Urban v's the Commentariat

[ViolentPanda]

I've never used one, so don't know if the skills required for effective contributions are closer to written clarity or spoken "did I really just say that?".

They're pretty good unless you've got a fairly unusual accent, as most of them "learn" how you as an individual pronounce certain letters and sounds. There's about half a dozen regular posters on here besides me that I know use speech recog.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Sunny wants war.

Sunny is a wet wiberal shit-eater posturing as the conscience of England. CTR he'll be strung up by his knob from a motorway bridge, to be used as a piñata by passing articulated lorries.

 

[J Ed]

So I see that Laurie Penny has been sent to report on Calafou.

Why would an editor assign someone to this story who doesn't speak Catalan or Spanish, knows nothing about economics or Spain in general?

 

[Lo Siento.]

So I see that Laurie Penny has been sent to report on Calafou.

Why would an editor assign someone who doesn't speak Catalan or Spanish, knows nothing about economics or Spain in general to this story?

Cause they wanted essentially a travelogue written by someone like their imagined reader?

 

[Theisticle]

LOL

 

[fractionMan]

ffs

 

[J Ed]

Omg it's an authentic Colonia Posadista

 

[rekil]

So I see that Laurie Penny has been sent to report on Calafou.

Why would an editor assign someone to this story who doesn't speak Catalan or Spanish, knows nothing about economics or Spain in general?

She's cheap, she lies about her capabilities and her bosses just don't give a shit. Journos were marking the 100th day since the arrests of AJ staff in Egypt all over the place the other day. Easy to see who the scabs are. Laurie was evidently too busy asking for hugs.

 

[equationgirl]

LOL

I love that she didn't say 'I'm not going to be tweeting.' What's lots, 10 tweets per day so anything under that is fine? Way to be ethical.

 

[andysays]

I love that she didn't say 'I'm not going to be tweeting.' What's lots, 10 tweets per day so anything under that is fine? Way to be ethical.

I'm confused. What sort of post capitalist ecoindustrial colony has community media protocols which prevent self-styled activists from dropping in and tweeting loads to enhance their personal image?

If I can't tweet about it, I don't want to be part of your revolution

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm confused. What sort of post capitalist ecoindustrial colony has community media protocols which prevent self-styled activists from dropping in and tweeting loads to enhance their personal image?

anywhere which doesn't want laurie penny to strut about

 

[Theisticle]

FFS

Stop calling Tony Blair a war criminal. The left should be proud of his record
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/08/tony-blair-labour-pride-war-criminal-iraq

 

[benedict]

Cause they wanted essentially a travelogue written by someone like their imagined reader?

The profile of a typical NS reader though is soft Labour probably centered around a Compass-like position, not her faux radicale pseudobollocks. Since she has no areas of expertise and a mediocre talent as a cliche-ridden writer, what is her function? Clickbait alone?

 

[Pickman's model]

FFS

Stop calling Tony Blair a war criminal. The left should be proud of his record
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/08/tony-blair-labour-pride-war-criminal-iraq

shurely the left should be proud so many of them repeatedly called for a vote for labour war criminals without illusions

 

[benedict]

FFS

Stop calling Tony Blair a war criminal. The left should be proud of his record
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/08/tony-blair-labour-pride-war-criminal-iraq

One of the great minds of her generation.

 

[tim]

So I see that Laurie Penny has been sent to report on Calafou.

Why would an editor assign someone to this story who doesn't speak Catalan or Spanish, knows nothing about economics or Spain in general?

Those type of idealistic communities are nearly always riven with interpersonal tensions who else would you send to bring a little harmony o the place.

 

[treelover]

FFS

Stop calling Tony Blair a war criminal. The left should be proud of his record
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/08/tony-blair-labour-pride-war-criminal-iraq

First John Harris, now Zoe, its the great moving right show!

I wonder if is it because we may have right wing hegemony for the foreseeable future, I say may.

