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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

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100240554/for-generations-radical-leftists-fought-for-press-freedom-why-have-they-abandoned-it-now/

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
- Brendan O'Neill

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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.

Best thing about that Penguin cover is the distinct whiff of fascism that illustration gives off.

lol

Is there a site like Arts & Letters Daily except not so stupid?

still love the chronicle but christ the aldaily is um problematic

"The global economy has its ugly corners but the overall system delivers more happiness than all the failed utopias of the past. Disagreeing with this makes you a pathetic faggot, SOME AUSTRIALIAN COLUMNIST explains..."

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"do you think Hitler was bad? Guess what, Stalin was really bad also. BOOK REVIEWER FOR SPIKED ONLINE elucidates..."

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o god the thought of siding with the Spiked massive might drive me to vote "Stay" after all

Golly, Spiked on the same side as the hard right, what strange bedfellows.

Have noticed a female journalist (don't know her name) from Spiked has been popping on telly lately, just saw her discussing International Women's Day on Sky News... I think you can guess what she thinks of it, in fact you could probably guess at every single word that comes out of her mouth.

She was hugely in favour of celebrating feminism and campaigning against all the very real inequalities that women throughout the world are still subject to?

Not quite.

Damn I thought I had it

tbh she was thrown when the Sky presenter pointed out that not every woman in the world lives in Zone 1 (some live in Zone 4), paraphrasing somewhat there. Not very impressive all round.

These are all people making up in later life for all the fun they missed out on by not being Young Conservatives tbf

Another day, another 12 year old from Spiked arguing the toss on Sky News, this time about the statue of Cecil Rhodes that some students want removed from some Oxford college.

o man the so-called politically correct brigade are censoring our glorious history which shd totally be celebrated

waging a culture war of words against misanthropy, priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism

k I reckon supporting Cecil scores as misanthropy, prejudice, Luddism and illiberalism at least

Seems like programme makers have discovered Spiked, so expecting more appearances from these twats.