Simply, up-to-date authors the most relevant to real life
Prove me wrong.
>write a super vague villain
>apply his example to everything you don't like
>mfw people get upset at her opinions instead of how desperate she is to stay relevant and end up giving her more attention
>>8187919
i.e., Trump is literally Hitler.
>>8187914
Heh, I always figured Voldemort was kinda like Brexit. Weird.
How can anyone oppose Brexit?
What kind of cosmopolitan bourgeois world are we living in?
Harry Potter is shit.
>>8187960
What is depicted here should not have been allowed to occur.
>>8187960
>What kind of cosmopolitan bourgeois world are we living in?
the one we've been living for the past century? did you miss that, lmao.
>>8187914
JK Rowling was smart
She purposefully wrote a poorly characterized cardboard cutout villain. That way, after the sun set on her career, she could try to stay relevant by comparing things to that villain
Trump = Literally Voldemort
Brexit = Literally Voldemort
0.4% increase in property tax = Literally Voldemort
and so-on
We all need to remember she got rich from someone else's idea,
Authors like her don't deserve any support.
Learn about the Potter family here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(film)
>>8187914
Did she create Voldemort after looking at herself in the mirror?
>>8187960
They want the EU to be one country, to have one currency, one government, one culture, etc.
>>8188011
that's some cute ear sticking out of the hood
>Bathsheda Babbling
>Bathilda Bagshot
>Gellert Grindelwald
>Colin Creevey
>Dudley Dursley
>Schmoopy Poopy
God spoke through her pen
>>8187960
I don't get why liberals are so in favour of the UK remaining part of the EU
What's in it for them?
>>8188193
EU is liberal and will push the UK to be more liberal, plus you have to let in more people when you're in the EU
>>8187970
I know, right? This shit pisses me off so much. If there is one community that needs to be absolutely staunch about consent, it's BDSM. Public display throws all that out the window.
Arrgh.
>>8187914
god damn, just look at this wall-eyed cake-faced abomination
>>8188190
Get fucked, alliteration is great
damn she's grasping for attention. Isn't she an author? Coudn't she, you know, write another book if she wanted people to care?
>>8188538
Alliteration is an exotic spice people treat like ketchup.
It can be good, but it's usually banal.
>>8188758
Looks like someone hasn't read Beowulf.
>>8187914
>up-to-date authors the most relevant
How about Nu Know Brow YA authors artistically expressing High Art in a Virtuoso fashion that doesn't go out of style ?
Biophotons
Galactic DNA
Stellar Consciousness
Ride the Tiger
Telluric Currents
Hour of the Tiger
Conductivity Discontinuities
Schumann Resonance
Tetrachromacy
Polysemy
Quantum Storytelling
Spiral Dynamics
Levels of Consciousness
The mathēmatikoi and akousmatikoi
The Phaedrus
Innamorati
Difference and Repetition
Who could spin such threads into a tale ???
>Simply
Not so simple...
>>8188839
Transtheoritical Models
Imagination Age
Bricolage
Narrative Networked Story Exchanges
Metaxy
Lumonics
Tacit Knowledge Sharing
Transmediation
Permaculture
Ecolinguistics
>>8188885
The Quintessence
>>8187979
like Elton John continuously repurposing Candle in the Wind
This woman always uses her shitty characters as metaphors for people in the real world.
>>8188839
>>8188885
>>8188892
Systems Theory...
>>8188919
Coherence
Adinkras
>>8188193
continued mass importation of third world scum to swell the Labour turnout at the ballot box
>>8188790
he said
>It
>can<<<<<
>be good, but it's
>usually<<<<<<
>banal.
i think you just wanted to imply you'd read beowulf. we're very impressed. wait no, we're incredibly impressed indeed. am i beowulf yet?
>>8188193
https://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/we-asked-young-londoners-why-they-want-britain-to-remain-in-the-eu
>>8188193
Liberals are bourgeois as fuck, m8.
If mainstream media says jump they say how high. Not that populist shills are much better.
