• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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      9 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?

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        9 months ago

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

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          9 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.

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            9 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!

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              9 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.

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                9 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.