Refreshing that nearly all of the replies to that tweet are rightly ridiculing him
― groovypanda, Monday, 20 March 2023 15:37 (one year ago) link
I've come to the conclusion that Allister Heath and Ross Clark are the two most batshit columnists at the Daily Telegraph - amongst fierce competition it must be saud. This little pearl is from the latter's column on how "Suella Braverman could be the most successful home secretary in recent history":
... deep within the attacks on her and the Government’s Illegal Migration Bill lies the assumption that Rwandans are incapable of providing a safe, civilised environment in which to process asylum applications and a home where genuine refugees can rebuild their lives. True, Rwanda experienced a genocide within living memory...
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Monday, 20 March 2023 16:30 (one year ago) link
turbo wasteman
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 20 March 2023 16:33 (one year ago) link
Almost as if there's a metric for saying the louder you like the more effective the outcome
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 March 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
xp v steve coogan municipal swimming pool security vibes there
― oscar bravo, Monday, 20 March 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link
I found the guy that sketch was based on recently, he was one of the bird curators at London Zoo in Molly Dineen's The Ark documentary. Had to be based on him, there's no way he couldn't have been. Anyway yeah
― imago, Monday, 20 March 2023 22:42 (one year ago) link
I'm always a bit intrigued at some of the absurd names of journalists on the Telegraph-Spectator spectrum. I mean, Sophia Money-Coutts - it's like a parody name that even Private Eye would consider too obvious. And then I ventured across a piece on 'woke' in the Spectator by a journalist named Panda La Terriere. Panda La Terriere, for God's sake! I googled her, she's apparently the great-granddaughter of Evelyn Waugh, so keeping the right-wing bigotry all in the family I guess. And no surprise, Money-Coutts is indeed a member of the Coutts banking dynasty.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 01:57 (one year ago) link
Sunday Times culture section in a mess.
pic.twitter.com/jaRYqNPJv1— Judy Blume (@judyblume) April 16, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 April 2023 12:48 (one year ago) link
In a Spectator interview published today, historian David Starkey offers a novel take on the "do you have any black friends?" question 🥴 pic.twitter.com/XWsfPsrQXg— Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) May 5, 2023
― groovypanda, Friday, 5 May 2023 16:04 (one year ago) link
"not openly racist to uber drivers" is the best defense he can muster, yes this sounds about right.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 5 May 2023 16:26 (one year ago) link
Spectator journalist Taki Theodoracopulos to face trial for alleged attempted rape in 2009 https://t.co/K1i9EzipYM— The Guardian (@guardian) May 10, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 May 2023 16:09 (one year ago) link
good
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 May 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link
Not sure he classes as a pundit but this is straight up hilarious
Most of you have never shadow-boxed 10 rounds in a 200-degree sauna while listening to Tyrese as your workout music.Then you have the audacity to wonder why you don’t get any pussy. pic.twitter.com/wfHtfXOS3G— Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) May 13, 2023
― groovypanda, Saturday, 13 May 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
"I am a good tipper"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 13 May 2023 18:16 (one year ago) link
I've said before that this guy is insane but this guy is insane.
In a world where followers of Gramsci have seized control of virtually all institutions, winning elections or referenda isn’t enough. The blob must be defeated.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/24/woke-blobs-final-triumph-near/
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 May 2023 10:23 (one year ago) link
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Author%20photos/Allister%20Heath%20Aug%202021-xlarge.pnghttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Author%20photos/Allister%20Heath%20Aug%202021-xlarge.pnghttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Author%20photos/Allister%20Heath%20Aug%202021-xlarge.pnghttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Author%20photos/Allister%20Heath%20Aug%202021-xlarge.png
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 May 2023 10:24 (one year ago) link
reminded me of this all-timer which he at least hasn't deleted (probably can't work out how)
Kwasi Kwarteng's Budget is a moment in history that will radically transform Britain https://t.co/w20tgpctDE— Allister Heath (@AllisterHeath) September 23, 2022
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 25 May 2023 10:42 (one year ago) link
what's his take on gramsci? I assume he thinks mussolini was right but I thought all the intellectual right wingers wanted to be good gramscians these days. is that what's going on here or has he just become part of the pantheon of evil alongside hegel and adorno and other unlikely pioneers of wokeness?
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 25 May 2023 11:07 (one year ago) link
I believe Gramsci's concept of hegemony - which opens up marxism to analysing cultural aspects of society as well as economics* - is useful for right wingers to push their narrative of "cultural marxism" so it makes sense he'd be a figure of hate.
*I have no idea if this is correct but I think it's the rationale
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 25 May 2023 11:18 (one year ago) link
has he just become part of the pantheon of evil alongside hegel and adorno and other unlikely pioneers of wokeness?
