Can the savages actually read or articulate an argument?
Ghalihom!
The new generation of Mintoffian marmalja operate in much the same way on the internet as their parents and grandparents did when Mintoff and his stooge KMB were in power.
‘Ghalihom ras!’ and the next thing you know there’s a mob at your door, breaking it down, setting fires or ransacking the place and beating you up.
They didn’t actually know why they were doing it, though they had a rough idea why the target was The Enemy.
It’s the same now.
Look at the savage rabid mob beneath my ‘may he rot in hell’ post (the one pasted to the top of the page). The word went out on Facebook, they couldn’t actually read the thing, but they poured in here.
‘Ghaliha ras, dik il-hadra! Min tahseb li hi, tghid kontra l-perit!’
Or rather:
‘Alija ras dik l hadra min tahseb li ij tejt kontra l peritt’
So in they swooped, with their savage vulgarity, their death threats, their hopes that Joseph will smash me when he is in power, issa tasal tieghi, how can I possibly be allowed to write, I should be arrested blah blah blah.
Then my acquaintance wrote of her own identical sentiments and her experience, posted here under the heading ‘Mintoff: He gave them nothing and took a great deal away’ and it escaped their attention because nobody had an interest in inciting people to read it and react to it.
Either that, or the Mintoffian marmalja can’t actually read much or understand sentences of more than four words which follow in logical order.
And they can’t articulate arguments, which that kind of post requires. They can only respond in much the same way as I remember the insults flying around in the lower reaches of Valletta, particularly the Arcipierku area, in the Golden Years, but using a keyboard and an internet connection instead of standing at an open window.
What I find most amusing is the reaction of some of those who are supposed to be a little more literate. ‘May you rot in hell’ is one of the classic declarations of scorn in the English language. It is standard, and very old.
I forget that so many in Malta are actually completely alienated and cut off from the culture which produced the language they must use to communicate when they don’t have the option of using Maltese. This is also the ‘personal attacks’ crowd which appears never to have read a British newspaper, understood a British cartoon (or even seen one, perhaps) or watched the scornful mockery of politicians on Italian television.
Or maybe they have, but think that Malta should be a special-case scenario, as with divorce. Ironically, it is pro-divorce campaigners like Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and his Labour Party who appear to have some of the most antiquated and repressive views on ‘personal attacks’ and what constitutes one.
I say ‘antiquated’, but the reality is that politicians and public figures have been lampooned in England since the use of printing presses became more democratic through decreases in cost and increases in efficiency. Lampooning was in its heyday in the 18th century.
Nothing tells you more about where a person stands on the matter of liberal values than his or her reaction to the lampooning of those who hold, or held, positions of power over us, who make our laws.
A person can protest in favour of divorce, gay rights and against the Catholic Church, but press freedom is the real sticking-point. If they cannot stand the fact that politicians and others are lampooned (lies and slander are a different matter and the target has recourse at law, though only if the perpetrator can be identified), if they get angry about jokes, cartoons and scornful remarks, then you can safely conclude that their real sentiments incline towards the totalitarian and oppressive, regardless of what they say elsewhere.
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I thought of the same thing yesterday while reading that fantastic post. I logged in this morning to check if any of the usual marmalja left any comments but of course it was too hard for them to digest.
They also pretend that they don’t want to harm anyone: “jien ma nixtieqx … IMMA …” but they manage to go into hatred mode in the same sentence.
That’s the sad reality.
Daphne, you forgot to mention that they also told you to go and have sex with a horse. I think they watch too much hard porn as a hobby.
It is absolutely astonishing that in this day and age, people with access to “drimboks” television systems as well as the internet have never seen or heard of programmes like “Have I Got News for You” or “Mock the Week”, where politicians as well as the Royals are continuously made fun of.
PUBLIC figures are, by the very nature of their jobs, subject to PUBLIC scrutiny and if that brings tears to Anglu’s eyes then he’s just going to have to man up.
When Joseph and Anglu turn to their subliterate herd with half-arsed, pathetically forced tears in their eyes and complain about “personal attacks” and about being the targets of “hate crimes” and in turn receive applause, my stomach churns.
Not because I am disgusted, but because I’m afraid.
It is these kind of people (the ones applauding them) who keep regimes in power. That is why the Labour Party are so fortunate. Due to the fact that most Nationalists have actually continued to be educated past the age of fourteen, we constantly question the politicians we elect or choose to follow. Labour supporters don’t do that with theirs.
It is those who don’t ask questions who bring regimes to power and keep them there. Constantly opposing with bitterness and scorn, because that is what you have been told to do, does not qualify as asking questions.
When the government changes we will live in Joe’s Utopia. It’s no longer a question of if or how, but a question of when, ghax joe issa pratttikament prim ministru, u daqt ha jkollohm il-gurnata taghhom u dawk li kitbu fuq il-blokks kontrina daqt ha tigi taghhom.
These people will be in Utopia, the rest of us, well….
We have to call a spade a spade: they’re too dumb! If they don’t have any tangible argument to confront a journalist, what do they do? That which they have ALWAYS tried doing: character assassination.
