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Mando Wookie
Mando Wookie@MandoWookie·
@sjryanwriter @HaydnBelfield Its pretty much what Moist invents for the small loans he starts handing out, & turns out to be what the bank had been doing secretly for the big loans for years, as they didnt actually have the reserves they claimed they did. It doesnt spell it out but the plot runs on it.
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Haydn Belfield
Haydn Belfield@HaydnBelfield·
Rowling's wizarding world is a remarkable blend of how children view the world (a bank stores gold coins! Prison is a scary island!) and a sharp and encompassing critique of 20th century British society: old school networks, the class system, treatment of servants and lower classes, corruption and cronyism, a frothing tabloid media, an arcane judiciary, shorttermist and self-serving politicians, meddling in schools, a Byzantine civil service obsessed with trivialities, etc
Max@maxtmcc

The Harry Potter economy seems to have basically no private sector? Everyone either works for the Ministry or something probably funded by the Ministry (healthcare) or is some kind of small business owner. Education is almost nonexistent. There’s some entertainment jobs ig

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Mando Wookie@MandoWookie·
@sjryanwriter @HaydnBelfield If you want a fantasy story about central banking, reserve currencies, & fiat money, thats approachable by anyone, may I suggest;
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SJ Ryan - Writer
SJ Ryan - Writer@sjryanwriter·
@HaydnBelfield Yes, Rowling wrote of banks in terms of keeping gold coins, and didn't get into how central banking uses fractional reserves to create money out of nothing. That's because she wrote for children, not for libertarian hard-money advocates.
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Mando Wookie@MandoWookie·
@GodotIsW8ing4U Again,why would or should he? The TF was already corrupt & powerful, thats why he used them, having them 'get away' with it plays to Palpatines play for using reform to gather power to himself, as he now has blatantly corrupt bad guys to campaign against for ten years.
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Godot
Godot@GodotIsW8ing4U·
@MandoWookie Like that means paying bribes, calling in favors, using blackmail, etc, burning time and resources that could have been used elsewhere. He’s gonna spend ten years using them to get the TF to trusting not only the Sith again (to join Dooku) but also HIM.
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Mando Wookie
Mando Wookie@MandoWookie·
@GodotIsW8ing4U Who says Sidious needs to exert influence? The TF is a powerful faction over the economy, they already have a Senate seat, & it plays well for Palpatine to have them openly getting the corrupt courts to slap them on the wrist as the 'reform & anti-corruption Chancellor'.
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Godot
Godot@GodotIsW8ing4U·
@MandoWookie Yes, they’re a tool to accomplish his goal of accumulating power, one he is not ready to throw away JUST yet since he’s going to need them more in the future Do you realize that having corrupt influence over the courts to keep Gunray out of prison is going to be costly?
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Sarasaurus 🎗️🇺🇦
Sarasaurus 🎗️🇺🇦@sheebadigeebies·
To answer your other questions: - Frodo didn’t just fly the eagles to Mount Doom because that would be boring - They didn’t just NOT open Jurassic World because that would be boring - Jack didn’t get on the door because the movie is about loss not buoyancy, that would be boring
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Sarasaurus 🎗️🇺🇦
Sarasaurus 🎗️🇺🇦@sheebadigeebies·
It’s fantasy targeted at children. Kids don’t think “I want to see Harry Potter learning algebra” they think “I want to imagine going to Hogwarts and learning to pet hippogriffs instead of maths” why does Twitter always think failures of imagination are world-building issues?
Axio 🔶@axiochrono

One of the funniest things about Harry Potter worldbuilding is that there's no maths class at Hogwarts, so everyone in the wizarding world presumably has, at best, a Year 7's understanding of maths.

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Mando Wookie
Mando Wookie@MandoWookie·
@DanFriedman81 Umbridge was pro-whatever the current Minister was for, with just a side helping of personal prejudice agaisnt non-humans(which judging from various statements & actions from Fudge in prior books, he low-key was too).
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Mando Wookie@MandoWookie·
@Occidentaljihad @johnddavidson Yeah the books make pretty clear that Denethor was one of the greatest & wisest men of that era, beating Sauron strategically, tactically & mentally through the seeing stone, but falling to despair at the last hour.
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The Occidental Jihadist
The Occidental Jihadist@Occidentaljihad·
@johnddavidson Boromir was heroic but flawed. Denethor went mad but stayed good. Saruman was good but became evil. Tolkien wrote quite complex characters. And that's not even getting to perhaps his most complex and tragic one, Turin in the First Age.
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John Daniel Davidson
John Daniel Davidson@johnddavidson·
There’s a million things wrong with this article on LOTR, but let’s take just one glaring error, that “the heroes are always good.” Recall that Frodo, the story’s protagonist, FAILS in the end to destroy the Ring. When the moment comes, he decides to keep it. It’s only because Gollum attacks him and bites off his finger does the ring fall, together with Gollum and Frodo’s finger, into the fires of Mount Doom. This was the hidden role that Gollum had to play in what Tolkien called the eucatastrophe—the unforeseen appearance of divine grace and intervention at a moment when all is lost. In Tolkien’s legendarium, morality is black and white—just like it is in our world. But his characters are not black and white, they’re fallen and complicated, just like real people are.
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CBR@CBR

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an iconic film series, but it also has many elements that are difficult to watch in modern day. cbr.com/8-reasons-toug…

