• buh [she/her]
    ·
    3 years ago

    "why didn't the wizards get involved with WWII and use their powers to stop the Holocaust?" I think we're about to get the real answer

    • Theblarglereflargle [any]
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      3 years ago

      It appears a major plot point is going to be Dumbledore heroically finding a way to keep wizards out of the war.

      Rowling’s centrism has reached cringe we never thought possible.

      • RNAi [he/him]
        hexagon
        ·
        3 years ago

        Having the highest moral ground by letting people be genocided

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        How do they reconcile that with his involvement in resisting the Death Eaters, who are deliberately supposed to have Nazi parallels?

        • YouKnowIt [he/him]
          ·
          3 years ago

          He didn't really do anything there either, if anything he was basically the dude that rejected Hitler's application to art school lmao

          • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
            ·
            3 years ago

            Eh, he did a bit. He founded the Order of the Phoenix, as well as found a few Horcruxes before Harry.

            • YouKnowIt [he/him]
              ·
              3 years ago

              Man got got by the very first one he found and almost got his prophecy delivered hero killed by the second

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      3 years ago

      They are gonna implicate "muggles can't kill so many people that fast" don't they

    • bananon [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The real answer is they did, but only the Russian wizards from the Goblet of Fire

      • RNAi [he/him]
        hexagon
        ·
        3 years ago

        That's cannon from book seven yes, althought I'm not sure Durmstang or whatever was called was located in Russia.

        • bananon [he/him]
          ·
          3 years ago

          Wait is that real I made it up. Also apparently Durmstrang has no canonical location, just somewhere in northeastern Europe

          • RNAi [he/him]
            hexagon
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            edit-2
            3 years ago

            In book seven the dude from Drumstrang is barely stopped from kicking the ass of the father of Luna Lovewood, who is a weirdo who wears the symbol of the Deathly Hallows, which was the symbol Grindelwald used to do his nazism in eastern Europe. Nobody in the big party (that included french people) knew shit about that symbol except the dude from Eastern Europe, who got really pissed cuz his grandpas were killed by Grindelwaldists.

            Curious...

              • RNAi [he/him]
                hexagon
                ·
                3 years ago

                Hey, y'all told me that I'm a liberal and I should read theory so I did :theory-gary:

                  • RNAi [he/him]
                    hexagon
                    ·
                    3 years ago

                    Instructions unclear, mind stuck in a children book serie

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          edit-2
          3 years ago
          covering my nerdy compulsion by making comedic shitposts

          cannon :hst-gun:

          canon :virgil-bb:

          • AllCatsAreBeautiful [he/him]
            ·
            3 years ago

            Not an attack on you personally but im surprised we still have virgil emotes after the whole, ya know, him grooming a teenager thing

              • AllCatsAreBeautiful [he/him]
                ·
                3 years ago

                Idk, the fact that there's no one defending him including himself and that others are speaking out against him (even if they're not victims themselves) saying it's well known in their circles makes it a pretty strong "allegedly"

              • AllCatsAreBeautiful [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Oh I thought this was pretty common knowledge. They never said it outright but it's pretty well understood that him grooming a 15 year old (I think, maybe 14 or 16) girl is why he's no longer on Chapo

                • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
                  ·
                  3 years ago

                  It very well might be common knowledge, I just had a big gap where I stopped paying attention to Chapo.

                      • AllCatsAreBeautiful [he/him]
                        ·
                        3 years ago

                        Yeahh, also pretty disappointed in the chapos that they wouldn't say anything about it and said he left to pursue "other creative projects" (he's now doing a podcast with a former bernie campaign staffer, as noted in the article)

                        • PlantsRstillCool [des/pair]
                          ·
                          3 years ago

                          Is he still on Bad Faith? I listen to an episode or two but it didn't really work for me so i haven't listened since like the first two episodes

                          • regul [any]
                            ·
                            3 years ago

                            He's still in the header, but just looking at the twitter feed for the pod he's not in any of the videos posted. Safe to say he has gone dark completely.

                      • AllCatsAreBeautiful [he/him]
                        ·
                        3 years ago

                        It's my personal theory that everyone's refusal to speak up is part of why Amber left/went dark.

                • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
                  ·
                  3 years ago

                  It probably is common knowledge, but it is also worth noting lots of people have never or no longer keep up with the chapo trap house. I have never watched a single clip and don't know the people. The old subreddit was one swell shindig and this site is the only one not swarming with chuds.

    • Alex_Jones [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      On one hand, I'd like to see a good writer navigate such a complicated topic in a story. On the other, I'm looking forward to Rowling fucking this up.

    • Parzivus [any]
      ·
      3 years ago

      I mean wizards barely even see muggles as human right? They probably just don't give a fuck, as fucking awful as that sounds

    • rubpoll [she/her]
      ·
      3 years ago

      "Because trying to stop it would have been worse, actually." - the inevitable lib-brained message.