Without The Hint Of Irony
I was in the new Bristol shopping centre with my youngest son who is back from University for the weekend. There was a bit of a commotion going out side Barclays, by Anarchists for more State Intervention (Anarchists ??)
After a lot of pushing and shoving with the Police they decided to target Lloyds Bank next, then Nationwide (this is a mutual not a bank you idiots) then they started running through the shopping centre yelling and shouting for what they were worth, an activity called steaming, this resulted in some other ne’erdowells joining in and shops starting to close their doors in case the guardians of the revolution decided to liberate their goods.
Without a hint of irony, members of the Socialist Workers Party stood by trying to sell their newspapers. The latest in fashionable chic is apparently a Palestinian scarf (denotes level of righteousness) a soviet era military fur hat with cap badge whilst shouting for freedom (remember gulags) and troops out of Afghanistan (Soviet troops being ok in Afghanistan then) topped off with a Serbian army surplus wintercoat (don’t even go there)
As Lenin said ‘useful fools’.
Highlight of the day – Anarchist withdrawing £50 from HSBC cash point, without the hint of irony.
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January 23, 2011 at 06:41 -
I see another insomniac in my midst..
I myself am waiting for Zanu to start demanding our troops out of Afghanistan. After all, had they been the opposition when the wars kicked off I just know they would have been in the vanguard of those demonstrations.
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January 23, 2011 at 10:15 -
Just crawled out of bed after reading the Sundays, AR has the ability to queue posts up for all sorts of times.
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January 23, 2011 at 13:07 -
Bristol must have the highest concentration of smellies in Britain. I lived there for 15 years and it is infested with animal rights activists and alternatives whose lifestyle is a wonderful reflection of the kind of world the BBC wants.
Why this is I don’t know, but with MPs like Dim Prawnarolo and Kerry McCarthy what do you expect?
Bristol is basically a confederation of significant outlaw groups who mostly inhabit any area with “St” as a prefix. The Avon and Somerset Police is as infected as its community. Bristol society will all collapse one day under the weight of its own specious liberality and then Schadenfreude, which is not a German word as many think, but a Bristol one, will be the general feeling of those who have ever been unfortunate enough to live there, but have escaped.
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January 23, 2011 at 13:17 -
I declare myself as an insignificant outlaw group of one, living in Bristol though a Londoner originally. Took me years to learn the language. Hope I don’t count as a smellie… Having few fossilised political beliefs, and very few ism’s which I believe in, I fall back on taking the piss, which can have its uses.
Lived in Germany for a few years too, and they certainly thought they’d invented the word “Schadenfreud”.
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January 23, 2011 at 15:19 -
ive worked in bristol the last three years. i am an anarchist but this lot aren’t. for the record i dont dress up in an elaborate symbolic costume like this lot. there are countless ism’s that frequently get bolted onto the front of anarchism but the actual logic of the matter means this is an irrelevance. i happen to favour rothbard, friedman, hoppe and nozick as making the most persuasive case for how society may organise itself in the absence of a coercive state. such futurology is nigh on impossible but those three have got a much more reasoned argument than these deluded, contradictory socialist workers party types. bunch of fashionable kids riding the bandwagon of ideas they dont understand.
even leftist libertarians and left anarchists praise mutualist organisations such as nationwide.
on a seperate note bristol is full of the wierd which is why i love it. all the woollies living in their vans with chimneys etc. obviously the socialist coercion is pretty sickening. -
January 23, 2011 at 18:43 -
I like anarchists “will”. In fact I am a great admirer of Simone Weil. However, not using capital letters for the personal pronoun or the beginning of sentences is not anarchic, it is emblematic of textspeak and accordingly, laughable.
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January 23, 2011 at 21:06 -
laugh away weasel. I certainly am. maybe capitalise your own name next time you post if it matters that much 2 u
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January 24, 2011 at 00:47 -
If that truly was the highlight of your day, you really should get out more.
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January 24, 2011 at 16:04
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January 24, 2011 at 14:52 -
I have a shemagh scarf too. Certainly not coz it’s chic. Coz it is warm!
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January 24, 2011 at 17:53 -
Surely there’s some sort of govt grant anarchists can apply for – a class of special needs, perhaps.
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