Urban v's the Commentariat

[DaveCinzano]

Excellent - a pop up prison yogurt business.

‘Finest Greek Yogurt - All profits to Golden Dawn’

 

[The39thStep]

She name checked him in an appalling article on Icelands Pirate Party last year :

Now fringe parties and protest groups are appearing to fill the ideas vacuum. Of these newcomers, the Pirates – a disparate group of hackers, anarchists and digital rights campaigners – are by far the most interesting. Elsewhere in the world, internet activists such as the hacker Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, the late Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz and many others have been prosecuted and imprisoned for fighting for freedom of information, but these ones are about to get into parliament.

It's like Elisabeth Violet reciting Jack Kerouac on helium

 

[DotCommunist]

‘Finest Greek Yogurt - All profits to Golden Dawn’

fromage friekorp

 

[The Pale King]

Not like those horrible nasty EDL people who like football and drink stella and don't even "work for a living"!

Of course not! There's no subcultural capital to be harvested from associating with those types. They've never even been to Brooklyn!

 

[The39thStep]

This might have been posted before but this is how she painlessly and seamlessly excuses his politics in order to write her article and show she is onside with anything that appears to be wadical.

If one thing unites the hackers and whistleblowers hunted by the US government over the past three years, from Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden to notorious prankster Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, it is that they have little respect for the moral authority of the US government and its mechanisms. They are in their teens and 20s; they grew up in the Bush, Blair and Brown years and came of age just as the financial crash of 2008 swept away the socioeconomic justification for Anglo-American imperialism. The online culture that they helped create believes deeply in transparency and, to that culture, digital activists who risk everything for the public's "right to know" are heroes.

 

[rekil]

2008 NYT article. Don't ask me how I found it, awesome h@><0r madskillz.

I first met Weev in an online chat room that I visited while staying at Fortuny’s house. “I hack, I ruin, I make piles of money,” he boasted. “I make people afraid for their lives.” On the phone that night, Weev displayed a misanthropy far harsher than Fortuny’s. “Trolling is basically Internet eugenics,” he said, his voice pitching up like a jet engine on the runway. “I want everyone off the Internet. Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed. Blogging gives the illusion of participation to a bunch of retards. . . . We need to put these people in the oven!”

I listened for a few more minutes as Weev held forth on the Federal Reserve and about Jews. Unlike Fortuny, he made no attempt to reconcile his trolling with conventional social norms.

Weev, Claudia and I hung out in Fullerton for two more nights, always meeting and saying goodbye at the train station. I met their friend Kate, who has been repeatedly banned from playing XBox Live for racist slurs, which she also enjoys screaming at white pedestrians. Kate checked my head for lice and kept calling me “Jew.”

Funny how his harassment of Kathy Sierra was overlooked.

Over a candlelit dinner of tuna sashimi, Weev asked if I would attribute his comments to Memphis Two, the handle he used to troll Kathy Sierra, a blogger. Inspired by her touchy response to online commenters, Weev said he “dropped docs” on Sierra, posting a fabricated narrative of her career alongside her real Social Security number and address. This was part of a larger trolling campaign against Sierra, one that culminated in death threats. Weev says he has access to hundreds of thousands of Social Security numbers. About a month later, he sent me mine.

 

[butchersapron]

The sort of person tomk&e thought he was.

 

[J Ed]

Wow the whole 'people are being horrible to me on the internet, buy/consume my product' thing is really taking off. LP should start charging for 'boosting' the ethical personal brand of people this way, maybe she already does.

 

[rekil]

Crabapple now claiming that she didn't intend to glorify him with the portrait, done for free for a documentary. A lie methinks!



Here she's giving him #hugs (1:50ish) before he makes a prediction (6:50ish) that the US will become a "third world country" with "new Birminghams, Detroits, and St.Louises". Little bit racism.

Spoiler

 

[The39thStep]

Wow the whole 'people are being horrible to me on the internet, buy/consume my product' thing is really taking off. LP should start charging for 'boosting' the ethical personal brand of people this way, maybe she already does.

I would have thought that Laurie could have used the Kathy Sierra case as an example of what anti women bullying is all about

How internet abuse works: she displeases him and he tries to punish her. He posts doctored photos of her to the web. In one, a noose is near her head. In another, her children appear to be performing sex acts. He emails graphic threats about violating her with a chainsaw. He sneers that she is too fat to be loved, and then — missing the irony — calls her a slut. He distributes her Social Security number online. He posts lies about a prostitution bust. Posing as her, he solicits sex in online ads and includes her home address so men knock on her door at all hours. Maybe he’s anonymous but often he doesn’t bother hiding his identity. Why worry? He knows that in his corner of the web, women who complain about harassment are the enemy.
Kathy Sierra complained. She was one of those who called for help.

Aside from the fact that it was her internet freedom mate Weev who was the perpetrator

 

[DotCommunist]

yoghurt/nazi puns isn't a rich vein. I can't even think of a muller fruit corner one.

 

[butchersapron]

I would have thought that Laurie could have used the Kathy Sierra case as an example of what anti women bullying is all about



Aside from the fact that it was her internet freedom mate Weev who was the perpetrator

Need a link for that. And this is a mate of laurie et al. And they have the fucking gall to call others out for mysognist abuse. House a tumbling.

 

[rekil]

How alienated from "the left" (never mind them horrible normals!) must you be that this is the kind of creep you gravitate towards. They have the whole world to write/scrawl about and campaigns to leech off and yet this is what they choose to go with.

