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[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't remember galdalf aiding a genocide?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He did from the perspective of the Orcs

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Do you have a more racist metaphor or are you just keeping it at dog whistles?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Asumimg Israel is Mordor and not the other way around

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well, of course 🤷

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

As relevant here as it is there