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Link Posted: 9/1/2024 10:28:34 AM EST
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Originally Posted By birdbarian:


Tolkien was a WWI vet who I believe fought at the Somme, so I presume they were Huns.
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Tolkien said they were neither, most people assumed that LOTR was in some sense based on WW2, and Tolkien himself said it was not, that if anything it would more likely be WW1 as that's the war he fought in and had so many friends die in.

But he insisted it was based on neither.
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Originally Posted By Dragynn:


Tolkien said they were neither, most people assumed that LOTR was in some sense based on WW2, and Tolkien himself said it was not, that if anything it would more likely be WW1 as that's the war he fought in and had so many friends die in.

But he insisted it was based on neither.
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Originally Posted By Dragynn:
Originally Posted By birdbarian:


Tolkien was a WWI vet who I believe fought at the Somme, so I presume they were Huns.


Tolkien said they were neither, most people assumed that LOTR was in some sense based on WW2, and Tolkien himself said it was not, that if anything it would more likely be WW1 as that's the war he fought in and had so many friends die in.

But he insisted it was based on neither.


I can't imagine surviving trench warfare especially the Somme, and that not influencing everything afterwards, especially when writing about battles and enemies. The enemies weren't humans, for the most part, and we know dehumanizing the enemy is one technique to get people to kill each other. Huns, Nips, Dinks, Nazis, Orcs...
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Originally Posted By birdbarian:


I can't imagine surviving trench warfare especially the Somme, and that not influencing everything afterwards, especially when writing about battles and enemies. The enemies weren't humans, for the most part, and we know dehumanizing the enemy is one technique to get people to kill each other. Huns, Nips, Dinks, Nazis, Orcs...
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Originally Posted By birdbarian:
Originally Posted By Dragynn:
Originally Posted By birdbarian:


Tolkien was a WWI vet who I believe fought at the Somme, so I presume they were Huns.


Tolkien said they were neither, most people assumed that LOTR was in some sense based on WW2, and Tolkien himself said it was not, that if anything it would more likely be WW1 as that's the war he fought in and had so many friends die in.

But he insisted it was based on neither.


I can't imagine surviving trench warfare especially the Somme, and that not influencing everything afterwards, especially when writing about battles and enemies. The enemies weren't humans, for the most part, and we know dehumanizing the enemy is one technique to get people to kill each other. Huns, Nips, Dinks, Nazis, Orcs...

I forget if it's in the book "Tolkien and the Great War" or not, but he said "we were all orcs" discussing those who were in the trenches.  It was a condition of being, of industrialized warfare.  And LOTR was both not WW1 or WW2 and as a myth, doea still contain elements of both without being a metaphor for them.  IIRC LOTR was supposed to be an English/British Isles mythos as so much of their pagan ancestry had been erased by the Saxons and Normans and every other invasion.  It was to fill a gap left when the druids departed.

Memes.



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Originally Posted By birdbarian:


Tolkien was a WWI vet who I believe fought at the Somme, so I presume they were Huns.
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I always assumed the LOTR ones were Nazis.
Makes more sense they’re trying to make them sympathetic these days


Tolkien was a WWI vet who I believe fought at the Somme, so I presume they were Huns.

Maybe he ran across Hitler and had a premonition.
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Another good ad, but all these are too long





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Reddit has been a liberal shithole for years and actively interferes with elections.
I stopped visiting after they deleted /r/The_Donald because it was too successful.

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Man, these are great.
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Originally Posted By dedreckon:


They're here!!!!

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Sounds like a domestic enemy of the Constitution to me.
Link Posted: 9/1/2024 6:43:33 PM EST
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Originally Posted By birdbarian:


I can't imagine surviving trench warfare especially the Somme, and that not influencing everything afterwards, especially when writing about battles and enemies. The enemies weren't humans, for the most part, and we know dehumanizing the enemy is one technique to get people to kill each other. Huns, Nips, Dinks, Nazis, Orcs...
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Originally Posted By birdbarian:
Originally Posted By Dragynn:
Originally Posted By birdbarian:


Tolkien was a WWI vet who I believe fought at the Somme, so I presume they were Huns.


