!bookworms it turns out Meloni is a huge Tolkien fan, so naturally The Economist journos decided to write about it.
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“Tolkien was an anarchist,” lol yes, exactly the term I'd use for a devout Catholic who continued to loudly respond to the liturgy in Latin after Vatican II told everyone to switch. What a take.
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He actually was a Christian anarchist a la Tolstoy's political philosophy, he talked about it in his letters. His second pick was a return to Monarchism though.
Tolkien confirmed !nonchuds
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Christian anarchism is a chuds ideology albeit
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It's more dramatic and more DC to put it the way I did and technically correct
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Then why did he make the Blacks into orcs?
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Asking zillenials to understand historical context is like asking a to understand human genitals.
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I'm not sure it's anarchism, but it definitely isn't respect for authority to be a Catholic in protest of the Pope's dictates -- even if what you cling to is older.
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He was neurodivergent as frick and the other Inklings ditched him the first time they brought him on an outing because he wouldn't shut the frick up about trees.
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yes Christ is King, Deus Vult heathen
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Lol he supported the Spanish Nationalists
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The Republicans burnt churches
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And r*ped nuns.
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Are there any leftoids or liberals alive who even like LOTR, what i saw from Rangs of power, was that the vast majority of the new cuckfans who proudly told everyone that past tolkien sucked, but were loud and proud about never even having read LOTR
Wheel of Woke was even more extreme funnily enough, despite me personally branding it thematically much more liberal that LOTR, since jordan had a lot of matriarchy and feminine dominant societies ruling a failing shitshow continent, yet his message of the sexes needing to work together to overcome adversity and complimenting each other was called by the f@ggots of /r/wotshow too be too boomer and "men from mars and women from venus" for their f@ggoty modern taste
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In Brazilian twitter, the loudest Rangz of Power fans were young women and online cute twinks posting about “Galadriel armor is so incredible😻, yaaaas kweeen”, the type which probably not only didn't read any Tolkien book, but also probably didn't even watched the Peter Jackson trilogy.
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I can't wait for a trannny to use the other s*x's magic to show you how pro trans they are.
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obviously, r-slur. It's one of the most popular books of all time.
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Are we still pretending foid is right wing?
Right of Trudeau maybe
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Besides not sinking fugee boats on sight (she should have), what did she do that isn't right wing?
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She's supposed to leave the EU and do something about the old people She's also supposed to fly me out so we can take bubblebaths together
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The tories showed euro rightoids that “leaving the EU” is something to use as an electoral talking point only, not an actual thing.
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I'm sending Brownshirts to your house
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She was always eurosceptic at best, "leave the EU" isn't even part of Orbans agenda ever since the brits were r-slurred enough to actually leave and not just rile up rural barrys for election day.
But since then Russia did a little trolling in the east, so that was pushed back on the agenda too.
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EU is tolerated long as it is beneficial. However EU is fast growing bureaucratic mess and it's institutions are now creating new laws which member states never agreed on.
Treaty of Lisbon occurred in 2009 and there is constant crisis in the EU.
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and that's a good thing
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Has she actually done anything controversial yet?
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One of the first things she did in gov was remove legal recognising if same s*x couples so yes
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Made surrogacy illegal.
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She's the prime minister of fricking ITALY bro the most politically stagnant r-slurred country in the motherfricking world, just because the system is inherently incapable of doing anything, doesnt mean she doesnt want to bro
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I hope we get a LOTR trilogy remake with all italians but dressed in
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Nah Italians like to do
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i want to comfort schizo marsey
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A common theme in leftism
After/during ww2 any 1700s-1800s artist that Hitler liked immediately got a stigma and reviewers would shit on the artists even though they died in like 1890. Some took decades before their were “rehabilitated” by art critics.
Total
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich?wprov=sfti1
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You read my mind as I was just checking some Friedrich paintings on google today (he's mentioned in the book I'm reading about nazi art loot “The R*pe of Europa”). Ironically by associating Friedrich with Nazism they're using the same playbook the nazis used back in the days where everyone was “guilty by association” and had their works considered as “degenerate art” if they didn't fit Hitler's narrow views on the subject.
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Reject LOTR
RETVRN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen
BLACK LIVES MATTER ??
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!classics
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So many delusional redditoids.
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His views were unorthodox, he was a devout Catholic which was probably amplified from living in a prot country.
He was anti-racist for an Englishman of the time, despite what people said about him. The orcs were not humans. Numenorians were patterned on a mix between Atlantis and Egyptians/Minoans that spoke a Semitic-patterned language. Seriously, here it is:
Side note: Athanātē means "Land of Gift", refers to the island of Elenna/Numenor, and is suspiciously similar to Atlantis, because Tolkein intended it to be Atlantis--which shifted and changed over the ages. Tolkein was a philoligist who knew how Atanate would turn into the Greek Atlantis over time
He greatly admired northern germanic culture and hated the Nazis for associating it with something negative.
He did believe in natural law and defined morality. He didn't believe in imperialism.
His response when asked if he was of Arisch descent:
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