Urban v's the Commentariat

[FridgeMagnet]

There are some good useful accounts on Twitter which post good useful things. "Official Politics Twitter" is fucking awful and I try to stay away from it as much as possible. This is generally easy, though - just don't follow the "big dogs", and block them if necessary so you don't see retweets.

 

[killer b]

don't follow the "big dogs", and block them if necessary so you don't see retweets.

fuck yes. I forgot you can do this.

 

[killer b]

LAUNCH OF NEW CULTURE, ARTS AND POLITICS JOURNAL: DRUGSTORE CULTURE - CHARLES FINCH


this is great. d'ancunt

further to this.

 

[cantsin]

further to this.

can't remember what it was, but the first / only thing I saw on there was rancid, classist shite that didnt even know it was, sort of thing.

cldnt give a monkeys what happens to D'Ancona

 

[DotCommunist]

radical centrist agitprop? Coffee table magazine for god knows who? either way its going down the drain now

 

[butchersapron]

It was tory attempt at the modern world

 

[killer b]

This is literally the first thing I've read about it since we were laughing at it last year. I haven't seen any articles shared, no chat about it at all. What have all these journalists been doing all that time?

 

[cantsin]

Tim Martin's response to OJ's simple ' but you pay your workers f*ck all' argument is as utterly feeble / morally bankrupt as it comes - in or out of the EU ( whatever - tbf, no EU directive has done anything to hinder this lump of exploitative drek in 30 + yrs) - how can we not be crushing these cretins ?

Owen Jones meets Tim Martin: 'Poverty wages? Don't ask childish questions' – video

 

[butchersapron]

We're not here on this thread to bury them are we?

 

[killer b]

 

[CNT36]

Explains the hairline.

 

[Theisticle]

Dawn Foster doing a Helen Lewis/Suzanne Moore and temporarily removing their Twitter rather than apologise.

 

[killer b]

What did she say?

 

[killer b]

What did he say for that matter?

 

[rekil]

Some tory cunt said he thinks Jess Phillips is gr8. That's it.

 

[killer b]

He said Phillips was 'irrisistable' and foster called him a creep - seem she's got nothing to apologise for to me. Gay men are totally capable of being creeps to women, his sexuality just isn't relevant.

 

[killer b]

Also katerji is a bellend.

 

[DotCommunist]

Also katerji is a bellend.

All I've ever seen of the bloke is him having a row with someone over absolute trivia/twitter drama.

 

[killer b]

Always a delight when someone brings these bits of worthless ephemera to urban, must say.

 

[butchersapron]

Katerji may be, in this country, a soppy lib-dem anti-corbynite but he did solid gold work in opposition held areas of Syria for many many years in the most dangerous of conditions at the most dangerous of times at great risk to himself. A lot of the atrocities we now know about would not have been reported at all or not as well as they were without him and others like him. Say what you want about the man, but he knows damn well where he stands as regards mass murder of civilians, rape murder and torture in regime cells and so on - unlike many of the hard left anti-imperialist corbynites attacking him.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

This is Boles’ tweet and her comment btw (not that she was the only one either). A complete nothing.

 

[YouSir]

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This is Boles’ tweet and her comment btw (not that she was the only one either). A complete nothing.

Going by her posting history very much doubt she deleted Twitter for that too.

 

[killer b]

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This is Boles’ tweet and her comment btw (not that she was the only one either). A complete nothing.

Not even nothing really, she was totally correct.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Going by her posting history very much doubt she deleted Twitter for that too.

edit: oh look, death and rape threats on Twitter

 

[Theisticle]

Appalled by the threats against Dawn. I hadn’t seen them when I had posted originally.

Also, nice to LP, friend of Weev and Milo has something to say about fascism

 

[killer b]

Dawn Foster doing a Helen Lewis/Suzanne Moore and temporarily removing their Twitter rather than apologise.

Do you still think she should have apologised for calling a sleazy comment sleazy?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Apparently it wasn’t actually the Boles/Myers thing that led her to go offline for a bit, it was that she was on tv talking about Shamila Begum and immediately got a flood of shit from the far right.

 

[killer b]

Oh I know. But there's still implicit in that comment the idea that foster should have apologised.

Phillips & Boles have recorded a little thing for channel 4 where they laugh about how ridiculous it all is btw, which at least proves (as if we didn't already know) that Phillips is more interested in dunking on her own side than the actual emancipatory politics she claims to be up for.

 

[tim]

Appalled by the threats against Dawn. I hadn’t seen them when I had posted originally.

Also, nice to LP, friend of Weev and Milo has something to say about fascism

She may be Milo's mate but she's still blocking me.

 

[rekil]

She may be Milo's mate but she's still blocking me.

You mean you're missing premium content like this? The entire Labour party should turn towards Los Angeles and bow their heads in contrition.