I have no words to describe this one
I have no words to describe this one
I am once again asking you to READ ANOTHER FUCKING BOOK
When the founder of Hamas had to do a heckin Hamas he was all "I wish I didnt have to see such horror," his mentor was like
“So do I,” said Al-Gandalfi, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Doing anything for you?
I'm already working on a fanfic series for the expanded universe.
You see Hamas is like the Empire and Israel is the Resistance and
That one where the hunger games would be seen as solution for Gaza?
Remember when I was like "It's weird that a lot of movies have villains that had trauma that 'turned them evil' as a trope"
HMMMMMMM
Also liberals read another book I beg you. Reality is not a children's novel.
Remember when I was like "It's weird that a lot of movies have villains that had trauma that 'turned them evil' as a trope"
The thing is, this isn't even true for Voldemort. By the text of the story, he was just Intrinsically Evil™ and even as a child he was always the one hurting bullying other people and not the one being bullied. So this is one of the worst possible choices of villains they could have used.
Yeah
Hot take but I don't think comparing things to movies or books or other stories is a bad thing, libs just have terrible taste and no media literacy so they alway end up cringe
Laughable thing to say when the whole crux of israel is basically "historical Jewish suffering mean israel gets to go ape-shit and that you're an antisemite if you think that's wrong."
Also if you try to justify actual atrocities through the lens of children's media, you should be wailed on with a fly-swatter until you have welts, I'm so fucking tired of that shit.
They did it! They said the thing! Truly this is some kind of supreme lib, an "alpha lib" if you will.
Circumstances did not create Lord Voldemort! JK Rowling created Lord Voldemort! How the fuck do these people avoid dying of embarrassment mentioning fucking children's books in serious political discussions???
Terry Pratchett is a wonderful author for the younger children/cousins/comrades/anyone with a heart to read. Don't let ya kids read pro-slave, transphobic authors!
Can't wait to become a parent so I can go ballistic on my child's elementary school for reading Harry Potter with the kids.
Tiffany Aching > Harry Potter. All her books are about how the real magic is helping other people and caring for your community.
Hell even Mustrum Ridcully is way better wizard that any Hogwarts hog.
Harry Potter is just a Wizard of Earthsea ripoff. Feed your children LeGuinn and Pritchett.
Obvious Harry Potter
aside, the metaphor doesn’t even make sense. Voldemort doesn’t go after Potter because he blames him for anything, he goes after him because of a prophecy.because of a prophecy
Sooo pretty much the same reason that the state of Israel exists in the first place?
We should start a crowdfund to send libs en masse to Palestine so they can talk to Palestinians about how they're acting like Slytherins when they really should be more like Griffindors. They probably just never thought about it that way. And then Palestine can be partitioned through the 4-state solution, with each state named after a Hogwarts house and only people of respective characteristics may live in a particular state. Israelis will be in Griffindor automatically and Palestinians will be either in Slytherin if they don't condemn Hamas or maybe they can make it to Ravenclaw if they do condemn Hamas, but if they condemn Hamas and are top physical specimens then they can maybe go to Griffindor. Then all the houses, except Slytherin, led by Hunter Biden as Harry Potter will team up for one final battle against Lord Voldemort Putin in Russia and win. Ukraine is the other school with the blondes. This might be the way to peacefully settle the conflicts in the Middle-east and the world.
Jesus, this is how libs think.
We should start a crowdfund to send libs en masse to Palestine
Haven't the Palestinians suffered enough already?
Isn'trael already did this. Look how well it's going.
Harry Potter is a fed
so of course I support Comrade Voldemort in his struggle against British Magocratic imperialism
(I have never read the books)In our terms Voldemort is more like an ethno-nationalist taking advantage of a paralyzed, dying neoliberal structure and how it's already inherently racist. The wizards themselves live in a highly alienated liberal gerontocracy where nothing happens.
The closest thing to leftism is one book where Hermione tries to quite literally organize against actual slavery of elves and the other wizards treat her like a loudmouthed annoyance. Then they tell her elves actually enjoy being enslaved.
House elves enjoy being enslaved, which is why Hermione is annoying and wrong and should shut up.
Harry you've only met two house elves and they were both highly resentful of being enslaved-
Yeah whatever nerd watch me catch the golden snitch with my trustfund broomstick lol does crosschops in midair
I think the Shaun video summed it up best when he said something like "the series frequently threatens to become interesting."
It's just always implying that it could have interesting ideas and complex themes and then it just doesn't.
The guy who looks like Emperor Palpatine with no nose? I kinda just assumed he was evil for the sake of evil. Look at the dude, black cloaks, all pale and stuff. He's trying to seem evil.
Harry potter belongs on the banned book list.
Me as a kid: "These adults who want to ban Harry Potter are so weird. It's just some books about silly wizards, it's not Satanic"
Me now "We need a turbo NKVD specifically for Harry Potter."
