let's get this on federation shall we

  • ennemi [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    hey have you watched "the man in the high castle" it's about alternative universe in which the nazis won, can you imagine if that happened, can you imagine if they just took over an entire continent and murdered almost everyone on it and installed a fascist christian ethnostate and went about playing world police for 80 years, that would be real fucked up

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      16
      10 months ago

      My favorite part about the book is that there's an alt-alt-history novel the characters will sometimes read, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy where instead the Allies win the alt-history version of WW2. In the alt-alt-history, after the Allies win they basically do a positive imperialism where they conquer Africa and China, somehow eliminate poverty, spread the New Deal worldwide, then the US and UK get into a cold war that the UK wins.

      I took it to mean that PKD thought even in a liberal's wildest imagination, even when under the direct threat of fascism, they'd write a book about how they almost win and then lose.

      • ennemi [he/him]
        hexbear
        10
        10 months ago

        oh shit they went and made the amazon show into a book

    • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.ml
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      10 months ago

      I made a similar observation several years ago. For the American tribes still present, The Man in the High Castle is a reality for them.

    • forcequit [she/her]
      hexbear
      10
      10 months ago

      no but I've watched Harry Potter. Expelliarmus! Crypto Patronym! Terra Nullius!

      • ennemi [he/him]
        hexbear
        9
        10 months ago

        then you'll love my fanfic, harry potter and the lost cause

        • D61 [any]
          hexbear
          8
          10 months ago

          "And the wizarding world will rise again!"