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.

You can literally travel to China and find out yourself

Almost all of these “national security” trials are done in complete secret by the Adjudicative Committee, which is a political CCP body that oversees the public legal system. Its exact workings are a state secret, but it generally reviews all court proceedings and defers to the public court for most matters. However for any case which involves foreign affairs or national security, there is a high chance that the Adjudicative Committee will hold a national security trial in secret and deliver the verdict to the appointed trial judge, who will read the verdict into the public record.

You don’t even have to say it. Go hand out “free Taiwan” pamphlets in tiananmen square and I promise you that you will be arrested extremely quickly and tried in secret. Your “trial” will be a judge telling your lawyer the charges, verdict and sentence to an otherwise empty courtroom. If you are very lucky you will be deported with time served.

Source: I have family in China who are quiet dissidents.

Sucking Xi Jinping’s salty taint.

Death always to tyrants. Overthrow the CCP. Democracy in Beijing!

Israel would solo Russia ggez.

It’s funny because you are still allowed to post these shit takes, but if you switched Hamas and Russia you’d be banned from .ml at light speed.

As someone who has actually been gassed, it makes no fucking difference. Milk doesn’t do shit. Saline doesn’t do shit. Water doesn’t do shit. Goggles do shit.

Smoke more weed and your dreams will stop. Doctors hate this one trick.

Yes, they literally kidnapped a 7 year old child and continue to hold him hostage, over religious woo they do not officially believe in.

Which political views? Hmm?

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

Blocking an instance only removes your individual ability to interact with an instance. It doesn’t have any impact on the information warfare value of the instance. If anything, it only amplifies it by self-sequestration of opposing voices.

It’s the same thing as putting typos in phishing emails so you only target stupid people.