 

[DotCommunist]

Need a link for that. And this is a mate of laurie et al. And they have the fucking gall to call others out for mysognist abuse. House a tumblring.

fify

 

[ViolentPanda]

fromage friekorp

Finest Greek yoghurt, made from pure Aryan cultures!

 

[treelover]

Nick 'ten years on, the case for invading Iraq is still valid' Cohen:

How an Oxford degree – PPE – created a robotic governing class



Guess what Cohen forgets to mention in this article?

The Eagle sisters may have gone to Oxbridge, but they are working class women from Wallasey.

 

[butchersapron]

The Eagle sisters may have gone to Oxbridge, but they are working class women from Wallasey.

And now they're Oxford educated members of the governing class and the political elite. And partly through having gone to Oxford.

 

[ViolentPanda]

How alienated from "the left" (never mind them horrible normals!) must you be that this is the kind of creep you gravitate towards. They have the whole world to write/scrawl about and campaigns to leech off and yet this is what they choose to go with.

It's a hipster circle jerk. Someone in the states massages this hipster filth's Nazi cock, and uses the word "trickster" rather than "cunt" to describe him, and then the other lemmings jump on the bandwagon.
It's not like we haven't seen the likes of LP siding with douchebags before. She comfortably excused Malcolm Harris's nonce fantasies using the same "trickster" bullshit. In Laurie's world you can be a depraved cunt, just as long as you justify your depravity in a suitably "happening" manner.

 

[rekil]

It's a hipster circle jerk. Someone in the states massages this hipster filth's Nazi cock, and uses the word "trickster" rather than "cunt" to describe him, and then the other lemmings jump on the bandwagon.
It's not like we haven't seen the likes of LP siding with douchebags before. She comfortably excused Malcolm Harris's nonce fantasies using the same "trickster" bullshit. In Laurie's world you can be a depraved cunt, just as long as you justify your depravity in a suitably "happening" manner.

It's symptomatic of her belief that she's part of an idealised elite comprised of writers, journalists, artists, geeks, various famous types, the smart people she's so relentlessly desperate to seek approval from. Her anti-normals prejudices are never far from the surface, informed by her background where she was brought up with a cast iron sense of entitlement and the expectation that she's destined to be part of society's officer class. I couldn't find anything, but I expect wee man there is a private school sort as well.

 

[DotCommunist]

It's symptomatic of her belief that she's part of an idealised elite comprised of writers, journalists, artists, geeks, various famous types, the smart people she's so relentlessly desperate to seek approval from. Her anti-normals prejudices are never far from the surface, informed by her background where she was brought up with a cast iron sense of entitlement and the expectation that she's destined to be part of society's officer class. I couldn't find anything, but I expect wee man there is a private school sort as well.

ignoring the fact that theres nothing special about being into sf and fantasy, the genres can and do stray into reactionary and questionable paths in the hands of wrong writers.

There's nothing special about being able to name 5 space marine chapters. Geek stuff is mainstream now. Has been since before I was born, waxing and waning as cultural trends do. Why carrying some pratchett torch is outre to these people is baffling.

 

[J Ed]

It's symptomatic of her belief that she's part of an idealised elite comprised of writers, journalists, artists, geeks, various famous types, the smart people she's so relentlessly desperate to seek approval from. Her anti-normals prejudices are never far from the surface, informed by her background where she was brought up with a cast iron sense of entitlement and the expectation that she's destined to be part of society's officer class. I couldn't find anything, but I expect wee man there is a private school sort as well.

I think it's also symptomatic of the attitude that people have that if we all just made the right choices - eat the right meat (or no meat), wear the right clothes, listen to the right music and so on then everything will change for the better and we can have whatever utopia the intersectionalistas pretend to want. A side effect of this attitude is that the likes of Laurie Penny is able to accept people with views that are really fucking out there, neo-Nazi out there, as long as they are making the right subcultural and consumer choices... oh and are from the right sort of class background.

 

[J Ed]

double post

 

[DotCommunist]

I think it's also symptomatic of the attitude that people have that if we all just made the right choices - eat the right meat (or no meat), wear the right clothes, listen to the right music and so on then everything will change for the better and we can have whatever utopia the intersectionalistas pretend to want. A side effect of this attitude is that the likes of Laurie Penny is able to accept people with views that are really fucking out there, neo-Nazi out there, as long as they are making the right subcultural and consumer choices... oh and are from the right sort of class background.

politics as a lifestyle choice. The likes of weev would still be cracking jokes and acting the wacky fool as he voted for yellow stars- I wonder if his soi disant left commenteriat supporters realise how it isn't just an ironic posture.

 

[DotCommunist]

you don't write that sort of anti semite filth without conviction.

 

[Brainaddict]

Another one that used occupy as a career springboard. Friend of LP's natch. You people.

The recent discussion below that tweet is quite astonishing. She tells someone off for use of 'violent language'. Shortly after saying she's had more than one neo-nazi friend.

I mean, you can't argue against that. It's not even worth arguing is it? It's purely about power. She has the power to decide what is or isn't acceptable. Not you. Her. That's it.

 

[rekil]

Makes you think.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Makes you think.

The bad sort of racism.

 

[Nigel Irritable]

Doesn't every group of friends have a token neo-nazi midget? You lot are so fucking provincial.

 

[DotCommunist]

Makes you think.

of course endorsing an ideology that has the most viscious and disgusting racism built into the fabric is ok if its just your mate 'trolling'

 

[butchersapron]

In the great market place of ideas there are no right or wrong purchases. Such a proposition would be anti consumer choice. And as such against that which underpins our great anti capitalist movement of movements.