the alt-right

Love how Mordy looked into worker run enterprises and inferred a whole little dystopia out of it. Are you writing this shit up as a novel Mordy where can I buy it?

Wtf are you talking about I said I didn’t think it could be a model for running an entire country where in your fevered idiot brain did that become a dystopia?

Guess I shouldn’t expect more from a tankie.

Tom D, it wasn’t a judgement. I’m sure I would be, or at least if I was native. I do think there’s something cultural to the general dislike of people who think they’re funny, that we aren’t brought up with over here.

I’m not sure who counts as a comedian these days. There are plenty of people who are generally famous for and make living by joking and clowning but don’t do stand up or act much.

I do think there’s something cultural to the general dislike of people who think they’re funny, that we aren’t brought up with over here.

Maybe you have funnier comedians.

i think they do

Maria Bamford and Gregg Turkington alone push them over the UK

None of the "big laughers" who risk serious hilarity induced self-harm by attending the Edinburgh Festival on ILX?

Comedians of a certain age (as most cultural journos) of a certain age have the usual garbage politics

Yeah practically none of them think Stalin was a pretty cool bro.

Calm down Mordy, lock yourself up in your room. Stay safe.

I don't think this is a comedian thing, really, Brit ILX opinions on British actors, directors, "cultural commentators" equally hostile. Not saying they're wrong mind.

Joanna Hogg is s good Brit director. ILX generally likes her.

I think it's the excess of ghastly comedy panel shows which really puts ILXors off British comedians, especially when they seem happy to share a laugh and a joke w/ despicable pols like Boris Johnson or Ruth Davidson - I'm right in thinking that these shows don't really exist in America?

Loads of good ILX-approved Brit directors

(xp) OTM, and these shitty, cheap to produce, panel shows need more and more of these talentless cunts to keep going.

darragh can turn a phrase

― treeship 2, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:40 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If I'd only Russell's (any Russell's) looks

tbh I have it when good ilxors fight about stuff as meaningless as leftist politics

http://www.motivatorcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/bertrand-russell.jpg

ws russell morelike

Jack Russell you mean.

Rosalind Russell

As alluded to above, multiple pics here:

I can't even handle this, Jordan Peterson got upset by Zizek's recent article about him so he's trying to pick a fight with a Zizek quotes account pic.twitter.com/ul8e45d3fi

— Shuja Haider (@shujaxhaider) February 14, 2018

that is amazing

is it gauche to say that i know haider IRL? i have always though of him as a smart guy and good musician and he hooked me up with some crossword books one time; i find it totally delightful that he's becoming this big of an internet voice.

*so* gauche, strewth

He got targeted for some twitter bullshit a couple days ago, too

How does someone not know to look for the checkmark

his response to the incident was linked here a couple days ago

How does someone not know to look for the checkmark

― treeship 2, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 23:28 (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How do u fail to work in a 'check' pun there treezy

How

https://t.co/Getu7acjd5 pic.twitter.com/Szgju4Bknq

— Jordan Peterson or Islamist Cleric? (@JBPorCleric) February 15, 2018

pic.twitter.com/41Y8nWLhqY

— Jordan Peterson or Islamist Cleric? (@JBPorCleric) February 15, 2018

Peterson is a mirror image of a conservative Islamic clerics—selling a vision of tradition and order to disaffected young men who’ve become disillusioned with liberalism. And as in that case, it really only becomes a serious problem if going down this road leads ones to more dangerous reactionaries—groups who see themselves not as critics, but as enemies of modern society. (Sub in “multicultural” for “western.”)

Were they ever illusioned with it

Probably as kids they liked their marilyn manson cassettes and JNCO jeans and tamagatchis and all the other treasures of our permissive society but then as adults they feel lost and so they decide to blame it on the Jezebel articles they used to read every so often in 2007. Tale as old as time.

Basically, fundamentalism doesn’t happen without men.

can't spell fundamentalism without men iirc

or, tbf, fun

or mental

boy i could do this all day

or mentalism

d'oh, snap

fundament

or dame. we're all implicated

or amen

back in your box, Peterson

Kind of miss the days when the idiot's smart person was Stephen Fry

yeah feel bad for being mean about him now

Why do you guys hate Stephen Fry

anti-semitism iirc

I have nothing against stephen fry that I can recall

Wait, isn't he Jewish?

Who could we trust to interview Jordan Peterson in this damned country? Paul Mason? No.

― imago

ahhh! the french... champagne

Xp I think bg was joking that ppl don't like him because they are antisemitic

I think ppl dislike fry for smugness, overexposure & not being funny (this last arguably unfair as it hasn't been his job to be funny for decades), also he has said dumb shit things about women iirc