version

Well-known member
It's a combination of watching the film and being disturbed by the story of the nuns then reading about the Salvadoran Civil War, seeing the term "Kirkpatrick Doctrine/Mission", suddenly realising where the name came from and wondering why you named the blog after her.
 

version

Well-known member
I did actually ask you right off the bat if that's where the name came from and you just said yes and linked to the Iron Lady piece (which I read) with no further comment.
 

craner

Beast of Burden
I named it after a book about her UN mission because I thought she was a fascinating and symbolic character who reached apotheosis in that role: a non-Jewish neoconservative with a personal and political trajectory from socialism to representing the Reagan administration on the world stage. This echoed a lot of the themes and complexities present in the right wing of the Labour party at the time and that I knew I would be writing about on the blog.

It was a mistake, though, and I’ve regretted using the name for years. It wasn’t supposed to be a gleeful endorsement of the Reagan doctrine in South America but obviously I should have known that would be the only way it would be interpreted. An old Dissensus poster called Crackerjack told me that would happen as soon as he saw it, but I ignored him. I mean, I didn’t really think it mattered anyway because nobody ever read it, but now here you are telling everybody I want to kills nuns. I’ve been thinking of taking it off the internet for a while now as I don’t really rate most of the stuff on there anyway, but this has definitely made me think it is time.
 

version

Well-known member
She is an interesting character, from what little I've read. And I wasn't telling everybody you want to kill nuns. I was just a bit taken aback.
 

luka

Well-known member
You've got him on the ropes here version. Keep piling on the pressure and he'll crumble. There's no excuse for killing nuns.
 

luka

Well-known member
I think with that fucking stupid cunt version who I hate though it’s more of a case of Pynchonitis: a manic desire to collect and store as much information and data as possible for deployment when needed, a broad but shallow ultra-erudition.
Notice the switch the personal abuse, a sure sign you've got him on the ropes. Don't give up now!
 

version

Well-known member
Read the whole blog last night in case he followed through on taking it down. World War Four, the one on Rice's speech and the 2012 round up were my favourites; Carnival of Death was good too, but made my head spin.
 

luka

Well-known member
That's not true. The funniness of it is determined by how grumpy the target is. And Oliver was very grumpy last night.
 
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