If we are running someone that old, can we please run Dumbledore? Fought against evil his entire adult life, took steps to make education available to all witches and wizards equally regardless of if you were pure blood or muggleborn, taught forgiveness and understood that people could change, for better and for worse. Also taught his students well enough to fend off a full-scale attack from a hoard of adult casters, giants, and a fucking lich without needing his intervention.
(yes, I am talking about Bernie… The only old fuck that is still worthy of holding office)
Sorry the council of elders has chosen our candidates for us, and Dumbledore was sidelined for being just a little too socialist. Press is also no fan.
Sure, saruman raped someone and has literally been committing fraud his entire life, but gandalf rides horses.
What’s up with that?
Horses have four legs. I only have two.
Horses are weird.
I don’t remember galdalf aiding a genocide?
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?
Strange to compare Biden, who is actively aiding in a genocide, to Gandalf, then, isn’t it?
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.
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!
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.
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.
On top of the genocide on the border on of the US
He did from the perspective of the Orcs
Do you have a more racist metaphor or are you just keeping it at dog whistles?
Fight the gerontocracy
I was confused why the prefix wasn’t just “gero” and now I’m going down an etymological rabbit hole.
Did you make that word, or did someone else?
It reminds me of Trotsky’s description of a Kleptocracy.
γέρων/gérōn as a noun means “old man” in Ancient Greek, and just “old” as an adjective; I imagine the -to- part probably comes from the form γέροντος/gérontos (singular genitive) or γερόντων/geróntōn (plural genitive) https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/γέρων#Ancient_Greek
I’m getting really sick of this meme format. I get it, Trump is way worse than Biden, but that doesn’t mean we can’t acknowledge that they’re both insanely old. We’ll all try to toss Biden’s corpse over the finish line a second time, but stop trying to gaslight us into thinking that electing an 81 year old is normal.
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Must’ve missed the part where Gandalf started 3 wars
You miss a lot, I bet
