the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

what is the appropriate thing to do w these ppl?

the gulag, obv

I do wonder about the extent to which the photos used are not of the person actually tweeting, believable though they often are.

xpost yes it does, seeing a smiling bottle blonde saying refugees deserve to drown makes it more specific and interesting and funnier, of course. I do think it's funny and depressing.

SEND THEM
ALL HOME,
EXCEPT
MO FARAH

alls I see is white people, I don't make any correlation between facial features and how abysmal their opinions are!

calzino suffers from gammon-blindness iirc

you might be right!

please donate to my gofundme in support of much-needed gammon-blindness research

The PROPOGANDA one and the guy with the ice cream cone are pretty good imo.

Of course if that was a bunch of trump supporter selfies under moronically composed build-the-wall lyin’-comey tweets I reckon I’d have flung my phone across the room by the third one.

Those are far from Windass quality

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYUpoAHWkAAnSI7.jpg

Hah! Dean gets a blue tick for spelling his name correctly.

every element of that is fucking perfect, just a glittering gem dredged from the social media mines

I'll tell you whom we have not clowned hard enough yet. Young Master Woodger

https://m.soundcloud.com/maxwell-woodger/king-louis-rejection

I think it's too understated to be passive aggressive or snobbish, however easy it is to imagine it tipping over into that, but I wld oppose those who see passive aggressive and snobbish behaviour as aberrant bad behaviour

I also am strongly in favour of seeing ppls faces next to their idiotic sentiments, it takes all the sting out of it

I'll tell you whom we have not clowned hard enough yet. Young Master Woodger

it's true, ilx has been slack about clowning privately-educated young men with connections to the name 'louis' who have shared embarrassing pictures of themselves attempting to play music

better that than having shared embarrassing attempts to be funny upwards of two hundred times a day

you'll forgive me if i decline to take posting tips from the ilxor who willingly provided all the raw material required for that one

actually you know what lj, i'm genuinely sorry for my last couple of posts

you've always rubbed me up the wrong way on ilx but that's my issue, not yours, so i'll keep my snarky posts to myself in the future

Today was a Good Friday.

The 13th.

actually you know what lj, i'm genuinely sorry for my last couple of posts

bizarro gazzara this is disappointing

On Syria I see the Welsh Labour leader and Nia Griffith are looking to be sacked.

i woke up this morning and it dawned on me that this might be the first time since 1945 when the leaders of the US and the UK are both inept, stupid an desperate enough to bring down the apocalypse

Actually I don't think the Welsh Labour leader can be sacked but one can dream.

xp
tbf even a hawkish dunderhead like Truman seems strong and stable by current standards!

In a lot of ways, precisely because of its veneer of respectability, the Times is the most corrosive, contemptible rag in all our shit press https://t.co/KlyhgE8JWs

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) April 14, 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dau7eqMXcAIgiYt.jpg

yes The Times is much worse than it used to be.

Apologies for journalists working at News International

it is often said they have a lot of editorial freedom from N.I. interference, as such an august (cough,splutter) and respected publication.

I'm sure there are apologists for Assad working in UK universities (whether it's these particular academics I don't know). There are working academics with a whole range of repellant views. But this has to be read alongside a string of Times front pages on a range of issues (trans rights, safe spaces, no platforming etc) whose main aim is to discredit and undermine any kind of leftist influence in British higher education. The kinds of conspiracy theories it talks about are reprehensible but concern for the people of Syria doesn't seem to be high on their agenda.

https://leilashami.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/the-anti-imperialism-of-idiots/

This, from an (I believe) anti-authoritarian British-Syrian leftist human rights activist who has spent a lot of time on the ground collecting first hand testimonies from Syrians is worth reading as an alternative. I don't agree with all of it - there's an erasure of left-wing voices who have consistently attacked Assad, I know people who are to the left of, say, Corbyn who are disgusted with his position on Syria. It strikes me as pretty spurious at best to state that the left was silent wrt previous attacks on Syria. And there's a sprinkling of horseshoe theory in there as well. But I can't find much to fault about the last three paragraphs.

As with antisemitism, or Putin apologism, this tendency does exist on the left no matter how much we might want it not to and it needs to be called out. Certainly anyone waving a Russian flag around at a Stop The War protest needs to fuck off.

(Corbyn isn't mentioned in this fwiw)

i agree with that. the most obvious dishonesty of the Times piece is the way it wants to elide the difference between genuinely shitty kneejerk "anti-imperialism of idiots" with any dissenting or nuanced voice that refuses to subscribe to our government's message on goodies vs baddies - i.e. what academics should be doing

re:putin/assad apologism on the UK left, this conversation is worth reading

I think it's marginal and exaggerated by people who are much worse, but it does exist. Post-senility John Pilger. Bits of STWC, cf this piece https://t.co/8YRNaU3Zz0

— Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) April 15, 2018

but of course questioning the Western narrative on what's happening in Syria is certainly not the same as being an Assad apologist, a difference that the Times etc aren't interested in noting

there's an underlying story here which is of interest to the Left which is how difficult it is to engage in organized protest or action if you don't want to share breathing space with the SWP and their gormless fellow travellers

that's a booming piece by Leila Al Shami and i thought about sharing it for the edification of some of my lefty friends on Facebook and tbh i can't face the "but but but but"s that it'll probably attract

Dacre/Murdoch gutter press are always bitching about bigoted arseholes getting no-platformed on university campuses, and now they want to be able to intimidate/thought-police academia when it suits them.

I've never met a pro-Putin person irl, but do find the idea of them quite amusing!

lol! I've got someone on my twitter who is retweeting Galloway tweeting some bollox from RT, with the caption "This is the biggest story in decades"!!

and there you go. i could fucking weep.

Worth remembering that, despite the near certainty that he has been buying followers and the fact that he is a bot magnet, Galloway still has about 90k fewer followers than Andi Peters.

"I not longer have an answer" is such a heartbreaking thing to say and cuts to a truth of this situation.

People really love Andi Peters fwiw.

The problem for the more thoughtful left has always been who end up lining up alongside and there should be no solidarity with those people, the SWP being a case in point.

It's also a perfectly justifiable standpoint to believe that Syria just can't be left to continue massacring its own people while acknowledging that Trump and May are the absolute worst people to deal with that problem and can't be trusted to do so.

Sorry that should read 'the Syrian regime'.

This is someone I've been following for a long time just to get an understanding. Such a minefield. He was named in that Times story and had a tweet misattributed to him.

Here is the proof, they are someone else's words, not mine and @thetimes cannot even get that right. pic.twitter.com/LnDz2NVJAE

— Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) April 14, 2018

'deported in error' ffs the absolute state of these craven shits

Immigration minister @carolinenokes apologises to #Windrush generation wrongly questioned over their right to stay in UK but tells me some have been deported in error. Watch full interview at 7 on @Channel4News

— Cathy Newman (@cathynewman) April 16, 2018

Enough is enough.

I realise comparisons on the basis of 'if this had happened with Corbyn...' probably aren't helpful (tho often also extremely hard to resist) but wow

Number 10 says Theresa May was “not aware” of request from Caribbean leaders leaders to meet to discuss concerns about Windrush generation before *this morning*

— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) April 16, 2018

this type of evil personifies May, and the whole mix of vindictiveness and incompetence she has brought to being Home Sec and PM.

making people Citizens of Nowhere is her game.