Even Mitch McConnell didn’t vote for this thing.

It’s a cult, like MAGA in the US. Dear Leader says this, so you follow what he says, no questions asked.

Look how well it’s worked for the US!

I wouldn’t recommend it. It goes into Nightmare on Elm Street style supernatural territory, which is fine for that series but tonally clashes with the first one.

There’s a part in Lord of the Rings Online that sticks with me. When I finally got out of Moria and went to Lothlorien, Frodo is there. The game has a mechanic where when you’re in the presence of particularly strong evil you get a debuff called dread that lowers your morale (essentially your HP). When I approached him I noticed I had a dread debuff and was confused as to what was causing it until I remembered - of course, he has the ring! The game doesn’t make any mention of it, it’s just left for you to notice. It was a great way to subtly depict the burden he would have to carry for a long time.

You don’t have to be trying to depict addiction to end up doing it anyway. The ring’s allure might be magical, but the pattern is broadly the same.

He’s shown to be traumatized by it in the sequel, although it’s not very good.

You did. It’s 10.6 million subscribers, 7.5 million views.

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I have to say, it’s nice that they got called out on this immediately for a change.

No wonder the Trump regime didn’t want it aired. Nothing is more dangerous to them than pointing out that the culture war is fabricated to distract from the class war so the poors don’t realize that the billionaires are their enemies, not immigrants and trans people.

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So more acceptable in Europe?

Fascism’s MO, destroying the very systems that allowed it to get into power, which hurts them in the long run as well as everyone else.

Like what, Jerb322? The fact that climate change, pedophile billionaires, and fascism are destroying the planet? Well, you’re right! All I have left is quoting lines from old movies from my childhood to try to keep the horrors at bay.