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1905 was more radical than 1917, because it radically envisaged the idea of a constitutional monarchy, whereas executing the cunts and establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat was a lazy milquetoast cop-out

pretty sure Joe Stalin was into the dividing up the world into the damned and the safe thing

lol we had a history teacher at school who used to call him joe in a way that probably wasn't but definitely sounded affectionate

much as i love Robert Wyatt i'm always wary of the fact that he'd probly kick the shit out of me for eating pigs and not digging on crazy Joe

i mean kick the shit out of me with his chair obv

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start "Things Brendan O'Neill Doesn't Do" poll y/n?

ehh it's 2pm on friday might as well

yeah but i think i'm finishing in the next 15 mins or so i cd go home and play Oblivion instead or something

don't feel whimsical enough right now

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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mobileweb/brendan-oneill/angela-jolie-mastectomy_b_3273003.html

From Jade Goody having her cancer diagnosed on Indian TV to Kerry Katona doing interviews about her bipolar disorder to Stephen Fry writing about his depression... in both the tabloid and high-brow sections of the celebrity world, talking about being sick is not only increasingly acceptable - it's expected.

obviously been pished off his tits for the last 5 years

glad to see he's setting a personal example of how to lead a brave, rebellious life by writing contrarian bullshit on the internet

Just went on Spiked for the first time in many years. It's almost sweet the way the layout has made no concession to the last 5-10 years of progress in web design. It rigidly and steadfastly takes up the left-hand 45% of my modest monitor. Is it symbolically clinging to the left? who knows!

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why do cunts end up like this

been on the pedro ximenez and want answers

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hi sir

is it that they're taught conflicting disciplines of empathy to all and crude managementkult self-actualisation in their formative years and can only find resolution through picking fights with strawman nannystaters against whom they seem (to themselves) bastions of free thought and levity

because that, as they say, is having your cake and fucking it too

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it's worth rehosting just for that implacable sardonic glowering into the abyss

resembles a cross between matt dc and a (very pleasant) schoolmate of mine

actually it's almost exactly how I pictured the protagonist of Remainder

this week i was mindful of reposting just that byline photo itt but then i forgot but then i saw he had been ragging on jolie the pretentious, cancerous hypocritical enemy of reason so he got his revive

christ the clamour to fill hitchens' void is nauseating

Hitchens had more principle than any of these fuckers will have in their entire lives

well obviously. they're taking the bits that suit them

That 'decriminalise rape now imo' barrister woman is on of this lot.

who is that?

http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13604/

Not the sort of barrister you'd want defending you on anything serious huh

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That guy sure is no sucka

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angrier than I've ever been. fuck the press and fuck this guy

That is what modern Leftists think of the masses – that they’re cruel, dishonest, immoral, violent, and apparently these tendencies must be tamed by depriving the oiks of their daily fix of tabloid titillation. This is the true story behind the modern Left’s enthusiasm for more state interference in the world of ideas and news: the Left once believed in people; now it despises them.

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I didn't realise he was still banging this shit out on a regular basis. His power to wind up the left must have waned significantly because I haven't seen anyone mention one of his pieces for months.

yes it's difficult to feel anything but contempt for hacks dredging up the same tiresome shit year after year, especially when they have the imprimatur of a national newspaper behind them

Nous nous moquions, il y a un an, avec une grande raison, de la prétendue liberté des Anglais, qui n’ont pas la liberté indéfinie de la presse
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If Morrissey's autobiography is crap, how will Penguin recover from having released it as a classic? Actually, even if it's good, still some very serious questions will have to be asked about Penguin's ability to be the gatekeeper of the best of human knowledge and writing when it is willing to publish a pop star's musings alongside the greatest literature of all time. Penguin is effectively using the word classic in the same way young people now use it – not to mean a work of art of recognised and substantial value, but rather to mean "wicked, dude".

"wicked, dude"

Dude, it's meant to be funny.

Independent going in hard on this too.

. How do you wreck overnight the reputation of a global brand that, since 1946, has built up its worldwide trust on the basis of consistent excellence, expert selection and a commitment to pick and sell only the very best? Easy, really. You chuck 67 years of editorial rigour and learning out of the corporate window and kowtow to the whims of a petulant pop icon.

Though without the dated youth speak.

pretty sure i could v. quickly find a list of 20 or more Penguin Classics that let the side down more than this tedious Moz jape. having said that, fuck this tedious Moz jape.

iiiiiiiiiiin one

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That is a Modern Classic, rather than a Classic.

i thought Moz is going in Modern Classics? either way, one could argue that a section of both lists is the pulp/genre fiction of its day, lent dignity with time

It's going to be a black-jacketed Classic according to Penguin's website. There's tonnes of pulp stuff on both lists but they're mostly notable / important books, even if they are't, strictly speaking, any good. It's bad brand management, i think, but it will probably boost the Classic imprint's revenues about 1000% this year.

it is bad brand management but i never have to own it, so.

it wd be less bad brand management if Morrissey was half the writer his devotees think he is.

Yes, i'm just annoyed that it puts paid to my plan to own every Penguin Classic ever printed.

Amusing(?) myself at lunchtime by leafing through today's Daily Mail, thinking, "Jesus Christ, can you believe there are cunts who get handsomely paid for writing this shite?" when I come across a full page opinion piece by former editor of the Revolutionary Communist Party's official newspaper, Mick Hume. The bold Mick, who is holding forth on Partygate, starts his piece by saying, "I'm not concerned with defending Mr. Johnson" and, I think you can guess what's coming, proceeds to spend the entire article defending Mr. Johnson. Not quite the entire article because a lot of it is spent lambasting the BBC for criticizing Mr. Johnson as part of their policy of promoting the "woke agenda of Left-liberal urban elites". The main target of his ire being, wait for it, well known Left-liberal wokester, Nick Robinson. As I said, this cunt is getting paid for this shite.

This is really the best version of the mohicaned cunt who shouted at you about SWSS at uni turning up as your bank manager 20 years later

absolutely, though I struggle to see how these kinds of shenanigans are helping to advance the Leninist vanguard

he's advancing the class struggle, but doing it t'other way round against the proletariat. sort of like the Kriss Kross of the revolutionary vanguard. You aren't understanding this correctly from a Living Marxism viewpoint!

that's the worry that keeps me up at night: am I correctly grasping Frank Furedi and friends' Hegelian dialiectics?