's touch base yeah? Going forward. That'll do it.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Cos personal attacks are just not on and make no sense.

It isn't a "personal attack", it's a fairly middle-of-the-road analysis of your posting history, which oscillates wildly between lamenting (loudly) the death of "the Left", and cheerleading any new org, however mediocre or tainted with reformism and/or neoliberalism.
A personal attack would play you, not a confirmable (or not) thing like your posting history.

 

[DotCommunist]

black sheep though! dissident sheep, you've read the design wrong.

I've never seen a black sheep. I would like to before I die. I've seen hairy cows with horns on them, c-beams glittering in the darkness before the tanhauser gate. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of orion.

I've seen black goats and chinese ducks (seriously they look like ducks designed by lewis carol)

but no black sheep

 

[el-ahrairah]

there was a black sheep in the metro this morning. hold on...

 

[newbie]

Of course, much of the time, when we say we're "put off", what we actually mean is that a combination of our own sense of the argument, and our ability to argue it effectively in the face of aggression, is what puts us off.

one privilege the intersectionalists will never recognise is that of the wordsmith. the inarticulate shall never inherit the earth.

In fact, the sort of thing you'd have to master if participating in a "live" people-to-people" debate.

different skillset

 

[el-ahrairah]

http://metro.co.uk/2014/04/06/hes-b...-of-newborns-is-biggest-in-the-world-4690741/

 

[butchersapron]

one privilege the intersectionalists will never recognise is that of the wordsmith. the inarticulate shall never inherit the earth.

Still, you do try.

 

[butchersapron]

one privilege the intersectionalists will never recognise is that of the wordsmith. the inarticulate shall never inherit the earth.

Do you think all those people in 1917 were poets btw? In 84/85?

 

[ViolentPanda]

one privilege the intersectionalists will never recognise is that of the wordsmith. the inarticulate shall never inherit the earth.

Or so the revolutionary vanguard are forever telling us.

different skillset

Not entirely different. Skills within both sets intersect.

 

[newbie]

Do you think all those people in 1917 were poets btw? In 84/85?

your point?

 

[butchersapron]

your point?

That people you deem inarticulate - and consequently weightless - have political agency.

 

[butchersapron]

your point?

fantastic stuff btw newbie, speaking for those who can't.

 

[newbie]

That people you deem inarticulate - and consequently weightless - have political agency.

that's quite an extrapolation of a whimsy politics is about influence as well as agency.

we're in a different place to the past, communication is increasingly typed rather than spoken

 

[butchersapron]

that's quite an extrapolation of a whimsy politics is about influence as well as agency.

we're in a different place to the past, communication is increasingly typed rather than spoken

Where?

 

[newbie]

Not entirely different. Skills within both sets intersect.

true up to a point. relatively few people never learned to talk, plenty can't read or write.

 

[butchersapron]

true up to a point. relatively few people never learned to talk, plenty can't read or write.

I'm sure they'd be glad to hear that you're sticking up for them.

 

[newbie]

tbh I just thought I was joining a conversation not raising a battle cry, but if it comes to sticking up for anybody I'll choose which side I'm on, just as you will.

 

[Delroy Booth]

I post very informative and astute political info and insight. Every fucking day. You don't

 

[butchersapron]

He doesn't.

 

[J Ed]

Black Sheep is for drinking

 

[ViolentPanda]

that's quite an extrapolation of a whimsy politics is about influence as well as agency.

we're in a different place to the past, communication is increasingly typed rather than spoken

Luckily for the software companies, a small but growing percentage of "typed" stuff is now inputted via voice-recognition.