It seems Queen Laurie Penny has written another three books since she was last here. One in particular...

It seems Queen Laurie Penny has written another three books since she was last here. One in particular, Everything Belongs to the Future, has really grabbed my attention. What's the general consensus of it here? it seems to be a departure from her usual angry hipster position.

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hahahaha what? who the fuck is this? is this some sort of bait hahahaha

Will Pennyposting ever make a comeback?

Imagine how out of touch you'd have to be to think your upper-middle perception of the world somehow translates universally.

I actually have some bad feels for Penny.

Get the fuck out with your worthless shilling

She wrote an article I liked recently but I haven't managed to make the time to read any of her books. She's cool. Not always doing things I agree with but her heart's in the right place, I can't fault that.

>her heart's in the right place, I can't fault that.

You can fault her easily but her heart probably is in the right place so fair-dos.

not unless her publisher hires another social media marketing firm to spam the place

>who the fuck is this?
Really? Not meant as an insult, but are you fairly new? Veeky Forums was obsessed with her. About fifty threads a day obsessed for a year, split between those who wanted to lynch her and those writing "Penny porn" essays. it reached a point where Laurie threads became a bannable offense. Then she found out Veeky Forums was obsessed with her and came here herself. And that's when all hell broke lose

I'd bang her

to not just meme about her, I'd say she is the nostalgic left liberal that the UK has absolutely no need of going forward, and she slots in a weird position between low level journalist but embedding main stream social theorists ideas in her work. I really don't think doing both is worthwhile.

on the other hand,

what is her problem?

A girl's gotta make a living.
We all know in 20 years she'll be writing for the Mail (the Guardian won't exist), complaining that her husband doesn't do chores, and waxing nostalgic about how kids today aren't radical like she used to be.
cf. Barbara Ellen, Julie Burchill, Suzanne Moore etc

How does she feel about Jeremy Corbyn?

>I'd say she is the nostalgic left liberal that the UK

yes

>has absolutely no need of going forward

no.

You can do better, user. I believe in you.

Anyone got that video wherein someone says that the CIA started the third-wave feminist movement in order to detract would be revolutionaries towards something benign and meaningless and thus ignoring bigger issues like net neutrality and whatnot; Penny becomes either enraged or just stupified.


its pretty funny

>We all know in 20 years she'll be writing for the Mail (the Guardian won't exist)
I don't know. She's been publishing exactly the same pieces for the New Statesman for ten years. Twenty years from now, she'll still be publishing exactly the same pieces for the New Statesman.

it's true though, gloria steinem (the old jew who said there was a special place in hell for women who vote for sanders over hillary) was a cia operative using feminism to neutralize radical politics

I think the video was prior to the election but,

>look up Gloria Steinem
>honorary co-chair of the Democratic Socialist of America
>DSA endorses Sanders
>she says what you've said

what the fuck.

penny porn is a legitimate artform.

>implying the New Statesman will exist

Also, pic related

The scariest, most enduring dystopias walk a fine line between parable and prediction. Penny erases that line. In this made-up story, the rich speciate from the poor; in our real world, working class lifespans are declining as the one percent live ever longer lives at ever-greater removes from the rest of us. This is no mere literary device. This is a pitiless allegory, calculated to enrage and terrify its readers.

>Guardian wont exist

Unless the new left stops eating itself I can see this happen, but if Corbyn wins, it might see a resurgence.

Man, if May manages to fuck up a 25 point lead for the Tories she'll be in direct competition with Cameron as their worst PM in a while.

That's Stoya, right? I'm staring to feel bad for knowing this.

I'm not usually Labour but goddam if May isn't a clusterfuck of a moron.

If I hear "Strong and Stable" one more time I'll chop my dick off

The Guardian is spunking money like a drunk at Vegas. Their policy of no paywall is killing it, hence the tin-rattling after every article.
It doesn't have the readership of the Times or Speccie, where people have the pockets, and the journalism isn't good enough. Nobody is paying to read Polly Toynbee.

The 'Guardian Masterclasses' are what make me laugh. Might as well have George Monbiot with a tin bowl and puppy eyes: 'George doesn't have a blanket tonight. Just £5 from you could keep him warm.'

I like that idea of no paywall, I feel that decent journalism doesn't need people to pay for articles in order to be a success, but rather have worthwhile articles.


Now they shot themselves in the foot when they went after Wikileaks (whom they held up years ago) accusing them of being Russian intelligence.

>decent journalism

the journalist is the lowest form of life

I can't wait to see the downfall of the UK

>massive capital flight and brain drain after Brexit is completed
>Scotland votes Yes to independence and joins EU
>Northern Ireland becomes part of Ireland (and thus the EU)

And all this within five years. Hngggggggggg.

