• rojo@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Spot on. Sirius Black escaped an inescapable prison for the sole purpose, it was widely believed, of murdering Harry. The permission slip was just a convenient excuse to keep Harry protected.

    RE: idgaf, you’re allowed, you know. You can love the art but dislike the artist. Or like the artist if you wish. I’m personally indifferent to Rowling but consider the Harry Potter series to be clever and highly entertaining. I find it much more engaging than The Silmarillion.

    Also, people are too eager to cast judgement on each other, and too often forget that people have layers, like onions. Or a parfait. My dad was a Fox News, AM talk radio, Facebook propaganda cult follower whose politics were buggered beyond repair. He occasionally spouted racist or bigoted or otherwise insensitive bullshit. He was also a model father and husband, selfless, generous, kind, soft spoken, and loved by everyone who had ever met him. To know how eager much of the world would be to cancel him for his political beliefs breaks my heart, and I’m grateful he was horrible with technology, well-shielded from the summary judgement of social justice warriors.

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      6 hours ago

      She literally funds transphobic hate groups the fuck you mean to egear to cast judgment.

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      10 hours ago

      I find it much more engaging than The Silmarillion.

      That is understandable. Silmarillion is like a collection of extended footnotes and a cosmology rulebook.

    • baines@lemmy.cafe
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      9 hours ago

      if my parfait or onion has a shit flavored layer in it, I’m throwing the whole thing into the trash

      especially if that parfait then uses it’s vast wealth to make more of the world shit flavored