ComradeRat

Rowling really hates that so much of the original films cast doesnt support (or worse, actively speaks against) her transphobic shit iirc, so it doesnt suprise me newpotter stuff is acting like the movies dont exist

They are making it for the real sicko bad slop enjoyers as a christmas gift

trump will reintroduce conscription and 5 years later we will have a revolution long live jdpon don

This cannot be overstated

I read Shlyapnikov's memoirs on bolshevik organising 1914-1916, and the need for mass support to wage an underground/illegal struggle really came accross

Like shlyapnikov literally slept in a different workers apartment every night, had to run through back yards and into houses to dodge cops, relying on people for meals, etc

Incidentally members of the underground bolshevik petersburg committee had an average turnover time of 3 months before theyd have to flee the city for safety/mental health reasons, or theyd get arrested

The biggest issue with that phrase imo is that it ignores imperialism

The imperialists are quite happy to turn every egg in the world into dinner

“To the proletariat, the election of Napoleon meant the deposition of Cavaignac, the overthrow of the Constituent Assembly, the dismissal of bourgeois republicanism, the cessation of the June victory. To the petty bourgeoisie, Napoleon meant the rule of the debtor over the creditor. For the majority of the big bourgeoisie, the election of Napoleon meant an open breach with the faction of which it had had to make use, for a moment, against the revolution, but which became intolerable to it as soon as this faction sought to consolidate the position of the moment into a constitutional position. Napoleon in place of Cavaignac meant to this majority the monarch, in place of the republic, the beginning of the royalist restoration, a sly hint at Orléans, the fleur-de-lis hidden beneath the violets.[87] Lastly, the army voted for Napoleon against the Mobile Guard, against the peace idyll, for war.

Thus it happened, as the Neue Rheinische Zeitung stated, that the most simple-minded man in France acquired the most multifarious significance. Just because he was nothing, he could signify everything save himself.”

Marx, 18th Brumaire

Theyre more inspired by Rome or Greece imo

In terms of tolkien's "the lotr is anciente history of real world" idea, the lotr is antediluvian i.e. pre-noah, i.e. c. 5,000-8,000 bce depending on which medieval catholic chronology tolkien followed. In terms of catholic folklore, gondor cant become england because it will be drowned in the noah era flood.

In my experience, theres lotsa weirdos who are like "we must meet in person without masks or we cant truly communicate" even among the youth. I dont get it at all, i think its some allistic body language/facial expression bullshit

Eh sorta but its more complicated than that. His fondness for feudal society was less "its hecking wholesome when the aristocrats are in charge and oppress people" and more "its easier to kill an aristocrat with knights and a wooden house than a capitalist with a steel bunker and aeroplanes and bombs" and "at least feudal society wasnt cannabalising nature and homogenising society as much."

He does seem awfully robotic

Tolkien would approve:

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations

Yeah, gondor sucking is part of why tolkien never wrote a sequel to lotr. He was pretty much like "yeah theyre gonna go evil again within a century lol"