Chris Hackett, MS @chackettwrites - Twitter Profile

@umichvoter Par for the course for the NJ GOP. Split the vote and everyone stays pissed at each other in the general, each side calling the other "RINOs", so that turnout is depressed.

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7 days ago

@kylamb8 I've never felt so angry about a foreign news report

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11 days ago

Flying @united with @Starlink feels like I am finally flying in the 21st century. This is my first time and it feels AMAZING. Fast, free internet instead of a Kafka-esque quest to get online and pay for it. Kudos to all the decision makers who made this happen.

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11 days ago

@LauraLoomer I don't understand how it can have pandemic potential if it only spreads through close contact with bodily fluids. Also you know people in the white house Laura. Can't you tell them not to do that?

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14 days ago

I found Dolores Umbridge and her tyrannical bureaucracy, specifically being wielded for malign purposes and obfuscation, a highly right-wing metaphor in the later books. Similarly, the Ministry of Magic's denial of the real threat (Voldemort's return) feels, unfortunately, highly similar to our own governments' denial of the true threats to our society (often, as seen in the books, because the corrupting elements have already embedded themselves within the government itself). I find the books to be what you might consider "post-aristocracy right-wing". That is, a recognition that order and power have value, but that who holds that power and decides the order should be based on merit, that, in turn, is based upon striving for ideals of the aristocracy of yore. There are absolutely undercurrents of the blood aspects that you mentioned being considered wrong in the book world since the villains always seem to hold the viewpoint that pure bloods should rule the world. However, it decidedly stops before what I consider a left-wing interpretation would be, which is that muggles should rule the world and remove all rights from wizards, and indeed find ways to remove their powers themselves (dare I say genocide them if This truly was a leftist interpretation). Leftists hate nothing more than a perceived better person being above a perceived lesser person. Where I do see it edging on leftism is the fact that the wizards need to live in hiding to not disturb the world of the muggles, and in that regard there's a sort of argument to voldemort's entire premise: why are we hiding when we are stronger and better than them? I think though, the wisdom, if we can find it in such a fictional work, is that oftentimes part of having the strength is also having the intelligence to understand that putting yourself, in a tyrannical way or obvious way, above the lesser people, is a sure fire way to start a revolution and give fuel to the leftist mindset Anyway, good article! I know people find articles like this trite and uninspired sometimes (The "its just like in that movie!" Meme), but I truly enjoy finding parallels and lessons in fictional work.

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15 days ago

I don't think the boomer hate stems from their place in society. It stems from, for many of them, their lack of awareness of the historical significance of the period they lived through which actively subsidized their lifestyle and wealth generation in a way that many young people do not think is occuring today. I think if Boomers had a bit more humility about how they achieved what they did (many of them anyway, some of them like in all generations did rise on their own accord), it would be a different discussion.

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