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There's a weird obsession among the far right lunatics with LOTR and just completely missing the message. Vance is in that crew too
They'll miss the message of literally anything if it isn't explicitly right wing.
It must be intentional, at least for some of them, some of the time.
I've noticed the same in recent years with Star Trek and the far right as well.
I don't know how they can possibly miss that the Federation is functionally a post-scarcity socialist utopia.
On the other hand... the Ferengi are essentially a direct replica of the modern US, including the far right's clear motive to try and force women back to subservience. I'm sure they'd love to be able to force them to be naked all the time while they're at it.
It's obvious many of the species in the ST universe were extreme caricatures of specific regions/countries from real life, and the Ferengi were based on the US... But I don't think they expected the caricature to so directly become the reality.
Because there's been a decades long effort to make American education really bad. There's very little ability for critical thinking in that group of people.
no we doesn't
Well.... can't really argue with that.
"NeW tReK iS wOkE"
My guy, have you just been not paying attention for the last 60+ years? Star Trek has always been progressive.
Inb4 black and white cookie people episode.
dammit! beat me by three hours!
i wonder if the NuDiscoTrek time jump stuff was explicitly for the far right trekkers (yeah that's right i said it with the hard R). First off, the writers shoved as much identity politics stuff in there because they didn't want to do it. second off it was not the best trek we've had in a while, even though the actors tried. AND THEN THERE'S THE THIRD THING. i don't know how we dealt with the third thing. fouthly one of trek's main exports is corn. fifthly it might be why they got rid of all of the stuff that made trek trek like the postscarcity and the hair. lastly, and in conclusion, NuDiscoTrek is a land of contrast.
you can add warhammer 40k to it too.
personally i would say its a sense of a belonging and purpose in a group for a unambigious cause that most people crave. but its just that most time the cause is skewed pretty bad by the people of power.
Well somebody needs to be the villain.
(as in: yes, that might also be the point. There are villains.)
i used to live someplace where the village sobriquet ended in villain (as in Bostonville and the citizens were called Bostonvillains, although it was not as awkward because it was not a made up place like Bostonville) and i have to admit it's pretty fun