That Janan is breathing ought to be enough reason to bring back the guillotine.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 April 2024 15:11 (one month ago) link
the national service act can conscript those aged between 18-41, Janan is 42!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 8 April 2024 15:19 (one month ago) link
i was gonna say "the new fash are deeply into cosplay militarism" but of course we can take out the "new" from that. it's a central pillar of fascism full stop. if it looks a little more ridiculous now than it did in the 1920s maybe that's just because people can see thru their shit a little more clearly
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Monday, 8 April 2024 15:22 (one month ago) link
What the fuck are pro-conscriptionists even imagining? Land battles in eastern Europe? What year is this?
It's like the end of Vile Bodies when were back in the world 1914 in exactly the same conditions, just 15 years later.
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 8 April 2024 15:37 (one month ago) link
*world of 1914
Ugh. Fucking chickenhawk.
― steely flan (suzy), Monday, 8 April 2024 16:14 (one month ago) link
the third man line was bullshit that welles made up during filming. i wonder how many people have died due to that scene and the idiot warmongers who think it's fact.
― formerly abanana (dat), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 10:56 (one month ago) link
The parenthetical right after basically acknowledges it’s bullshit! Not to mention that most normal people would agree that lime is not the hero of that film
― subpost master (wins), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 11:07 (one month ago) link
Would you really feel any pity if a few million of those dots stop moving — forever?
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 11:31 (one month ago) link
Yes, it's a glib self-serving line by a glib self-serving character in movie. Also have we all forgotten the Affair of the Sausages?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Sausages
― Hunky Tory (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 11:39 (one month ago) link
i wonder how many people have died due to that scene and the idiot warmongers who think it's fact.
I think it's 0 fwiw
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 12:37 (one month ago) link
what about this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjpkoPEn0cI
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:39 (one month ago) link
A pile of free copies of The Critic has started to appear every month in the reception area of my work. Usual names on the usual themes. Woke agenda in universities/BBC/civil service. What is wrong with being elitist? Diary pieces that begin "To the theatre..." Cartoons of men on desert islands. Is there a bottomless well of this stuff? Like someone saw a gap in the market between The Oldie and The Spectator, to fill with more mid-brow right-wing STUFF, printed on paper with a nice cover. Who buys it? Who funds it?
― fetter, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 13:14 (one month ago) link
Who buys it? maybe those who think of Private Eye as too woke thesedays...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 15:57 (one month ago) link
lmao at "Cartoons of men on desert islands."
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 16:01 (one month ago) link
isn't the Critic funded by Jeremy Hosking? With the money he had left over after giving millions to Laurence Fox and Andrew Bridgen.
it always seems to me that the cartoons in the Spectator are better than the cartoons in Private Eye despite a lot of them being by the same cartoonists - I always wondered how many of the cartoons that appear in the Eye are ones that the Spectator has already rejected? Do cartoonists save their best stuff for the Spectator because they know the Eye's standards are lower?
― soref, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 17:54 (one month ago) link
cry baby cry
https://i.ibb.co/1rcmtT5/asdfserg.jpg
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 09:54 (six days ago) link
Also, we are now on day 3 of pant-shitting tantrums about the ICC statement too
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 10:26 (six days ago) link
But surprisingly little coverage from actual news outlets in the UK
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 11:47 (six days ago) link
In many ways that's more comical than the columnist implosions.
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 12:10 (six days ago) link
Media focus on the Most Evil Woman In The World today.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 12:23 (six days ago) link
Diane Abbott?
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 13:30 (six days ago) link
Paula Vennells or the nursery worker?
