https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscoElysium/comments/tj9sht/disco_inferno_welcome_to_revachol_discoelysium/
Liberals don't really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Liberalism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of NATO airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in liberalism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.
Name one time NATO protected a small country from a big bad bully lol
Right now! They're protecting wholesome 100 chungus Ukraine from evil totalitarian communazi Putler 🤗
Kosov-wait a minute, I thought military interventions to support ethnic separatists was bad?
Nato protected tiny landlocked America from the Iraqi behemoth that surrounded it.
I’m trying to get my head around posting cosplay to social media in an active warzone.
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It's a very strange sense of priorities but also in capturing the vibe of the game's setting those photos are quite good
Yeah for sure!
It’s just so surreal having grown up watching the Vietnam war to this.
They said it’s not even them in the photo. Good chance it’s a propaganda account
Funny considering the Oranje Coalition is supposed to be an allegory for NATO. And they defiantly the bad guys.
The Moralintern is the Moralintern, just like the courtains are just blue and if you think otherwise you're my english teacher that I hated in 5th grade.
Hmm, maybe the video game that portrays communists in a nuanced way and presents fascists as whiny, racist baby brains attracts communists, idk y'all
not only that, but I'd say the game is extremely generous and offers a kind of pitying sympathy for fascists, by showing that they're avoiding reality because the alternative is too painful for their whiny silly brains, so instead they harm themselves with gibberish filled hatred instead. It's somehow both a humane portrayal of fascists and a deeply scathing one at the same time and it's genius.
Wow I cant wait for our epic based coalition to take off its mask of humanity! It's gonna be so cool when they turn those fucking Rusky streets and houses into ghosts, we're gonna strangle and beat those Russian mutts all to death!!
On a more serious note, this is the fucking Musk and Obama loves Parasite moment all over again, some people just consume product and has any political content go in one ear and out the other, while all that remains is "wow cool aesthetic! wow cool fictional story!", even something as political as Disco Elysium, you give them the thinnest veil of fiction and then all that politics is safe to ignore.
Every liberal reviewer I've seen treats Disco Elysium as politically ambiguous, doing the both sides thing like saying sure the workers are striking for unfair conditions, but they're also blocking the road and making life harder for everyone else. The game could not be more vocally leftist unless it had a big sickle and hammer on the cover. They also miss the point of the communist vision quest entirely.
What do you mean the game where its developer thank :marx-joker: and :blushing-engels: when receiving award for it is leftist?!
Disco elysium lead writer: "I am a communist and i literally have a bust of Lenin on my office desk"
lib game critic:"um actually the game is politically ambigious because it takes shots at communists who are annoying"
“It lets you play as a fascist”
“Yes, and it physically injures you for doing so”
“Just like the communist quest where it says you’re annoying. Both sides”
I typically just point out that there are several pictures of Stalin hanging in their office: https://twitter.com/OliverJia1014/status/1221285258240262146/photo/1 - This dweeb apparantly got offended by it :soviet-playful:
I feel like that term never reached a common consensus on what it means. Lenin used it a lot but I'm not exactly sure who he'd say is state capitalist now in 2022.
i know culture is downstream of politics, but when someone talks about the objective of an explicitly anti-communist alliance being to "protect smaller countries from bullying from larger ones," i believe that person has watched too many marvel movies.
Anyone who characterizes complex geopolitical interactions as "bullying" gets 10 years of re-education after the revolution.
