yes otm
― kinder, Monday, 4 May 2020 13:23 (three years ago) link
Same on the app.
― Madchen, Monday, 4 May 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
Plan to open mosque in Trocadero in London sparks objections
A video posted on Friday by The Iconoclast, an anonymous white nationalist vlogger, urging people to oppose the plan because of the dangers it posed to the “native people of this country”, triggered a surge in objections to Westminster council.
Another said: “I think it’s a travesty that we should sacrifice a building that was built before our time in such grand detail to Islam, which is not the religion of this country.”
Neo-Nazis rallying on social media to stop part of a building being converted into a mosque doesn’t strike me as particularly newsworthy to begin with - reporting it uncritically, not challenging errors and signal boosting one of them by name is a bizarre choice,
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― ShariVari, Saturday, 23 May 2020 09:46 (three years ago) link
Ah, the trocadero, historical home of the traditional vr arcade, alien live experience and a big hmv.
― koogs, Saturday, 23 May 2020 10:28 (three years ago) link
sheeit, which particular buildings in central London exist in some time vacuum that precludes them having "historical" status? There must be hundreds of historical buildings that have been repurposed as mosques and synagogues, it's part of the rich tapestry of London history that the Graun have always embraced as the leading liberal voice of the UK ... oh scratch that last bit.
― calzino, Saturday, 23 May 2020 10:44 (three years ago) link
I think the UK's racists and far right wankers have got their work cut out for them if they think they can turn this into the UK's equivalent of You'll Never Believe It But They're Building A Mosque Near The Site of 9/11.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 May 2020 10:57 (three years ago) link
Last time I set foot in that place it was dispiriting to the point of almost triggering a panic attack. Repurposing it as a mosque could only improve it, and the thought of daily calls to prayer echoing across Piccadilly Circus would piss off the gammon to the point of apoplexy. Win-win!
― Alert! The virus lives (Matt #2), Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:00 (three years ago) link
(Funland, the arcade was called. there was a Sega connection as well, videos on youtube. i remember it being mostly empty)
― koogs, Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:14 (three years ago) link
Have to wonder whether the complainants have been inside the Trocadero in the last decade, right now almost anything would be an improvement.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:18 (three years ago) link
I already consider the site of the old Funland arcade a sacred ground of worship tbh
― nashwan, Saturday, 23 May 2020 11:18 (three years ago) link
When I worked at the Guardian and they had a mtg after Trump was elected and asked us what we wanted to talk about, I said, "I wanna talk about why you've cut the contracts of all the other Black opinion writers."They ended the meeting.They did not renew my next contract. https://t.co/uS3jsO1IEW— Dr. Steven W. Thrasher (@thrasherxy) June 8, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 June 2020 09:02 (three years ago) link
guardian is a racist liberal rag and tracey is a nazi fuck
― 1312 (Left), Thursday, 11 June 2020 09:12 (three years ago) link
the headline they've used to cover this JK Rowling story is utter nonsense too
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 11 June 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link
surely not in the terf paper of record?
― comparing me to Harold Shipman is unfair (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 June 2020 11:58 (three years ago) link
christ that's disgusting. I thought it would be something like "rowling defends feminism against trans activists" but they've outdone themselves
― Change Display Name: (Left), Thursday, 11 June 2020 12:00 (three years ago) link
I mean I didn't expect them to cover it fairly but this is particularly dismal
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 11 June 2020 12:03 (three years ago) link
Honestly struggling to come to terms with how repulsive this is pic.twitter.com/dGvXB5pYyX— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) June 12, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 13 June 2020 12:30 (three years ago) link
i wonder if we can have some sort of sweep/thread on what Starmzy will have to do to get critiqued in the Graun/melt Twitter
― comparing me to Harold Shipman is unfair (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
signal any kind of move to the left, obv
― Prosecutor Bradley Tankerton (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link
good news is that’s not gonna happen
― Prosecutor Bradley Tankerton (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link
Zoe Williams was criticising him last week fwiw.
