I think by now, most of you will have grown utterly bored with my obsession with “Shelley The Republican“, however I cannot resist the notion that the current crop of “Anti-Blogs” which both sprang up at almost exactly the same time are front organisations for the STR crew.
Both blogs are written in the same inept and somewhat childish style, and they both seem to insist somewhat earnestly that the STR blog is not intended as humour. I think at least one of them has taken a disliking to me. Are the STR blog and it’s enemies collectivly intended as some form of post-modern satire? Well as you might expect this is something they all deny.
However, something does not add up. The only reason anybody knows about the two anti-blogs is because the STR site links to them both on their home-page. Furthermore, almost every post seems to carry an advert to discuss the content at one or the other anti-site. If the STR team really had it in for their anti-bloggers they would have removed those links long ago. Furthermore, the anti-bloggers are particularly unclear about their own motives.
Given that STR is more likely than not intended as a satire, surely somebody who was critical of the attitudes that STR is supposed to represent would play along with STR. On the other hand, somebody who was genuinely annoyed by it’s lampooning of right-wing values would most likely not pretend to be a liberal. Something does not add up!
Anyway, please see for yourself: 8for8, STR:Uncovered
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