#1322

Nah, I just thought it was the strangest film for everyone on both sides to get so worked up over - the epitome of a 5/10 film IMHO.

#1323

i thought it was just canny marketing tbh, i remember buzzfeed and the atlantic and that running articles about the “backlash” and signposting people to ghostbusters merch sites so they could “support the film and what it stands for”

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#1324

Thought this was an interesting piece

Then realised they’d be absolutely frothing about gentrification if it were a town in the UK doing the same thing.

#1325

Ooooooooh!
I am for ree-ee-al

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#1326

missed a trick there, they should have gone with a headline of
Everything’s coming up Mulhouse

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#1327

This might be the worst thing I’ve ever read.

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june. the politics are still happening. have a nibble.
#1328

from the comments:

Masterful work, Mr. Crace. The way you manage to turn these darkening days into such a source for genuinely profound humour never ceases to amaze me.

But likewise, i think it’s one of the worst things i have read.

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#1329

I don’t normally feed this thread voluntarily, but…

This is an absolute classic of the genre. Stupid idea punted by an editor at a bored freelance, who then doesn’t even do it, and can’t really be bothered to think up much to write about it. And there’s your article.

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#1330

On the one hand Crace is a reformed druggie with mental health issues who should be supported. On the other hand he’s really crap at writing political satire.

[See I can write like Gabby Hinsliff too!]

#1331

I used to think Crace was the very height of satirical genius when I was about 16. Strange, but also revealing, to think he’s been doing the exact same schtick for around half my lifespan.

#1332

You see in my head he only took over from Simon Hoggart about a year ago.

#1335

The whole editorial could’ve been written to satirise liberal both-siding. Here is what authoritiarianism leads to, this is what allowing space for hatemongers leads to, here are the very real stakes if we don’t fight against it. Oh also a transperson was really mean to one of our virulently anti-trans journalists, so there’s equal amounts of blame on both sides really.

#1336

small consolation but a few of the more left wing guardian journos are pretty pissed about this too

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#1337

What makes Beto run? This morning it’s Pride and fighting prejudice

An article that could almost incite you to get American citizenship to vote for any of his rivals…

#1338

been reading this hungarian novel, and one of the other things by him is a ludicrous 1200 pages long and took him 18 years to write. decided to read the guardian review, and it was this weird anti-intellectual rant that barely considered the book at all, included lines like ‘The magnificos in Hungary have really lost the public’, and talked briefly about ‘jewish writers’ and so on.

I thought this seemed a little bit weird, and sure enough one of the commenters pointed out that the writer (Tibor Fischer) was an Orban supporter (defending him against anti-semitism, authoritarianism etc) and references to the people and intellectuals and so on, are not exactly innocent

anyway, not really sure what my point is, just a little odd to see the guardian publishing book reviews that are effectively disguised pieces of cryptofascist propaganda

[should point out that the review is from 2011, the piece where Fischer defends Orban 2017]

#1339

Good content.

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#1340

I read under the frog by tibor fischer years ago and really liked it. this isn’t good :frowning_face:

#1341

He’s just another loudmouth contrarian bore I think (short interview with a Hungarian journalist from the time here where it becomes quite clear he hasn’t much of a clue what he’s talking about)

#1342

This feels like a joke piece. Surely if you cut your foot open on glass getting dog shit in the wound is a cause for alarm?

(I know, I know, but that’s how it read to me at first.)

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#1343

https://mobile.twitter.com/HywelRoberts2/status/1140699195558547456

(not going to link to the actual article - it’s a piece of trash)

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