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Please help the family of a non-verbal autistic child (who has been losing weight because he only eats certain kinds of food, largely unavailable during this time) leave Gaza!

Hello, my name is Mohammed Alassar, currenlty living in Sweden and I am fundra… Mohammed Alassar needs your support for Help Aser and his fa

ghminerals

Pristine Besednice spiky hedgehog Moldavite 16.7 grams. Direct form the source Czech Republic. 2.75 inch long

brbjellyfishing

visit-ba-sing-se

i hate you private jets i hate you bitcoin i hate you cars that go 200 mph i hate you golf parks i hate you yachts i hate you huge mansions with a pool i hate you luxery resorts i hate you exessive wealth causally killing the planet and using up ressources we all need

visit-ba-sing-se

“okay but it’s their money! They can decide how to spend it!” Yeah okay but it’s our atmosphere! and water! and no amount of wealth should give you free reign over that!

ayeforscotland

forumgamer

It’s… pretty blatant?

ayeforscotland

It really is. Here’s Jon Stewart talking about how it somehow gets a free pass.

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bilko

it’s so fucked up. i remember reading the books expecting there to be a turn in the story, that house elves and goblins would be freed from wizard tyranny, i expected the story to culminate in some sort of a cultural revolution. we got to the part where harry buried dobby, and griphook felt touched that harry showed such respect to a creature that most wizards looked down on so he helped them in turn - and then betrayed them at his earliest convenience and it was all done out of greed. well fuck that shit. literally nothing changed. they killed voldemort and for what? they didn’t put a stop to the ideals that sustained his influence! everyone stayed just as racist and classist as they were before and i read 7 books about the necessity of changing the status quo only for the protagonists to become the status quo in the end with a myriad of social issues never addressed.

it had a really good opportunity for a nice story but it remained unaware of its own themes (unless it was purposefully racist which i wouldn’t presume) and for that it fell flat and we’re left with a story that could have been about racism/classism from the nonracist/nonclassist perspective of the yet uncorrupted youth but what we got was plain old racism and classism with the not-as-subtle-as-we-thought hint of homophobia and transphobia.

ayeforscotland

Despite coming from one of the worst places on the internet, I always thought this was pretty good analysis of how nothing really changes in the wizarding world because Harry is born from an author who rigidly clings to the status quo rather than the betterment of society.

probablyasocialecologist

“The Harry Potter books are a childish rescue fantasy that feeds into a far more adult escapism: they are, after all, the ultimate fairytale of social mobility through merit. If you’re born with magical ability, you get to go to a special school where they’ll teach you special skills, and that’s okay, because you’ll be part of the good elite, who get to mess around catching pixies and playing wizard chess and protecting the powerless, and not the bad elite, who are like Nazis with better hair. In these stories, liberal meritocracy is set against the simpler evil of aristocracy—those wizards, including the Dark Lord himself, whose main bugbear throughout the series is the corruption of “pure” magical blood by Muggle-born witches and wizards. In a feat of worldbuilding that chimed perfectly with liberal triumphalism of the mid-nineties, it turns out that all magic is really good for—all Rowling’s Wizard government, the Ministry of Magic, exists to do—is to maintain the wizarding world as a secretive parasite universe, invisible to ordinary folk.”

What are the uses of enchantment? As the wizarding world charms its way into our collective cultural forebrain once more, that’s the questio

amberpriceenthusiast

I desperately crave a friendship like the teen titans have in Gabriel Picolo’s art

evilvarric666-archive

Cats understand "naughty". In fact I think they're the only animal who understands it. Dogs know "good" and "bad" but not Naughty. Same with theft. Cats know what theft is. They know when they are thieving and you can see it on their faces. Squirrels are thieves but they don't know that. They know "take" and "have" but they don't comprehend what it is to steal. Nor do raccoons or coyotes or any species of rodent. They may participate in theft but they are ignorant of the weight of what they do, the full meaning of it. Cats know what crime is and they do it on purpose.