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the quite touching mutual respect between Mason and one of his comrades from the *100% independent* "home of online investigations" Bellingcat
― calzino, Friday, 10 June 2022 10:35 (one year ago) link
As I think I've mentioned before, the only newspaper website we can access where I work is the Telegraph, which is wall-to-wall British right wing pundits of course. When it comes to true swivel-eyed loons though it's hard to top Allister Heath:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/15/britain-ruins-thanks-failed-dogmas-permanent-leftist-elite/
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 June 2022 12:29 (one year ago) link
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hmm, that reads like a load of crypto-fascist nonsense about "the enemy within", shurely shum mishtake?
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 16 June 2022 12:44 (one year ago) link
The guy's a fanatic.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 June 2022 12:52 (one year ago) link
"to wrestle power from acronym-wielding experts"
yes, let's listen to intellectual heavyweights like Michael Gove instead
― calzino, Thursday, 16 June 2022 13:10 (one year ago) link
talking of crypto-fascism I used to work with someone who looked just like a blonde haired version of him and his surname was Goering!
― calzino, Thursday, 16 June 2022 13:14 (one year ago) link
Why do these people always look like their human skin is too itchy & uncomfortable and they are looking forward to getting home and taking it off?
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 16 June 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
xp emphasis very much on the "fasicst" part of "crypto-fascist", in fact "crypto" is probably entirely redundant!
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 16 June 2022 13:18 (one year ago) link
"crypto" as in bellowing non-stp abt the ponzi schemes all normal social technologies are being replaced by
― mark s, Thursday, 16 June 2022 13:20 (one year ago) link
fascism, but with added JPEGs of poorly drawn cartoon monkeys
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 16 June 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
lol
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 June 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link
Remember this pompous ass? I could point out that Carry On Up the Khyber was literally on last week and The Sweeney is on permanently on one or other channel but Simon Heffer probably only has a black and white 15 inch Rediffusion telly with two buttons - one for BBC 1 and one for the independent channel.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/tvs-hypocritical-trigger-warnings-reveal-hidden-double-standard/
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Monday, 20 June 2022 09:57 (one year ago) link
when even Bellingcat are describing him as a "Walter Mitty idiot" Private Eye have taken Spymaster Mason's web of internal security threats at face value, lol even referring to him as "left-wing journalist". Someone suggested it's probably Cohen or Wheen who wrote it. Some of the bits about Grayzone might be valid criticism, but all journalistic cred died in the first paragraph. I stopped reading the Eye yonks ago because the print is so small - it's a struggle even with reading glasses. Not been missing much it seems.
― calzino, Monday, 20 June 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
Not renewing my long-held PE subscription because it's got really TERFy over the last couple of years.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 20 June 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
Imagine being this fucking ignorant and not embarrassed about it at all?
This week, Dorian announces he’d assumed “Neoliberalism” was just a boo-word, a slur hurled by dumb socialists because how could one word apply to both Pinochet and Obama? Now, having read books by other smart people, he realises it’s not only real but ubiquitous and dominant. pic.twitter.com/4OuuSdwIfS— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) June 27, 2022
― commonly known by his nickname, "MadBum" (gyac), Monday, 27 June 2022 09:26 (one year ago) link
Thank you Flying Rodent for listening to these so we don't have to. Not that we had to, or wanted to, but 30 seconds to read a summary is fine.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 27 June 2022 09:48 (one year ago) link
perhaps they should have learned this at least 10-20 years ago lol. To misquote Lou Reed: you are going get done in public when you are growing up in public with your pants down.
― calzino, Monday, 27 June 2022 11:42 (one year ago) link
perhaps pretending to know fuck all about what they've been podcasting, writing books and Unherd/Spectator/NS pieces about for years is a clever ploy to get more clicks than they'd otherwise get. It might work in the short term but it renders everything else they've ever wrote as the work of ignorant imbeciles!
― calzino, Monday, 27 June 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
this dynamic duo, with a history of dismissing people who refer to "neoliberalism" as ignorant lefty plebs who lack nuance, unlike smartest balds in the room like them.
