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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What were the Ents doing that the Entwives got so fed up and just left?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

If I'm remembering it right, the Entwives preferred to garden, whereas the Ents preferred thing wild and untamed* so they both lived in different parts and visited each other. Then one day then Ents visited to find only barren lands where the gardens had been. The Ents searched but never found out what happened.

* which would make the Entwives more authoritarian, right?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So, the Ents refused to manscape lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Art imitates life imitating bark.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Has anyone considered the possibility that a couple of lesbian Entwives scissored so enthusiastically that they caught fire?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Alternatively:

x-axis, positive: racist
x-axis, negative: racist
y-axis, positive: also racist
y-axis, negative: believe it or not, racist

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Checks out! Also, cousin, could I perhaps borrow your boat?

[+] [email protected] -12 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Interesting to see authoritarian and libertarian as opposites given the GOP behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

US libertarianism is basically "I want freedom to do what I want, and want limits put on others based on my own values".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Except for the group that wants zero taxes and uses words like "ephebophile" to explain why they should be able to purchase a 14 year old girl from her father. I don't know why they think deregulating corporations will allow that, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It makes more sense once you accept that they just want slavery back. Then you literally just buy the children.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Basically conservative libertarianism is fascism. If you don't want to be tread on, you, yourself, mustn't tread on others for that to work.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

Go outside, and then listen to the Silmarillion audiobook.

Touch the grass as you hear the tales of the Two Trees, sang into existence by Yavanna. Feel the sun warm your skin as you hear of Laurelin, and feel the cold light of the moon as you hear of Telperion. Do that and be free, full of the Bliss of Valinor!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

That's pretty standard on all political compasses.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Yeah, but "libertarian" is initially a loanword from french "libertaire", which refers to anarchists and anarcho-communists, the right wing version came later. In the compass format, it refers to both ; and can be read as "anti-state".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Well a hypothetical libertarian should only share a love of capitalism in general with conservatives, and should otherwise hate everything conservatives do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Fwiw the term "libertarian" as used on these compasses is referring purely to the social scale, and not the economic one. So an American capital-L "Libertarian"* should be right-libertarian. But left-libertarians are also possible, being of the views "hey, everyone should have the resources to receive good healthcare, education, and a safe living space", but also "people should be able to do what they want to their own bodies, so long as they aren't impacting on others".

* using it here strictly in its original conception, rather than in the modern sense of "far-right Republican trying to hide behind a friendlier sounding label"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

Free markets yes, capitalism no

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak