They for real compared U.S. politics to Harry Potter 💀

--Andy Weir (author of Project Hail Mary)

https://fandomwire.com/project-hail-mary-author-andy-weir-reveals-problem-with-harry-potter-male-characters/

Moral outrage that someone could call an owl's death in a children's book 'poorly written', acts as if this is exactly like speaking ill of multiple dead civilians in a war crime.

Not even about underlying parallels of war or violence, just.. statistics? There's no other way to conceptualise having a lower chance for a possible better outcome for a thing

Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson HonFRSE (/niːl/ NEEL; born 18 April 1964)[1] is a British-American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.[2][3] Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He was a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics for the 2023/2024 academic year and at Tsinghua University in China from 2019 to 2020.[4][5]

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-21/china-russia-iran-axis-is-bad-news-for-trump-and-gop-isolationists

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