Evinceo

many people I know who got more from HPMOR read it carefully, perhaps stopping after every chapter to think about the goals and motivations of each character and predict what happens next

It's actually kind of an achievement that in the ultra-saturated Isakai genre they've managed to set a new standard in repulsive premises.

Pay no attention to the man behind that curtain. The rate of men behind curtains is actually quite low. Do not doubt the great and powerful Oz.

Nobody in the LW discussion seems to understand the many points between “saving the world” & “do as thou wilt is the whole of the law“.

Black and white thinking is a classic hallmark of... something.

LWers will literally

Instead of going to therapy

What could be more intimidating or fearsome than a sovcit?

-- A sovcit, probably

So which big name TREACLES are gonna be on it?

The Irish discourse in race nu-uh ism. Like yeah, white people did some shit to the Irish. But then the Irish got upgraded to White status. The exact boundary of what we consider 'white' has changed and imposing it retroactively on historical figures and trying to imagine a unified 'white culture' of the pre-colonial world is silly.

Like if you want to be proud of your euro heritage, great, get some flags and learn to cook your favorite old country dish. But if you conceptualize it as this grand unified 'white heritage', we can see the klan hood.

People playing too many Paradox games.

Ok now I actually read what he wrote and it makes no sense

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