• @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    21 year 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
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      -131 year ago

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

      • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year 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
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          101 year 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
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            21 year 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
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              21 year 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.

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                1 year 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.