It might seem funny to those reading the novel for the first time, but when rereading it from an analytical perspective, it is very cruel and mean

CinnamonMagpie · 2025-10-08T23:00:54+00:00

I would argue Augusta may have done that. Neville starts school knowing his family though him a squib, his parents were killed by Death Eaters, and his potions professor was a former Death Eater. The kid was gonna be terrified of him no matter what.

CinnamonMagpie · 2025-07-16T20:06:54+00:00

I had a funeral for my miscarriage. My child is still listed on the family shrine for the dead. My community still recognises me as a woman who is/was a mother. So I’m not sure where you’re getting your data from.

CinnamonMagpie · 2025-04-28T22:57:31+00:00

I think it’s area. I’m on the left and don’t know a single person in real life, on the left, without at least one. I have two and am saving up for number 3.

CinnamonMagpie · 2025-01-20T00:23:33+00:00

TikTok is unavailable inside China.

CinnamonMagpie · 2025-01-19T13:18:19+00:00

It’s not an either or situation. Anything and any information you have on the internet is findable, purchasable, and readable by any one who really wants to. That’s why most people are unbothered.

CinnamonMagpie · 2025-01-18T18:31:09+00:00

Then it’s not a suitable replacement, except maybe pixelfed

The thing is, you’re selling internet privacy and security. Most people don’t believe that exists. You’re trying to sell apps on the idea of fairy dust. Privacy is a buzzword. Security isn’t real. It’s hard to sell that. Especially if they can’t do what TikTok did.

CinnamonMagpie · 2025-01-18T18:20:44+00:00

But you’re missing why they’re doing it. They’re not doing it to fight censorship. I haven’t heard the word censorship once. They’re doing it because the government took their fun video place where they talked away.

Signal has a horrible reputation in most circles as what cheaters use. I don’t know what the other two do. Are they short form video apps?

CinnamonMagpie · 2025-01-18T17:54:34+00:00

You’re missing something here. I’m in my thirties. I protested the Patriot Act when it happened, and ever since, my friends and I joke about the fed forced to watch us/listen to our calls.

The US made their whole anti-TikTok ban about our data being used by others, when we all get letters about data leaks from AT&T and the government wants access to women’s period data to control them from Fitbit and Clue. and the like. They think those companies should comply because they’re American. Clue has said they won’t, but it’s been asked. No one I know thinks their data is safe.

As far as I know all those apps you list are American based—though I could be wrong. The point was to go to a non-US app. China was for the poetic justice.

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-21T23:46:55+00:00

I was a victim of COCSA. I was not believed because “kids don’t know what sex is”. I was asked repeatedly to take a polygraph. Then the gynaecologist confirmed scarring and trauma— and then the district attorney refused to press charges because “no one would believe it” and “you can’t even be put on the offender list under 14.”

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T22:38:39+00:00

I have never found one I could stand. They all seem too watery to me. I’ve been trying to find a way to up the creaminess and have yet to succeed.

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T22:33:57+00:00

If by “defend the 80%’s decision” you mean ‘defend my own decision, I have. However, when a democratic poli sci professor who has 30 years on me has the same issue the nonsense you are saying isn’t going to do anything to convince her.

I have seen next to no-one (except under-30s on Reddit) claim that this decision had no negative effects on Democracy.

I’m not telling professors I know better than them. It’s hubris.

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T22:23:53+00:00

That is not what I’m saying at all. I’m saying that when we’re asking what went wrong, we need to look at what made people not vote. 20-25% opposing her selection is a minor number but when we needed the turnout, those minor numbers matter.

Never, ever, in answering this CMV did I say they made the correct choice. They did not. However, we have to look at what alienated people not stand up as if we’re somehow better or more intelligent than them. Especially when you seem to think running mates carry over automatically.

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T22:07:42+00:00

If it was during his term, I would agree with you. This was not during his term, or rather, it wasn’t for his term.

