On every tedious rote left-wing blog ever

aka "The Enemies of Reason" tribute thread

1. Reference to the fact that the Daily Mail published a pro-Hitler editorial in the 30s

2. Seventh rate Charlie Brooker pastiches

3. Some swearwords combined to form exciting new swearwords: cockmongler, twatspanner, felchsyrup

4. Thinly disguised loathing of the industrial working classes

Thread already full of piercing insight the likes of which ILE has not seen in at least three days. Well done.

5. Butthurt Champagne Socialists

6. Why Israel is exactly the same as Nazi Germany

7. Popular TV show/singer/brand of dogfood is brainwashing the proletariat into quiescence.

8. Lighthearted look at why people who live on council estates should be chemically castrated

9. challops

10. Cabinet member slightly to the left of Jack Cunningham is somehow the new Trotsky

11. Is it time to reassess Social Justice in the light of some cunt nicking my bike yesterday?

12. WS Labour backbenchers 09

13. The Tabloids should be giving front-page coverage to the ongoing marshmallow shortage in Tajikistan imo

14. New Jim Carrey movie castigated for being mindless entertainment.

15. Writer on Jay-Z at Glastonbury uses the "the white boys with guitars lost the Britpop wars, thankfully" argument, goes on to mention that "real heads were listening to The Auteurs and the Tindersticks at the time anyway"

Most of these go for right wing blogs as well. Is that your point?

16. Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Lib Dems

17. Almost charmingly naive belief that Chris Morris will ever be funny again

18. Unfathomable "YAY TEAM" inability to distinguish between alleged Leftists spouting reactionary bollocks and ordinary reactionary bollocks

19. Gushing praise for Labour initiative marginally less evil than Tory counter-initiative

20. Useful idiots

21. http://zombietime.com/gaza_war_protest/IMG_8547.JPG

I'm not sure I trust your definition of "tedious" and "rote".

You haven't mentioned Dawkins yet, Dom - you're slipping.

I'm gonna step out of character here for a minute and ask why the fucking morons on "our side" aren't a billion times more damaging and annoying than the obvious morons on "their side"?

I think that when it comes down to political blogs, why even give a shit? 99.99% of this shit is just some green ink type nutbags shouting into the void anyway. Why give them the pleasure of knowing that someone's taking notice of them?

....or anyone's taking any notice of them, or whatever.

There's a gut-knifing existential horror in realising that the only people who will ever agree with you about 1% of how to improve human society are basically reactionary fuckers about the other 99% of what's wrong with the world is why, Pash.

I'm gonna step out of character here for a minute and ask why the fucking morons on "our side" aren't a billion times more damaging and annoying than the obvious morons on "their side"?

I agree, I just find it very difficult to do anything other than roll my eyes at the same people making exactly the same points about the same shit in the same way for the 8 millionth time.

(I do see the irony here)

Friday is Ironing Day, Matt.

A record day for suggest bans

Keep going son, you'll get there soon.

3. Some swearwords combined to form exciting new swearwords: cockmongler, twatspanner, felchsyrup

― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, January 16, 2009 7:55 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

5. Butthurt Champagne Socialists

― "Two Ears" Laybelle (Noodle Vague), Friday, January 16, 2009 8:33 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I just find it very difficult to do anything other than roll my eyes at the same people making exactly the same points about the same shit in the same way for the 8 millionth time.

This is how it works with me as well, I dunno if it was the rolling heap of shit landing on me over the last 18mo, or just getting tired of giiving a fuck about morons in yer "media" after all these years of getting steamed up abt shit like that, but I just don't care anymore, it's like UK media hotbed of nepotism/daily mail rwritten by nazi mentalists/HYS populated by nut jobs/political blogger is wanker, oh really? (rollseyes.gif)

Of course, now I think this, I think everyone shd thing like this, naturally (rollseyes.gif x 2)

EVERYONE SHD THING LIKE THIS

But sometimes we get drunk and righteous indignationy and despairy and all the other pointless empty gestures

"sometimes"

If the alternative is sober and dead-eyed and utilitarian and protecting the status quo I'm gonna keep opting out.

yeah you keep OPTING OUT! stick it to the system!

oh, i wouldn't say that utilitarian is the status quo. there's a ways to go yet.

or, aleternatively, the idea that all four qualifications must go together is a little childish, as lex has just pointed out i think.

Sorry lex, I didn't mean I was gonna opt out in a Camden Market sense. Just in the sense of not pal-ing up to fuckers who think this is as good as it ought to get, except with a bit less indie in the Top 20.

Lol we always ape the thing we loathe

I dunno, man, I just make a point of treating the people I encounter IRL decently, I mean WTF else can I do? On a related note, I look at some guy who reads the Mail, then, after getting steamed up because Melanie Phillips writes a load of shit, writes a blog post to complain about it (yes, Dom, I am referring to THAT guy). I cannot understand the mentality, I mean WTF good is that going to do? It's on a level with starting a facebook group about it.

Well now we're dealing with how the death of a centralised tree media has trickled down into blogs.

Ie, when the "news" everywhere is exactly the same, the only way to make your voice heard is to rage impotently against columnists.

Yeah Norm you right, more or less. I just can't/ let/ shi/t go/ some/ days/

Yeah I hear you, NV.

22. Hard-hitting anecdotes about one's own abusive private-school education

lol if I ever had a tedious left-wing blog it would probably feature some of those

23. Something I haven't bothered to read, it doesn't actually matter what, because the influence and importance of a "left-wing blogger" is slightly less than that of a slug.

and remember, Hillary Clinton is morally superior to all bloggers because she is IMPORTANT

gonna just add stuff from 'What Do U Call It' now

24. Girls on the low

i mean 'Pies' yeh

25. Bad attitude

26. link to whatever new jizzpiss George Monbiot has shatwanked in the Guardian.

3. Some swearwords combined to form exciting new swearwords: cockmongler, twatspanner, felchsyrup

26. link to whatever new jizzpiss George Monbiot has shatwanked in the Guardian.

that may have been intentional.

Sorry Jim, I'm a spunkclit for pointing it out.

The word "twunt": C/D?

Will ask 'er indoors.

my left wing blog never featured any of these bcz i am usa american so eat it

27.Debate on whether national health care scheme is Communism.

EZ 2DANCE2

The differences between British and American political culture are interesting.

28: "IMPERIALISM (-T)"

^^^^Magic word. Anything of which one disapproves can be tagged with it.

29. a morbs faction and a gabbneb faction constantly at each others' throats.

30. BLiar