Bingo.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 May 2023 11:20 (one year ago) link
well that's boring. just more of the same old conspiracy mush like they turned hegel's dialectic into (which is something conservatives who really did care about the western philosophical tradition could actually work with, or through, or however it is)
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 25 May 2023 11:49 (one year ago) link
We're talking hacks, not people who even pretend to have ideas
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 May 2023 12:00 (one year ago) link
Even they couldn't deny Weltgeist is with China now anyway
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 25 May 2023 12:11 (one year ago) link
Labour parliamentary candidate says this
The world is not listening.Sadly, the international community are captured by Militant far left campaign groups who have through bad policy, inflicted on the people of Yemen a permanent state of poverty of war.Successive UN Special Envoys have tragically all failed #Yemen. https://t.co/d0e6UymrmQ— Graham Jones xMP (@GrahamJones_MP) May 25, 2023
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 25 May 2023 12:15 (one year ago) link
trolling
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 25 May 2023 12:16 (one year ago) link
or gaslighting, or dancing on graves, or something
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 25 May 2023 12:19 (one year ago) link
at least it's not something you say intending to convince anyone, it's like a flex
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 25 May 2023 12:21 (one year ago) link
A form of political gaslighting like the "woke left blob elites" stuff, intended to create a sense of constant threat to real western values
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 May 2023 12:25 (one year ago) link
re gramsci: the US wingnut thesis -- as developed by william s. lind and others, re "cultural marxism" etc -- is that the blob has developed the techniques of saul alinsky, a chicago-based "community organiser" who wrote abt gramsci in the 60s or 70s (largely misunderstanding him IMO but that's by the bye), effecting the fabled "long march through the institutions" (marcuse quoting mao? who tf knows) which e.g. delivered obama as president
a small but growing number of uk wingnuts are these days very plugged into this circuit (hence this dweeb wetting himself abt meatball ron)
is it trolling? i mean it's annoying bcz shite being pumped into the plumbing is annoying, but there's a good case these ppl are by now simply talking to one another
― mark s, Thursday, 25 May 2023 13:14 (one year ago) link
This guy is definitely not trolling he is just a swivel eyed zealot.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 May 2023 13:19 (one year ago) link
There's no clear distinction between repeating your narrative and "belief" imo. This is rhetoric not philosophy
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 May 2023 13:23 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/TN3hM09L3O— Mike Graham 🇬🇧 (@Iromg) June 14, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 12:27 (one year ago) link
Douglas Murray's perfectly level headed response to the report into racism and sexism in English cricket (just be glad it's paywalled).
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/01/the-left-now-wants-utter-abolition-of-britain-as-we-know-it/
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Monday, 3 July 2023 15:50 (eleven months ago) link
“Come off it, anyone would be treated like that if they wanted sex with younger person, even if he wasn’t a minor!” I hear you type already. Really? While reading the latest from the Sun’s political editor, Harry Cole, about the “bombshell claims,” I recalled the time he tweeted excitedly about being in a coffee shop full of “jailbait”, and a gym full of “sixth form girls” (16-18 year olds). When I watched commentator Rod Liddle on BBC Newsnight defending the newspaper for behaving “impeccably” throughout their reporting in the public interest, I recalled his article recalling that he didn’t become a teacher because “I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids.”Over on Jacob Rees Mogg’s show on GBNews, Kelvin McKenzie defended the Sun for its campaigning journalism on Edwards’ case, despite the fact that while he was editor of the Sun he paid a 16 year old Samantha Fox to pose topless, publishing it on Page 3 of his newspaper. Over on TalkTV their International Editor Isabel Oakeshott discussed the “extraordinary parallels” between Edwards and Philip Schofield, although she didn’t notice the parallels with regular TalkTV guest and paper reviewer Simon Danczuk, who was offered the job after resigning from the Labour Party following the revelation that he had been sending explicit text messages to a 17 year old girl. Unlike the Huw Edwards scandal, all of these involved minors, yet few have received the extensive and venomous vitriol or professional repercussions that Edwards have. Indeed, they’re regarded as suitable, independent voices to comment on his case. They are all heterosexual.