Yeah, I’ll be honest, I’m a sucker for fantasy stuff, so I grew up loving it. However, at this point its doing more damage when you have Disney adults regurgitating it as foreign policy.
THEY'RE NOT FUCKING REAL AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
Starship troopers but it’s burning a full set of the HP books before you’re allowed to become a citizen
I am doing my part!
Genocide by people with agency is circumstances, but resistance by (cough AYrabs cough) is evil.
I've often said that the chance for dialogue doesn't exist; this just reinforces it. You can't talk to people like this, they've got brains made of mashed potatoes.
Isn’t there actually like no circumstances to Voldemort being evil though? Like isn’t it just oh this guy is the descendant of Salazar slytherin so obviously he wants to genocide half bloods?
In both hurry potten and the liberal worldview, ideology is genetically heritable
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From what I remember reading the books as a child and teen, his mom, who's family was whatever the British version of the banjo-playing toothless hillbilly white trash trope is, used magic to make a handsome rich aristocratic man fall in love with her until he snapped out of it and disowned her and the kid
Though in pure Harry Potter fashion, I think it was implied him turning out evil wasn't due to the actual material circumstances of his childhood fucking him up psychologically, but rather that being fathered while his dad was under the influence of magical date rape drugs made him inherently evil and amoral
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yeah the other comment that was removed said that the reason given in the book for Tom's evilness is that he was conceived while his muggle father was under the influence of some sort of love potion or dark magic or something.
Hush sweetie, the adults are talking
Fellas, is having parents who love you equivalent to suffering an ethnic cleansing campaign directed at your people?
What's funny is that, actually, this is a really tough one. We need to consider all the nuances.
Even if you're going down to her level, it's going to boil down to riots being the language of the unheard. Circumstances created Voldemort, sure. With some text blurbs from a Google search because I'm not going deep into TERF wizard lore, looks like he had unresolved trauma and wants to hurt people who are like people who hurt him. He's not directly helping some marginalized group harmed by the same people and he himself is no longer being harmed. If he was a more compelling character and, upon being confronted by status-quo-future-cop Harry who's all "stop helping these people" destroys a supply of water bottles you would cheer for Voldemort to kill Harry.
It's far worse. Voldemort exists because of (CW, SA)
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His mum used a "love potion" (date rape drug basically) on his father and became pregnant with him.
The lore of Harry Potter is that because he was conceived in this way, he is literally incapable of love or caring about other people. I think this is an important bit of "lore" to consider when this lib talks about "Circumstances created Voldemort." She's really pushing this idea of "evil people being born evil."
It's much more disgusting the more I think about this, probably already put far more thought into this tweet than she ever did before tweeting it.
Harry Potter lore in general seems to have this idea that love is some transcendental magic force that is carried from person to person regardless of their actual upbringing or life experience. Despite being raised by awful abusive foster parents Harry is good cuz his parents he never met loved him and the magic energy of their love allowed him to develop into an emotionally mature and ethnical human despite being raised in such a toxic environment. Same with Neville. Meanwhile if you had mean shitty parents that evil taint of having been spawned by bad people lingers with you forever. One possible exception being Sirius Black, but even he's kind of a piece of shit even if he's on the right side of the wizard Nazi war.
So yeah even if you were adopted by loving supportive parents who raised you right if you had horrible biological parents you're doomed to be a bad person. Meanwhile you can be raised in a dysfunctional home but if your mommy and daddy you never met love you beyond the grave you'll turn out okay.
I'm going to work on my magic college novel today. I suddenly feel less bad for my rewarded-for-bad-behavior bad guy.
"Yeah, he was born evil and couldn't help it. That doesn't mean we should cheer when he tries to kill good people" is so dogshit. It's like the NPC meme. It's like a denial that other people have consciousness behind their face. It's an inability to conceive that people have different circumstances that breed different conclusions for ethics. It's that "you can either agree with me or be foolish" that takes you™️ up the ladder in a corporation.
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Animeharry potter was a mistake" -Hayao MiyazakiLiberal media sometimes makes their villains correct up to a point, except then they take it too far, or turn out to also be deranged. This is an attempt to make the villain more three dimensional instead of being someone who's so evil they no longer register as human or conscious. This isn't the case with Voldemort. He was born from a weird love potion ritual and he was simply born evil. He was a bully ad a kid and has organized a big fascist club to kill people simply because he's full of himself. He wants a big statue of himself on a throne in one book.
If this is how liberals see their political opponents we're gonna have a hard time. They don't even view Palestinians as conscious people, they're simply bad and wrong for the sake of it.
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This is just someone trying to mash idealism into materialism at high speeds
Yeah this is a tough one
I think if you say something like this you should be shot
I hit "hvoldemort"
