• @Nudding@lemmy.world
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    214 months 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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      4 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
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        184 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
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          74 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
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            64 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.

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              4 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.

    • @StoneGender
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      4 months ago

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