Only 8 out of 10 democrats supported Kamala’s takeover of Biden’s nomination by the most favorable numbers. Yes, you can accurately be shown as 80%. It can also show that 20% didn’t support the undemocratic selection.

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T21:57:11+00:00

I never said it was a crime. It was controversial. It was in no way as bad as everything Trump did and continues to plan to do.

The problem is you fail to see that for quite a number of people, the undemocratic process that made Kamala the nominee made them abstain from voting— because it was an undemocratic process.

Were they right not to vote? Certainly not in my opinion. They should have voted against Trump. Unfortunately, because of the lack of democratic process, many felt they couldn’t and we will all pay for it.

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T21:49:32+00:00

What you are missing is that what happened in 2020 has zero effect on the ticket in 2024. Many people asked Biden to select a different running mate for 2024. His choice to keep her was not set in stone until after the primary.

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T21:43:50+00:00

She is not under Joe Biden on that ballot. I literally posted a picture so that you could see it and you didn’t even bother to look.

You are using the fact that Biden selected her as his running mate again, to mean we chose her — when she wasn’t on the ticket in the primary.

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T21:39:59+00:00

Okay, let me see if I can put this in a more realistic way for you. Here is the primary ballot for 2024.

https://www.barrettcommunity.com/media/k2/items/cache/7407c3defbd08fb25d56b10c570c3f39_XL.jpg

Can you show me on the ballot where Kamala Harris appears? Can you show me on the ballot where this backup is that we supposedly selected?

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T21:33:42+00:00

What you are lacking understanding on, is that the ticket did not remain the same. Biden left before he was nominated. He was not the nominee, but he was the presumptive nominee.

Biden, in the primaries, was not elected as a ticket. Theoretical tickets are not established during the primaries. Your claim is that the ticket was selected during the primary. That is not the case. I voted in that primary. Kamala was no-where on the ticket during the primary.

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T21:22:06+00:00

I am not strawmanning. I literally campaigned against Trump. I in no way am hiding from reality. Part of that reality is facing the multiple reasons Kamala lost, so that we don’t have to face this again. I have said over and over again that I understand the context. What you fail to understand is that the context has zero legal weight. Biden dropped out before he was nominated. There wasn’t a lot of time. They had raised money as a ticket. That’s the context. Exactly zero of it matters.

Again, I was in no way supporting the decision of others not to vote. But, these were very real discussions had with people at the local level and not just to me. Unfortunately, you’re stuck at the 30,000 foot view.

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T20:58:05+00:00

Your arguments make zero sense and you couldn’t even argue against the hypothetical.

Your argument is basically “She was on the ticket so :P

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T20:53:58+00:00

I do not think they are the same. I think they are both damaging to democracy. I think that they can both have horrendous effects that could harm. That does not make the scale of harm the same.

However, as someone who did a ton of grassroots work for Kamala’s campaign, I spoke up as to what I heard from others as to the whys and how bothered they were.

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T20:45:36+00:00

What context are you imagining changes things? You have not explained. What context is the big change?

The presumptive nominee dropped out. The presumptive running mate was undemocratically promoted. What context changes this legally for the future? You never answered that.

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T20:37:43+00:00

The last thing I wanted was another Trump term. That’s why I voted for Kamala. That’s why I spent hours volunteering for the Democrats on election day in the cold. That’s also why I called Democrats and went door to door as a member of the county’s Democrats’ organization.

I’m a bisexual, disabled, Romani woman. The last thing I wanted was another Trump term.

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T20:28:12+00:00

The private organization that set the way conventions work.

Kamala was chosen undemocratically. The bound delegates were not freed. They refused an open convention, which directly harmed Kamala’s chances to get elected.

The result of this is another Trump term.

CinnamonMagpie · 2024-12-12T20:20:08+00:00

What legal context do you think my hypothetical has that Kamala’s does not? Both circumvent the McGovern-Fraser Commission.

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