[Abyss]

Maark Abbott, on 02 April 2026 - 08:22 AM, said:

...Folk on the left are essentially done with her and won't engage....

They're not tho, bcs HP continues to make her big white sticky globs of money and give her the influence and attention to further her hate.

I get all the 'separate the artist from the art' arguments and that's fine when the artist has died (Eddings) or mostly STFU (Card) but here the artist is still alive and actively using the money from the art for evil, and thinking adults continue to pay her for their childhood escapism.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 02 April 2026 - 02:41 PM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 02 April 2026 - 08:22 AM, said:

...Folk on the left are essentially done with her and won't engage....

They're not tho, bcs HP continues to make her big white sticky globs of money and give her the influence and attention to further her hate.

I get all the 'separate the artist from the art' arguments and that's fine when the artist has died (Eddings) or mostly STFU (Card) but here the artist is still alive and actively using the money from the art for evil, and thinking adults continue to pay her for their childhood escapism.

This is it. I'm doing my best to not show my kids more HP content than they've already seen...because I'm hoping they don't glom onto it as I simply don't want to fund JKR's war on Trans people.

[Cause]

 QuickTidal, on 31 March 2026 - 06:24 PM, said:

Kristi Noem’s Husband Accused of Living Double Life as Crossdresser Obsessed With ‘Bimbofication’ Kink

A few things about this……

I’m slightly uncomfortable with this story, he is not a politician. He married one, and he supported one who is human trash but Kristi Noem is the problem. She is also out. This story tarnishes her by proximity but she is already out. This story came too late, is focused on the wrong half of the marriage and the timing is even suspect. Who delivered this story and why.

A husband of a famous politician can’t be suprised if he gets public attention but this is digging deeper than the surface. Yes maybe another republican doingin private what they criticize in public is news and the hypocrisy is real but this story is more about laughing at him and to a lesser extent Kristi Noem. Torture Barbie deserves what she gets but this story and the way the media smirks about it is also gross.


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I don’t know why but JKR is a non entity for me. I never see her teeets, posts comments or whatever else. I know of the controversy and forget when I was first told about it. Harry Potter remains as it always was for me, divorced from a women who I don’t know and don’t really care about. I agree it’s a shame to finance people who spread hate and entry not too but I for me the real take away is that the opinions of famous people are not worth anymore than any random passer by on the street. Sadly that horse bolted from the barn a long time ago.

Some famous people are clearly erudite and intellectual and can speak with great insight into many topics but I have never felt JKR iso one of them. If she wants to tell me about how wizards in Africa go to school I’ll trust her answer but otherwise she just lands with a dull thud.

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As I wrote this I got an alert that Pam Bondinis fired. When will they learn that loyalty and sycophantsy won’t protect them. Good for her finally. Alas the replacement will be as bad or worse.

The flood gates have opened though. Goodbye Kristi, goodbye Pam. Pete I am waiting for you next. The choas only gets worse from here. Trumps approval nose dive will continue. Will anyone important find a spine before it’s too late. Precedent says no.

This post has been edited by Cause: Yesterday, 05:33 PM

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Tsundoku, on 01 April 2026 - 12:16 PM, said:

As an aside, one of my pet hates is when people conflate - either deliberately, knowing it's bullshit (those at the top), or out of sheer wilful ignorance (their supporters) - communism or socialism with totalitarianism or authoritarianism.

Two are economic systems and two are governmental systems. You might argue that communism is also a governmental system, except it's more accurately described as governmental control of the means of production. The government (ostensibly) being "the people". Funny thing being, every government in history that was described as being "communist" (self described as socialist) was such in name only, and in reality was simply another feudal style hierarchy, after replacing the previous one with an even worse one. Kleptocracy is another far better description, along with oligarchy or plutocracy later on.

It's not like there was ever a golden age of honesty, but I feel like some of those words used to actually mean things beyond 'people I don't like.' But a lot of it is now just namecalling.

We also get all the people in extremely safe Western nations insisting they live in a fascist dictatorship.