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I listened to the Lolita podcast and it's a great one hosted by someone who was a fan of the work and it made an impact on her.
It seems so many interpret the story of Lolita to be a tragic love story like Kubrick and it seems Rowling. It seems as though the more sensible interpretation would be a story about abuse and power where you're made to empathize with the unreliable narrator, Humbert. I always get an ick when I hear people say it's a love story.
Media literacy is not particularly high as of late
Is this all true? Jesus Christ, this Epstein corruption spread everywhere.
until further notice assume every billionaire is implicated
I hate to be that person, is there a source for each bit of info? This is def something I’d like to come back to in future references.
Yeah I hate Rowlings antics as much as the next lemming, but I'll never understand why posts like these have no references. I don't even take them seriously, the burden of proof is on the poster, not the reader.
Every claim should come with a direct link or reference.
Thanks for saying that! Was reading it and obviously not a fan of either named people, IMHO public death penalty should be brought back for preventing the course of justice! But wild accusations and click bait.
https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburghs-jk-rowling-hits-back-33355200
Some news sources have picked it up.
She's denying it, but Steve Bannon denied knowing anything, when he worked directly with Epstein on a propaganda piece to get people to forget that he was a child sex trafficker. Rowling also just had her super yacht removed from all marine traffic services, no AIS, no port logs, nothing.
But TLDR, numbers 1, 3, and 4 have just been found in the Epstein files.
The others are also verifiable.
The fourth point is grammatically a bit awkward; not sure what it's saying
so. epstein's cover story as a finacier was that if you wanted to get a thing funded or to get a project in front of someone who could greenlight it, you could go to him and he could introduce you. he was referred to as a matchmaker for money. the reality of course it turned out is that he was who oligarchs went to when they wanted to fuck a vulnerable child from the global south. so when people went to him to introduce them to someone else, how he knew whoever it was was from his experience as a professional sex pest.
Crucially, the invitation to JKR's play came in 2018, when Epstein was already in jail. You have to be a special kind of dumb to still invite him to a public event at that point. Compared to that, Bill Clinton's contacts in 2002-2003 have pretty decent plausible deniability - it's at least possible that he didn't know that Epstein was a pedo rapist + pedo pimp, since that was before any accusations against him became public.
Clinton knew. He had briefs from US intelligence, even after out of office, a practice the current president stopped as I understand, The best news service in the world.
Shoutout to when she made a character that gets mocked for wanting to end slavery and then cast a black woman to play her
Hermione Granger? But she's not black... am I missing the joke somewhere?
Someone already explained, but the joke was mostly about the retroactive optics of two white teenage boys telling a black woman she’s being annoying about anti-slavery activism which… yeah
Huh, never knew. I always assumed it was Emma Watson who narrated it.
It was the original run of cursed child in London that she was Hermione
Don't remind me of that work. Somehow the witch managed to produce a work rivalling the terribilit of her transphobia.
IIRC there are only a couple characters who have their ethnicity specified in the books. But it has been a while since I read them.
JK Rowling's bookshelf
I was too young and innocent to understand the evils of this world when I fell in love with the books. They were my escape in otherwise a shit childhood. I hate the author, but I cannot hate the stories that made my childhood better.
I mean I loved Orson Scott Card's book Ender's Game and the get turned out to be a right-wing loon. It doesn't change how I feel about the book.
You're allowed to look back fondly while being aware of the problems. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Life is full of nuance.
Similarly, I enjoyed the movies even though the books weren’t my personal style. A whole lot of people were a part of that who don’t share any of her views or knew the type of person she was at the time.
There’s a lot to be against here, but to me, that last one is especially bad