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Very funny how Thiel is such a Lord of the Rings fan and he got wormtongued by this guy.

Yet somehow idolizes Mordor as simply technologically advanced whereas everything outside it is “mystical and environmental and nothing works”.

This guy thinks nature doesn’t “work”

I find it uncanny how much the ring's effects on its wearers match modern smartphone addiction, and how much the working mode of Denethor's corrupted palantir match the way modern disinformation works.

Makes me think that, as with SciFi dystopias, they took LOTR as an instruction manual instead of a cautionary tale.

Conservatives have the media literacy of a dead chicken.

See: necessity of writers of The Boys making it increasingly obvious that homelander & co are are the bad guys. So many conservatives are stunned when they learn homelander is directly written based on trump.

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