I hate how libs ALWAYS try to compare real politics to popular media.

Maybe it says something about their ability to comprehend complex situations without needing to compare it to something made to be easily understandable. Or maybe it’s a testament to their belief that there are somehow objective good and evil sides in the world, or think real politics should play out like a movie.

  • AgreeableLandscape☭OPM
    17·
    3 years ago

    I’ve never read Harry Potter, but isn’t Harry someone that breaks the rules all the damn time at Hogwarts and somehow exceptions get made for him and no one else? And wasn’t Voldemort driven insane by the actions of the “good” guys which led him to turn to evil?

    Huh, maybe that mural is more accurate than it seems.

        • Kirbywithwhip1987
          7·
          3 years ago

          Voldemort isn’t even a good villain, even in pure evil kind of way, that place goes to The Senate of course.

            • Kirbywithwhip1987
              4·
              3 years ago

              Every Star Wars movie 1-6 is good, and it’s even better when you realize what was the inspiration for Lucas. I agree, I don’t get why so much people hate the prequels? No Star Wars movie deserves the hate, prequels or OT, Disney on the other hand… And Rowling is just adding bullshit to the story that no one asked for.

          • loathsome dongeaterMA
            7·
            3 years ago

            It’s like how Dumbledore was gay but thoroughout the whole series he doesn’t do one thing that’s gay. Tbf he also doesn’t do anything that is straight. But I still feel confident that he wasn’t gay in the author’s head until much later after the last book was published.

      • AgreeableLandscape☭OPM
        9·
        3 years ago

        Yeah people recently have been saying that Rowling “became” a TERF, or a bigot, or whatever.

        Hell no, she always was one, and it showed through in her writing.

          • PolandIsAStateOfMind
            91·
            3 years ago

            “the intricate detail and study of Latin she did to name spells and world build” which is crap because she very much subscribes to the stick two words together to make a new word school of world building

            Wait what? Rowling has the worst naming sense in entire known to me literature bar none. I literally stopped in the half of first book because everything was named so absolutely cringy and immersion breaking.

            Compare to Glen Cook “Black Company” where most people are also named weirdly but it somehow fits totally, so it can be done, but she just completely botched it.

              • AgreeableLandscape☭OPM
                6·
                3 years ago

                Seriously? We’re still worked up about the portrayal of “magic” in media?

                Brings me back to when Evangelical Christians in the US were screeching about the name “Sorcerer’s Stone” for the first HP book, beause sorcerer is unholy and demonic ooOOOOOOooooo👻! But the official name was actually Philosopher’s Stone, they changed it for the US for some reason.

                Or when Christians were saying Pokemon Go let you catch literal demons which could possess you. Because there were Pokemon based on ghosts and Japanese Yokai. Oh, and don’t forget the fact that they evolve! We can’t let children hear that word!

          • AgreeableLandscape☭OPM
            7·
            3 years ago

            the intricate detail and study of Latin

            Why do I suspect that involved Google Translate at some point lol

              • AgreeableLandscape☭OPM
                7·
                3 years ago

                Also, being Chinese, I very often find myself saying this whenever an English speaker uses the native name of an East Asian person: “you know the last name goes in front right?”

                  • AgreeableLandscape☭OPM
                    7·
                    3 years ago

                    I’ve heard “well I’m speaking English aren’t I? And English puts the last name behind the first!”

                    Also, as much as I generally like Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, this always irked me as an Asian: there’s an alien character called Kira Nerys, whose name format is the same as the East Asian one, so her last name is Kira and first name is Nerys. Which, I’ve always wondered: She’s an alien, so they did they pick that as a quirk to show just how “out of this world” her culture is? Bruh there are well over a billion people on Earth whose names are formatted like that!

          • Rafael_Luisi
            5·
            3 years ago

            Every non bri’ish thing in the universe is some fucking stereotype. The magic school on brasil is on the fucking amazon florest, because thats literally the only thing that anglos know about south america. Its so superficial and obvious that someone asked her on twitter and she made that up in like one minute because she could not give a fuck into actual world building

    • Catradora-Stalinism☭
      13·
      3 years ago

      harry also does nothing to solve any problems besides voldy, and just lives the rest of his life as a wizard cop