Urban v's the Commentariat

[DaveCinzano]

you have to get up early to win in the nazi pun game

Every Nazi pun game needs its Gleiwitz Incident

 

[ViolentPanda]

I've enjoyed LP's case that it was a moral and ethical failing on the part of everyone else not to have befriended a nazi.

Conversely, doesn't that make anyone who has avoided befriending a Nazi, especially avoided it by thumping said Nazi, an abject specimen of amorality?

 

[ViolentPanda]

The Jacobin readers' group amateur dramatic society get together to pick this year's production:

“No, Malcolm, for the last time we are not going to do Bugsy Malone, we've already agreed we're putting on Les Miserables...”

You just know that Malcolm fantasises about Tallulah.

 

[ViolentPanda]

And own-brand bar snacks and Spesh are a little bit Communism.

Penny Dreadful, yesterday:

To be fair, even The Peoples' Poet's worst poems were better than LP's preposterously-awful "Saudade".

 

[butchersapron]

Conversely, doesn't that make anyone who has avoided befriending a Nazi, especially avoided it by thumping said Nazi, an abject specimen of amorality?

Absolutely - and that is her trimuph.

 

[Pickman's model]

you have to get up early to win in the nazi pun game

yeh cos otherwise you'll miss the golden dawn

 

[Bakunin]

To be fair, even The Peoples' Poet's worst poems were better than LP's preposterously-awful "Saudade".

So is William Shatner's back catalogue, to be honest.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Absolutely - and that is her trimuph.

In which case I'm glad that I long ago accepted my status as an abject specimen of amorality. If being moral is being like her ilk, then morality needs to be erased from the pages of time*.

*With thanks to M. Ahmedinedjad.

 

[andysays]

Absolutely - and that is her trimuph.

Maybe that's where whatshisface got the inspiration for his tattoo from

He's not a nazi at all, just a film fan

 

[butchersapron]

Maybe that's where whatshisface got the inspiration for his tattoo from

He's not a nazi at all, just a film fan

I was going more for the Vanzetti type of vibe to be honest. I'm quite sure she deserves to placed alongside him in terms of relentless persecution.

 

[andysays]

I was going more for the Vanzetti type of vibe to be honest. I'm quite sure she deserves to placed alongside him in terms of relentless persecution.

yeah, I'm sure that's more how he (and she) see themselves

 

[rekil]

Why is it that when the narrative suits a story Laurie Penny not only identifies as Jewish but heavily implies that she is a practising Jew but when it comes to an actual blood and soil Jew-hating neo-Nazi she has to be dragged kicking and screaming into acknowledging his anti-Semitism all the while accusing those who point out this Nazism of being sexists?

I think she said her parents were atheists (cannot find the quote now) but on her blog she has claimed to be "an agnostic with buddhist leanings", so she's hedging her bets somewhat. Makes you think.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Makes you think.

Thinking's what got us into this mess

 

[DotCommunist]

I think she said her parents were atheists (cannot find the quote now) but on her blog she has claimed to be "an agnostic with buddhist leanings", so she's hedging her bets somewhat. Makes you think.

Has anyone asked her views on Odin Allfather?

 

[andysays]

I think she said her parents were atheists (cannot find the quote now) but on her blog she has claimed to be "an agnostic with buddhist leanings", so she's hedging her bets somewhat. Makes you think.

For all her failings (and there are many) I think she's entitled to choose her own definition of her religious beliefs*, rather than be defined by those of her parents.

And has she really ever claimed (or even heavily implied) to be a practicing Jew? Not that I've seen.

ETA *however confusedly

 

[rioted]

I was going more for the Vanzetti type of vibe to be honest. I'm quite sure she deserves to placed alongside him in terms of relentless persecution.

Is Workers Liberty the only source you could find for that? An anarchist's poem followed by an appeal to donate. To AWL? Whose leader has a poem denigrating the anarchists at Kronsdadt? Poor show.

 

[butchersapron]

It's not a poem.

 

[rekil]

It turns out rank sexism is not the exclusive preserve of neonazis, neoliberals, libertarians and basement-dwelling fantasists

How come right, when LP and her mates live in basements and hovels, they're inevitably crazy boho salons; hives of edginess, with an ever changing cast of smoking, arting, poeting and SEX having libertines, but our basements, the normals' basements, are the smelly lonely failed-in-life tasteless mismatched furniture 1 working cooker ring kind. So shit.

I've lived in many a basement. including this one in Rome, a converted fash era air raid shelter. There was a fountain in the marble floored lobby.

 

[J Ed]

I think she said her parents were atheists (cannot find the quote now) but on her blog she has claimed to be "an agnostic with buddhist leanings", so she's hedging her bets somewhat. Makes you think.

It sounds like she is playing posho hipster bingo to me

 

[Bakunin]

It sounds like she is playing posho hipster bingo to me

Bullshit bingo, more like.

 

[DaveCinzano]

It sounds like she is playing posho hipster bingo to me

Two fat housekeepers, 88 acres of garden? Ride-on lawnmower, number 14?

 

[Sue]

I think she said her parents were atheists (cannot find the quote now) but on her blog she has claimed to be "an agnostic with buddhist leanings", so she's hedging her bets somewhat. Makes you think.

I'm still waiting for Catholicism to become trendy so I can go all hipster and tell everyone I was Hail Marying away before they'd even heard of it.

 

[rekil]

I'm still waiting for Catholicism to become trendy so I can go all hipster and tell everyone I was Hail Marying away before they'd even heard of it.

Peig Sayers chic.

 

[JimW]

Peig Sayers chic.

Hush your poor mouth

 

[equationgirl]

My dad understands more about coding than I do on account of having been writing computer programmes since before I was born. Patronising pish.

Ditto. Still does bits and pieces to keep amused.

 

[equationgirl]

How come right, when LP and her mates live in basements and hovels, they're inevitably crazy boho salons; hives of edginess, with an ever changing cast of smoking, arting, poeting and SEX having libertines, but our basements, the normals' basements, are the smelly lonely failed-in-life tasteless mismatched furniture 1 working cooker ring kind. So shit.

I've lived in many a basement. including this one in Rome, a converted fash era air raid shelter. There was a fountain in the marble floored lobby.

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We could do the PD 2015 calendar on Basements of the Proletariat

 

[tufty79]

Does it have to be solely basements? Or are ground floor/upwards hovels acceptable?
E2a: i can dig out photos of the pigeon shit covered bathroom from my last bedsit in London if needed..

 

[rekil]

We could do the PD 2015 calendar on Basements of the Proletariat

Definitely need to do a calendar, what with the election and payback 2015 coming up.

 

[el-ahrairah]

This sort of thing you mean?

it's enough to make you bite your own tongue right off.

 

[Bakunin]

Does it have to be solely basements? Or are ground floor/upwards hovels acceptable?

'Hovels? But what have the commentariat ever done for us?'