• VubDapple@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    doomscrolling the palantir

    What a brilliant image and very in keeping with Tolkien’s disdain for modern technology. Sauron using technology to run a psyop on Gondor, and it worked.

  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    And the people proselytizing despair get away with it because toxic positivity has been such a powerful negative force. Hope isn’t smiles and ignorance, it’s riding to the black gate trusting that Frodo and Sam are doing their jobs even though you can’t personally see them.

  • greenskye@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I think this is because we’re missing our Aragorn. We need someone to rally us and nobody has yet risen to do so.

    • IronBird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      mamdani winning NYC is pretty big imo. open socialist winning major seat in what is probably the most corrupt/good olde boys city in the USA (tied with like…boston, maybe)?

      US is at inflection point, everyone just waiting for trump to die in vain hope that things “return to normal” (ie. unsustainable ratfucking).

      when that doesn’t happen, shit goes from bad to worse…then we either get a massive progressive wave or amerikkka for the elections this year.