Urban v's the Commentariat

[J Ed]

She could just not say anything surely? That's the safest and easiest thing to do. I suspect she does actually believe what she says with the condemnation. I think she's in a different ball park to Laurie Penny tbh, who seems a bit more clued in politically.

She's positioning herself as a brand. There is a lot of demand for being 'a left-winger who is unafraid to join in with denunciations of other left-wingers over petty issues whipped up by tabloids'.

 

[rekil]

Laurie's attitude to the refugee crisis before and after it became clickworthy.

It is not a question of numbers. It is a question of justice. It is a question of what is owed to those who have been made homeless and desperate by war and climate change. When a stranger is suffocating at your feet, you do not help them because you are a good person, or because it is politically expedient to do so: you help them because to do otherwise is morally repugnant.

 

[andysays]

We could call it the Mad Gainz 4 bricking Tories diet

Less of the "we" - it's my idea and I'm going to use it to launch my own brand of "recipes for rioters" - just setting up the blog now and then going to see about a publishing deal

 

[J Ed]

 

[DotCommunist]

ammonia filled snooker balls in piss jus

 

[LDC]

Call me a softie liberal, but I'd be interested to see a discussion with Monroe about this stuff. Like do you think she's aware of that dynamic and has made a hard headed financial choice to go along with it, or is it ignorance, or she actually politically believes it, or some combination of them or something else entirely?

I might be crediting her with too much integrity/nouse, but my suspicion is that she's a bit caught up in the media whirlwind of sycophants where among her friends and work colleagues she can't say anything wrong, and the folks criticizing her on t'internet are a minority of macho anarchist haters.

Actually, just read some of her puke inducing fawning over Corbyn. No discussion, up against the wall.

 

[J Ed]

Actually, just read some of her puke inducing fawning over Corbyn. No discussion, up against the wall.

Look at the stuff about Dan Jarvis.

 

[LDC]

She should be fed dry lentils and fizzy pop until she explodes in some austerity recreation of the gluttony scene from the film Seven.

 

[DotCommunist]

dan jarvis is ex para so presumably he'd have gunned the egger and bystanders down in cold blood and then got the state to let him off

 

[rekil]

Actually, just read some of her puke inducing fawning over Corbyn. No discussion, up against the wall.

She's in the Greens for now, at their conference in Scotland atm.

 

[rekil]

dan jarvis is ex para so presumably he'd have gunned the egger and bystanders down in cold blood and then got the state to let him off

Don't forget to plant eggs in the pockets of the dead bystanders.

 

[LDC]

Reading her Twitter I'd say she's hugely politically naive more than anything. She was questioning how attacking the cereal cafe could be about 'building community', like that's the only political reason to do anything.

 

[J Ed]

dan jarvis is ex para so presumably he'd have gunned the egger and bystanders down in cold blood and then got the state to let him off

I think it's hilarious how much the Labour Right (and Monroe who apparently follows their lead) loves Dan Jarvis.

They literally think that since Dan Jarvis was in the military and all the thick proles love the army everyone will vote for him. That's it.

 

[emanymton]

Best one was suggesting people throwing eggs should join the army...?


Not to mention the weirdness of thinking throwing eggs is violent, is she so fucking totally ignorant of the place violence has played as a part of struggles?

I've always thought of throwing eggs as a substitute for violence. This could be a brick or a glass bottle bit I'm not violent so it's an egg. A bit unpleasant but in no way painfully or potentially harmful.

 

[Bakunin]

Laurie's attitude to the refugee crisis before and after it became clickworthy.

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Funny how issues and people affected thereby suddenly assume greater importance when they're obvious enough to become grist to the career mill, isn't it? As for 'Nobody seemed very receptive to press', well, that's their prerogative and hardly the stern stuff required of anything resembling credible investigative journalism.

 

[DotCommunist]

I think it's hilarious how much the Labour Right (and Monroe who apparently follows their lead) loves Dan Jarvis.

They literally think that since Dan Jarvis was in the military and all the thick proles love the army everyone will vote for him. That's it.

this post made me think about how I could frame the crit of that regiment to a serving or ex members face without being 'introduced to the pavement'. Not been able to come up with much so far lol.

 

[Bakunin]

She's positioning herself as a brand. There is a lot of demand for being 'a left-winger who is unafraid to join in with denunciations of other left-wingers over petty issues whipped up by tabloids'.

Fauxcalism with an Establishment face.

Or playing the double-headed Penny.

Ba-doom! Tish!

Did you see what I did there?

 

[Rob Ray]

The Independent's Jane Merrick has been throwing a fairly spectacular tantrum after a mild prodding by Aaron Bastani.






There's other bits where she accuses Bastani of wanting journalists sacked and how this is outrageous behaviour, but the above's the eyebrow-raiser. Remember kids, you're only doing journalism if Jane Merrick, author of Clubbing is now in decline, great I hated it!, says you are. Because she works for a proper big paper dontchaknow. But it's very uncouth to point at sales figures these days, as though numbers should matter.

 

[J Ed]

You know before I didn't like Aaron Bastani that much but I have to say that he is really good at winding up dickheads

 

[J Ed]

This is great

 

[Fozzie Bear]

He did suggest that Nick Robinson and some others should be sacked for being shit. And it's hard to argue with that.

The outraged responses from various Oxbridge commentariat make it all worthwhile though.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Guido Fawkes is trying to link it to Corbyn, bafflingly:
Labour MP Raises Money to Get Journalists Fired

 

[brogdale]

Couldn't resist; sorry.

 

[equationgirl]

Couldn't resist; sorry.

A secret underground anarchist library?????

 

[Citizen66]

Call me a softie liberal, but I'd be interested to see a discussion with Monroe about this stuff. Like do you think she's aware of that dynamic and has made a hard headed financial choice to go along with it, or is it ignorance, or she actually politically believes it, or some combination of them or something else entirely?

She has her very own megathread.
In case you missed it:

A Girl Called Jack... time for action?

 

[brogdale]

A secret underground anarchist library?????

Ssshhhuuushhh!

 

[Bakunin]

A secret underground anarchist library?????

Yes, it's a specially-created troll-free zone. Nobody expresses differing opinions, politely disagrees or checks facts there.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Yes, it's a specially-created troll-free zone. Nobody expresses differing opinions, politely disagrees or checks facts there.

Don't trolls usually live underground? Or is that a troglodyte? I forget.

edit: OK I googled it. Trolls live under bridges, troglodytes in caves. It's Morlocks that live underground, although I think a Morlock is a type of troglodyte, so where this leaves us I don't know. Either way, anarchism!

 

[Bakunin]

Don't trolls usually live underground? Or is that a troglodyte? I forget.

Trolls can live anywhere they're not in direct sunlight. If I remember rightly troglodytes are creatures that live entirely underground.

 

[brogdale]

Don't trolls usually live underground? Or is that a troglodyte? I forget.