Bonus:
The smol bean heckin democracy puppers need autonomous death robots to protect themselves from scary authoritarians 🥰
Also, bad wars is unacceptable, you need to
to make sure we get good wars!
On one hand, unimaginable destruction of human life, on the other, lower taxes. I’m torn 🤔
The last thing you see before getting devoured by a pack of autonomous robot dogs
A bit of a side tract, but ffs how shitty it is that these ghouls have just taken all these words and names from lotr and use them in their imperialism to make it sound cool and good actually. Our poor good western world just fighting againts the dark lords of the world, just like Aragorn. It is nauseating because it is so deeply disingenious (unless these people believe in their own bullshit).
“Palantir” as a surveillance company. Negl I have started having extremely lucid daydreams of handcuffing techbro and death merchant CEOs to rebar posts cemented in the ground; surrounded by kerosene-doused tinder and setting each of them ablaze, one by one.
<3
Well, they ran out of all the cool names from the Cowboy universe like Apache and Tomahawk.
an underappreciated milestone of the modern era is when the settler-colonialists ran out of frontier and had to start naming their weapons and technology after fictional genocides
Because these people think of the world in terms of LOTR just like liberals think in terms of Harry Potter
Anduril means “flame of the west”.
So basically
and
Ayup.
The amount that Tolkien would HATE seeing weapons on mass death and/or surveillance take names from his work. The guy was really really not big on war
I think Palantir would piss him off the most. A spy company named after the evil mind destroying crystal balls that Sauron used to subvert Gondor and hurt Pippin?
It’s really on the nose. In the greater context the palantir were neat and useful before sauron got one, where this is just mordor producing their own