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To: bagster

Sorry, but Orc is what the Mongols were called. If you don’t like it, too bad.

I’ve found that the people who dislike the word ‘Orc’ are invariably Pootie lovers and freely use various key words that give away their game. Like CIA, Deep State, Nazi, etc.


50 posted on 07/12/2022 3:15:08 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF
and freely use various key words that give away their game. Like CIA, Deep State, Nazi, etc.

You mean key words like 'Orc'?

The game is that deep state agents, such as yourself, are selling the Deep State line that Ukraine a bunch of innocent Hobbits being attacked by Orcs. You people have always sought to dehumanize those you want us to believe are the enemy.

Your game is as old as time, Biden-bot.


52 posted on 07/12/2022 3:32:11 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: PIF
Sorry, but Orc is what the Mongols were called. If you don’t like it, too bad.

No they weren't, and I challenge you to show any source calling Mongols "Orcs" prior to the LOTR books. The closest you'll come is Tolkien (who based the word on an old Anglo-Saxon word for goblin) writing in a letter in the 1950s that orcs are “squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned, with wide mouths and slant eyes: in fact degraded and repulsive versions of the (to Europeans) least lovely Mongol-types.”

Now it is true that Mongols have picked up the term themselves since the movies, using it to basically call a fellow Mongol a redneck.

57 posted on 07/12/2022 4:29:52 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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