Less than two years after his landslide victory
A "landslide victory" achieved by a collapse in votes for his opposition. It had nothing to do with him or labor and everything to do with the fact that the conservatives absolutely betrayed their voter base. Labor, IIRC, got even fewer (or a very similar total) votes than during their previous landslide loss.
as if he's trying to supplant Tolkien and have those terms remembered for how he uses them.
I think he probably just likes the theme. I doubt if one of the wealthiest people in the world who owns a bunch of companies that most people have never heard of named them with some nefarious goal of supplanting Tolkien's usage of the words he made up.
First Israeli I ever met on the internet back in the late '90s on ICQ -- some teenage kid in a forum for a game -- had a star of David as his profile with the text "death to all Palestinians" under it.
Such a warm, welcoming people.
all persons under the age of 18 .. will need to be accompanied by a .. responsible adult
Because the 18-year-olds are pinnacles of responsibility and dignity.
Make the requirement a 40 year old who has never been in prison and it might actually help.
Bill Gates and the vaccine crew were working on that. They had to stop because India got mad at them.
I'll happily call Gates one of the most evil people who have ever inhabited the planet, but at least in that case the evil was something that would indirectly benefit a lot of people.
Anyone whose idiotic socialist government made them dependent on external energy
While most of those governments are indeed made up of idiotic globalist socialists, they didn't have much choice. Not every country has oil that they can simply pump out of the ground.
Since we're on the topic of Nazis, grammar Nazism incoming:
exasperatethe loss of more brave Western men after WW1.
Exacerbate. Make a bad thing worse.
Exasperation is an emotion (out of patience, frustration) that people feel, and to exasperate someone is to cause them to feel it.
Dunno, seems to me more like he's undergoing a hero's arc.
I like that they make him somewhat clueless, and don't have him salivating over the female lead.
Also, the writing definitely cuts both ways. Her reaction to him due to Frieren's intended birthday gift is the epitome of female logic. Akin to her having a dream about him with another woman and being mad at him for it.
And putting the hunt for Gollum to screen will involve making up a ton of stuff
Yeah, like the Scooby Doo-esque chase scene with Smaug inside the mountain for The Hobbit.
Jackson did a pretty decent adaptation of LotR, but nearly everything he actually changed made the story worse.
At this point I'm comfortable saying: it was the banks.
Like all the wars before it an after it. Always playing both sides.