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AStern

(733 posts) Sat Jan 31, 2026, 02:44 PM Saturday

Current Affairs: How the Right Abuses Tolkien

For Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and other figures on today’s far right, the works of J.R.R. Tolkien have become a cultural touchstone. Pity they don’t understand the first thing about them.

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Current Affairs: How the Right Abuses Tolkien (Original Post) AStern Saturday OP

Thiel also likes to lecture on the book of Revelations. He's obviously perverting it's meaning to his ends also. ChicagoTeamster Saturday #1

I hate the way they coopt his words Easterncedar Saturday #2

ChicagoTeamster

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1. Thiel also likes to lecture on the book of Revelations. He's obviously perverting it's meaning to his ends also.

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Sat Jan 31, 2026, 03:26 PM

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Easterncedar

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2. I hate the way they coopt his words

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Sat Jan 31, 2026, 04:23 PM

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It's sacriligous. Ditto "grok." Athough that is less obvious a blasphemy, it's still wrong to steal an author's coinage for commercial purposes.

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