 

[treelover]

Omg it's an authentic Colonia Posadista

http://www.furnessphotography.com/4/post/2013/06/on-the-road-welcome-to-calafou.html

looks an interesting place

what happens if you can't work, disabled, etc?

 

[treelover]

Those type of idealistic communities are nearly always riven with interpersonal tensions who else would you send to bring a little harmony o the place.

absolutely, mild and not so mild paranoia was a key signature of much of the direct action scene

Calafou attracts a curious variety of donations and suggestions from the wider community which offer some insight into the public perception of this project. In the week that I was there a local man asked if he could bring 500 sheep to graze the land and the woods, a beekeeper who is getting too old to manage his hives offered Calafou his bees, they were given a machine for cutting textile 20 sheets at a time and a man who's glass cutting/polishing business had just closed, donated as much of his stock and machines to Calafou as the guys could fit in a van. - See more at: http://www.furnessphotography.com/4...-welcome-to-calafou.html#sthash.SSl0g3EM.dpuf

Many people seem to want to support it though

 

[DaveCinzano]

Ouch.

http://madammiaow.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/laurie-penny-defriends-woman-of-colour.html

A genuine WTF moment when Charles Shaar Murray appears out of nowhere to tag in, deliver a quick dropkick, and tag out again.

Speaking of which, Bone is now reporting that both Chen & Murray have ‘sign[ed] up for Rock Against the Rich’!

http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2014/0...aar-murray-sign-up-for-rock-against-the-rich/

 

[Bakunin]

She's cheap, she lies about her capabilities and her bosses just don't give a shit. Journos were marking the 100th day since the arrests of AJ staff in Egypt all over the place the other day. Easy to see who the scabs are. Laurie was evidently too busy asking for hugs.

In the world of high-profile, brand-building media tarts you'll find 'solidarity' is a word often used satirically. See also 'Comrade' and various other buzzwords of the Prada-Meinhof brigade.

Speaking of scabbing, has anybody asked Penny Dreadful why her employers at the New Statesman still refuse to recognise the NUJ?

 

[benedict]

First John Harris, now Zoe, its the great moving right show!

I wonder if is it because we may have right wing hegemony for the foreseeable future, I say may.

Zoe hasn't moved.

 

[treelover]

She is being attempting some revisionism on Blair.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

She is being attempting some revisionism on Blair.

gibberish.

And what evidence does this provide of some rightward shift? (not that I expect an answer from you)

 

[treelover]

so you won't get one then

 

[DotCommunist]

In the world of high-profile, brand-building media tarts you'll find 'solidarity' is a word often used satirically. See also 'Comrade' and various other buzzwords of the Prada-Meinhof brigade.

Speaking of scabbing, has anybody asked Penny Dreadful why her employers at the New Statesman still refuse to recognise the NUJ?

on a side note I found out union letters to members back in the day would be signed off with 'yours fraternally'


why don't they do that anymore?

 

[weepiper]

on a side note I found out union letters to members back in the day would be signed off with 'yours fraternally'


why don't they do that anymore?

Excludes the wimmin, eh.

 

[DotCommunist]

true that- american unions go in for the 'international brotherhood' thing as well. Soritas is the equivalent to frater iirc. 'Yours fraternally and Sorritorially'

fuck it, lets just go with 'yours sincerely' then

 

[benedict]

Reminds me of this gem of guilt-outwringing:

"This has been the liberal's dilemma for some time now: is it OK to sub-contract all your domestic work? Obviously, from a Marxist point of view, it isn't – we all make mess, we all have to eat, we all have to look after children if we have them. When some of us refuse to do any of that ourselves, others among us will end up doing all of it."

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

true that- american unions go in for the 'international brotherhood' thing as well. Soritas is the equivalent to frater iirc. 'Yours fraternally and Sorritorially'

fuck it, lets just go with 'yours sincerely' then

I've seen union emails signed off as 'in solidarity' in the last week