Thank you, Yggdrasil, for being just a compact routing scheme, not a semi-governmental military solution for implementing horrors beyond my comprehesion (they just love nordic or lotr names for that kind of things)

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xeonmc 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

ootl: what's the deal with hereditary purists and authoritarians appropriating nordic symbolism as dogwhistles?

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johanneskanybal 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's where all of western history comes from so it's not very strange to be popular overall. It's not like us mythology is a thing.

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xhevahir 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

All of Western history comes from the Nordic countries? News to me.

	▲	johanneskanybal 21 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No just saying us history is a 200 year thing europe history is counted in millienias, that's not really debatable. In this post it was noridc mythology but it's was all pretty mixed up together and influenced by each other since they where trading and fighting with each other. But that wasn't really the point.
	▲	gucci_breakfast 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		this commenter seems to have forgotten hellenistic greece or a little empire called... Rome? lmao

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krapp 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>It's not like us mythology is a thing.

It was before "Americans" came along.

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bulbar 3 days ago | parent [-]

Not really, it's just that the Americans and their culture got eradicated for the most part by the invaders/colonialists.

	▲	gob_blob 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think that that's exactly what the person you replied to was saying.
	▲	throwawaypath 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Maybe they shouldn't have let so many illegal immigrants in.

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krapp 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The Nazis were obsessed with a fictional occult quasi-mythology of the "Aryan" race that heavily appropriated Norse mythology and symbolism. The SS symbol was a pair of sun runes for instance.

I think they appropriate Tolkien (who despised the Nazis and their corruption of "Germanic" ideals and Norse mythology) because a lot of them are nerds who don't read too deeply into it, like how right-wingers and conservatives enjoy Star Trek while being completely oblivious to its progressive ideology.

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Arubis 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Venkat Rao noticed this and turned it into a rather excellent essay: https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/discworld-rules

> The Lord of the Rings is a great story, but I have to say, I’ve never understood the strange hold it seems to have on the imagination of a particular breed of technologists.

> As a story it’s great. It is pure fantasy of course (in the Chiang’s Law sense of being about special people rather than strange rules), full of Chosen Ones doing Great Man (or Great Hobbit) things. As an extended allegory for society and technology it absolutely sucks and is also ludicrously wrong-headed. Humorless Chosen people presiding grimly over a world in terminal decline, fighting Dark Lords, playing out decline-and-fall scripts to which there is no alternative, no Plan B.

	▲	EdwardDiego 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you for the link, that was a great essay and now I need to reread the Discworld novels.

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throw-the-towel 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ah, the nerds, always itching to build the Torment Nexus from the classic novel Don't Build the Torment Nexus.

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postsantum 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's not hard to imagine what elf-rights were thinking of humans. Perhaps they even had a slur or two

	▲	krapp 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Definitely for the dark elves.

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cluckindan 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I thought the name is a Max Payne reference.