Workers' Girder! Getcher Workers Girder!

[rekil]

PD very popular in Hong Kong. 117000 views* so far this year. Did Barry Mainwaring's latest batch of incendiary editorials inspire the eruption of mass protests? Obviously caution must be urged before drawing any conclusions but there's no other plausible explanation is there.

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*Wordpress stats fail to take into account that internet access in Hong Kong is rare or dangerous and masses of hastily printed copies of the Girder are probably being lobbed from the back of flatbed trucks and all those big tower blocks.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Second Chuckle brother Jimmy Patton dies just a year after Barry Chuckle

Second Chuckle brother Jimmy Patton dies just a year after Barry Chuckle

 

[equationgirl]

Not the other actual Chuckle brother, one of their other brothers.

 

[BigTom]

Proletarian Democracy reveal the Lexit grand plan:

1) UK leaves EU with no deal
2) The impossibility of maintaining peace in Northern Ireland with a hard border leads to the re-unification of Ireland
3) Scotland declares independeance and leaves the UK to be in the EU
4) England and Wales need a new name since there is no longer a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or even just of Great Britain. Pormanteaus are in style so ENGland and waLES gives us
5) ENGLESLAND
6) Full Communism Intensifies

 

[ska invita]

Proletarian Democracy reveal the Lexit grand plan:

1) UK leaves EU with no deal
2) The impossibility of maintaining peace in Northern Ireland with a hard border leads to the re-unification of Ireland
3) Scotland declares independeance and leaves the UK to be in the EU
4) England and Wales need a new name since there is no longer a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or even just of Great Britain. Pormanteaus are in style so ENGland and waLES gives us
5) ENGLESLAND
6) Full Communism Intensifies

BTW on a related one, realised the other year that Friedrich Engles name translates as Fred English

 

[BigTom]

BTW on a related one, realised the other year that Friedrich Engles name translates as Fred English

?

Engels translates to Angels.
Englisch is german for English

 

[JimW]

A better beard than Marx? Bushier than Bakunin? Workers' Girder runs a fine-tooth comb through the facial foliage of our forefathers.

 

[ska invita]

?

Engels translates to Angels.
Englisch is german for English

huh thats weird i swear i looked it up and it translated to "English". ?? ETA: ***In Dutch its Engels = English

 

[Fozzie Bear]

 

[rekil]

How did I not hear about Spunking Cock Squadron before.

B-52 Squadron Commander Fired over Penis Drawings in Bomber Cockpits

Lt. Col. Paul Goossen was relieved from duty after sexually explicit and phallic drawings were discovered.

www.military.com

 

[steveo87]

BTW on a related one, realised the other year that Friedrich Engles name translates as Fred English

Ha! Freddy English sounds like the head of a Millwall 'firm'.

 

[steeplejack]

...whereas "Fred Angels" sounds like a forgotten crooner from the late Larry Parnes' stable c. 1959.

either that or a minor American-Italian gangster who dies an early and grisly death in a Scorsese film.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

So I was reminded of the old stuff I did for here.

I decided to work on some updates. Here is the first

 

[equationgirl]

Lovely comrade Shippou-Sensei

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I'll do some more stuff once I'm sent to the gulag for self isolation.

 

[brogdale]

This could be lifted for the WG people's topical gags page?

 

[nogojones]

We can now fight paper tigers with real ones!

 

[DaveCinzano]

We can now fight paper tigers with real ones!

 

[Proper Tidy]

I haven't yet got round to tiger king but on my list... So is one of these big cat breeders genuinely a communist smokey from smokey and the bandit cos that will be ace

 

[nogojones]

I haven't yet got round to tiger king but on my list... So is one of these big cat breeders genuinely a communist smokey from smokey and the bandit cos that will be ace

I've only watched the first half of the series, but it comes as a shock to me. DEEP enterist

 

[ska invita]

I haven't yet got round to tiger king but on my list... So is one of these big cat breeders genuinely a communist smokey from smokey and the bandit cos that will be ace

This appears to be the context

If you'd rather not spoil the magic maybe don't read?

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Published on 1 Apr 2020
Support the Revolutionary Celebrities project and help me bribe more famous people on Cameo to speak for workers getting screwed by COVID-19: https://www.gofundme.com/f/let039s-br...

Fund me link has been pulled, people calling it a scam in the YouTube comments

I guess the actors must be up for it beyond some little money they're probably not even getting
?

 

[Idris2002]

Proletarian Democracy get namechecked here by the cool kids ("Sensei looked at me") at Jacobin:

J. Posadas, the Trotskyist Who Believed in Intergalactic Communism

From his hopes in human-dolphin socializing to his claims that UFOs were sent by alien communists, J. Posadas’s quixotic beliefs are today legendarized in countless memes. But a new biography suggests that the Argentinian Trotskyist was not such an outlier — and explains why his revolutionary...

jacobinmag.com

 

[The39thStep]

Proletarian Democracy get namechecked here by the cool kids ("Sensei looked at me") at Jacobin:

J. Posadas, the Trotskyist Who Believed in Intergalactic Communism

From his hopes in human-dolphin socializing to his claims that UFOs were sent by alien communists, J. Posadas’s quixotic beliefs are today legendarized in countless memes. But a new biography suggests that the Argentinian Trotskyist was not such an outlier — and explains why his revolutionary...

jacobinmag.com

Question :

this was also expressed by meme pages like Proletarian Democracy, which called for a “Seventh International” and asked readers to crowdfund a “workers’ bomb.” Is mocking Posadas a way of dealing with our disappointment in Leninism? Or just an easy scapegoat?

Answer:

The people who are into the memes (a few ex-Trots among them, but by and large the demographic is young people who have never engaged in militancy) aren’t mocking a strange sect of Trotskyism, or Trotskyism in general, or Leninism in general, but the entirety of the failed revolutionary socialist tradition.

Mmmmm......................

 

[JimW]

Young at heart, they must mean. Or juvenile in our humour.

 

[equationgirl]

Question :

Answer:

Mmmmm......................

PD is a meme???

How very dare they. It's totally serious bizness.

 

[Idris2002]

I believe the phrase you're looking for, JimW, is "sitting in a sewer and adding to it".

 

[SpineyNorman]

Young people lol

Average age of about 78 and I reckon I'm the youngest at 41

 

[SpineyNorman]

PD cadre in Manchester doing their bit to keep us all safe by encouraging social distancing

 

[Dom Traynor]

Question :

Answer:

Mmmmm......................

David Broder is a lurker here and may have been a poster in the distant past

 

[SpineyNorman]

Apart from the slander against the one true party of the intergalactic working class that article is pretty good imo