This text feels like an insulting compliment. Or a complimenting insult. Or something. It absolutely swings backs and forth between toxic masculinity and comfortable inclusivity.

It’s not about rank or age. It’s about who’s been present at the last battle of the War of the Last Alliance. Also, at the time of the depicted scene Elrond never was in Valinor, so at this point in time Gandalf definitely easier Elrond’s senior by orders of magnitude.

Now imagine 400-500 year old senior Elros eyerolling his twin brother’s juvenile stupidity lol

I guess it depends. Elrond is around 7.000 years old when having this conversation with Gandalf, so 1.000 years might be like 10 years to a 70-year old. Arwen is less than 3.000 years old, so maybe 1.000 years to her is more like 10 years to someone in their late 20s (and as someone in their early 30s, that’s a damn long time)? To Galadriel or Cirdan on the other hand 1.000 years might just be like ”Damn, I slept in again, what age is it?“

I assume you forgot a “not” after the “but”. I just looked it up though, Gandalf left Valinor for Middle Earth around 1000 T.A. I don’t know about you, but I’d consider that “long after” the War of the Last Alliance.

that a conviction will create fascist narrative

The other way round. Fascists create their own narratives no matter what we do. For example, at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, the german AfD were among the first to cry for curfews, lockdown and mask mandates. Just to cry ”dictatorship“ when said measures where implemented.
When you don’t ban fascists from elections they say: ”Look, we can’t be that bad otherwise we were banned,“ but when there’s discussion about banning a fascist party they cry about being oppressed.
If you want to act without fascists creating a narrative of oppression, you won’t be able to act at all.

I don’t have enough money to buy stuff because it’s advertised.

Doesn’t matter. While that amazon shitshow tells a different story, Gandalf (as Radagast and Saruman) only arrived in the third age, long after the War of the Last Alliance. Gandalf might be infinitely older than Elrond yet wasn’t there.

It’s manageable on low-density streets where its really only three waters and maybe some telephone lines.

Have you ever been to a german city? Underground power cables are the norm here, especially in densly populated areas. Usually only railroad power cables and high voltage long distance lines are above ground.

No no no no, you’re supposed to use the app on mobile devices. There are no browser pages in mobile Ba Sing Se /s

That’s why you wish for things that enable you to get more things. Aka lots of money.

That’s just dumb. We must focus on Europe and the European Union. China is a systematic enemy seeking to disrupt and destabilize us.

The US defence industry does pretty well

At what cost though? What about the rest of the U.S.'s public infrastructure, i.e. healthcare, education system, social security, etc?
The U.S.'s military industrial complex does well because the U.S. defense budget was $886 billion in 2024.

The U.S. drives on a fucked up system. We should be very careful about what we use as a role model.

Wow, you really destroyed me.

Pointless rule. Everything is politics.

You’re missing my point. I even stated that the block would benefit from a concentration of military development instead of each nation’s own industries with occasional transnational cooperative projects.

My point is that I don’t want to simply replicate the U.S. american.military industrial complex and focus more on civilian issues first. Military must stay a means of defense, not a means in andof itself as I often have the impression of the U.S. military is.

A government funded, unionwide research agency does sound like a good idea to me. But DARPA is a military r&d agency and I’d rather see an agency focused on benefitting civilian life, preserving nature, sustainability and such.
EU would clearly benefit from concentrating each nations military industries into unionwide companies and projects, too, though, but idk, I feel like we as a society could benefit from a strong, well funded civilian research effort.
I don’t know if there is such already out there, all I ever hear about is either underfunded or financed by private profit-oriented companies.

We’re supposed to learn that from almost every election in the last couple of years. I mean specifically what’s the message of this comic strip.

And what’s the message of this? What kind of consequences are suggested to follow this cognition?

I know. Here in Germany, the Bundeswehr also often does disaster relief work. It’s just the wording of the title that is kinda… Well, could be read like a title about violent protest abatement.