US military members forced to undergo polygraph exams to find leakers of classified info on Trump's Iran war. Pentagon atmosphere of distrust and paranoia.
They’re not worthless; they do a great job of intimidating people, partly because you don’t know how the operator is going to interpret the results, whether telling the truth or not.
I’d have more respect for Hermione if she tried to free the elves by giving them wands instead of clothes.
“I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.”
There are lots of actors in revolutions and not all of them fight with knives or guns. Some have pencils, some organize, some smuggle, some just keep their mouths shut at the right times.
Hermoine could be part of my revolution, I wouldn’t gatekeep her.
She changed her approach because those she was trying to help with what she thought was what they needed largely rejected her vision during the series. She continued to push for progress they would accept passing quality of life laws as MOM. Would have been easy for her to give up when her attempts to change their circumstances were rejected but she change her approach instead. You see this as capitulation, I see this as getting something which was better than the status quo.
While not storming the bastille, she guided harry to change his approach with Kreature, who as a result later led an insurrection against death eaters which was a significant step towards agency and liberation.
Just as there isn’t only one type of revolutionary, much of the groundwork for such change is incremental and she helped lay it and carry it where and how her world allowed. Sounds like you would consider this failure and her weak for it, we’ll just have to agree to disagree on that point.
But polygraphs work on untrained people who believe their answer isn’t what the questioner wants to hear?
Polygraphs are worthless, but that’s not the point.
They’re not worthless; they do a great job of intimidating people, partly because you don’t know how the operator is going to interpret the results, whether telling the truth or not.
Where is Delores Umbridge when the DOD needs some real intimidation?
None of the harry potter characters would be against fascism
Hermoine
I’d have more respect for Hermione if she tried to free the elves by giving them wands instead of clothes.
“I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.”
There are lots of actors in revolutions and not all of them fight with knives or guns. Some have pencils, some organize, some smuggle, some just keep their mouths shut at the right times.
Hermoine could be part of my revolution, I wouldn’t gatekeep her.
She literally gave up on abolition to embrace reform i.e. not revolutionary.
She changed her approach because those she was trying to help with what she thought was what they needed largely rejected her vision during the series. She continued to push for progress they would accept passing quality of life laws as MOM. Would have been easy for her to give up when her attempts to change their circumstances were rejected but she change her approach instead. You see this as capitulation, I see this as getting something which was better than the status quo.
While not storming the bastille, she guided harry to change his approach with Kreature, who as a result later led an insurrection against death eaters which was a significant step towards agency and liberation.
Just as there isn’t only one type of revolutionary, much of the groundwork for such change is incremental and she helped lay it and carry it where and how her world allowed. Sounds like you would consider this failure and her weak for it, we’ll just have to agree to disagree on that point.