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Why does right-wing nuts tech bro always goes to Lord of the Ring’s name ?
Because they wanna seem quirky and nerdy
It’s not right wing nuts tech bros. It’s just one: Thiel. All the companies with the LOTR name have him as a common denominator.
Also this news is weird I thought Palmer Luckey really hated Zuckerberg. Luckey was fired from Facebook because he supported Trump before basically any other Techbro except Thiel.
Thiel is basically pushing the idea of breaking up the US of A into "city states". And the IT Bros, as the "chosen ones" due to their business acumen, they will all get a city to govern said independent states.
"But they were all of them deceived..."
Ash nazg durbatulûk
The cities state idea is more of a Curtis Yarvin thing, but he has the backing of Thiel.
Thiel is pushing whatever thing allows the existence of a libertarian state a la Bioshock. In his essay “Education of a Libertarian “ he talks about a few things that could usher such a state like the internet, space colonies or sea standing. So far he has funded two companies that could allow such a state to form. He was one of the first to fund SpaceX (Mars), and he funded a project of Yarvin that I don’t really understand but it’s something about cyber city states or some shit like that, it’s super obscure.
"Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
That doesn't even really sound like hyperbole anymore.
At least Luckey went with the name of the good guy's sword rather than the bad guy's surveillance device, like Peter Thiel.
I hate that both trademarks exist, but I'd say using a name form a Tolkien work to develop weapons is especially wrong. Like, abject.
Both are funded by Thiel, it’s all Thiel down the way.