Subtlety never won an election
Over at lib con they’re making spoof billboards based on the ones that have gone up around town. I thought I would offer a less subtle but equally effective alternative:
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Jacob, I’m pleased to see you making use of the mydavidcameron.com templates – if we had a prize it would be yours.
Jacob, you’re a DICK
I know it’ll rather seem like us fuckwit lefties banging our flippers together and making seal noises, but I laughed out loud. Quite right, subtlety rarely wins an election.
effective, subtle, oh do grow up!
Subtlety rarely wins an election = Cunt. You guys are taking the piss: out of yourselves. Keep this rubbish for the pub after lots of beer. If this site wants to go down this route…. It won’t work. Next year in the Top 10 Blogs? Nope, judgement wins hands down, not cheap juvenile shots.
Oh how puerile we have become over the years Cliff. Tut Tut.
You do realise that you are doing more harm to your cause than good. I shall leave you to your own conscience.
What I failed to mention in addition to the above was that my comment was leveled at Clifford for ‘providing’ the ideas and templates but perhaps I should have leveled an even stronger comment in the direction of jacob the author.
I would like to think that this site deals with ~Jacob’s account in an appropriate manner
Oberon I think you’re right, judgement does win over juvenile cheap shots. Calling David Cameron a cunt is not exactly a nuanced deconstruction of his arguments. I think this piece belongs on Facebook, not The Third Estate.
I don’t know, there’s more than enough space for both.
Judgement is obviously about 100 times more important than juvenile cheap shots, but that just means you have 100 times the column inches of analysis, comment and reporting as you do of puerile nonsense. This site is normally pretty spot on, so you might be able to get away with the occasional “cunt.”
Frankly though my heart belongs to Mandlekitteh, and this purrrrleases him.
Haha, it is funny that, for the most part, this post has split readers along left-right lines. I wonder what we’d say if Oberon put up a post with cunt written on Chavez’s head. It is amusing, in a purile way, just not something I would have put up.
As with everything, Salman, context is king. Lefties will find stupid pictures of Cameron, Osborne and so on amusing. Righties will find stupid pictures of Brown, Darling and so on amusing.
If you put up a picture of Chavez, with the same word, alas it is out of context as Chavez isn’t using silly stunts to market himself to the British public, for such an obscene word to cut through like blowtorch through butter.
How you tell the difference between the serious politicos and the hacks is easy; it’s the hacks, of either side, who waste their time denouncing the pictures produced by the other side when said pictures aren’t sexist, racist or bigotted.
I see your point Dave, but Chavez was just an example of a political figure I personally would choose to defend. If a Conservative called Brown or Darling a cunt, I’d probably agree with them, though for different reasons.
The more I see it the more I laugh.
This new tag also makes me laugh. I’m sure the whole writing staff of the third estate will be thrilled at flattering new way they can label their work.
Hahaha, yes, I might add it to all my posts from now on. Actually, since you noticed it, I think you deserve to have it tagged to your post too
Bravo, say I.
I thought I’d come here to answer some of the criticism this post has had. Firstly let’s be clear about this, if I were to write some exegesis on why, as a Marxist, I disapprove of Tory policies it would be a) really fucking obvious, b) really fucking boring, and c) would not be the sort of thing that any tories are gonna respond to. In fact I’d quite happily go as far as saying that my offering here will do about as much to swing tory voters as any of the other spoof billboards around the internet. The only difference is that mine comes with rather less smug self-satisfaction. If tories here really believe that they have a problem with this because it doesn’t offer enough of a thoroughgoing critique of their politics, then I would urge them to reconsider.
In many ways, writing anything as a Marxist is fairly obvious. It’s a very predictable position. I can’t remember the last time I was surprised by a left wing writer. Impressed, yes, but surprised, no.
I don’t know which Marxists you’ve been reading, Salman, but I certainly haven’t found any “predictable” Marxist writing. Given that dialectical thought, immanent critique, and radical materialism are inherently anti-dogmatic, I’m not entirely sure where you’re coming from.
I’m not talking theory here Jacob, and I certainly wouldn’t be able to out-Adorno you. I’m speaking in terms of the topic you raised, socialist commentary on modern British politics and current affairs. I think, with perhaps the exception of Reuben, one can probably guess what position most bloggers will take on a given issue. What’s interesting is less what’s said, but how it’s said.
Then that’s the writers, rather than the writers-writing-as-Marxists Salman. But duly noted :p
It’s not a criticism Dave, and I’m including myself in the predictabile positions category too. Pick any topic, Tory reforms, climate change, the Iraq war, New Labour, and you can probably guess what I, as a lefty, would say about it. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth saying. My point is (and I think I’m over analysing this to death now) Jacob argued that there’s no point writing about why he disapproves of Tory policy because it would be really obvious – that’s true, it would be. But it wouldn’t necessarily be boring, and it’s still worth discussing.