• BougieBirdie
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    81 hour ago

    Honestly I haven’t been watching HBO because it was too expensive. Now the boycott has a deeper meaning beyond my wallet.

    I’m no longer a cheapskate, now I’m a person with principles. Hell yeah

  • @CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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    83 hours ago

    Well, the show might benefit from me pirating that thing. I do have a right to flip the bird towards TERFS express my personal view ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
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    537 hours ago

    She has a right to express her opinion…where? In the Constitution of HBO? Do the Ts and Cs specify a right to free speech? Don’t talk to me about rights HBO this is a choice

    • @zurohki@aussie.zone
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      377 hours ago

      This. She has the right to express her opinion, she doesn’t have the right to be provided a platform or the right to require others to listen.

    • @webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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      7 hours ago

      Not excusing Rowlings general behavior but a thing about the toilet habits of the past is that it does actually check out in real history.

      It did not matter if it was the palace of Versailles or even the church. Men often just relieved themselves in whatever corner they saw fit.

      Women were more discreet by relieving themselves under their ball gowns where they stood, then walk away like nothing happened.

      Chamber pots did already exist, Versailles did provide them, people just didn’t bother.

      The main difference with Rowlings version is that wizards did clean up after themselves magically while muggles used servants.

      Except if you didn’t live in a class that had servants, the market place was known to accumulate huge amounts of waste as the day went on. For peasants the toilet was “outside”

      • @VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        258 minutes ago

        “The Harry Porter Universe (not fixing the spelling mistake) is bit of a Bullshit liberal fantasy about jamming magic into a heirarchal modern education institution and perpetuating class and wealth divides via it” – Loosely paraphrasing a PhilosophyTube vid-essay, and a good final nail in a coffin of one’s fandom, if anyone’s looking for that sort of thing.

        This fun fact is just the…splatter on the uh *checks notes Dementor’s cake, i guess =/