https://huw.substack.com/p/a-sordid-scandal
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 14 July 2023 12:09 (eleven months ago) link
the Huw Lemmy substack article is really excellent. absolutely clarified some important things for me
― vexingvexillologist, Monday, 17 July 2023 17:54 (ten months ago) link
😱😱😱
GB News presenter Dan Wootton used multiple fake identities to trick and bribe scores of men into revealing compromising sexual material.The victims included members of the public, his own colleagues and a senior executive at News UKhttps://t.co/qzux8U19uN— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 17, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 July 2023 21:57 (ten months ago) link
This story hasn't exactly set the heather on fire yet
― Body Odour Ultra Low Emission Zone (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 08:58 (ten months ago) link
Establishment media p likely to just ignore anything coming from the byline times, I'd think.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 09:00 (ten months ago) link
Don't know enough about byline times.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 09:02 (ten months ago) link
Oh I didn't mean they weren't credible, just that they're a self-proclaimed leftist news thing and that by itself means the establishment is likely to disregard.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 09:08 (ten months ago) link
What the Wehrmacht accomplishes in 1939-40 is one of most extraordinary feats of arms in human history. It’s increasingly unhelpful that this is the sole prism by which to understand threats to European security. pic.twitter.com/V0xiYsuPH6— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) July 30, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 31 July 2023 06:23 (ten months ago) link
I mostly get all my bullshit ww2 takes from P Hitch these days says Bas!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 31 July 2023 07:40 (ten months ago) link
Important that David Baddiel now becomes a mainstay of this thread, I think:
https://nitter.net/I_amMukhtar/status/1686303796891103232
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 13:45 (ten months ago) link
he's such a moron, because he did blackface 30 years ago and was shellacked on twitter for it - the greater meaning of this is all white ppl are racist.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 13:58 (ten months ago) link
Can definitely see this cunt benn given some sort of government role if Starmer wins the next election.
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 14:08 (ten months ago) link
I’ve seen a few Centrist Conversations about this and apparently it’s Baddiel’s detractors who are bullies?
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 14:25 (ten months ago) link
kind of incredible that david baddiel has just decided that he wants to be a public intellectual so we all just have to get out of the way and let him do it despite him being one of the uk's dumbest, most self-centred pricks
and in this media environment that's really saying something
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 15:25 (ten months ago) link
in case we missed this seismic baddiel news from earlier in the week:
David Baddiel is to write a book about masculinity entitled The Male Gaze.His extended essay will complete a trilogy of extended books following Jews Don’t Count, which tackled antisemitism, and The God Desire, on atheism and religionHe said the starting point for the title would be that men can both objectify women’s bodies and respect their minds.Revealing his plans in a major interview with The Times, Baddiel said: ‘It’s possible that men can hold two thoughts in their head. So men can, for essentially libidinous purposes, imagine and see women in this way, while not denying their basic humanity.‘Obviously women need to be CEOs and judges and politicians and prime ministers. Is it contradictory to also think, "I am interested in that woman physically"? Because I can’t help that interest. That’s part of being a heterosexual male.‘It doesn’t mean that I see her only as a body. I actually am listening to her as well and think that she should be capable of everything that a man is capable of. The problem is that those two things feel contradictory and, yes, I guess that is what I would like to write about.’
His extended essay will complete a trilogy of extended books following Jews Don’t Count, which tackled antisemitism, and The God Desire, on atheism and religion
He said the starting point for the title would be that men can both objectify women’s bodies and respect their minds.
Revealing his plans in a major interview with The Times, Baddiel said: ‘It’s possible that men can hold two thoughts in their head. So men can, for essentially libidinous purposes, imagine and see women in this way, while not denying their basic humanity.
‘Obviously women need to be CEOs and judges and politicians and prime ministers. Is it contradictory to also think, "I am interested in that woman physically"? Because I can’t help that interest. That’s part of being a heterosexual male.
‘It doesn’t mean that I see her only as a body. I actually am listening to her as well and think that she should be capable of everything that a man is capable of. The problem is that those two things feel contradictory and, yes, I guess that is what I would like to write about.’
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 15:31 (ten months ago) link
worth pointing out too that he wrote a book about atheism and religion in which he cheerfully admits to not reading many foundational works on the topic because he's smart enough to think about all that stuff on his own i guess
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 15:32 (ten months ago) link
‘It’s possible that women can hold two thoughts in their head. So women can, for essentially libidinous purposes, imagine and see men in this way, while not denying their basic humanity.
‘Obviously men need to be CEOs and judges and politicians and prime ministers. Is it contradictory to also think, "I am interested in that man physically"? Because I can’t help that interest. That’s part of being a heterosexual female.
‘It doesn’t mean that I see him only as a body. I actually am listening to him as well and think that he should be capable of everything that a woman is capable of. The problem is that those two things feel contradictory and, yes, I guess that is what I would like to write about.’
If, as a thought experiment, Baddiel had reversed his statement in this way, then maybe he would have realised what he was actually saying and junked the whole concept. I guess that didn't happen, or maybe it did and he thought it was a good idea anyway.
― Scene report: Rochester MN (Matt #2), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 15:45 (ten months ago) link