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SupremeReader 4 points ago +4 / -0

It's common in Europe. Often known as neofolk.

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SupremeReader 12 points ago +12 / -0

Based Hillary is happy for her.

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SupremeReader 30 points ago +30 / -0

When Meloni was first elected to cabinet in 2008, becoming Italy’s youngest-ever minister at 31, she vowed she would not be corrupted by the “ring of power” – a reference to the ultimate prize at the heart of Tolkien’s works. Later that year, she posed for a magazine profile next to a statue of Gandalf, the bearded wizard who roamed Tolkien’s fictional Middle Earth.

Fourteen years on, Meloni's right-wing coalition was on course to win a clear majority in a general election on Sunday, making her the favourite to become the country's first woman prime minister. True to form, she wrapped up her campaign with a nod to another Tolkien hero, Aragorn, whose fiery battle speech she referenced at her final campaign rally in Rome.

Meloni, 45, has made clear she regards the legends of the rings of power as a lot more than fantasy works: they inspire her worldview and politics.

“I think that Tolkien could say better than we can what conservatives believe in,” she told The New York Times, which investigated her lifelong fascination with Tolkien’s world in an article published this week.

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In that respect, the adventures of Frodo the Hobbit were both a rallying cry for the far right and a “cultural reference they could share with others their age”, he said.

In the late 1970s, the far right’s Tolkien-mania inspired the creation of “Hobbit Camps”, where fans of the author gathered for book readings, political debates and far-right rock concerts, in what some described as a “fascist Woodstock”.

The camps ended in 1981, when Meloni was just 4 years old. Just over a decade later, however, she attended a revival of the festivals, dubbed “Hobbit 93”, in Rome. There she sang along with the far-right band Compagnia dell’Anello (Fellowship of the Ring), whose song “Tomorrow Belongs to Us” was an anthem of MSI’s youth wing.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220925-inspired-by-tolkien-meloni-is-on-a-quest-for-italy-s-ring-of-power

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SupremeReader 11 points ago +11 / -0

Reading comments, I'm now commited to make Poland the country they see us:

Ah yes, good Poland. The beacon of human rights & liberty amirite? Don't you have some gays to beat up or women to force into pregnancies?

That's some real hardcore WH40K shit man, fucking metal:

Poland is not a country worth visiting. The Cristo fascist hellscape you made the place look like plains and mountains of misery.

It's the most Nazi thing to destroy G*rmany:

The Polish GOv only has act with infamous behaviour because you was thinking that in the meantime you can destroy GER in your benefit. You support NAZIS. The time will made you pay. Nazi. #UkraineRussiaWar

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SupremeReader 10 points ago +10 / -0

Germans are the most autistic nation in Europe.

Btw Asperger was a Nazi.

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SupremeReader 4 points ago +4 / -0

They're Middle Easterners, and Central Asians in the case of Turkics generally but the Turks are rather Turkified. It's not racial, it's regional and linguistic.

The Caucasian languages are totally different than the Semitic ones like Arabic (Mountain Jews aside), and also totally different than most of the European languages as well as Persian etc (Indo-European).

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SupremeReader 4 points ago +4 / -0

There have been extremely few Caucasian Arabs. Really the most by far was a few hundred fighting in and around Chechnya at one time. Other than that I only heard about one Palestinian "refugee" randomly living in Dagestan.

More Turks and Persians historically.(their respective empires).

Quite a lot of Mountain Jews but today they're rather in Israel.

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SupremeReader -2 points ago +2 / -4

You should pay some more attention to how Moscow calls their enemy "the nationalists" (besides outright "the Fascists", like if it's Italy, and of course "the Nazis"), not "the globalists".

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