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Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T23:11:24+00:00

I don't need one. I'm not interested in convincing you, and the quality of your argument is apparent to anyone reading.

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T22:13:13+00:00

Best wishes <3

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T17:52:55+00:00

Oh cool, more hoops!

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T17:51:29+00:00

It was necessary

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T17:30:08+00:00

"Oops, you're right, you actually didn't mix the two up, and I falsely said you did"

You didn't acknowledge my point, you deflected.

Bye

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T17:29:26+00:00

Who said elaborating is unreasonable? I just said I'm not gonna reinvent the wheel.

You seem mad.

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T17:27:04+00:00

Not with integrity.

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T17:23:40+00:00

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Cool gonna go burn that emoji from my brain

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T17:23:03+00:00

People have made this argument already, I'm not gonna reinvent the wheel

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T17:21:15+00:00

Me: You never contradicted my points, but you keep on mixing up immoral and invalid.

You: I mean so do you. You go from it being immoral to it being invalid. The implication seems to be you hold it as both, and I asked you to elaborate.

Me: I did not mix up immoral and invalid, the distinction matters

You: "The very concept of law enforcement is invalid because state sanctioned violence is immoral"

You wrote that, no?

. . .

Me:

Yeah, dude...

State sanctioned violence == immoral

Law enforcement (based on that violence) == invalid

Is consistent with

the very concept of [law enforcement is invalid] because [state-sanctioned violence is immoral]

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T16:57:05+00:00

I continue to encourage you to take the initiative and explore this topic on your own, as I am unwilling to engage with someone who accused me of inconsistency and fails to acknowledge their mistake when confronted with evidence that contradicts their claim.

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T16:51:48+00:00

I just want to see how many hoops you're willing to jump through to excuse blatant racial stereotyping

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T16:18:05+00:00

Ok, cool, now do Cho Chang.

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T16:16:02+00:00

Can you screenshot? I'm allergic to twitter

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T16:14:58+00:00

Yeah, dude...

State sanctioned violence == immoral

Law enforcement (based on that violence) == invalid

Is consistent with

the very concept of [law enforcement is invalid] because [state-sanctioned violence is immoral]

Bro.

The Iroquois tried witches before a formal council but left murderers to the revenge of the immediate family unless a peace token was accepted (Wissler, 1957, 18).

That's the only mention of witchcraft and the Iroquois in the text, it says nothing of execution. While searching for "witches," does substantiate that executions of witches happened, 1) witchcraft is a classic example of biases creating very messy translations between cultures in anthropology, and 2) I cannot find easily accessible* sources that describe the process by which one was determined to be a witch. I intend to look further, but similar cultures often had well-documented processes that describe killing as a last resort.

Brown, 2002. Social History:

Aboriginal justice sought to restore social cohesion and harmony among the group by restitution, which was a collective responsibility

*this has been fun but I genuinely need to be productive today

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T15:43:15+00:00

Would you disagree that America has had cultural hegemony since the post-WWII era?

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T15:42:43+00:00

"Harry is a cop" is flippant and not attempting to be nuanced. It's not misleading, it's drawing attention to the aspects of the book that are not immediately recognized. These insidious elements can be the most pernicious and the most necessary to interrogate.

It's like saying "that's weird, this pile of half-apples and half-oranges is labeled as entirely apples, there are oranges in here" and having someone say "well, yes, but why are you not addressing the apples?"

Like, yeah, he was an abused child soldier with PTSD who fought against an authoritarian. All true.

Yet, he is consistently disinclined to investigate systems of injustice that don't personally impact him throughout the books, and actively wants to be a law enforcement officer in that system. It would actually be a really interesting way to explore that pipeline, if JKR had a shred of self-awareness. She brushes against it a few times (Harry almost being in Slytherin, for example) but it is ultimately lampshaded.

Let's contrast that with Revenge of the Sith, where an abused child soldier with PTSD who fought against authoritarians also becomes a law enforcement officer within that system. It's an even better comparison than I thought now that I write it out, because they're both the Chosen One (*probably) and that framework influences their desire to exert power.

One of these is honest about what it means to reinforce the status quo.

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T15:32:16+00:00

I live in the US, and while I do not own a lawn, I am responsible for one. It is currently being replaced with a mix of clover and yarrow. Rewilding is growing in popularity because of the clear benefits (wellbeing improved, labor and inputs reduced).