>>8188896
Or how Maya Angelou continuously recited And Still I Rise.
>>8188163
That is not bad in of itself (coz Europe needs it to be revelant) just that EU sucks
>>8187914
What the fuck is an up-to-date author?
>>8187914
>voldemort metaphor for brexit
I don't know about her, bu I would certainly vote for Voldemort to leave.
>>8187914
So what your saying is,
Writers that use metaphor to describe real life situations, are the most relevant to our processing and understanding of real life situations?
>>8187919
"Trump is worse than Voldemort!"
What did she mean by this?
>>8187914
Just seems like she uses vague Harry Potter metaphors to convince her rabid fanbase to have the same lefty political leanings as her. As a lefty I find it irritating.
>>8189133
>vice
>>8189133
The main reason they listed was "I want to travel." But don't they realize that the EU lets gypsies and mohammedans travel to Britain? How hard is it to get a tourist visa anyway? I've never heard of anyone from Canada having any trouble visiting Europe for a few months at a time. I'm not even British but this is infuriating to watch. The people in the article all look like "posh" hipsters and had bullshit jobs like "Fashion Designer" or "DJ." I love the "No Man is an Island" tee shirts, they're right, what affects Europe affects me. It saddens and angers me to watch my ancestral homeland get invaded by muslims who are the antithesis of everything Europe represents. I hate how Europeans are afraid even to display their own flags, how they think that their own culture doesn't matter anymore, how women aren't safe on the streets. My grandfather didn't go to war for this.
And you know what, as much as I dislike muslims and abhor their violent barbaric culture, it makes a lot more sense to me than the neutered liberalism of the West, the nihilistic mindless consumerism. When the car alarms finally stop ringing, and the white dust settles, and the ambulances carry away the survivors, I can say to myself, "Ah. Here was a man with blood in his veins."
>Q: What do you say to those who want to leave the EU? A: Read more.
I read fifty books a year, "m8"
>>8189211
she's definitely a liberal with some Sanders/Corbyn-ish leftist leanings. And I agree, her punditry has gotten really stupid, as much as I loved her books as a kid.
>>8189269
>tfw live in Northern Ireland
>tfw every pro-remain goober has bought the "muh travel" propaganda without realizing everyone here already has Irish citizenship
And ironically it's the most ardent republicans that suddenly seem to care the most about maintaining British global influence and international business interests.
>>8189292
lol you got some srs troubles there m8
>>8187935
This desu, why can't these old hags just die gracefully
>>8189269
It's completely moronic. You didn't need a Visa to go to the vast majority of Europe before Schengen, that includes fucking Spain under Franco and everything. The only exception were (most) communist countries for obvious reasons.
>>8189292
the EU is the best way to cuck the British man
plus republicans seem most open to the common sense of the EU
leaving is just nonsense
>>8189368
Seriously. If I had as much money as her I'd give absolutely no fucks about any of this shit. Pynchon had the right idea about not getting actively involved in the public arena.
>>8187914
Houellebecq.
>>8188193
Cultural enrichment
>>8188193
Free(-ish) movement of labour, money, goods & services.
>>8187914
>write a book series that conflate britain and the whole world
>oppose british isolationism
>>8187919
He's not really vague, he's obviously Wizard Hitler.
>tfw Potterfans unironically think Voldemort is the most chillingly evil role played by Ralph Fiennes
>>8190018
Grindelwald is Hitler pleb.
>>8189269
>muslims who are the antithesis of everything Europe represents
top spook
>bad metaphor for politics
>literature
good thread
>>8187960
I saw that documentary so I know that guy is a British librarian.
On the continent they know this is a fetish so they keep it indoors generally.
>>8189292
>"muh travel" propaganda without realizing everyone here already has Irish citizenship
I'm in a similar situation but you're forgetting that a lot of the cross recognition shit will go. So if you're a solicitor or whatever the fuck you have in N Ireland it'll likely become harder to practice in France or gain an equivalent title for example. P much everything else tho who cares.
Actually you should since I'd put money on London cucking you until you're a third world country if the UK leaves.
