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Saruman and his uruk-hai are perhaps the most leftist things there are in those stories.

What? How so?

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Well obviously because when Pippin was sick, the orcs gave him free medicine

/s

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Because I don’t like leftists, probably :)

No but seriously, I was thinking of the tankie type there, not all leftists. And wrote lazily. Sorry.

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Tankies aren’t leftists and Sauron isn’t a tankie.

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Tankies aren’t leftists

Well yeah, and nazis are technically authoritarian centrists, not the far right. These labels are bad and they should feel bad.

Sauron

Different fella. No idea what his politics are, but probably not very liberal.

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