Fintan O'Toole: Classic or Dud?

who presumably very much follows their preferred broad thrust of ideology

not really: NLR is (broad thrust anyway)full-spectrum internationalist marxist -- tho i think yr right that it's a little too easily swayed by fancypants cultural credentials

Having mastered the form over Brexit (Heroic Failure), O'Toole is now going to churn out an "X has exposed the myth of British exceptionalism" piece for the liberal press till he dies.

2030: "The arrival of the Tralfamadorians has exposed the myth ..."https://t.co/UKCn8c90BO

— David Timoney (@fromarsetoelbow) April 11, 2020

https://thebaffler.com/latest/ireland-we-hardly-knew-ye-sheehan

Loved and learnt quite a bit from that piece.

I have been putting off this piece all day for when I’ve time but just starting it now. You know when you know a piece will be good because of some perfectly chosen reference? That’s the Reeling in the Years mention early on. Here’s a flavour of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y65eSi0RnY

"what happens to the boy in the bubble when the bubble bursts? he falls from a great height."

me yelling "im so sorry the correct answer is the MOOPS" at fintan

lads

When my son was 2, I heard him mumbling to himself as he was going to sleep, 'Mikhail Gorbachev'. It sounded like a promise that the world he would grow up in would be less fearful and more hopeful.

— Fintan O'Toole (@fotoole) August 30, 2022

:)

i had just abt persuaded myself that fintan was in fact in on the joek when here comes stephen b to complicate the story lol

Surprised at the number of people suggesting this wouldn't happen - toddler repeats name that is often on the radio, more on this story as we get it. Have people on Twitter never sworn in front of a toddler? https://t.co/7rgo3qXO0w

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) August 31, 2022

oh no it's broken Bush. If it was a joke then it's a decent attempt at this genre of shitposting.

i mean obviously i dont want to admit FoT into the affiliated guild of acceptable shitposting fellows but

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbeEaVfWYAArs1K?format=jpg&name=medium

there was this photograb gem in the replies. Even Bush might put it in the "so didn't happen" category.

This a week or so after Alexander Dugin claimed his daughter's first words were "Russia" and "our great country". Is this something wankers do now?

it's a long-running* twitter symptom

*for weeks now and possibly even months

In about July 1988 Bobby Charlton, live on BBC TV, referred to the USSR as 'that great country'. I was touched.