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Opinion: Celebrating Saruman's Death Is Wrong, He Was A Father — The Betoota Advocate (www.betootaadvocate.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Spitting fire.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

As always

[–] joulethief@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

screenshot

Jesus fucking Christ

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago

That too may also be satire.

[–] 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

This is perfect honestly.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago

Contrast this satire against smirking fascist apologia like 'the empire did nothing wrong' and consider how many idiot fascists cannot tell the difference.

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

Honestly a pretty good lens to look at this

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So Mangione is Wormtail?

[–] theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You're not as wrong as the downvotes make you out to be, Luigi was a tech bro born into immense privilege that tried to start a stoicism club and believed in effective altruism, him murdering a ceo is like a dedicated fan boy of ceos suddenly stabbing one of his heroes. The only difference is I don't think Luigi worked for shitface mcgenocidethepoor or whatever the cockstain's name was that got what he deserved.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm only wrong if this wasn't meant to be an allegory for the United Healthcare slaying. I don't think the downvotes are about whether someone is right or wrong.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'd say at least half the downvotes are from getting Grima Wormtongue's name wrong.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

And the other from the people who forgot how he dies in the books.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, that certainly could be it. Didn't Dumbledore call him Wormtail at some point?

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I think he started to but he got force choked by Vader during. It's a long standing fan argument.