― h.p. lovecraft's backing singers (Matt #2), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 14:53 (six days ago) link
Oh what's this about a nursery worker... on second thoughts I don't want to know.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 14:58 (six days ago) link
Hilarious huh
On the day that Keir Starmer became leader of the Labour party I wrote a piece for The Times in which I argued he would be PM. The Editor spiked it because he said it wasn't plausible. Well, now we shall see....— Philip Collins (@PhilipJCollins1) May 22, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 May 2024 10:23 (five days ago) link
needless to say, I had the last laugh
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 23 May 2024 10:37 (five days ago) link
just wonderful stuff from the hitch herehttps://x.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1793735035620909089
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 May 2024 07:41 (four days ago) link
stupid x url
No. Starmer is a deeply ideological hard leftist, far more radical than Corbyn . I have explained this many times Google Peter Hitchens , Mail on line , Starmer and Pabloite. https://t.co/CMucUHIInP— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) May 23, 2024
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 May 2024 07:42 (four days ago) link
boy is my face gonna be red when starmer's first action in office is to implement full communism
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 24 May 2024 08:41 (four days ago) link
We are delighted to announce three new books from Sunday Times bestseller @IanDunt and @Dorianlynskey. These are definitive guides to the most misunderstood ideas in modern politics and are coming at a critical election time this November. https://t.co/DJQXI8gZkB pic.twitter.com/IcyKkob4Mj— W&N (@wnbooks) May 22, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 May 2024 08:48 (four days ago) link
Imagine if Ian & Dorian is your first read on fascism
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 May 2024 08:49 (four days ago) link
Now we know what to get you for Xmas this year.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Friday, 24 May 2024 08:50 (four days ago) link
you might think Peter has early stage dementia or maybe he has always been rather addled and clueless. But then remember in his weird world of eccentric political identifiers both Cameron and Blair were Eurocommunists. But he clearly knows fuck all about Starmer's DPP period which revealed him as a deeply conservative shitheel with a strong authoritarian streak.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 24 May 2024 08:52 (four days ago) link
you'd probably need to go back to the late 19th century to find a politician that passes the Hitchens' true conservative purity test.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 24 May 2024 08:59 (four days ago) link
I'm sure we could find a more recent politician who he doesnt have too much disagreement with
― anvil, Friday, 24 May 2024 09:07 (four days ago) link
Sounds possible, @mrbiswaz but GBnews would have to take up such an idea, and in any case, George Galloway and I (although we differ profoundly on some things) don't really differ enough on eveyrthing to make it work. https://t.co/uu8QGPXKHV— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) September 6, 2021
Besides the obvious
― anvil, Friday, 24 May 2024 09:08 (four days ago) link
reading up on the michel pablo (he of the term "pabloite”) i discover that the roving revolutionary in question -- afer various 4th international activities polemics and long-irrelevant 50s factional disputes that frankly not even i cannot quite be bothered to remind myself of let alone re-process -- returned to his native greece and helped papandreou found PASOK
in conclusion: p hitch otm
― mark s, Friday, 24 May 2024 09:10 (four days ago) link
sometimes he is inadvertently otm on some things, like about 0.001% of the time.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 24 May 2024 09:37 (four days ago) link
the people on twitter saving hitch's tweets for a gotcha should remember that he still considers tony blair to be a trot
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 May 2024 09:38 (four days ago) link
in his mind Cameronism and Blairism are practically the same politics, so therefore the pigfucker is a trot as well!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 24 May 2024 09:41 (four days ago) link
think the core of it is that he thinks any kind of social progress is communism
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 May 2024 09:50 (four days ago) link
These terms are increasingly flexible and malleable anyway, so Hitchens is hardly alone in that. I think the underlying animus is anti-liberalism though as with any other self-respecting iconoclast, guru, or dissident, a la Spiked, or presumably Novara eventually
― anvil, Friday, 24 May 2024 09:58 (four days ago) link
I think Hitchens would hate the Spiked lot and everything they stand for, he's more of a Scrutonite
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Friday, 24 May 2024 10:03 (four days ago) link
People's Front of Judea/Judaean People's Front stuff of course
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Friday, 24 May 2024 10:04 (four days ago) link
Yes, well, it is perhaps because Sir Roger Scruton had never felt the pull of revolution that he was so duped by the Tory government. I find people who have never been revolutionaries are astonishingly naive about power and those who exercise it. .@kynohy https://t.co/A8vrfMeg0t— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) January 12, 2024
― mark s, Friday, 24 May 2024 10:06 (four days ago) link
whether ppl are funded by the Koch bros or the 4th Viscount Rothermere doesn't make much difference, they are all scum.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 24 May 2024 10:08 (four days ago) link
xp haha shows what I know!
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Friday, 24 May 2024 10:09 (four days ago) link
hitchens is a long-estranged marxist, from the salad-of-all-the-UK-trots wing
as was his older brother (added psychodramatic dimension: older brother certainly bullied PH as a kid, and was a sleb quasi-marxist for maybe a decade more, prior to his er protracted declension, as they wd both probably call it)
― mark s, Friday, 24 May 2024 10:11 (four days ago) link
spiked, etc. are obvious grifters with a clear nefarious agenda, who will say or do anything, peter otoh is a true believer (albeit in absolutely insane bullshit) and would never have anything to do with them
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 May 2024 10:13 (four days ago) link
does Hitch ever stan for anyone in this era without making withering criticisms? From memory I once heard him stanning for Tooze, well more his book "The Deluge".
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 24 May 2024 10:16 (four days ago) link