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Mando Wookie
Mando Wookie@MandoWookie·
@GodotIsW8ing4U He doesnt actually care about the TF, they are a tool to accomplish his goal of accumulating power. The next time we see Gunray & the TF they are joining the Separatists. The treaty signed might have accelerated his timeline, but the TF being humiliated worked out too.
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Godot@GodotIsW8ing4U·
@MandoWookie The treaty is supposed to shield the Federation from being punished for all these shenanigans. This failure forces Sidious to spend a decade pulling strings to bail out Gunray and get him back onboard with his schemes. If he doesn’t care about the treaty, he’s stupid.
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Mando Wookie
Mando Wookie@MandoWookie·
@ReviewsPossum It should be noted that in the books Gollum isnt just pathetic, hes an outright monster. Gandalf tracked him partially by following reports of a creature that ATE BABIES. And Frodo knows that. So its remarkable that he feels any pity for Gollum at all.
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Possum Reviews
Possum Reviews@ReviewsPossum·
Dude who wanted to take the Ring for himself to save his kingdom but decided the mission to destroy it was more important because it would save the world, and died for that cause. King who initially refused to aid another kingdom because they didn't help when they needed it, but ultimately decided fighting evil and saving their civilization was more important than his petty grudge, and died for that cause. Guy who lived a life of cruelty and greed who got corrupted by a quasi-demonic force that turned him into a monster and made him suffer in loneliness for hundreds of years until given the chance to redeem himself and genuinely tried but ultimately failed by giving into temptation and betraying the only person who could bring him salvation. "No moral complexity."
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Éros Brousson
Éros Brousson@erosbrousson·
I MET THE SINGLE MOST TEXAN HUMAN BEING ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH 🦨⛽️
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Reddit Lies@reddit_lies·
This is reasonable tbh.
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Mando Wookie@MandoWookie·
@SorrentinoSean @MikeMacRaeMike Yeah, they were 'off duty' essentially doing gang shit IIRC. France was essentially in a soft civil war with the lower ranks of various factions getting into street fights.
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Sean D Sorrentino
Sean D Sorrentino@SorrentinoSean·
@MikeMacRaeMike They were in the “Musketeers of the military household of the King of France.” Their actual job title was Musketeer. They didn’t fight the King’s enemies with rapiers, they fought with muskets & some sort of saber. Rapiers were civilian weapons, carried for self defense in cities
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FOGHAT STAN@MikeMacRaeMike·
Either call them the Three Swordsmen or actually give them muskets, I’m tired of this shit
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Optimal Popsicle
Optimal Popsicle@MansplainStuff·
@SCShipyards Unless things have changed more than I knew: this is "Speedball" not standard paintball. Though it seems like, if you want to work on CQB team stuff, Airsoft is a better use of your money. Cuz you dont get paint everywhere, mostly.
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Oliver Jia (オリバー・ジア)
Oliver Jia (オリバー・ジア)@OliverJia1014·
Apart from boomers and cynical Gen Xers, the prequels are remembered more fondly today because they were George Lucas’ creative vision, there was a significant audience of children who grew up with them, and it spawned tons of lasting EU media. The sequels have none of that.
IGN@IGN

The puppeteer behind Star Wars droid BB-8 has said Disney's divisive sequel trilogy will eventually become as beloved as the saga's prequels — in around a decade's time. bit.ly/47j9e2X

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Mando Wookie@MandoWookie·
@HoboHemlock @SandyofCthulhu There was also historical precedent of Japan interceding for & straight up running expat communities from Tokyo, both in the early 1900s in the US, & during WW2 in other countries(like in South America).
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HemlockHobo@HoboHemlock·
@SandyofCthulhu The Battle of Niihau is super interesting, because the cooperation between Japanese aviator and Japanese immigrants convinced Roosevelt that they couldn’t be trusted, hence the internment camps
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Sandy Petersen 🪔
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu·
Here are three interesting WW2 movies which haven’t been filmed yet. 1) the heroic stand of the Commonwealth troops (including many Canadians) at Hong Kong December 1941 against the Imperial Japanese. 2) the deadly battles between tiny patrols of Americans & German meteorologists in Greenland. On the ice! 3) the Niihau incident, where a crashed Japanese pilot was imprisoned, then escaped, then terrorized a small Hawaiian village till he got beat up by a giant Hawaiian guy AFTER shooting the Hawaiian multiple times.
T_p_tio 🎈@Txp_RBI_Xctuxl

I feel like we've reached the end of WW2 movies. All of the interesting stories have been told. Now we get movies about black women sorting mail in England and the meteorologist that did the weather forecast for D-Day.

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Mando Wookie@MandoWookie·
@SorrentinoSean @TwinkTheory Its also a BIG family, especially by pureblood standards, with lots of extended family too. Arthur being unambitious & both just being generally bad at money management(he buys muggle stuff constantly, & Molly has a brand new Lockhart book right before school year).
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Sean D Sorrentino
Sean D Sorrentino@SorrentinoSean·
@TwinkTheory The adult Weasleys are scrupulously honest and not very creative. They wouldn’t stoop to scamming for money and mostly appear to be too proud to chase lucrative careers. That’s why it’s so strange to Molly that Bill was a curse breaker and F&G were wild capitalists.
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Gay Interrupted
Gay Interrupted@TwinkTheory·
How did Harry potters parents have all that cash for his trust fund? They died at 21 and the only jobs in the wizarding world are civil servant, barmaid, teacher or shop owner. Or is it just like magic? And if so how are the Weasleys poor like how far does magic go? Are they just bad at magic?
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