Brexit will fuck your economy up. There isn't even that many migrants that come to UK, and most of them are from EU countries and actually pay moer taxes and are more active than your population (it is getting old).
>>8190176
>So if you're a solicitor or whatever the fuck you have in N Ireland it'll likely become harder to practice in France or gain an equivalent title for example
Are you for real? You can't practice law in another country not because of some recognition issues but because the law is completely different there.
>>8190233
England is really great to get an LLB from in some ways because you get access to most common law countries, but you can also transfer over to the EU too. It usually involves so many years of practice as a foreign lawyer and passing some course or test.
http://cnb.avocat.fr/m/Being-a-Lawyer-in-France-Accessing-the-Legal-Profession_a1735.html
>>8190214
it's teatime jezza
>>8187960
Well it's highly likely a Brexit will trigger a global recession, anyone with any investments or any vested interests will be effected.
Also the assumption other countries will be desperate to have access to Britain's small markets is naive, the reality is Britain will be put into a very weak bargaining position. China, America, Canada, EU, and others have all already said they aren't interested in playing games and will be looking out for their own interests in making independent trade deals. Either president Trump or Clinton isn't going to be making good new trade deals with Britain.
Also it might trigger a slow break up of the EU which will lead to more aggressive Russian imperialism.
>>8188193
When countries loosen their borders, cultures homogenize and become less competitive, resulting in a lower rate of competition and a breakdown of the idea of a series offractalized militarily advanced "nation state" that's bred so much war within Europe, and which, since the EU, has largely disappeared.
>>8190356
>war within Europe, and which, since the EU, has largely disappeared.
>>8189292
>And ironically it's the most ardent republicans that suddenly seem to care the most about maintaining British global influence and international business interests.
seriously?
what the fug
unification soon though
>>8188193
You're making the homo oeconomicus fallacy that people do things because it's in their interest to do them.
People do things because the TV told them to. Globalists do things because it's in their interest to do them, because other globalists at the country club, and their lawyer, told them to. Liberals live in an Outer Party recreation zone with relatively minimal crime and relative economic buoyancy where nothing matters and hyperreality is thick. Because of the inertia of stale cultural memes, they think they're still real people with real votes and that they are engaged with the political. So they walk around going "Yes well hrm you see I have extremely strong opinions about the deficit and how we need to foster a better world democracy by brown nigger LGBT durhudhurhurr" and all the other proles nod and go "mm.. Indeed, indeed, Winston is really on point today!" Then they tweet about how the UN should really use Fort Knox gold to create a giant FEELINGS RAYGUN that will make everyone feel good all the time, and get 73571 "Likes" from other retards like them, and no one corrects them, because nothing means anything and you can just say and think whatever the fuck you want so long as you're only recycling and rebreathing the endless ocean of junk cruft horseshit that we all swim in, and so long as you never unplug yourself from the neoliberal Matrix and you only stay in London where the only people you see are abstracted labour functions drifting between their doot doot 9-5 labour station and home entertainment system with social media apparatus. Rich people have more connection to the world economy but even they just sit in country clubs and create a harmonic resonance between themselves so that the Correctopinionsphere emerges unconsciously from them like an egregore. They all hide their money by owning property indirectly through family members and evading taxes by manipulating charities and then go to dinners about letting gay Turkish mexicans into the country that they will never see or hear because they own four cottages in Muskoka and their 21 year old daughter drives a BMW despite working as a barista, and their other son went to Berkeley to become a software programmer and make $200k a year sitting on his flabby ass while his testosterone siphons away so he has tons of time to Facebook about #Issues like gay people being indirectly killed by oligarchs who make Muslims kill gays by disliking that Muslims kill gays.
>>8187960
I support remain because I am a british citizen who lives outside of the UK and as a result of being a european citizen I get affordable healthcare and subsidized tuition.
If the UK leaves it will only elevate my hatred of Britain and its culture, on top of that I will probably renounce British citizenship and apply for Spanish citizenship (My mother is Spanish)
>>8189158
Please tell me English isn't your first language.
