[lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Sat Apr 10 10:30:59 PDT 2010


At 11:15 PM 4/9/2010, Sean Andrews wrote:
>For fucks sake sometimes I wish I
>had a "shag" button on my computer that would generate the relevant
>level of ostentatious befuddlement and ridicule.

http://cleandraws.com/2010/04/10/shagalize-button/


>Who. was. doing. this???? Everyone who engaged with him did so on a
>fairly specific level of precise statements he insisted on defending,
>pedantically, and arrogantly, despite very specific textual and
>logical arguments contradicting his claims. [SHAAAGGGGGG!@#$%^&*(]
>Further, the claim that he's interested in dialogue and discussion
>rather than programs and proscriptions has in these interchanges been
>fundamentally disproven: this is fine, but he should not act as if his
>project is not a doctrinaire one. It has a doctrine and it seems to
>be only slightly to the left of the reactionary turn at a journal like
>Telos, with the possible exception of their being slightly more room
>to engage in open ended theoretical exploration of a mainstream
>libertarian/neo-new left variety rather than circle jerking over the
>Schmitt cookie and fighting over who gets to eat it.

also, Paul Piccone at least smoke big fat stogies. and yelled a lot. from what I heard.



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