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"It's just... We're named after the artifact the ancient evil used to peer on the world."
he has several companies named after lotr things, ANDURIL,mithril i think, lembas,,,etc.
That's my point. He is enough of a fan to know the connotation. He knows what the name implies, and company names are a deliberate choice that imply things about that company.
I wonder if this is a “Star Trek is a conservative show” sort of thing. Like he’s genuinely not smart enough to actually understand what is right in front of him.
I mean it probably isn’t, but it also wouldn’t surprise me to find out that the whole deeper meaning of the entire thing was entirely lost on such a shallow excuse for a human.
That is exactly what this is, conservatives pride themselves on having a toddler's sense of media literacy, especially the men.
It is a reoccuring pattern enough that I have seen multiple video essays on the general topic that try to unpack the different reasons because it is so confounding from the perspective of being a normal well adjusted adult.
I think it is a part of the same core thing as conservative humor being embarassingly bad, formulaic, weirdly cruel to specific groups and just plain not funny almost as a rule.
Peter Thiel explicitly sided with Sauron in an interview, because “things work in Mordor, while outside Mordor it's all wishy-washy and environmental”.