Heroes get arrested.
Villains make billions.This is freedom, somehow.
I really wish they didn’t give this thing a LotR name (Palantir), Tolkien would’ve hated it.
I was recently reading that hard core right and Sociopathic Oligarchs all have a real weird thing for LotR. They give Tolkien names to lots of stuff. The article was very vague about why there is a connection ( I got the feeling that they really didn’t know why it resonates with them), but it is there.
Nazis have always appropriated culture, since they lack the prerequisite humanity to make art of their own
It makes no sense because Tolkien wouldn’t have agreed with most of them and would’ve despised how they use his legacy. I don’t think these people understood the message the books were trying to send.
I remember reading that Tolkien wrote a letter or whatever lamenting that those kind of people liked his books.
I don’t understand why people are protesting. If you entered the country illegally, why are you surprised that they’re kicking you out? In some countries, the punishment is far worse, but in the U.S., they just deport you and send you back to your home country. To me, that seems like a good deal. Many immigrants did it the right way, so it’s not fair for those who didn’t to get away with illegally entering the country. Palantir is a terrible company, though.
