Saruman also blocks Rowan's military assistance to Gondor : lotrmemes

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Dumbledore

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

One press photo of Dumbledore eating one of his beloved ear wax candies and he would be unvoteable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (48 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

It's possible to criticize Biden and be unhappy about his age without acting like him and trump are equally as bad, which a lot of "centrists" do to justify not voting. Those people are the ones being criticized in this post.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yep. Trump voters don't give a shit. They'll vote no matter what. The people pushing the idea of not voting out of protest or whatever aren't doing it honestly, at least not the first ones. The first ones are trying to get Trump elected. They might convince some fools to also push the same message without following the agenda.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The problem is, and why Reagan made a rule to not do it, is that when you call out your own side you give your enemy a fucktonne of ammo to use against you and sway moderates.

Look what happened to Al Franken and we've DESPERATELY needed him these last few years.

I love Jon Stewart and I really enjoyed his most recent segment where he calls out both sides, making it CLEAR that trumpty dumpty is the worst offender, but it's already being used to make the moderates think that dems are abandoning Biden.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Look what happens when you refuse to call out your own side, the GOP has become a complete clown show because of it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, but is anyone actually saying they're equally, "bad," or just that they're both too old for this? I've heard people say that both shouldn't be running but they'll vote for Biden, or that Trump is fine and Biden is senile and criminal and part of the cabal (or whatever they believe these days), but I've never heard anyone say, "both are too old, therefore they're equal and I won't vote for either." That seems like strawman meant to delegitimize criticism of Biden's age.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm getting tired of people going on and on about their ages as if it's something nobody noticed before. As if it's going to change the situation.

A lot of Americans like voting for old fuddy duddies. You can't control how other people vote, you can only control how you will vote. Old people vote and young people tend not to. You aren't going change anything in a democratic process by not voting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

86% of Americans think Biden is too old to be President. 62% of Americans think Trump is too old to be President. 59% of Americans think both are too old to be President. Most Americans, by a wide margin, do not like voting for, "old fuddy daddies."

Very few people are saying, "don't vote," but most people are saying, "don't allow these men to run the country." This meme is either targeting a very niche person or creating a strawman for the majority of people by equating, "these men are too old," with, "these men are the same, don't vote."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What's the deal with this certainty that this is the result of people's will? I'm more inclined to beleive it is a systemic result of 'winner takes all' logic and the penetration of political and media institutions by bad actors.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Remember that any criticism of Biden, no matter how legitimate, is definitely pro-trump Russian propaganda. God forbid people don't just want to vote against something.

At the end of the day, this is how it is. The system is absurdly broken. We couldn't possibly be here if it wasn't. The fact that they keep shoving Biden at us doesn't mean that we shouldn't choose him over the much more overt fascist Trump, but it also doesn't mean that we should accept him.

No matter who's elected, everyone should fucking riot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you really think that to be the case then democracy is already dead and Putin has won.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Liberal democracy was a scam before Putin was born. Putin just exploited it's weakness, like all fascists do.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You're not the target of the meme if you're able to understand that voting for Biden is a necessity.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Rudy “Worm-Tongue” Giuliani

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (17 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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fight the gerontocracy

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

However they aren't our only choices we also have radagast ( RFK ) LOL

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

"[His voice was] low and melodious, its very sound an enchantment [...] it was a delight to hear the voice speaking, all that it said seemed wise and reasonable, and desire woke in them by swift agreement to seem wise themselves ... for those whom it conquered the spell endured while they were far away and ever they heard that soft voice whispering and urging them."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Omg why is the president 406 years old wtf guys.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Kinda tired seeing everyone comparing benevolent and pure hearted fictional characters with Biden with this dumb ass format.

Neither Yoda nor Gandalf used their position as a superpower to approve a genocide and play geopolitics.

Moreover, ignoring the fact that Gandalf isn't human and Yoda is an alien. For their respective "species" they are powerful people who aren't deathbed old. Biden is a walking talking mummy who can't form his own sentences, and Trump covers his geriatrics by talking exclusively in simple English.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

"Biggie was fat"

Lord of the memes