DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Laurie Penny said:
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equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I moved a lot in my twenties - left uni at 22 moved 9 times over the next 7 years. Being in the same place for the next 7 years was liberating because suddenly I was in control of when I moved.
Last but one time we had to move out of the flat we were in because the landlord wanted to sell it. It then sat empty for the next 8 months.
I only haven't moved because I'm lucky enough to be in social housing. Last private rental gaff before I had to move because landlord was selling the place. I was technically homeless... Only for a fortnight but still. I coulda got an article in the Guardian about that yeah?
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Totally - probably two articles if you tried hard.
Dam. I coulda monitised it.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
What's wrong with you, don't you want to be successful?
This is why we need the commenterriate. Who else will pen our truths from Harvard.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I bet she keeps up her New Statesman column etc whilst she's over there. I'm surprised she hasn't asked for a room on Twitter yet (Harvard Square of course).
The last gaffe I had before this one I got my teeth knocked down my throat for answering the door. That was a laugh.
It actually was a laugh - TBH, I didn't really give a shit and my colleague who bundled the assailants out of the door went "You're a twat you, now I've saw them off you're laughing about it". Which I was.
Still though laurie, there's loads of empty flats up there with the bedroom tax and that.
It actually was a laugh - TBH, I didn't really give a shit and my colleague who bundled the assailants out of the door went "You're a twat you, now I've saw them off you're laughing about it". Which I was.
Still though laurie, there's loads of empty flats up there with the bedroom tax and that.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
there is, of course, more to just bad housing experience than having to move a lot. there's also not being able to move from a bad situation due to poverty. many of us who have had to move around lots crave the security of being able to stay in one place - but just because someone hasn't had to move in 5 years doesn't mean their housing is secure, decent, or appropriate. families in hostels, beds in sheds, living in shitty shared housing because you can't afford the deposit on a new place. there's a lot of other experiences other than transience.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
its almost like the bastards running things use housing precarity to keep us docile, that or personal debt. Of course getting rich at the same time.
Limerick Red
Мы вас похороним!
Was in angies yesterday for the Roscommon v mayo game , no sign of her but maybe she was in the pool room?
Limerick Red
Мы вас похороним!
I did notice both the willesden and cricklewood McGowans were closed yesterday when I was doing me Sunday rounds.
Limerick Red
Мы вас похороним!
No fear of the 7 closing...always busy, I am boycotting the place though.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Anyone following the Sarah Kendzior versus Jacobin twitter war? Truly bizarre and quite educational.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
i'm going to google those people now, i may come to regret this.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
can't see how i lose anything by not having been aware of either of those things before. what nonsense is the war about?
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Amber A'Lee Frost wrote a piece for Jacobin about the term "bro". It mostly argues that dismissing certain types of expertise, interest or knowledge as "bro" stuff is counterproductive for feminists. In a slightly odd and incongruous aside she said that she thought that talking about real male violence or threats of violence in "cutesy" terms like bro is also ill conceived and linked to a tweet by Sarah Kendzior to illustrate that aside. The link was quickly removed, presumably after complaints.
So far, so not that interesting. Where it gets educational is the next stage: Kendzior complains on twitter that the Jacobin piece "mocked" her rape threats. And so starts a massive twitter storm, targeted at Frost and Megan Erickson, a Jacobin editor. People all over twitter performing solidarity with Kendzior, the Jacobin women getting called rape apologists by people who clearly have no idea what the arguments were about, crazier and crazier stuff. By now the whole thing is in Newsweek, Salon, even libertarian rag Reason.
(Frost and Erickson are little known Marxist types associated with Jacobin, Kendzior is a leftish mainstream journalist, with a slightly incongruous past connection to Freedom House).
It's perhaps the archetypal left wing twitter row. A perfect encapsulation of the culture and process.
seventh bullet
sovietwave
Never heard of her. Important middle class people arguing with important middle class people?
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
"Performing solidarity" is a great phrase Nigel Irritable
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I say who?
Never heard heard of either of them. I can confirm that my life has been unaffected by not knowing about this.
Never heard heard of either of them. I can confirm that my life has been unaffected by not knowing about this.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
If these people were English you would know who they are. Or at least you would know who Kendzior is. You probably already know what Jacobin is, even if the writers and editors aren't widely known in their own right.
The point isn't that any of these people are of particular importance to the lives of anyone here.
The point isn't that any of these people are of particular importance to the lives of anyone here.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Yes, but unfortunately I didn't come up with it!
depressingly, the original article is quite thoughtful and thought-provoking.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
If threads had subtitles, this would be ours!
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
It is actually. If it's true that people are trying to portray actual use of data some sort of macho, masculine thing that's potentially quite troubling.
The other stuff just seems like more twitter bickering that I can't be bothered to try to understand.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
yeah, that is quite an interesting article. was worth a read for sure. also not going to worry about the twitter stuff because i hate twitter.
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