Consider this. One of them once called Daphne is-Saħħara tal–Bidnija (obviously forgetting his short sightedness and his own ugliness)… so in they come pouring with insults and saying all sorts of hideous things because they have no tools, no real arguments, they know they’re a real floppy failure.
[Daphne – The more interesting thing, of course, and here is where the cross-cultural and translation problems come in, is that when Lino Cassar first called me is-Sahhara tal-Bidnija (for it was he) in It-Torca, he meant ‘sorceress’ not ‘witch’. This because he was endlessly fascinated by me in those days and would chase my tail with boundless but fruitless enthusiasm.]
They cannot stand any sensible, intelligent, cohesive argument. Look at their delegates and candidates. They say it all. The fact that it takes a woman with great stamina, fearless and steadfast in her arguments to kick them in the ass makes them become hysterical.
I could sense that anger in some posts where the Caps Lock were used, for example. I am sure the jerk writing was so pissed off, probably dribbling with anger.
Perhaps my distance from Malta (though I visit often, I assure you) makes me feel more disgusted by these actors – they are not politicians, nor policy makers. They are politikanti – they play with politics.
And the sad truth is that many ignorant “nagħaġ ta’ Bendu” blindly believe anything, especially now that Muscat & Co. want them to relive the nostalgia of Mintoff. Kollok kif jaqbillhom.
Poor Malta.
Is it plausible to think that the Labour Party fears it cannot survive Mintoff?
That the ’25 years’ in opposition, isn’t a sly play with words, but an admission of the electorate’s judgement, Alfred Sant’s bidla, included?
The Labour Party is actually afraid to govern. Why? Simply because it has no idea how to govern without bullying and it is always afraid of not being popular among its own brainwashed, illiterate guppies.
Mintoff: Bully but actually a yellow bellied coward – he was a loser with a big ‘L’ record. Failed in his quest for ‘Integration’ – failed again when he proposed his own brand of Independence – failed in his negotiations to extend the British Defence treaty, – handed over to KMB when his power base started to shrink….
KMB – Dr. Zero thought that turning out the thugs to continue to do the Labour Party’s dirty tricks would guarantee his hold on power and even managed to hang on for five years without the consent of the majority. Actually in spite of the atrocities under his watch, he had more guts than his predecessor even if he never got one single vote.
Sant: What did he do when faced with the Mintoff crisis? He ran away when he did not have to – another sign of a weak coward.
And now we have Muscat. Had no guts to present a motion of no-confidence himself but let (was forced to?) Anglu ‘tuks fors’ do it. Perhaps he knew it would fail and would not dare have his name attached to it.
All the way through all its leaders, the common thread is one of bullying but no guts, no ideas and even more alarming, no ideals. Past leaders were so cozy sending out others to threaten, work over, frame-up, shoot at and deprive the ordinary citizen of his basic human rights while they amassed wealth and property, with ‘legitimate’ income, of course.
The same sub-literate ate Chinese chocolate, never brushed their teeth, had no toilet paper, ate tuna fish sandwiches, when their glorious Party allowed them to, and yet they refer to that era as ‘golden’!
The same supporters and their own issues seem to have the same low IQ syndrome, unable to see good from bad, better from worse and best from mediocre. Maybe it is a DNA thingie?
Go figure!
u d be surprised at how many of us’ savages ” can actually read and write, and even produce a valid argument when confronted with a reasonable opponent !!!!! seriousy how can u expect a reasonable argument back when all you is to spit venom in all your writings ??? yes we ve come a long way from the 80 s , but it seems that u are still reliving in that time, jugding from your writings !!! isint categorising labourites as hamalli and savages a bit outdated now that we re in 2012 ??!! and u re supposed to be a highly intelligent journalist for god s sake not one of us ” scum of the earth’ mintoffjani !!!!
as for the labourites being “savagely vulgar ” isin t it a bit vulgar of you to use the term’ may he rot in hell ” and i will dance on his grave “. i never expected this to come from an “oh so holy” nationalist .
min qed jitkellem!! alla jbirek int kemm tinsa malajr!! ga nsejt kemm ajjart l perit!! nahseb int andek bzonn psikologu mux franco li kont tghajjru u l blog tijak mimli sriedaq mbad f daqqa wahda waqaft tghajjru jew waqfuk
[Daphne – ‘l blog tijak mimli sriedaq’. I love it.]
rajtuh l video fuq it times ha taraw min huma l hamalli issa. l folla ta nazzjonalist li kin emm quddiem l parlament jifirhu ax gonzi pn tilef l maggorznza lol
min huma l injoranti issa ax dawn anqas 34-34 ma jafu jahdmu jew jahsbu li l speaker ellegieh l poplu wkoll hahahaha
Labour has a big problem. Joseph tries uses psuedo-sincerity to tell us about “bad things” that labour did during the 70s & 80s BUT at the same time they try to glorify their stay in power during the same period, the golden years.
Little do they realise that the period 81 – 87 still haunts the Maltese psyche to this day – now that’s a very bad skeleton in their closet.