it's hilarious how the rightists keep backing the police, companies, etc. just to get predictably let down by them. On T_D there was a big CANCELLING of Black Rifle Coffee for not explicitly supporting the rightist murderer Rittenhouse, with revelations like "they only care about making money, not real patriots".
Communism is when capitalism caters to a market I'm not a part of
They think capitalism and the "free market" should naturally cater to the best people I.E. straight white male conservatives. Anything else is pandering to the lower classes that don't matter as much as them because they think they aren't as good at life as them and therefore their opinions should have less weight in the market.
It will never cease to humor me that the people who claim to be the most for the free market always get so butt hurt when the free market shifts towards current trends they don’t like to chase capital. Had a convo a bit ago with a loser who wa super but their about WOC wanting to change orcs in D&D to end the blatant coding. Who then shut the fuck up when someone brought up how it’s not a moral issue but WOC just wanting to appeal to the untapped POC nerd market.
the orcs are definitely described as being mongolian-like but I disagree with dwarves being jews, I think that stretches it a bit - the haradrim, easterlings, umbar corsairs and the dunlanders are more racist if we're going to pick Tolkien's work apart.
The umbar are described as swarthy and dark skinned, the haradrim are just a pastiche of indian, mongolian and chinese influences, the easterlings seem to be a pastiche of islamic influences with their masks that completely cover their faces except the eyes, their long beards, and how they were originally going to be called the 'swarthy people' - and their's also the idea of these 'cruel, unforgiving people from a place that's probably sandy or something' laced throughout their characterisation. Dunlanders are just supposed to be stupid barbaric people that are probably germanic coded but I can't really remember.
regardless of all the racism that's just under the surface though I personally still really like the books, now if had been really racist I might change my mind, but to me it just seems like its a relic of when it was considered ok to say things like that
I don't think the choice to partially base their language as semitic is makes them definitely semitic, of course it shows that they were partially inspired to have semitic traits but I think it doesn't show as much as with the various factions I listed because a lot more went into the dwarves than just pastiche
Didn't Black Rifle give Shittenhouse his own fucking marketing deal or am I confusing them with some other bastard coffee company?
I witnessed this mess on T_D. When the murderer was released on bail he was pictured wearing a Black Rifle t-shirt, but in the next day or two, Black Rifle said they aren't associated with him. Trumpsters made hundreds of posts about supporting Støcking Mill coffee instead, as said company does vocally support right-wing murder.
Trumpsters made hundreds of posts about supporting Støcking Mill coffee instead, as said company does vocally support right-wing murder.
Shit, glad we got a coffee company that's pro right wing terrorism, that's a load off my mind, I'll tell you what.
You just saw a bunch of morons burning their kurig machines but capital saw opportunity.
how many right wing bastard coffee roasters are there in this country?
the military is like an incubator for these companies that just package the same shitty robusta beans as any brand name coffee and sell it for double to racists
Lmao this reminds me of earlier this year (or was it last year?) in Greece when the new government was upping police presence and repression, which culminated in the police just barging into some random director's house because they thought he might be hiding some anarchists from a squat next to his house. They assaulted him and tied him up together with his family. Someone was recording the audio from the whole thing and the dude was heard shouting at the cops "you're acting like anarchists entering people's properties and bullying them! In fact you are WORSE than the anarchists!".
He wears it to honor his third cousin who he has met once to honor him
