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  • flandish@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonedumbass rule
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    1 day ago

    well I could make a (thin) case that it’s part of the world she built and the entire population except for a cohort of a small few children and some odd adults are against it.

    so the world at large is ok with that shite behavior; and judging by how many kids grew up to “be slytherin” we can see they just didn’t grok the actual story.




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    2 days ago

    the bankers in book one are literally a bigoted analog for jews.

    an entire swath of story is about “mudbloods” and race mixing and some characters railing against it.

    there is actual slavery.

    stuff american conservatives are all pushing as ideas in our current world.



  • i have given up. I mean, I had when I was a developing young adult and while I am in my mid 40’s now, it’s only embiggened my concerns. it’s taboo here on .world but I truly think the problem is the current era’s phase of capitalism’s expansion especially with the adaptation to technology in the last 50 years.

    there was, truly, no time when this country was great; and I’d posit there is no time when any country is as they exist to extract and exploit.

    there is no where to go.

    so what I do and have done for 20 some odd years now is try to affect (effect??) change in my community. my “city” is like 14k people. I am a firefighter, first responder, and help where I can elsewhere when I see it. i vote. make my concerns known at town hall, especially against how much our PD is expanding due to “safety” horseshit. I help others vote, I mean to say help them realize they can, where to go, etc. I joke but am kind of serious too when I tell our selectmen that the reason I like supporting my small town is because we know where they live. They get the point with a chuckle and then ask for my votes.