Urban v's the Commentariat

[Theisticle]

More Lexit bollocks from Novara.

 

[ManchesterBeth]

Williamson, who has a pinned tweet of Sarkar introducing him as the 'Derby badman', was schmoozing with fascist and conspiraloon Beeley at the festival run by the Levellers a couple of days before this G op-ed appeared.

u can't be a badman if you're from Derby my god what is the world coming to. Badman is only London. Not Essex, Not Surrey, not Bristol, not Brum, not Leeds, not Manchester. Not even West London. not even East London in 2 years time even.

 

[mather]

I don't think Bastani is much blessed with self-awareness, no. He's the David Brent of the hard left.

That's an insult to David Brent.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Truly the Claire & Fiona Fox de notre temps

 

[ManchesterBeth]

wot? im an idiotic burned out white label (artist alias - untitled b2) technohead and have no idea what that pop culture reference means.

Kinda dispiriting to see the boogyman of the banks and greedy financeers dominating public discussion but comes with the territory i guess.

The writer and broadcaster Grace Blakeley has been appointed an economics commentator of the New Statesman. Blakeley is currently on sabbatical from IPPR, where she will continue as a research fellow, and is writing a book, Stolen: How finance took control of our economy and corrupted our politics (Repeater Books).

Title sounds like something straight out of a nazbol pamphlet tbh.

 

[cantsin]

More Lexit bollocks from Novara.

in that 40 secs of simple, essentially self evident, reflection on Brexit/Lexit as it now is, where was the ' bollocks' in yr view ?

 

[butchersapron]

Imagine being so shit that you have to use the same fake name/brand as your sister. And putting on the poor mouth while you're at it. Theisticle is, of course, bollocks and doesn't get what this thread is.

 

[killer b]

Get her on patreon and she can disappear like her sister too.

 

[butchersapron]

We can't stuff everyones mouth with gold.

 

[killer b]

I guess she has another few years of grift & brand building before that would work anyway

 

[ManchesterBeth]

i was gonna ask if the penny was coincidental. incestuous. 'my family have been labour voters for 60 years.'

 

[killer b]

It isn't incestuousness, it's privilege.

 

[butchersapron]

Now we're back on track.

 

[ManchesterBeth]

It isn't incestuousness, it's privilege.

Same thing these days tbh lol. is her voice as annoying as her sisters?

 

[killer b]

It's the same voice.

I think calling it incest makes these kinds of patterns of power and privilege sound weird and unusual, whereas they're not - they're totally normal and natural, and how the world has been arranged since forever.

 

[butchersapron]

It's the same voice.

I think calling it incest makes these kinds of patterns of power and privilege sound weird and unusual, whereas they're not - they're totally normal and natural, and how the world has been arranged since forever.

Indeed, then they tell us they made the water we're forced to swim in.

 

[ManchesterBeth]

'as many fascists with nice suits.'

switch off.

 

[ManchesterBeth]

It's the same voice.

I think calling it incest makes these kinds of patterns of power and privilege sound weird and unusual, whereas they're not - they're totally normal and natural, and how the world has been arranged since forever.

fair point. tho i was refering specifically to family leftism. I don't come from a leftist family at all and people find that strange.

 

[cantsin]

Imagine being so shit that you have to use the same fake name/brand as your sister. And putting on the poor mouth while you're at it. Theisticle is, of course, bollocks and doesn't get what this thread is.

it's a bit baffling / jarring just how posh Novara feels like it's getting with Blakely and Penny now, in addition to Pierce - all v bright folk, but feels like a wrong turn to be making after the Bastano / Sarkar origins ( and Walker ).

 

[butchersapron]

it's a bit baffling / jarring just how posh Novara feels like it's getting with Blakely and Penny now added to Pierce - all v bright folk, but feels like a wrong turn to be making after the Bastano / Sarkar origins ( and Walker ).

Got to get serious as they approach the halls of power. And nothing does serious like a private school voice and airy confidence. That said, i never watch/listen to them so it's all the same shit to me.

 

[killer b]

Penny has been there for years tbf.

 

[killer b]

That said, i never watch/listen to them so it's all the same shit to me.

also this.

 

[splonkydoo]

What's the current situation on that story? There was some heavy pushback from Burtenshaw & Sunkara claiming that the story wasn't true, but I've not seen a full response from them - I had a look through the new issue the other week and thought it was ok. Some good people writing for them who I'd expect better of if the claims are true...

There's a statement up here if ya didnt see it, unless that's what ya meant by pushback

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

in that 40 secs of simple, essentially self evident, reflection on Brexit/Lexit as it now is, where was the ' bollocks' in yr view ?

I hope that Basto guy is paying you for all this weird PR

 

[ManchesterBeth]

that technology will be the salvation of us all and open the pearly gates to jannah book has been delayed I see. I was under the impression it was supposed to come out this year. Is this the joke? fully automated luxury delay?

 

[cantsin]

I hope that Basto guy is paying you for all this weird PR

top bantz fam, + feel free to address the question Thisticle swerved while you're here / getting involved etc

 

[cantsin]

that technology will be the salvation of us all and open the pearly gates to jannah book has been delayed I see. I was under the impression it was supposed to come out this year. Is this the joke? fully automated luxury delay?

just looked, amazon says June - the cover feels like a messy blob when see at this scale

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fully-Automated-Luxury-Communism-Manifesto/dp/1786632624

 

[butchersapron]

Blimey the future is looking very 2015 isn't it?

 

[ManchesterBeth]

inventing the future should have come out in 1993 tbh when they were cribbing their ideas from electronic music massively speeding up.

thought it was ever so quaint when my mates started talking about it. the other day i found out i have 24 mutuals with one of the righters and i realised that day that eventually facebook will be cause for trauma again. it's inevitable.

just listen to speedcore instead.

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

top bantz fam, + feel free to address the question Thisticle swerved while you're here / getting involved etc

Theisticle was getting on my nerves, i typed something then thought better of it.
There’s not much that doesn’t seem to get on my nerves these days