>>8190426
>I am a british citizen
>My mother is Spanish
A dog may be born in a stable, but that doesn't make it a horse.
Not one drop. Get fucked and go back to Spain, Pablo.
She didn't use Voldemort as a metaphor for Brexit. She analogized her making up monsters like Voldemort to the Brexit campaigners portraying the EU as a monster and the Remain campaigners portraying the consequences of leaving the EU as monstrous.
>>8190444
>actually looking things up
Fuck off filthy empiricist.
>>8190434
I was born in the UK, I am also an American citizen. I am not especially Spanish as I can barely speak the language.
>>8190395
Honestly top post m8. Thank you for writing that.
>>8187960
What is an actual, tangible thing that the UK will get from leaving? I know they'll lose a hell of a lot.
I hear a lot of "freedom" rhetoric. It's the UK. They gave that up after the second World War.
>>8187914
If people bothered to read, you'd have a point. Most people still haven't learned any of the lessons of the last 3,500 years of western academia and thought, which is necessary to understand how current thought functions.
So no, contemporary authors are probably the not the most relevant to "real life".
>>8190464
My dad said they would get hundreds of miles of coastline back
>>8190471
Only things I could find about that are conspiracy theories about how the EU will take all of the UK's coasts and an article about clean, protected UK waters are probably only that way due to EU regulations.
So maybe a mix of both. EU environmental regulations are keeping businesses from operating in those waters.
I wonder how people would feel about that if it was their own government doing it, though.
>>8188490
Theyre just clothes, wearing leather around someone isn't a sexual act.
>>8188193
You wouldn't understand because you clearly have absoloutely no grasp of european politics. Boris Johnson is a liberal, Jeremy Corbyn is not. Memes are not a replacement for actually learning something.
>>8190554
Liberals, everybody.
>>8190476
>clean, protected UK waters
They're really not that clean.
>>8190630
You wouldn't understand because you clearly have absoloutely no grasp of european politics. latex is sexual, leather is not. Memes are not a replacement for actually learning something.
>>8190649
>latex is sexual
He is wearing latex tho. I don't know what makes you think it's leather
>>8187952
kek
>>8190649
Lmao
>>8190661
The person the person I was replying to was replying too was talking about leather.
>>8188839
Chiaki J Konaka circa 1997.
>>8190135
Honestly, you spook faggots have no values or decency and need to get rounded up and shot. You won't be able to complain, because human rights are a "spook."
>>8190214
>most of them are from EU countries
There are schools in the UK that are so full of gypsies from Romania that not a single student was A) born in the UK or B) speaks English. They're demanding more money from the government because in normal schools parents will shell out for playgrounds and field-trips and what have you.
>>8190630
you're not even trying to not be stupid
>>8190649
I get the feeling that you like to wear leather and you think that someone criticizing BDSM furries is an affront against the fabrics you choose to wear.
>>8190331
All of these things are cool and good
I mean, I really wish my country would be invaded by Russia, like unironically.
>>8190022
Voldemorts Hitler too
>Mudbloods are basically the jews
>Vodlemort jacks off to Pure Bloods even though he is a half breed same with Hitler being Austrian and jacking off to Germany.
>Voldemort allies himself with useful creatures he dislikes like giants like Hitler did with the Japs.
It goes on and on.
>>8191847
>parents will shell out for playgrounds
They absolutely do not.
>>8189379
>leaving is just nonsense
Destroying neoliberal capitalist institutions is not nonsense.
Another reason why Sinn Féin are just poser socialists.
>>8190176
>Actually you should since I'd put money on London cucking you until you're a third world country if the UK leaves.
m8, we're not exactly a hub of finance and international trade.
NI is probably the place that sees the fewest benefits of EU membership.
>>8190649
>latex vs leather being sexual
>politics
>>8192151
While Eire is probably one of the countries that's seen the most. You're p much the dog the London kicks every so often when it has to. It's not going to get better if the UK leaves and immediately has economic problems.
