RollaD20 [comrade/them]

Tied into this, I think there’s also an element of liberals expecting a certain bleeding heart morality to the left that they believe paralyzes. They don’t want solutions out of the left, they want to have socio-political catharsis through the veneer of left politics. So some might cry: “what’s happening in Yemen is so sad my heart goes out for them”, yet ultimately decide that the ‘rational’ amoral realpolitik demands the US play this game with the Saudis else things could be hypothetically worse. ‘Ignore the heart, choose the mind’ type attitude when it comes to the “real”. So’ coming up against leftists that are less interested in playing the bleeding heart or (merely) stroking their own ego by pointing to moral superiority forces one to re-evaluate either what they consider to be left or the stated values/goals of the leftist challenging this framework.

Hopefully this made sense, I’m not running on a lot of sleep lmao.

Absolutely, the politics of korra is utter dog shit. Somehow they managed to fuck up almost every political theme they were exploring throughout the show. Couldn’t even get the gimme that is “fascism bad” lmao.

“As the committee has learned, when you scrutinise and follow the billions of US investor dollars flowing to CCP-controlled Chinese enterprises, courtesy of reckless Wall Street firms, it leads to nowhere good in many instances,” he said.

That’s just the free market doing what it does! What are you? A bunch of commies? A bunch of commies trying to interfere with the invisible hand? Do you hate freedom?!?

It’s been a while seen I watched the show, but the guru is the most egregious example iirc. It also leans heavily into “oriental mysticism” which in and of itself is gonna be difficult starting point, especially without robust connection to the cultures/religions/mythologies. In AATL, there is a bit of colonial apologia in the fact that aang is unwilling to kill the fascist strongman. I know its a kid’s show but look at the monk gyatzo scene. If you are telling a story, even to kids, about the horrors of imperialism you can’t shy away from killing the fucking hitler-analogue especially when there has been no apprehension for Aang to ostensibly kill a ton of people throughout the show. IMO korra is much much worse in this regard though. At least aatl doesn’t explicitly apologize for fascism.

In the streets

In the sheets

None of my cars even have gears, I just put it in D and drive

Partisans 1941, real time tactics game about german invasion of the ussr.

Yeah it just seems so terminally online and out of touch with the real world. to go out into the real world and call yourself the “Goyim Defense League” demonstrates such an intensely warped worldview that just screams 4chan idiot in a way that has to drive away potential support (right???). There are genuinely scary and dangerous looking fash groups in the USA that are almost certainly as bigoted as these dumbasses, but they are better tapped into the American fascist aesthetic.

Goyim Defense League

If I run into a nazi and he tells me that he’s part of the Goyim Defense League I would assume I was being pranked. Sounds like something out of a Mel Brooks movie

China and Russia are actually a giant blob

Alternate history where the Sino-Soviet split didn’t happen.

Probably the only video game that I’ve played that has moments which stick with me the same way that my favorite movies and books do. On top of the great writing and fun gameplay, I loved being able to play as a jewish dude just fucking up nazis.

Tyrannicide is a fun word and you can’t take it away from me

Yeah, I’m not sure what that is on about. If it was actually someone commenting that the war was a false flag they’d probably end up getting roasted because I don’t really know what the mechanisms for that would be. It’s possible they were talking about the pipeline attack, which depending on how they define a false flag operation could make sense (I have not spent a lot of time looking into the pipeline stuff tbf).

Yeah that’s fair, these threads aren’t great for getting a sense of what people’s ideas are here. Especially since folks end up fairly antagonistic and the comments pile up. If you are curious, Here is a pretty good comment on the war, and I do recommend using the search function and just perusing the longer (especially sourced, read the sources!) and more effortful comments.

But as far as I can tell, you made up the false flag thing entirely because of an image that disappeared. At least that’s what I can only assume based on your other comments. No one made that claim (as far as I can see). Please link the comment of someone saying the war in Ukraine is a false flag.

They were engaging in a dang whataboutism

Its a cheeky joke that is wondering why the United States has the moral authority to hypocritically police another state for actions that the USA engages in regularly and yet does not receive a fraction of the pushback.

It’s also worth pointing out, however, that the USA has been stoking the flames of Russian-Ukraine conflict for decades beginning with Operation Aerodynamics.

Different people have different perspectives about the conflict? Different discussions have different topics and histories to bring up depending on the context?

Genocide obviously does matter (I’m not sure who you are insinuating says otherwise), the commenter was discussing how the concept of genocide has been watered down largely as a means to manufacture consent for western military operations. Some people claim that Ukraine was engaging in genocide against the russian minority esp. through violence (by far right military orgs) in the east of Ukraine and legislation that suppresses russian minorities.

If you are confused you should ask some actual questions (or use the search function, find some of the effort posts). You will get genuine answers if you ask in good faith.

If you want to play an evil route, I recommend the Dark Urge route. It does actually provide some fun mechanical rewards for being evil, and is tied pretty interestingly into the plot. Definitely pretty edgelordy, though.

Good playthrough does seem like it has more going for it overall if only because there are just more npcs to interact with as things go on.

Of course, when the evil commies suggest re-education or de-radicalization of far right elements they are being evil authoritarians and are brainwashing people. No way to win with these folk. their anti-communism overrides everything else.