• RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I'm really developing a violent reaction to the "video games are escapism" line.

    Like, that's all the art form is to you? A means to escape your life and turn off those dumbass noises in your head for a while?

    Also, knifecat escape from what, exactly? bridget-pride-stay-mad

    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      People who hide behind the word "escapism" are absolutely the sort of people who will go off on a rant about how places like China or Russia or [insert target country here] are full of unthinking drones that wouldn't dream of contradicting the status quo. :projection:

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      The main goal of the Nazi film policy was to promote escapism, which was designed to distract the population and to keep everybody in good spirits; Goebbels indeed blamed defeat in World War I on the failure to sustain the morale of the people.

      Source

      • RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Goebbels indeed blamed defeat in World War I on the failure to sustain the morale of the people.

        What a dumbass. Not only did he want to reduce art to a distraction, but his analysis of the war is also completely wrong. What no material analysis does to a mf

        Common Nazi L

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Goebbels indeed blamed defeat in World War I on the failure to sustain the morale of the people.

        Bro thought the HOI 4 wiki was a tactical handbook

      • CrimsonSage [any]
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        1 year ago

        Maybe morale fell low because people were starving, and no amount if teeevee is gonna change that. Fuckin idealists always end up as nazis I swear.

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          That's what the Bolsheviks want you to think. In reality, Germany was one apolitical video game away from establishing the Kaiserreich over Europe.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Don't trans people have the right to escape from transphobia also? Flip it on their heads.

      • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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        1 year ago

        They would say that trans people not coming up at all would be an escape from transphobia lol