>>8190331
>Also it might trigger a slow break up of the EU which will lead to more aggressive Russian imperialism.
Not this boogeyman again.
Yeah, le ebil Putin is coming for us all.
>>8192185
It's not going to get better as long as capitalism exists for poor old NI. Here it's just permanently relatively shit by Western European standards. The south has ups and downs, but in the north for better or for worse you can depend on the quality.
Hell, the only reason England bothers to pump so much money into this place is basically protection money from terrorist attacks.
>>8192124
>Headteacher Shirley Taylor said the school suffered because most parents at the primary do not speak enough English, or have the financial wherewithal to engage in the kind of traditional PTA-type money-raising activities which provide additional resources in many schools.
You're absolutely mistaken, chum. Perfectly normal in Canada as well.
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14465044.Glasgow_primary_which_has_no_indigenous_Scots_launches_crowdfunding_appeal_to_buy_new_equipment/
>>8192243
That's not normal buddy. That's why there's a news story about it.
>>8192197
HEIL PUTLER
post yfw you realize normies actually beleive this
>>8192283
It's normal for parents to chip in for extras at school. It's not normal for parents to be so indigent that the teachers have to start a crowd funding campaign.
>traditional PTA-type money-raising activities
>traditional
In other words, normal. I guess in schools in the US or Canada where the parents are all broke, the government either picks up the slack, or they just go without and suffer in silence.
>>8187960
How can anyone be for Brexit though?
The EU is just like the Foundation at the end of the first book. They are in so deep that if they back out they are gonna get fucked. US, Canada and China already said that they are gonna favour EU rather than British trade. Also more than 50% of British trade is with the EU and to trade with them you have to meet the EU regulation standards they are so hellbent in making disappear with the exit. Then many companies are gonna jump boats like the rats they are fleeing the sinking ship and they'll switch the stock exchange capital to Frankfurt. They are shooting themselves in the foot just cause they fucking cucked Hindus and Pakis since forever and now they are coming to fucked their imperialist inbred asses. You play ruler of the world for so long don't be surprised when you fall they are going to want to fuck you.
>>8192864
I wouldn't mind the sub continentals that much but I would draw the line at syrians and gypsies
>>8192864
>and they'll switch the stock exchange capital to Frankfurt
This pretty much. And legal wise French Advocats have way way more going for them than English Barristers.
If exit happens, I wouldn't be surprised if before the end of the current Tory term they apply to get back in without a veto vote, with a significantly smaller economy etc etc. And generally just having its tail between its legs. And there'd still be people who supported the Tories after that, that is how retarded the country is.
>>8194238
Syrians are alright. Quite a lot of what you call gypsies, at least the ones from around Yugoslavia, a fair few are from the times of Roman empire, they were like nomadic sheep farmers. They're also significantly better than your travellers.
>>8192322
>It's normal for parents to chip in for extras at school.
In the UK it's normal to pay for trips and for a few low level fundraising things (although when I was a kid we spent a significant amount more on charity fundraising and even harvest festival). The typical fundraising thing would be a barbecue or a dance or something too, it's not usual for parents to just pay out unless it's a trip.
>>8190395
like a more bitter version of sorkin and spike lee
I heard an argument about Brexit from Indian migrants yesterday, arguing that it would be more difficult for them to enter the country.
I don't live in England, but that doesn't make sense. Isn't India part of the commonwealth anyway? Why would Brexit affect them?
>>8190426
>my hatred of Britain and its culture
Liberals, everyone
>>8187960
>How can anyone oppose Brexit?
Because they have an even rudimentary understanding of economics.
>>8195107
>economics
Fuck the economy.
When it comes to the EU the "economy" is invariably just a pretty way of saying "International business interests". And I have no love for that, if the EU is going to ruin their lives (which it won't) then good.
>>8192113
He didn't "jack off" to the country Germany, he "jacked off" to the German empire.
He didn't dislike Japs.
>>8187914
Chronological Snobbery.
Look it up.
tl;dr The "It's [the current year]!" argument summed-up and shot down.
>>8195120
You can be cucked by the European bourgeoisie or the British bourgeoisie. What a great choice
>>8195243
The British bourgeois want to return to serfdom p much and are generally shit tier. I welcome our European overlords. Plus free movement is p sweet.
>>8190434
Do you think the banana box argument is original and/or clever?
>>8195243
We're already cucked by both.
It's not a matter of picking one master over another, it's a matter of getting rid of half the masters or none of the masters.
>>8188193
>pound literally goes down every time polls say UK's gonna leave
>pound literally goes up every time the polls say UK's gonna stay
>>8195542
It's the large businesses that are possibly going to move hedging their bets. When it looks like leaving is more likely they buy more pound sterling to buffer the more likely exit.
>>8190356
1956–1962 Operation Harvest
1958 Opération Corse
1958 First Cod War
1959–2011 Basque conflict
1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
1968–1998 The Troubles
1970–1984 Unrest in Italy
1972 Bugojno group
1972–1973 Second Cod War
1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
1975–1976 Third Cod War
1988–1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War
1989 Romanian Revolution
1990–1991 Soviet attacks on Lithuanian border posts
1991 January Events
1991 The Barricades
1991 Ten-Day War (Slovenia)
1991–1992 Georgian war against Russo-Ossetian alliance
1991–1993 Georgian Civil War
1991–1995 Croatian War of Independence
1992 Transnistria War
1992 East Prigorodny Conflict
1992–1993 First Georgian war against Russo-Abkhazian alliance
1992–1995 Bosnian War
1993 Cherbourg incident
1993 Russian constitutional crisis
1994–1996 First Chechen War
1997 Albanian civil war of 1997
1998–1999 Kosovo War
1998–present Dissident Irish Republican campaign
1998 Second Georgian war against Russian-Abkhazian alliance
1999 War of Dagestan
1999–2009 Second Chechen War
1999–2001 Insurgency in the Preševo Valley
21st century[edit]
2001 Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia
2002 Perejil Island crisis
2004–2013 Unrest in Kosovo
2004 unrest in Kosovo
2008 unrest in Kosovo
2011–2013 North Kosovo crisis
2004 Georgia, Adjara crisis
2006 Georgia, Kodori crisis
2007–2015 Civil war in Ingushetia
2008 Russia–Georgia war
2009–present Insurgency in the North Caucasus
2013–2014 Euromaidan and pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
2014 Crimean crisis
2014–present War in Donbass
2015 Kumanovo clashes
>>8195638
Most of those were outside EU
>>8195648
Update your map, it's not 1960 anymore.
>>8195648
>so much war within Europe, and which, since the EU, has largely disappeared.
>so much war within Europe
>within Europe
>Europe
>Not the EU
Even if you eliminate those that occurred when the countries involved were outside the EU, you still have a considerable amount of conflict that the EU did fuck all to stop. Hardly the 'peace in our times' that Europhiles are so keen to tout.
However, when it comes to destabilising areas outside the EU - for example, the crisis over the Crimea and the overthrow of a democratically elected Ukrainian government - the EU seems to have been rather heavily involved, and as we all know (it's been on the cards for far longer than the British referendum campaign), the commission would like an EU army. Why? Why are the efforts of individual member states' forces not enough - weaker armies can be supplemented by willing support from other forces in the EU. Why build a centralized European army that lies outside the bounds of the democratic controls of the member states?
>>8187914
wtf is a brexit
>>8195703
You're p much saying that the EU is the new USA. Which was the point p much.
I'm also not massively convinced of a lot of those being solely down to the EU. But I broadly agree. And with a few exceptions it's been pretty good for everyone inside the EU.
>>8195707
It's what happens when nepotism is rife in the people that do the country wide campaigns in your country. I mean it seems like the same people who came up with that fuzzy workplace pensions shit are behind this Brexit shit.
>>8195707
It's a bunch of idiotic working class racists who want to break down all the work we've been doing in making Europe a progressive utopia.
>>8190464
>Implying they ever had it.
