I don't deny aragorn has style. While he gracefully dances over it, the bar is pretty low here. Denethor was a lesser sire of greater men.
The man sent some of the city's only defenders into a battle he knew was unwinnable because he was throwing a temper tantrum.
Whether either of them is fit for leadership or has the rizz to do so, I say Down with all monarchies, embrace anarcho-syndicalist communes.
On the one hand, they shouldn't be beholden to some "royal" douche somewhere simply because he's the king. "divine right" my ass.
On the other hand, don't make a promise ~~8d~~ if you can't or won't keep it.
On the third mutated hand, how much of them swearing an oath was due to societal brainwashing making them feel like they had to?
Aragorn can be a "good king" all he wants but as far as I'm concerned he's still just as bad as any other. He started his reign by banishing the person responsible for saving Faramir and thus securing his own ascendancy to the throne. Without a steward to hand over the proverbial keys, all we have is a sword some elves who raised this guy says is made of bits of some important historical sword, and an old dude with a walking stick who used to wear Grey but now decided white is more his style.
I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some crotchety hermit had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Take it from me, you don't want to go down the "eugenics" road...
I really don’t like ice. It’s cold, slippery and wet.
And it gets everywhere.
Just like the shitty US fascist police...
Even when adjusting for population numbers (nunbers of cop deaths vs total cops / delivery deaths vs delivery drivers) it's not even close
Anecdote: I know a guy who delivers for donatos and in some areas, he actually has a plate carrier he wears in winter under a hoodie to deliver to some neighborhoods.
This came as a shock to me, as I used to cycle everywhere and at least one neighborhood he mentioned always seemed nice when I rode through.
As I said to someone recently, it is illegal to smash a brick into the heads of every corrupt fascist ICE thug going around committing endless acts of domestic terrorism. It is still morally correct to do so.
Illegal≠immoral/bad/wrong, legal≠moral/good/right.
Nothing I’ve fried has been made worse by the deep fryer
Well, other than your health.
Although you aren't really deep frying it directly. Just by proxy.
Source: own one and do not regret
Talking shit about financially struggling families during one of the worst wealth disparities in history is way trashier than a person's roommate having a child.
For the same reason that half the MAGAts in government that we have crimes + named suspects with mountains of evidence, and still no trial.
The same reason donld Trump incited a crowd of people, on camera, to go try and overthrow the government on a cold January morning 6 years ago, and despite people dying and people being murdered in the attempt, the person we have on camera starting it is now the goddamn president instead of in a cell or pine box.
We have no justice system. It only ever existed for whichever out group is being targeted. The rich and influential don't exist in those groups and instead of trying to hide that like they used to, nowadays they just openly flaunt it.
Must've been the wind.
He should have wished to be the protagonist in his very own sci-fi space show set on a "light freighter" style of ship.
Then you're guaranteed at least two romance options (four, if you swing more than one way), your own ship, and plot armor.