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i thought it was about a boring trot rag or summat, so never clicked on it.
Ken MacLeod went the other way.

"Thank you for making me waste 2.2 hours of decimal time.

I retract my over-enthusiastic response last night – when I saw the names of Posadas and Sankara bracketed together I honestly thought that at last the seeds of the theoretical and practical breakthrough I have long been waiting for had been sown. For too many years I’ve been disappointed by the antiquated appearance and style of Red Flag, and hoped against hope for a new format that would bring Posadism to the rising generation. The bold graphics and lively style of Proletarian Democracy promised to be a step forward.

Sadly this was not to be."
 
I've woken up this morning worried that taken out of context this could be seen as really dodgy because it's an Obama poster, lynching etc, when actually it's a response to Owen Jones "Politics of hope" article + his payback 2015 crap. Am I being over concerned or should I delete, maybe redo the idea but without association to Obama?
 
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I've woken up this morning worried that taken out of context this could be seen as really dodgy because it's an Obama poster, lynching etc, when actually it's a response to Owen Jones "Politics of hope" article + his payback 2015 crap. Am I being over concerned or should I delete, maybe redo the idea but without association to Obama?
I think, although I get the Owen Jones reference, that the potential for backfire could be huge. So maybe keep the Hope bit but a different image? A small child crying about a bomb stamped on by Cameron for example?
 
I think, although I get the Owen Jones reference, that the potential for backfire could be huge. So maybe keep the Hope bit but a different image? A small child crying about a bomb stamped on by Cameron for example?
Point of the image though is that Owen's #payback2015 was about voting to get the Tories out and we lol'd at that at the time, we've got a better suggestion as to how to get the Tories out. I think I'd be better to use the whole phrase, "the Politics of hope", with the image & #payback2015 (and maybe put big Ben or something connected with our parliament) but in a different style that isn't connected to Obama so doesn't have that connotation, which the more I'm thinking about it, if I saw that poster (without knowing pd & the payback reference), I'd think it was nasty racist shit.
 
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I'll just leave this here.
 
Point of the image though is that Owen's #payback2015 was about voting to get the Tories out and we lol'd at that at the time, we've got a better suggestion as to how to get the Tories out. I think I'd be better to use the whole phrase, "the Politics of hope", with the image & #payback2015 (and maybe put big Ben or something connected with our parliament) but in a different style that isn't connected to Obama so doesn't have that connotation, which the more I'm thinking about it, if I saw that poster (without knowing pd & the payback reference), I'd think it was nasty racist shit.


You could lose the Obama look completely and go for a "politics of rope" with Ol' Benito or someone?
 
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meh. Politics of Rope deserves something better I think (edit: it really needs a border as well now it's posted on a white background), but the poster weepiper posted elsewhere has done the hope joke much better anyway

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I have occasionally seen the "far left, y u alienate normal people" meme I did around the net.
The latest listicle by Novara (10 things the left should see the back of right now) reminded me of that pic. There's nothing about sharp elbowed private school oxbridge types funny enough. But criticism of #intersectionality has to go apparently. That's what working class people need - weirdo racial essentialism and convoluted jargon designed to rationalise posh people's views that they're way less privileged than you actually and should run things and get the big chairs and gigs.
 
The latest listicle by Novara (10 things the left should see the back of right now) reminded me of that pic. There's nothing about sharp elbowed private school oxbridge types funny enough. But criticism of #intersectionality has to go apparently. That's what working class people need - weirdo racial essentialism and convoluted jargon designed to rationalise posh people's views that they're way less privileged than you actually and should run things and get the big chairs and gigs.
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The latest listicle by Novara (10 things the left should see the back of right now) reminded me of that pic. There's nothing about sharp elbowed private school oxbridge types funny enough. But criticism of #intersectionality has to go apparently. That's what working class people need - weirdo racial essentialism and convoluted jargon designed to rationalise posh people's views that they're way less privileged than you actually and should run things and get the big chairs and gigs.
Seriously like. . . this sort of thing shows the real defects in the intersectionalist position:

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The latest listicle by Novara (10 things the left should see the back of right now) reminded me of that pic. There's nothing about sharp elbowed private school oxbridge types funny enough. But criticism of #intersectionality has to go apparently. That's what working class people need - weirdo racial essentialism and convoluted jargon designed to rationalise posh people's views that they're way less privileged than you actually and should run things and get the big chairs and gigs.

Novara is so, so shit. Which is a shame because a better done version of it is exactly what we need.
 
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