Where else would you get your news

Don't forget Lizzie dying. The commonwealth may completely fuck off.

England will be left to rot

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Here you go, user. Enjoy.
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PENNY A CUTE!

from local drunks

I like how women these days take so many vanity pictures of themselves making the perfect cute facial expressions from that one perfect angle at that perfect half-accidental moment to make them look perfect, because it means they can look at those pictures for the rest of their lives and palpably feel how this melted and deformed into this and there's no going back

>Julie Burchill,
Times are changing and men and women are coming to terms with the nasty things that happen to their souls when beauty is sold to the highest bidder. When asked what he would have been if not a fantastically rich footballer, Peter Crouch answered, ‘A virgin.’ A book by Holly Madison, the American reality TV star and ex-‘chief girlfriend’ of Hugh Hefner, details exactly what a modern gold-digger can expect; habitually drugging oneself in order to be able to submit one’s 23-year-old body to the arthritic caresses of a 90-year-old, 9 p.m. curfews, bestiality porn to put one in the mood for love, and carpets reeking of urine from the Boss’s posse of dogs.

Madison writes of her shock at first witnessing the Hefner’s behaviour in a disco, when he gets up to boogie; ‘I was genuinely mortified for him…had no one told him how silly he looked?’ Of course not — and his Magic Mirror had probably told him that he was the greatest dancer, as well as lover.

No matter how men judge women’s looks, it must remain a mystery to them that the plainest woman can get sex any time she wants, while even decent-looking men are reduced to masturbating and/or paying for it. Maybe the Magic Mirror is more of a comfort blanket, after all?

Julie Burchill’s books include Ambition, I Knew I was Right and Unchosen: Memoirs of a Philo-Semite.

>No matter how men judge women’s looks, it must remain a mystery to them that the plainest woman can get sex any time she wants, while even decent-looking men are reduced to masturbating and/or paying for it. Maybe the Magic Mirror is more of a comfort blanket, after all?
men btfo

literally fucking who

>Don't forget Lizzie dying
tfw British and eagerly awaiting the death of the queen. Keeping my fingers crossed that the mainstream media will turn on William, and instead of the "adorable Royal wedding/Roiyal baby" shitshow, the disgustingly expensive coronation and decline of long-term tourism will be enough to incite the broke, acquiescent masses into revolt. tfw the foul bitch just wont die.

Shes cute af with that pink Ukulele. Just look at our goddess biting her lip here. hnnnng

>literally fucking who
Hack leftist journalist and author who became the only thing Veeky Forums would talk about for six months.

>pig illuminated by a thousand suns

nice try laurie

Even SJWs have turned on her for not being ideologically pure enough. No one will care about her in 5 years, she will probably enter celeb big brother in a desperate attempt to regain relevance

I like to use her as an example of the purity spiral consuming itself.

I always tell my leftist friends about how haughtily she took the uncomprehending Starkey to task for not being up on the latest jargon, more-pinko-than-thou, and then show them tweets where she's fucking bewildered by the fact that neo-neo-NEO-"leftists" are tearing her to shreds for not checking everyone's pronouns 13 times per second.

She's like "But.. But that's silly!" and they reply
>THE FACT THAT IT'S SILLY TO YOU SHOWS HOW MUCH OF A FOSSIL YOU ARE!
just like she did to Starkey.

Worthless champagne socialists, turning the entire left into a social club with status hierarchies, while the working class drifts to orgyporgy. Laurie Penny is walking counter-revolution.

Those beady eyes. God, she is adorable. xD

>just like she did to Starkey.

The left always was a social club, at least since the sixties. These days it's micro aggressions instead of maoism but the same rules apply.
Scruton knew this even then

>women can write
top laff

Hush, Sebastian, the grown-ups are talking.

>more-pinko-than-thou

Say what you will, once she pops off there's going to be quite a fuss. I mean have you seen how many mongs populate the Mall in the summer? The tourism board is going to have a helluva time trying to sell Camilla dolls. They might as well do what the Soviets did with Lenin and embalm her in a mausoleum

So we meet again, Moneypenny.

You're alright, user. It's too bad there weren't more leftists like you, then we wouldn't have to defenestrate them all

None of this is going to happen.

I'd unironically think she'd be cuter if she were fatter. Smooth out that jawline and plump up the cheeks around that big nose.

She has plumped up a little.

>click on her patreon expecting it to be humorously low
>4k a month

fucking hell

How much per month for a blowie?

See, now, that's much better. Better haircut, too, despite the meme fade on the side.

This. Someday the helicopters will rest and we will all shed one tear for leftists like user

What's with the hoodie, for Heaven's sake? It's not flattering and makes me think she's recently been watching Mr. Robot.