Tolkien said they were neither, most people assumed that LOTR was in some sense based on WW2, and Tolkien himself said it was not, that if anything it would more likely be WW1 as that's the war he fought in and had so many friends die in.

But he insisted it was based on neither.


I can't imagine surviving trench warfare especially the Somme, and that not influencing everything afterwards, especially when writing about battles and enemies. The enemies weren't humans, for the most part, and we know dehumanizing the enemy is one technique to get people to kill each other. Huns, Nips, Dinks, Nazis, Orcs...
Tolkien's self-proclaimed goal was to create a body of myth for the English people, not do a social commentary.
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Milton Friedman.
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Originally Posted By TheOTHERmaninblack:
Milton Friedman.

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This Woman is Why We Have STEREOTYPES ??
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Hitler phones Kamala Harris
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Black People Just Found Out Chase Bank Doesn't Let You Steal Money


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In staying with the sport ball analogy-people will riot when their team loses, but go along quietly when they shut down their jobs in lock them in their homes over the flu  
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That has to be fake. I mean, I could believe that someone would try this. But, no one could be that dumb and then film it.
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I feel sorry for the dude....
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Originally Posted By dedreckon:


They're here!!!!

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Keep this in mind when someone brings up an Article V Convention.

Link Posted: 9/2/2024 11:02:09 AM EST
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That has to be fake. I mean, I could believe that someone would try this. But, no one could be that dumb and then film it.
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If you ever have a question that starts with "Would someone be dumb enough..?" the answer is always yes.
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Originally Posted By Thuban:


That has to be fake. I mean, I could believe that someone would try this. But, no one could be that dumb and then film it.
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Originally Posted By Thuban:


That has to be fake. I mean, I could believe that someone would try this. But, no one could be that dumb and then film it.
They film themselves stealing cars and murdering random people.
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Originally Posted By Thuban:


That has to be fake. I mean, I could believe that someone would try this. But, no one could be that dumb and then film it.
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Originally Posted By Thuban:


That has to be fake. I mean, I could believe that someone would try this. But, no one could be that dumb and then film it.



That first video where the dude drives around hanging out the window with the card in his mouth is a fake---someone on another forum took some screenshots, and he ain't throwing real money around, it's prop money.
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Originally Posted By Volksgewehr:

If you ever have a question that starts with "Would someone be dumb enough..?" the answer is always yes.
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Oh man I’m gonna get to meet HR tomorrow
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Originally Posted By Mariner82:
Sounds like a domestic enemy of the Constitution to me.
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Originally Posted By dedreckon:


They're here!!!!

Sounds like a domestic enemy of the Constitution to me.


I'm not sure whether it's funny or ironic but Chermynsky is the Dean of Berkeley's Law school and was doing a student dinner recently at his house when he got ambushed by a bunch of pro-Hamas students. There is video of his wife trying to kick the idiots out of their house.

He should have pulled a gun and pistol whipped them out of his house, but that is probably illegal in CA since it basically ignores the Constitution already.
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OMG.  I am SO going to use that
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Originally Posted By dedreckon:


I'm not sure whether it's funny or ironic but Chermynsky is the Dean of Berkeley's Law school and was doing a student dinner recently at his house when he got ambushed by a bunch of pro-Hamas students. There is video of his wife trying to kick the idiots out of their house.

He should have pulled a gun and pistol whipped them out of his house, but that is probably illegal in CA since it basically ignores the Constitution already.
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Originally Posted By dedreckon:
Originally Posted By Mariner82:
Originally Posted By dedreckon:


They're here!!!!

Sounds like a domestic enemy of the Constitution to me.


I'm not sure whether it's funny or ironic but Chermynsky is the Dean of Berkeley's Law school and was doing a student dinner recently at his house when he got ambushed by a bunch of pro-Hamas students. There is video of his wife trying to kick the idiots out of their house.

He should have pulled a gun and pistol whipped them out of his house, but that is probably illegal in CA since it basically ignores the Constitution already.
Oddly enough, CA has really solid castle doctrine and tends to uphold defense of your own home.
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