The approach includes imagery and language inspired by The Lord of the Rings, Halo, medieval knight and The Patriot, content more commonly associated with gaming and far-right meme communities than official government messaging.
Right wingers have no media literacy. Appropriating one of the most blatantly anti-authoritarian stories of all time thinking that they’re the good guys.
They do the same thing with punisher
These are the people who think 1984 was a solid goal.
Make them some Starship Tooper, Judge Dread and RoboCop memes. They’ll run with it seriously like Helldivers.
Idk how you watch the intro video to Helldivers and not go “oh this is parody!”
How has the Tolkien estate not already sued them into oblivion for this?
A great big middle finger to Thiel and his appropriation of LoTR names.
Curtis “Mordor was wrongly portrayed” Yarvin and his acolytes keep trying to wrap themselves in the language of Tolkien and it remains true that they are assholes unworthy of the association.
God damn… America is truly beyond saving at this point. The far right has it at the balls and the Dems are just issuing strongly worded letters and otherwise cave in to Trump.
It’s not just the US though, these politics have spread like a cancer through most of the Western world.
Yeah and it’s quite frightening.
Farage, Starmer and Andrew should all decorate the tower of London… For example.