― calzino, Monday, 27 June 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
A lot of ppl also say that grifter is just a boo-word meaninglessly applied to anyone you don’t like but now they can listen to this podcast and realise it’s not only real but ubiquitous and dominant
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Monday, 27 June 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
Absolutely obsessed with this tweet
Oh and there’s also a doubling of something odd called ‘scromiting’. That’s screaming and vomiting which lasts for weeks on end, with no treatment. A result of long term use of high potency cannabis.— Eve Simmons (@EveSimmns) July 2, 2022
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 08:47 (one year ago) link
I'm poscromiting as I tpye tihs
(posting, scraemnig & vmoiting)
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 09:01 (one year ago) link
her following up with complaints about being "burnt at the stake" after some people laughed at her on Twitter was also *chef's kiss*
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 09:08 (one year ago) link
christ how old is she? she obviously never watched brasseye
― calzino, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 11:53 (one year ago) link
Mail writers are all born in their mid 40s
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
Morning pic.twitter.com/3g1mKgPOhS— Roland Smith 🇺🇦 (@rolandmcs) July 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 7 July 2022 07:35 (one year ago) link
Gives him time to get the treehouse built I guess
― I was horrified to discover the gap between rich & poor was so extreme (Matt #2), Thursday, 7 July 2022 08:14 (one year ago) link
Oops wrong thread
I'm sure he'll be a RWP shortly, if not immediately, if not he's one already.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 July 2022 08:30 (one year ago) link
Just a massive failure of character. Novara are well funded, he doesn't need the money.
Are you finding a way to “cleverly” make socialist arguments to conservatives, or are you legitimating arguments that are not only utterly grim but are having extensive effects in the here and now? pic.twitter.com/ayg1hcLjmZ— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) July 19, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 09:03 (one year ago) link
itll go herder*
*unherder
― mark s, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 11:08 (one year ago) link
Hmm
Jesus Christ, Terry. pic.twitter.com/LT1qfOscNv— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) July 19, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
is it the heat or is this actual gibberish? does he always write like this?
i don't expect marxism from unherd but i do expect some kind of (reactionary) thesis - i can't find any politics here at all just a bunch of words
― Left, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
solid enough burn on prince andrew though
― Left, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
At moments like this, I like to remind myself of Lionel Trilling's distinction between 'fluent' and 'articulate'. Terry, like Boris, has been fluent for too long without remotely articulating anything.
the next tweet nails it
― calzino, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
👍
With respect D: you 😊— Omid Djalili (@omid9) July 20, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 21 July 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
yeah been very nice to see Omid come out on the side of good, wonder if appearing on Alexei Sayle's podcast was in some way a catalyst
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 July 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
Lol
In fairness, shouldn’t articles by @JGForsyth promoting Sunak for Prime Minister not carry a disclaimer?🤔‘At university together, best man at my wedding, godparents to children… etc, etc?’ https://t.co/ilrgbuziKu— Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) July 22, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 22 July 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
Telegraph proprietor Fred Barclay arriving in court today, where he is is accused by his ex-wife of failing to pay a £100m divorce settlement pic.twitter.com/uTuxbqkgby— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) July 28, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
fucking state of those trousers!
― calzino, Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
Better dead than red
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 28 July 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
"I am in the red"
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 July 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
spot the pattern : - not paying divorce settlement- not paying any uk taxno wonder boris loves this paper so much.
― mark e, Thursday, 28 July 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
I’m totally fascinated by the question of what it’s like to be the author of one of these “having no food, heating or electricity is good, actually!” pieces. Are they cynically cashing in? Totally self deluded? Classic British masochists? pic.twitter.com/NQlHfESh6l— Marika (@MarikaRose) August 18, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 August 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
Which reminds me that we haven't seen anyone smirking about how birth rates supposedly spike 9 months after a blackout. (They actually tend to go down.)
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 18 August 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
microwaving tinned spaghetti hoops from the foodbank before you run out of power is a hell of an aphrodisiac
― calzino, Thursday, 18 August 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
Ye gods, could Irish right-wing pundits actually be worse? You won't be able to read this because it's paywalled but you really don't want to anyway, believe me.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/18/osullivans-law-strikes-back-publishing-worlds-woke-takeover/
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 August 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
The Daily Telegraph in general seems to be maniacally fixated on two subjects: "woke" and the SNP/Nicola Sturgeon.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 August 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link