― ShariVari, Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:43 (three years ago) link
fuck me he really has lost the Left
― comparing me to Harold Shipman is unfair (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
something uniquely repellent about these proud anti racist dinner party types who are clearly sick and tired of hearing about racism, but only feel able express the sentiment indirectly through something else, for fear of sounding gauche. slimy bastards
sir condemning rowling's bigotry would surely be the quickest way to turn them against him right now. a rhetoric turn to the left might even be humoured for a bit, with no election in sight, since they know the people they fear most are less to come around anyway
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
*rhetorical
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
*less likely. sorry
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:58 (three years ago) link
Irrespective of whether Heather Stewart is right, it’s bold to make the argument that banging on about sculptures and Fawlty Towers is a culture war trap set by Johnson from the position of Political Editor of a newspaper that has done almost nothing else over the last week.
― ShariVari, Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
That Zoe Williams piece from last week is as critical as it will get. Most will be happy that it isn't Corbyn and for the next few years they can pretend this is enough.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/the-far-left-origins-of-no-10s-desperate-attack-on-all-things-woke-?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet
Nick Cohen - The far-left origins of No 10's desperate attack on all things 'woke'
Lol ok a+ trolling
"The presence of the ex-revolutionaries in a rightwing debate shows the distance from asinine far leftism to paranoid conservatism is nowhere near as great as the innocent imagine." if you want an authority on asinine
― plax (ico), Sunday, 21 June 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
Telling how this thread is routinely bumped on Sundays.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 21 June 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
guardian giving known sex pests a platform again is it
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
they've also given four stars to debut album by voice-of-tory-heartlands indie wankers Sports Team if you want another reason to hate them.
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
Indie is the voice of Tory heartlands tbf
― never mind that shit, here comes scampo (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
apart from Belle & Sebastian, the slave trading founders of ILX!
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
I always thought of indie as more lib dem but I’m out of date, what’s the difference anyway
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
apparently now the LibDems are plotting to outflank Starmzy in that sweet indie spot just slightly to the left of the centre right.
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
I can only think of that wanker from Coldplay and that wanker Dom Joly as prominent LibDem supporters from the entertainment industry, but I'm sure there are more.
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
Brian Eno. I knew there was one I'd forgotten.
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
Billy Bragg if he counts as entertainment
― never mind that shit, here comes scampo (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
Daniel Radcliffe, 20-year-old star of Harry Potter and 12th wealthiest young person in the UK, is clearly not put off by the party's plan to hit the super-rich with a "mansion tax".He said: "If all the people who liked the Lib Dems voted for them you could change politics overnight and we could have a proper three-party system."
He said: "If all the people who liked the Lib Dems voted for them you could change politics overnight and we could have a proper three-party system."
lol, that 2010 Claggmania was an even worse drug than m-cat
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
Come on Potter most of the people who vote for them don't like them
― never mind that shit, here comes scampo (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
tbf He was 20 years old there and dopey as fuck, Jo Swinson howerver....
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
all these ppl are indie imo, incl/esp joly & radcliffe
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
On the white, posh and totally smug and myopic metric.. Indie to the core!
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
Opener Lander sets the tone, Rob Knaggs’s ever-shifting guitar lines supporting frontman Alex Rice’s Sprechgesang stream-of-consciousness (“I wanna be a lawyer/ Or someone who hunts foxes”).
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
the Hampshire blues
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
Know this will go down badly here, but surely Bragg & Eno were saying nice things about libdems only when it was nice anti-war alcoholic uncle Charles Kennedy against war criminal Tonty fucking Blair, and both were supporting Corbyn in the election last year.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
Bragg has been an unmitigable wanker since birth whether he supported Corbyn or not. Yeah Eno did turn out for Corbyn in '19 tbf, but who really cares about celebs and how politics is like a no-stakes trends game to them. Well me, because I've just commented on it on this thread tbf! Shit!
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
Anyone who supports the Lib Dems for even a nanosecond is tainted for all eternity.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
Voting Tory is preferable tbh.
I have much more respect for just about every Tory voting cunt in the UK than I have for Billy Bragg, who fronted Red Wedge for Kinnock Sr. Give me Duran Duran any day over that waste of skin!
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link