If the Stranger Things writers wrote Lord of the Rings:
GANDALF: OK, so we've got to put the smackdown on this Ring thing. It can only be destroyed -
GIMLI: Don't worry - I got this. *hits it with an axe and falls* Ow.
GANDALF: - in the fires of Mount Doom.
BOROMIR: I just don't get it. Why can't we just fire this bad boy up and use it against Sauron? Boom. Headshot.
GANDALF: OK, so, think of Sauron like this Atari. *Clears off pedestal and slaps down an Atari and a copy of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.*
GANDALF: Now, if we destroy this copy of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, we might think it's gone forever. But -
ELROND: - but Atari still has the source code.
GANDALF: Right. *starts drawing on a transparent whiteboard* - But, if we destroy the source code -
LEGOLAS: ... the existing copies could be buried in a landfill, and they'd eventually go bad from corrosion.
GANDALF: Exactly. Destroy the source code -
ELROND: - destroy Sauron.
BOROMIR: Great. So how do we destroy this Source Code Ring? It's not like we can just hop on our skateboards and shred into Mordor.
LEGOLAS: Hang on though. If we gave the Ring to someone small enough -
GIMLI: - Sauron wouldn't be expecting it -
ELROND: - and we could chuck it right into the fire while he's busy trippin' over Minas Tirith.
GANDALF: - and then -
LEGOLAS: - no more E.T. *finger guns*
BOROMOR: It sounds crazy, but it just might work.
FRODO: Guys, I'm gay.
@larida10 One attempted to commit a crime and potentially injure civilians in the crossfire. One is a person wrestling a gun out of someone’s hands, while the other is stealing a cops gun and then, I guess this untrained person thought she’d be an expert marksman and kill the shooter?
@larida10@totallynotnine@RavenZech2 So you know and understand the two scenarios are different? So what is the purpose of your original reply? Genuinly
@natejb2003@pissvortex@5x120@FUCK6R Using your own logic, humans would then be monkeys. I’m not saying apes are or aren’t monkeys, just wondering if you think humans are monkeys
There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power.
The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.
Every single major Democratic politician condemned the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Meanwhile, before EVEN KNOWING WHO THE SHOOTER WAS, the Republican president gave a speech calling for VIOLENCE against Democrats.
There are masked thugs running through the streets dragging people out of cars at gunpoint.
There was an attempted violent coup at the Capitol building brought on by the President himself.
Hell he threatened to INVADE an American city FOUR DAYS AGO.
I’m genuinely sad the man died. Not because I agreed with a word he said but because he was a misguided person who was himself caught up in the culture of violence.
He deserved to be shouted down for his backward ideas, not murdered.
The most sickening part of this whole ordeal is the excitement you see in Republicans, how quickly they moved past any respect for the dead, any reflection on the environment they helped foster, straight into who should be murdered next.
THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO THE SHOOTER IS, yet they are ignoring the obvious marks of a professional killer who clearly had a highly trained military background, and the fact that these guys tend to be right wing nut jobs with an obscure axe to grind.
But they’ve already given him (and we all know it’s a him not a her) an identity: the faceless embodiment of everything they hate and fear with a clearly coordinated messaging campaign to call him a “leftist.”
So it’s clear what they want and it’s not peace. They want a justification for more violence. They want a bloody shirt they can point to and say, “See? THIS is why there are thugs in the streets in masks pulling people from cars at gunpoint. THIS is why we must end the American experiment in democracy.”
And the most pathetic part of all is that none of it is necessary. Violent crime is down. Everywhere. This is all INVENTED. And it was done so to protect the pursuit of power of one man: a dim-witted child rapist who became a violent extremist simply because selling his dark vision of America was the only way his corrupt, soulless ass could stay out of jail.