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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

I also don't remember him eating lizard legs on a barbecue stick.

Weird that he committed neither of those sins within his literary journeys, right?

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

Strange to compare Biden, who is actively aiding in a genocide, to Gandalf, then, isn't it?

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not at all.

One emissary of a significant power refusing to directly intervene in, though indirectly aid, a specific power within an international war that they are not directly engaging with,

compared to another emissary of a significant power refusing to directly intervene in, though indirectly aid, a specific power within an international war that they are not directly engaging with.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

Indirectly aid? INDIRECTLY??

Aiding doesn't get more fucking direct than sending them the bombs, guidance systems and fuses they use to commit genocide with FFS!

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago

Certainly gandalf takes a much more direct role by actively engaging the nazgul, goblins and balrog, but his role is deliberately indirect to the grand narrative.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Actually, in order to match what Biden is doing, Gandalf would have to be supplying the armies of Saruman and/or Sauron with a significant portion of their swords and siege weapons, all the while pretending to tell Sauron and Saruman to please don't kill so many people.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Simply by amount of arms, I like that, but it's dependent on gandalf and sauron having been friends for decades and coming to each other's military aid dozens of times over their relationship because they share a mutual interest in modes of government, and gandalf being the short-term inheritor of this extremely consistent lifetime mutual dependence and support.

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

The tower calls for aid, in cutting down the forest of fangor.

[-] StoneGender 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

On top of the genocide on the border on of the US

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Which he agreed, should be the most important issue of the day.

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