Blame the pandemic. Or Ralph Hasenhüttl.
― Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 13:20 (two years ago) link
Hahaha oh my fucking god pic.twitter.com/NBrzls4I8O— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) April 3, 2022
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
in an increasingly troubled, confusing, violent world maybe it takes a man like Matt Le Tissier to really make sense of it all
― a spectre is haunting your mom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 18:24 (two years ago) link
One nation under a mood.
Fairly graceless from Ed Sheeran to win his case and still moan like he's lost... Just a nation of whiners these days.— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) April 6, 2022
― nashwan, Friday, 8 April 2022 12:03 (two years ago) link
News!! I’m going to be a panellist on The News Desk with Tom Newton Dunn on Talk TV - News UK’s new TV channel.I’ll be on every Thursday from next week with Adam Boulton and Bim Afolami - with whom I am sure I will have some spirited debates…You can watch online or on TV.— Grace Blakeley (@graceblakeley) April 13, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 10:08 (two years ago) link
can we get a mod to take out the unnecessary "Right-Wing" qualifier in the title?
― a spectre is haunting your mom (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 April 2022 08:43 (two years ago) link
The Matt Le Tissier interview in The Times is, on the whole, maddening. But the way he describes himself as a non-conformist by *checks notes* talking about the fact he drinks Malibu and coke instead of lager is genuinely hilarious. pic.twitter.com/uIj4fybPHE— Felix Keith (@felixkeith) April 29, 2022
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 29 April 2022 19:09 (two years ago) link
Wow pic.twitter.com/c9JA228uhA— Simon A (@sdlezark) May 4, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
so many fucking piers and andrew marr shit on buses in London right now, feel like I'm in a Warren Ellis comic
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
Andrew Marr, now UNSILENCED after all those years of being a silenced senior political correspondent and talkshow host
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 13:25 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FR6-jVsXEAEp8Z-?format=jpg&name=900x900
lol, Grace Blakeley's "strategic decision" to get on the Murdoch payroll to get a left-wing perspective out there is going very well.
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
I will have a quick scan of this piece later but Aaron made a judgement to welcome him etc.
That map of the ‘pro Putin infosphere’ including Zara Sultana, Diane Abbott, Jess Barnard, Jeremy Corbyn, Tribune and Novara Media, created by @paulmasonnews, is allegedly real. A wealth of emails/documents are included in this extraordinary piece. https://t.co/HPFvYYr9M9— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) June 8, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 08:14 (one year ago) link
oh I didn't realise the recipient of the Mason emails was a shady MI6 adjacent character. And I never realised Novara Media and Tribune were part of the pro-Putin Gallowayite-Williamsonite Terrorist Centre!
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 08:44 (one year ago) link
"this is allegedly real" is a hard sentence to translate lol
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 09:21 (one year ago) link
God this is just awful.
Final word on this for now. I know this might seem funny for some, but this is deeply scary behaviour that should never be allowed near politics. How on earth can working class people be political if journos are permitted to libel us and set intelligence agencies on us?— Jess Barnard (@JessicaLBarnard) June 8, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 09:43 (one year ago) link
anyone whoever participated with any "stoya come to athens" bantz or lampooned his "kieth advance the class struggle" post is now part of the “pro-Putin Info Sphere”
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 11:19 (one year ago) link
Paul Mason is unwell.
― hello duckness my old friend (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 11:24 (one year ago) link
Right, you're on the list.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 11:28 (one year ago) link
just to cool everyone's jets a teeny wee bit, the grayzone piece is co-authored by max blumenthal, who's been an oz katerji-level prick for years (and a vax sceptic)
(also son of clinton-adviser sidney blumenthal, who some will remember from the monica lewinsky hoohah lol)
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 11:49 (one year ago) link
My point stands
― hello duckness my old friend (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 11:51 (one year ago) link
I don't think it really matters what krank sites are commenting on the Mason emails and what they are making of it, the important thing here is that it now seems from his own response that they are very likely a 100% legit.
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 11:59 (one year ago) link
It’s disturbing and I trust the police will investigate thoroughly. https://t.co/xCPDXE74eh— Oliver Kamm (@OliverKamm) June 8, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 12:12 (one year ago) link
kickstarter to huis clos all these fvcks in a room far from the rest of us
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 12:18 (one year ago) link
Give the guy a break, constructing byzantine conspiracy theories about your comrades and sending them to secret service ghouls is clearly just a tribute to Orwell
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link
agent Mason aka the Hammer of the Trots
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 12:53 (one year ago) link
at least we now know that havana syndrome exists, no other scientific way to explain his brainstate imo
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
well he did say in his recent campaign declaration to run as a Labour MP that he's from a family of weavers
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
look at me, proud ancestry.com weaver Masons - look at my dynamic mindmap!
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:10 (one year ago) link
unimaginative prompt but results aren't badhttps://i.postimg.cc/bY5Z7s90/Screenshot-20220608-151658-Chrome.jpg
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
Mason has rather gone off the deep end in recent times, suggesting that even @OwenJones84 and @michaeljswalker were pushing Putin talking points on Ukraine, Israel and NATO.pic.twitter.com/7FhwLfBcK5— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) June 8, 2022
― calzino, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
He's found a new stick to beat his enemies with, he's going to get some use out of it.
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FU4BBiaWQAAyWph?format=png&name=smallhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUxyRXjWIAIPkfi?format=jpg&name=large
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
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Author%20photos/Allister%20Heath%20Aug%202021-small.png?imwidth=100https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Author%20photos/Allister%20Heath%20Aug%202021-small.png?imwidth=100https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Author%20photos/Allister%20Heath%20Aug%202021-small.png?imwidth=100https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Author%20photos/Allister%20Heath%20Aug%202021-small.png?imwidth=100https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Author%20photos/Allister%20Heath%20Aug%202021-small.png?imwidth=100https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Author%20photos/Allister%20Heath%20Aug%202021-small.png?imwidth=100https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Author%20photos/Allister%20Heath%20Aug%202021-small.png?imwidth=100
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