Jack Monroe #294 It's like 10,000 tweets when all you need is a life.

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She'll be looking for anecdotes to steal, particularly from the more personal/memoir type books. The Marx and theoretical stuff is just for show.
Good point. She is a proper plagerist. It reminds me of someone I went to uni with who would use Amazon's 'Look inside' function in order to lift quotes from relevant books and cite them in the reference list.
 
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I was poor growing up. We are a very basic diet, cheap. But you know, it was tasty food and sometimes I miss it. Cheap food isn’t slop. This is how I know she has never been truly bones of her arse, no way out of it, poor.
 
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Exactly. I actually thought Poverty Safari was really good but its target audience is very obviously not 'people who are already poor'. Maybe she'd know that if she'd read it
The writer of Poverty Safari refers several times during it to the pressure he feels to share details of his past, particularly the problems with his mother, in interviews etc and how he feels about it. I'm now fully braced for Jack to steal this and claim it's the media making her bang on endlessly about being poor for a brief period of time ten years ago.
 
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Introduction to Marxism?! Is she gearing up to burn down the pillars of the house or what?
I was on a bus (!!) the other week and there were a couple of teenage goths talking about Marxism and it was like they were the first to personally discover it and they had all the answers. Bit like Jack!
 
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Literally nothing would make her happy.

Own TV show? “Waaah I have to work 100 hour weeks to film 10 minutes of myself rinsing beans and chopping an onion. So very tired” *Fails to show up for work*
Buys own home? “My mortgage is crippling and there’s SO much to be done around the house. Maintenance costs. Pls donate.”
Someone raises the funds and gives her that giant fuck off house with the orangery? “Rattling windowssss. Can’t afford to decorate. Mah arthritis. Need help with energy bills but I couldn’t possibly ask my followers. 🥹
 
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I was on a bus (!!) the other week and there were a couple of teenage goths talking about Marxism and it was like they were the first to personally discover it and they had all the answers. Bit like Jack!
A bus? (Skims Marx Wikipedia page) Were you appropriating the drivers surplus labour for purposes of exploitation, comrade?! (Sticks tongue out)

am I lefting right?
 
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Thanks. Been lurking for about a month, absolutely addictive in the weirdest way but also strangely anger inducing. She's so obnoxious, how can people fall for her crap for longer than 5 mins? Anyway, had to join, you're all completely hilarious, in the best way possible of course
 
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I was poor growing up. We are a very basic diet, cheap. But you know, it was tasty food and sometimes I miss it. Cheap food isn’t slop. This is how I know she has never been truly bones of her arse, no way out of it, poor.
Same here... my parents never had much money but there was always a lovely evening meal. The meat would usually be a cheap cut of meat like breast of lamb, belly of pork etc but always served with veg and potatoes. Neither of my parents had a car either so we had to walk to get the weekly shop. This was way back in the '60's and we never really considered ourselves as 'poors'.
 
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I was on a bus (!!) the other week and there were a couple of teenage goths talking about Marxism and it was like they were the first to personally discover it and they had all the answers. Bit like Jack!
I made my housemate at uni cry once because I pointed out that socialism is almost impossible to achieve in reality due to the way structures are set up, the fact greedy people exist etc etc. I'm also a big ol' lefty but I'm quite practical about it.

I wasn't mean about it to be clear, I just pointed out some key challenges with her argument
 
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Also a midwife earning a comfy £40k plus unsocial hours/call-out rates and overtime and besides I would be tucking into a freshly birthed placenta before I touched any of Jack’s slopshit.
 
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Apparently I was a bit of a terror, during the shop, we didn’t have a car either. in those days you didn’t take your push chair into the shops to shove into the shins of other shoppers, or block the aisles.

I somehow discovered that if I let myself out of my pushchair, wandered off, got found by a policeman, gave them my name and address, I got a ride home in a police car
 
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