• Soap_Owl [any]
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    2 years ago

    Feels revisionist. Sauron has a racially diverse army and his main opponents are landed gentry and other petit bourgeois. Seems a little sus to me.

    • quiet [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Also, Sauron drew fell creatures to his banner from crevices and pits across Middle Earth. This is clearly a sign of genuine organic support for his program. Can the conscripts of Gondor say the same about their love for the bitter, insane old tyrant Denethor? And what of Rohan? For every knight in splendid armor riding a massive warhorse there must be ten or twenty farmer families toiling in serfdom to support the class of warrior elites. Do these toilers get a say in their dynastic absolute monarchy? If Sauron can make yield the odious powers of Gondor and Rohan, while making thus precarious the feudalist world balance, long live the butcher Sauron. :bordiga-despair:

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        I just want to point out that the only direct democracy in Middle Earth were the Ents.

      • culpritus [any]
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        2 years ago

        Strange dudes with beards distributing rings is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical magical ceremony.

        also now I want to make The Boys crossover memes with Butcher as Sauron hunting the magical supes

    • huf [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      how do you know sauron even exists? or ever existed? he could be like termagant, entirely made up by the western hegemony.

      • Soap_Owl [any]
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        2 years ago

        The useual kind of propaganda making up stories about a fancy lighthouse