
We voted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as B3ta's Person of the Year. Who do you have as 2010's scoundrel and why?
( , Thu 23 Dec 2010, 12:34)
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For being an irritating, socialist, pro revolutionary political activist who seems to wish the world was run by the sort of institutions that in the past would have seen the likes of him locked up, tortured and shot.
I also don't like his complete lack of reason. For example that blog entry of his, calling for wheelchair access on the whole London Underground.
And finally, the worst till last, his fucking awful poetry.
I know he's partially disabled, but anti-discrimination laws and equal opportunities means it is perfectly alright for me to have a somewhat irrational dislike for him, just because I think he's a cunt and so many people think he's some sort of hero just for provoking a couple of coppers.
( , Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:37, 12 replies)

just so we could send these people there to experience a proper socialist paradise.
( , Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:41, closed)

making a disabled person go on Dance Dance Revolution...
( , Thu 23 Dec 2010, 17:03, closed)

he should be expected to take part.
( , Thu 23 Dec 2010, 17:07, closed)

#you won't fool the thalidomide children of the revoloution#
not very dancey though
( , Thu 23 Dec 2010, 17:10, closed)

so he's not a thalidomide kid.
he's just, as the nice man above said, a spazzy cunt.
( , Thu 23 Dec 2010, 17:03, closed)

I'm a fucking idiot.
( , Thu 23 Dec 2010, 20:46, closed)

The coppers just couldn't help themselves
( , Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:44, closed)

Like George Orwell too? Who, whilst carefully skirting the "I named names of writers possibly sympathetic to the Soviet Union" issue - seeing it's slightly ironic - was anti Stalinist and yet distinctly socialist.
Although I'll admit I've only seen his television appearance and not read his blog (if you would kindly enlighten me), nor his poetry (god preserve me) from what I've seen that yes I'd be willing to say the lad's rhetoric even there is idealistic and possibly rather naive, yet nevertheless I don't believe he's standing up for a dictatorship - of the proletariat or of any other kind.
Suggesting he's a villain is just frankly bollocks, further if he wants to get on the fucking underground like any other person I should think it might be nice to allow it.
( , Thu 23 Dec 2010, 20:04, closed)

jodymcintyre.wordpress.com/
Villain or no, I don't like opinionated nits who are not nearly as clever as they think themselves.
As for him using the underground, all he needs to do is get out of his chair and use it like any other person. If he can climb the stairs to the roof of the Millbank then he can stand on an escalator. So ranting about the lack of disabled access is him making noise for the sake of it.
( , Thu 23 Dec 2010, 21:24, closed)

Personally I was surprised when I went to London and saw very few Disabled access stations. But then I'm a loiner with no public transportation other than buses anyway.
But thanks for the link. I'll agree he's probably a bit up himself but other than that fairly harmless - like any other "revolutionary" student, really. I wouldn't have named him a villain just a very idealistic lad.
( , Thu 23 Dec 2010, 22:14, closed)
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