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[–] socsa@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same thing but with homophobic chicken sandwich.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've never understood the love for their food. It's not that good. I wouldn't eat there even if they weren't owned shitty people.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In 1997 fast food chicken sandwiches were garbage, and Chik Fil A was amazing in comparison. By the late 2000s there was plenty of good fast food chicken and CFA was already mid. Today we live in the chicken sandwich golden era and CFA is hot trash.

[–] Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah it's... fine. Nothing to go crazy over. I don't get it lol

[–] entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf 11 points 1 day ago

There is a solution. 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

according to this comic, does it make it okay if you pirate everything so that there's no financial transaction involved?

edit i guess i should state: i dont fuck with harry potter stuff. it was just something i thought of. i'm more of a wizards in space kinda guy (sci fi lol)

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's kind of muddy and depends on your personal beliefs on how much you think interacting with a terrible person through uncritical devouring of their works is likely to taint your own worldview. Various factors include how many people were involved, did they have the views at the time, are you capable of reading the text in a manner where you seperate yourself a bit from it, etc.

I don't think it's worth the risk personally, but I tend to view art as a communication from one person to another, rather than a commodity or a consumable. I don't particularly go out of my way to communicate with terfs who are immune to critical thinking. Also if we get down to brass tacks, it's not that good of a series.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At that point you're someone standing next to the dude in the "I ❤️ HP" shirt. Supporting a fandom that is owned by bigots is still not great. At the end of the day you're perpetuating it's existence.

It's not nearly as bad, but it's not good.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you absolutely must read those collections of poor writing and thinly veiled racism, you can get them from a used bookstore as well. The point is to not give fuckface money

[–] BJ_and_the_bear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

man, somewhere around here i have hardback copies of the prequel trilogy his son wrote from frank herbert's notes. i don't remember if they're any good but that was my introduction to dune back in high school.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

The only risk you have is that someone will see you playing a Harry potter game, or reading a book, and they will then go and buy it. If you pirate it just keep it relatively private if you really want to make sure jk Rowling doesnt benefit in any way.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 28 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Even if it weren't for JK Rowling I just don't care about this remake. It's unnecessary why are they doing it it's just weird.

No one seems to have a compulsion to remake other early 2000 movies into TV shows I don't know why they've got to start with Harry potter of all things. I would sort of get it if they just want to do tell more stories in the same universe but they're just going to rehash what's already being done. Why?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah I was tired of it before I became aware of her bigotry and it was an open secret in the trans community for a few years before she became open about it

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

is this about the NEW movie?, everyone said the new "lookalikes" of the og cast look like AI generated, and JKR have been criticized for trying to white wash the og cast because they dont like jkr for her transphobia..

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I just scrubbed through the trailer and it truly looks AI generated. Like they just remade the movie with different actors instead of re-imagining it to make something unique.

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

this is all warner bros. they have an ip that isnt making money. thats all this series is.

They didn't whitewash Snape. They made him black. Not Sirius Black, though.

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