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shortieXV t1_j7yznf0 wrote

Thanks for sharing these local Vermont organizations. Sorry that people cannot read past the comma in the title and immediately get combative with you as a result.

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Eagle_Arm t1_j7z79cz wrote

People have no problem reading through the comma and just because someone doesn't agree with you, doesn't mean they're dumb.

Harry Potter has nothing to do with Vermont. Rowling, which this is actually about, has nothing to do with Vermont.

If you think the small connection of, she said mean things and Vermont has a LGBT community is a strong enough connection for this, you're insane.

Could connect anything to Vermont if using that as the standard.

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polarbearrape t1_j7zhzab wrote

The point isn't harry potter, the point is "here are local programs you can donate to". Riding a current trend for exposure of a good cause seems fine to me. Taking issue with it feels more like trying to undermine the sentiment rather than actually being upset about harry potter not being a Vermonter.

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Eagle_Arm t1_j7zljqu wrote

Because riding the current trend, that has nothing to do with Vermont in order to get money, is bullshit.

Pride Center, is great. I don't know anything about other organization, so can't speak to that, but this isn't Vermont related.

I also understand localizing news, but again, nothing to do with Vermont.

Here's a story about a guy and a scooter, we should petition to get more scooters in Vermont! Localizing something unrelated to Vermont and still doesn't belong here.

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ResponsibleExcuse727 t1_j800b0j wrote

I’m with you eagle arm. Also JK has nothing to do with the game so it really isn’t doing anything. Support lgbtq but this is a stretch for relevance. She has nothing to do with the creation of hog warts legacy.

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Eagle_Arm t1_j804v2v wrote

Did you see the movie All Quiet on the Western Front? Remember that there is a history organization in Vermont and they talk about WWI too! Don't forget to smash that donate button and subscribe!

https://vermonthistory.org/donate

Very easy to connect something to something local and still be completely irrelevant.

I also was wondering about her involvement with the videogame, I assumed it was nothing, but I didn't actually look it up.

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ResponsibleExcuse727 t1_j805kbv wrote

Minor. Basically was ran by her for anything she would disagree with and to make sure everything aligns with the Harry Potter world. OP may just be karma farming or even an ad. The people downvoting are in their hive mentality and don’t understand.

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coldnight3 t1_j7zhtbp wrote

Generally, the people that live here in Vermont are supportive of one another. That is what this is asking for/about. I think it belongs here because I don't want my neighbors to suffer. YMMV.

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Eagle_Arm t1_j7zkmki wrote

Your neighbors to suffer from Rowling or Harry Potter?

There is no issue about asking for donations and being supportive, when it makes sense and is local.

This has nothing to do with Vermont.

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coldnight3 t1_j80r0ta wrote

To suffer from the furtherance of hate speech, particularly from Rowling.

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Eagle_Arm t1_j80xojh wrote

So Rowling is performing hate speech and it's actively hurting Vermonters?

I'll assume, maybe a bad assumption, but I'll assume, 99.89% of Vermonters have never been forced to met her, read anything she's written that's hate speech, or had to listen to her talk.

So not sure how they are suffering from an author from Europe.

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Eagle_Arm t1_j82e5d5 wrote

And?........

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Eagle_Arm t1_j82etua wrote

They're out of place when trying to ride the coat tails of a Harry Potter video game that's has nothing to do with Vermont.

There is nothing Vermont about it.

We shot down a balloon from China, you can buy balloons at Party City in Vermont, should that be a post. It's about a store in Vermont having balloons, completely unrelated, but it's balloons!

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Eagle_Arm t1_j82ftui wrote

And....again.....Harry Potter.....nothing to do with Vermont

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Eagle_Arm t1_j82h6gj wrote

That's your connection? People paly video games here too? There's nothing Vermont tied to any of it.

And if people "must" play a video game? Do you think they have no internal agency?

You know the biggest demographic who will play the game, people who like Harry Potter. It's not some anti-trans ideal to like Harry Potter just as someone driving a Volkswagen isn't a Nazi.

Show me where her hate is? I won't even ask anymore how it impacts Vermonters because that's just a rhetorical and leading question, because it doesn't.

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Eagle_Arm t1_j82jxyf wrote

This is your smoking gun of hate from that article,

"To say in the words of J.K. Rowling this past week where she wrote, ‘All I’m asking, all I want is for similar empathy, similar understanding to be extended to the many millions of women whose sole crime is wanting their concerns to be heard without receiving threats or abuse,’” Lankford said on the Senate floor,"

That. Just jam packed with hate! The nerve! Wanting similar empathy! The horror!

And you keep saying Vermont organizations. I said party city has balloons too, we aren't writing about their Vermont locations and the Chinese balloon because it's not a real connection. It's trying to grasp onto a topic and make it local, when it's not.

Also, the reference to Volkswagen...phew, you went on another unrelated tangent there. The point is Volkswagen is from Nazi Germany. The car manufacturer still exists today. That doesn't make the drivers Nazis. Playing a Harry Potter video game does not make someone anti-trans or whatever other term you want to fit in there.

And again, someone said a shitty comment to her about how she sleeps at night, what are you expecting for an answer? You know the answer you're going to get, a shitty response to a shitty question.

Please stay on your meds or up the dosage.

Edit: here's the response for comment below because blocked.

You don't think there's still family members from the Nazi party benefiting from Volkswagen sales? C'mon now.

I'm not getting a Harry Potter video game, I don't give a shit about Harry Potter.

>If not, I hope Vermont stays taken from you.

What?

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