no need to write an essay or anything

some libs and baby leftists are kinda baffled by the trump banter here and don't know what's serious and what's irony

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    10 months ago

    some libs and baby leftists are kinda baffled by the trump banter here and don't know what's serious and what's irony

    As opposed to what, acting hysterical anytime he's mentioned and feigning enough outrage to some moral degree? Calling him a wet boy and laughing at him takes actual agency away from some of the ghoulish shit he does. When you act like he's Voldemort (is that the bad from Harry Potter) and not being able to name him is shit he revels in. Literally everything libs have done to try and combat Trump has fallen on it's face and only made him more emboldened. Not to mention it's simply unfunny and often punches down in the process, like showing him sucking Putin's dick. Nice one, way to throw gay men under the bus too.

      • SovietyWoomy [any]
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        10 months ago

        Voldemort used a spell to track everyone who said his name, just like how the feds are tracking everyone who is critical of capitalism.

          • HornyOnMain
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            10 months ago

            Yeah its just like mentioned once at one point in the last book about half the way through after people keep somehow finding the elite guerilla force of 3 teenage wizards fighting against Voldemort and then it's just never mentioned again - it feels a lot like Rowling wrote herself into a corner with the stuff she gave the kids to make them hard to find and then just made up a bullshit reason for how the bad guys kept finding them so she could keep up the drama

              • Vncredleader [he/him]
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                10 months ago

                iirc it is something that he can only manage with the control of the ministry. Same reason floo powder becomes unusable at that time

            • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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              10 months ago

              Lol I'm listening to a reread podcast and that's like, the signature Rowling move: anticipating some criticism of a relatively minor plot hole, and trying to get out ahead of it with the most head-scratching preemptive explanations that do nothing except draw way more attention to the plot hole and sometimes also destroy the logic of the setting.

      • radiofreeval [any]
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        10 months ago

        Due to posting decree #796, discussion of the Harry Potter books is strictly prohibited. Please turn in your posting license.