It’s a shame that Rowling picked up absolutely zero from Nabakov’s writing style.

That was pretty apparent to me from the first chapter of the first book. I never got the hype and thought her writing was pretty bad, even by the YA standards of the time. Like, Piers Anthony farts out better YA fantasy on the toilet every morning, but Rowling writes some toddler-speak and everyone loses their fucking mind?

It’s even more insidious than this. In many conservative value sets, children are viewed as property, and domestic issues are viewed as household business. Many many cases of obvious CSA (and physical abuse in general) over the decades have been dismissed as “I’m sure the parents know best,” or “it’s not our business,” or “I’m sure we don’t know the whole story.” It was only very recently that this veil was pierced even a little bit, but it was not without significant struggle. And even now there is a growing backlash to the idea that children are to be allowed any autonomy or agency beyond their parents. Many people still believe it is is ok to hit children, or that children should not be allowed to use a nickname in school. These are all vestiges or even new iterations of this exact same attitude which has enabled all manner of child abuse over the years.

Make no mistake, in the conservative worldview, child abuse is still, to this day, only bad if the parents say it is bad.

Get topped idiot

Do you believe that if the US didn’t make weapons, then everyone else would also just stop making weapons?

IDK, I’d rather the people making the weapons be on our side.

And 7 bears fucking

They got the joke wrong though

This explains a lot.

The hexbear admin is on the record saying they primarily care about information warfare in their interactions with the broader fediverse

Can you live without using your thumbs?

This explains a lot

Woman inherits the earth

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Excuse me but are you me?

Are you KOЯN?

Oh no

This year is for Baltimore Bird. Please acknowledge timely and well informed credible.

Biden also isnt the one doing a genocide. He’s the one trying to navigate a complex geopolitical clusterfuck, while dealing a genocidal maniac who very clearly wants Donald Trump to win so he can turn the genocide up to 11.

The intentional willingness to suck all nuance out of this conversation and reduce it to a single binary purity test is complete madness. It’s hard to believe anyone pushing this rhetoric is operating in good faith.

Is this your first day on Lemmy?

Even in the US that’s not consistent. We definitely talked about unsavory parts of US history in my state.