There is a reason that people say that lotr suceeded in spite of Tolkien.

Haha

He's the archetypical world builder who... developed his characters along the lines of an afterthought

sometimes it makes me sad that people can't look at males being close friends without someone making the "joke" of it just being gay.

LotR is honestly a beautiful work, it's just very slow paced for two books

The openness of homosexuality restrains heterosexual male affection

@Shadows blame the sexual revolution mate

Return of the King is the "Get Shit Done" book

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ @wail

I remember reading a letter by John Adams or one of the other founding fathers, sleeping in the same bed as another founding father

GAY!

Yeah, so gay

Every man who ever expressed kinship with another man was gay -Gay Scholars Everywhere

indeed

I don't mind people really joking tho, what makes me sad is the ones that really believe men can never have bonds without things being sexual.

That's why the practice of "shipping" kind of annoying's me, but.... people are free to enjoy what they want......

Shipping is hilarious

But big difference between fantasy and insistence

quite

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This is relevant to terrorism in the US

> Pat Robertson claims leftists are gonna be using witchcraft

> 1992

> 2018

> leftists actually using witchcraft

Fucking _lol_

@RoadtoDawn did you see the video i linked about it?

Someone get me a photo of O’Rourke at the end of the rainbow with a sombrero

Captioned: The Rarest Leprechaun of All, Mexican subspecies

A pot of refried beans sounds really good tbh

@wolfman1911 do you consider federal spending on roads a hand out to cars?

Not really.

I've never heard anyone put it that way.

@wolfman1911 ok. I’m kind of toying with an idea. One of the biggest criticisms of libertarianism is ‘what about muh roads?’ I’m starting to think that federal funding of roads is, in part, responsible for the current situation of urban sprawl and quantity of fossil fuels used for transportation. I halfway think that there would be far more public transportation and denser urban living if roads weren’t paid for by the feds. What do you think?

Watch Crowder's Devil's Advocate with Ben Shapiro and they have a good discussion about roads being an exception since they are non rivalrous commodities

Well, I can't see a situation where I would call myself a libertarian, but I can kinda see their point about the roads.

That said, I also see the value in having the roads paid for as they are, because I have a hard time imagining how else it could work.

Well remember that the line between a Libertarian and an anarchist is whether the government is there or not

It is, but ancaps keep calling themselves libertarians

Like how socialists keep calling themselves liberal

@wolfman1911 @SteelandSouls Here’s how I think things would’ve turned out. Transportation between cities would be dominated by trains and planes, cities would still pave urban roads. International transportation would be heavily focused on public transportation or smaller vehicles. Sort of utopian sounding, but wonder if it would be true.

I think I just had an almost #metoo moment