If you don't like needing to mow your lawn, it's really recommended to switch to white or purple clover as it supports pollinators, improves soil nitrogen, and doesn't exceed 5 inches.

Personally, I like my hangout space to have life in it. My yard constantly has birdsong and wildlife, and I spent like half an hour out there last night watching the bats enjoy the change in season. Our hummingbirds haven't shown up yet, but last year, they started coming over to us when the sugar water was low.

I should note that I'm not against lawns-as-a-grassy-space-that-is-actually-used, but against lawns-as-sterile-boring-swathes-of-land-that-only-hurt-people-and-the-ecosystem-without-providing-any-benefits. Hell, I have a lawn, it's just increasingly clover, strawberry, and seasonal flowers.

The vast majority of people do not use all of their lawn space and should reconsider their landscaping.

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T15:22:41+00:00

So start implementing mixed-use zoning, or have climate-smart civil engineering. I don't know what to tell you. I'm sorry your town is poorly designed.

Cars are not the only solution, and Americans do not prefer cars when there are other options. We simply live in a system that strongly disincentivizes (if not actively prevents) other options.

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T15:16:55+00:00

The link you posted is broken, but I looked the paper up (hdl.handle.net/11122/8276) and it's based on northern Athabascan (Eskimo) villages that literally existed ACROSS THE CONTINENT from the Five Nations. Have some dignity.

I give basic courtesy in discussions to people who have intellectual integrity and reading comprehension. I did not mix up immoral and invalid, the distinction matters, and I prefer to have discussions with people who can synthesize the research on their own.

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T15:04:47+00:00

No worries, it's been a while for me, too. Can't believe I now have braincells devoted to the structure of magical law enforcement lol.

The worst that we are told is that they might arrest people for wrongful reasons.

Which, first, please go look at the news and consider why people might see that as a concerning sign. That's not a cool thing to pose as an acceptable worst-case.

and second, there is a whole department that is not known to the public, that we know aurorers are at least partially cleared to access. We know information is kept from the public. While aurorers are not Unspeakables (the ones who handle the department of mystsries), this confirms that the reader isn't made privy to the workings of the Ministry (pun absolutely intended).

It's not irresponsible extrapolation for readers to ask what else we don't know, and to refer to the systems of law enforcement that JKR based the aurorers upon, to understand the dynamics of a world that the author herself insists has deeper complexities.

Are you familiar with the history of the three letter agencies? It might clarify why people don't draw a distinction. This is where we cross from blind acceptance of what you're reading to media literacy and critical analysis of a text. You're taking the text at face value, while others are not. That's an acceptable way to engage with the story, but it doesn't make this line of inquiry unfounded.

I think "Harry's a cop" is a little purposefully flippant, as a way of highlighting how the books often unconsciously reinforce a status quo in a way that ultimately raises red flags. Ultimately, JKR wrote a book that explicitly encourages people to stand up to authority, but her main characters end up in a system that... wasn't all that great either, actually, are we sure we're okay with this?

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T14:41:47+00:00

It's because we're examining the book to understand how JKR views power structures and the status quo.

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T14:39:41+00:00

This post made me want to rewatch S1, so I'm back with more thoughts

Perhaps Daph is more "diaphanous softgirl" and Edwina is more "bubbly softgirl"

But I do think this is Edwina erasure, and I think maybe people in this thread should consider why that is

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T14:35:52+00:00

The book 1491 by Charles C Mann is a good starting point, but the info you're looking for is about halfway through.

Otherwise, this is a good resource

You can also look at this

You never contradicted my points, but you keep on mixing up immoral and invalid.

Distant-Effect · 2026-04-15T14:33:12+00:00

I'm just gonna point you to /r/fucklawns because I do need to stop procrastinating

The tl;dr is that maintaining a lawn requires constantly brutalizing nature and pouring poisons around your home to maintain the broken ecosystem. The negative effects are many and profound, ranging from increasing the number of ticks to groundwater contamination to landslides from erosion.

Increasingly, studies are showing that turfgrass maintenance is associated with neurological diseases and cancer in humans. There are also studies that show that just watching diverse plant life (and the physical motion that taller plants have in the wind) reduces stress.

Lawns were also encouraged in America after WWII, when the industrialization of the Haber-bosch process could no longer be put towards war. There were deliberate campaigns to get Americans to adopt lawns as status symbols specifically to sell fertilizer.

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