> so this is the power of leftist white knighthood
Bet she makes more money from her writing than all of Veeky Forums combined

The entire Tory campaign has been classic Partridge.

Laurie, posting here won't boost your sales, especially if you write ridiculous things like the idea of someone reading one of your books every reading *another* of your books.

>her heart's in the right place
So was Hitler's

She is a low-grade blogger that happens to agree with all of her fellow UMC peers who promote her writing out of class solidarity, all while claiming to be Marxists.
i.e., just like the Fabians.

>click on her patreon expecting it to be humorously low
>4k a month

I thought Patron was for people who desperately need money for a cause. They either need an extra $x a month for university fees, or $x a month to help fund their building orphanages in Uganda project.

Laurie's parents are loaded, she has regular column space in the Guardian, New Statesman and other publications, she has eight books bringing in cash, and she gets paid for regular talks and debates all over Europe and the US. WTF is she being funded for?

You can support both then.

Oh, I love Gloria Steinem - one of the great con women of the 20th Century
>Worked as a model then tells feminists that 'beauty is a con; love is a lie; marriage is a trap. You gotta' live for YOU, girl! No men, get a career! No children, make that money! Change the world from a cubicle!"
>Direct quote: "marriage was the model for slavery law in this country"
>"Then, after it is too late for the mass of women who believed her, she marries a multi-millionaire
So funny!

Virtue signalling from her supporters

>Don't forget Lizzie dying.
I wouldn't get my hopes up about that

Instead I will acknowledge that objective actions remain unchanged by subjective intent.

>I thought Patron was for people who desperately need money for a cause

From her Patron page. It seems she's lost her selling gimmick: The 'edge' she had when she was fresh out of uni and getting lots of attention for youth protest pieces. Now she's a bit older, she's tired of having to work and submit an occasional article to the magazines and tabloids she works for. She wants to quit writing articles and go travelling full-time to write about whatever she finds interesting instead of what the public and editors want. She probably could afford to do this on her book sales alone, but naturally she needs to hire a 'team' so she doesn't have to be distracted by any of life's realities like phone bills and booking guesthouses. Also, funding her travelling will annoy "alt-right hatebots, apparently.

>" I won't have to juggle two or three writing jobs while making the work I really care about. That means I can do a lot more writing..."
>" I’m asking for your help. Think of this as my tips jar."
>"I'm looking for the freedom to travel to interesting places and write about what happens there without waiting for a commission."
>"It's hard to get taken seriously as a young woman working in media. It's even harder to get taken seriously as a woman who's no longer a messy 23-year old and wants to do considered, grown-up journalism."
>" I’m travelling the United States trying to get under the skin of the political nightmare we’re all living in. "
>"If a few hundred people give me five dollars a month, I can start to build a team around me and do more writing and less organizing."
>"You could also chip in if you don’t care about my work either way but REALLY want to piss off some right-wing trolls. Every dollar you donate makes an alt-right hatebot cross. "

>objective actions
Back to your Jordan Peterson containment thread.

You're confusing Patreon with Gofundme. Patreon is for artists/writers who do a certain amount of work a month based on how much money they get.

deluded commie fuck

Communications major. are ya'?
Look, saying 'I want to help poor people' is a subjective intent. Shooting them is an objective action. The fact that you shot them so they wouldn't be hungry anymore doesn't change the fact you shot them.

Some of her stuff doesn't resonate with me but her review of Ivanka Trump's book was pretty good.

I wish you legitimately misogynist retards would fuck off back to /pol/.

This is fucking criminal, bitch could economically support all the neets on Veeky Forums through her donations alone

>Its not that I can't hold a boyfriend its that I'm against patriarchy

The first point seems pretty likely

Soros?

no the last 2 point are much more likely
Engliand is one of the largest economies in the world they will better without the EU long term

you have a lesion on your brain

it's spelled lesbian

Only if they vote Corbyn

>private school
>oxford
>gifted career as a journalist
>still spends her time saying how unfair life is as a woman

stupid bitch

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>Think of this as my tips jar."

hahahhahahahahahahahah

men are retarded

>if you give her a couple hundred dollars a month she might be willing to let you take her to dinner (with you paying of course)

So why haven't you betas gone for this yet?

is it this one?

youtube.com/watch?v=nV7Zlk6GYas

why does she dress like she's a fascist stooge in a '90s cyberpunk movie

>British
>eagerly awaiting the death of the queen
nice try mehmet

DID

YOU

OR

DID

YOU

NOT

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Sargon of Akkak has made an anti-Penny patreon and is getting almost 6k a month for it, while producing even less. gg, alt-cucks.

Sargon is a plant

I'm fairly sure he is a person.