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    1071 year ago

    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.

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        91 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?

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          221 year ago

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

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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.

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              191 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!

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                71 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.

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                  61 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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                    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.