If only Hamas would just surrender.

Canada had a defence industry with 1st class fighter jets being developed. The U.S. insisted on it being shut down as they didn’t want an independent well armed neighbour. Canada is heavily integrated into norad - it doesn’t spend the same proportionally as the U.S. on military but that’s because it doesn’t partake in the global military power projection like the U.S. so much. if you look at what the U.S. spends on actual defense of homeland, Canada’s proportional spending is close.

You could have just … not written that.

By your definition, there have never been any genocides. Jewish people still exist.

And the world will move on without the U.S. as the U.S. sabotages itself.

Good.

And the U.S. sidelines itself for no apparent reason …

And will you continue to do that for the next item? No. And if you can’t find a local supplier, you’ll stop doing that business. It hurts the economy. And this is what will happen in the U.S.

Isn’t ketchup pretty much just red sugar gel?

Isn’t that the point tho? The author created a purposefully imperfect world where the children could recognize the injustices and stand up against them. That’s role modeling the right behavior. Our world is certainly not perfect and we have to stand up against bigotry and injustice (like transphobia). And the heros in the hp stories make mistakes but they learn and improve themselves - Rowling could learn from her own books!

Right. The vague concept existed before in many different forms. She put hircruxes in her books and made them a thing that people understood. I’m not saying she’s a great writer, but she clearly appealed to a lot of people with her writing, and not just kids. Her stories at least had decent morals. I’m not defending any of her anti-trans crap, but her Harry Potter fiction is a separate thing.

Um, where else did you get your original definition of a horcrux?