This idiot seems like he's never heard of left wing ideology before and primarily views the world through a cringe/based internet fascist filter. He talks about his surprise that leftists are actually against large corporations, which he also says he's against from an opposite angle. Except he says he's against corporations for having women in pantsuits and woke agendas. Ok, so imaginary problems you're against for gibberish reasons.
And he says being a fascist in DE isn't punished, which is fundamentally false. The game becomes deliberately tedious and sad if you make poor HDB become a reactionary. It's the only political quest that does physical and mental damage to you, it rewards you with far less XP and money than the other routes, and I don't think there are any Thought Cabinet ideas that give you extra stuff for saying fascist things. In fact, saying too many fascist things will reduce your total health. If that's not punishment, I don't know what is.
More than that, it's the only political route where Kim will get repeatedly tired of your shit. Anything else, even being a commie, he'll entertain. He might think you're weird or embarrassing, but he won't raise his voice. The fascist route gives you multiple lectures where Kim calls you a racist piece of shit, culminating in a fight where Kim refuses to have anything beyond a professional working relationship with you. To become a fascist in DE involves betraying the one person who believed in you from the start.
And he says being a fascist in DE isn’t punished, which is fundamentally false. The game becomes deliberately tedious and sad if you make poor HDB become a reactionary.
I get your point, but consider that the videoessay guy currently walks around his neighborhood with this sort of worldview so they make due with the "I'm saying the TRUTH, telling it how it is: that's why everyone hates me" excuse all day, everyday... for the foreseeable future.
Disco Elysium Fascist Quest
Also, at the end of the questline it's implied you get nerve damage from all the constant stress, fear and hatred as a fascist? Unless I'm interpreting it wrong. The conversation with Measurehead was interesting though, and had some of the most hilarious dialogue in the game (Semen Retention, anyone?)
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Yeah, Harry ends up a blabbering depressed maniac at the end of the fascism quest. There's a theme of constantly harming yourself, the game portrays fascist ideology as self-harm. You'll constantly get voices to tell you to move on from Dora, or the life you had, but your Endurance stat is the one that keeps pushing Harry into fascism. I took that to mean he believes the self-harm makes him stronger, that if he can endure the pain he inflicts to himself, he'll survive a world he believes has abandoned him. It's fucked and sad.
Also, the skill for communism is Rhetoric, which I interpreted to mean Harry needs to reason and talk himself into being a leftist, since communism's not something he ever considered much before his amnesia. He's just some dumbass cop who doesn't know any better, but all the Mazovian theory seems to make sense, doesn't it?
There’s a theme of constantly harming yourself, the game portrays fascist ideology as self-harm.
4ch!n's /pol/ and /r9k/ and even /b/ communities openly practice this, brag about it, and make it into a competition to see who can "numb" themselves the most.
NoFap is to fascism as Shen Yun is to, well, you know, the thing! :biden-fall:
More than that, it’s the only political route where Kim will get repeatedly tired of your shit. Anything else, even being a commie, he’ll entertain. He might think you’re weird or embarrassing, but he won’t raise his voice. The fascist route gives you multiple lectures where Kim calls you a racist piece of shit, culminating in a fight where Kim refuses to have anything beyond a professional working relationship with you. To become a fascist in DE involves betraying the one person who believed in you from the start.
Among other things, that's why I'm treating it like the Undertale Genocide route and won't be touching it with a 10 mile stick.
"I believe the thesis statement of the movie God's Not Dead is correct"
This man has no brain.
Edit: HE ALSO BELIEVES IN HORSESHOE THEORY AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I believe the thesis statement of the movie God’s Not Dead is correct
As someone who lived through the Epic Bacon Atheist Era this somehow makes me real sad
smh kids these days aren't growing up watching Penn & Teller shooting Bibles with revolvers on TV
Reddit Atheism devolving in to anti-Muslim bigotry was very disappointing. I thought we were really gonna kill God that time. : |
So much of the bullshit in this country is people reacting to the trauma of growing up under Christian Fascism.
Reddit Atheism devolving in to anti-Muslim bigotry was very disappointing.
I saw that happening in real time, starting with the Sam Harris cult. That grifting quack said, I quote, "there is more science and progress in a single zip code in New York than in the entire history of Islam."
How are those things even measured? How many centuries, decades, years are in the running for that zip code? Is the Arabic numeral system (which is a drastic improvement over Roman numerals) discounted? How about the fucking concept of zero? EXPLAIN THIS BULLSHIT :honk-enraged:
Optics, medicine, algebra, AL-GEBRA, and so much other stuff. There was never a dark age, all the cool people just moved to Bagdad, and it's not like the Islamic world was just sitting around between the renaissance and the 21st century.
So many :reddit-logo: wail about the burning of the Library of Alexandria and don't care about the much greater damage done by the sacking of Baghdad. :us-foreign-policy:
There's a interesting book I read called The House of Wisdom: How The Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Johnathan Lyons. That goes a lot into what you are talking about and more. Though I will say, while the Arabic numeral system and the zero were transferred to Europe through contact and trade with Muslim Arabs, the Arabs got the numerals and the zero from India. Arabic numerals are a modification of Sanskrit numerals (which is why you see them sometimes called Sanskrit-Arabic numerals). But yes, they are vastly more practical for doing math than Roman numerals. I am sometimes astonished that the Romans achieved what they did while doing math with those things.
And when the Christian West abandoned the "pagan" knowledge of the Greeks, for centuries, because of St. Augustine's arguments against secular reasoning, it was the Arab Muslims who were translating and maintaining and even updating the manuscripts of the ancient Greek philosophers. The tendency for using Aristotelian reasoning (First Cause, Unmoved Mover, etc.) to argue in favor of a monotheistic God (something I don't agree with but is nevertheless a step above using faith alone) was something first developed by Muslim clerics, and Thomas Aquinas was shamed by the Catholic church for trying to do the same thing. It was only after his death and posthumous elevation to sainthood that the Greeks suddenly became in vogue again in the Church.
Also the court of Roger II, the "Christian Sultan of Sicily", scandalized the church by being full of Muslims. A geographer in his court, Muhammad al-Idrisi, produced one of the most accurate world maps seen up to that point (in the 1100s).
Medieval Muslims actually improved the Astrolabe by introducing angular scales to the design, and adding circles indicating azimuths on the horizon. It was widely used throughout the Muslim world, chiefly as an aid to navigation and as a way of finding the direction of Mecca, regardless of location, so that prayer could be performed properly.
Thank you for the new information. I didn't look as deep into the origins of such things as I could have. :fidel-salute-big:
Reddit Atheism devolving in to anti-Muslim bigotry was very disappointing. I thought we were really gonna kill God that time. : |
Because Imperialism is the cosmic background radiation of imperial core (aka "first world") ideology. And from British imperialism was inherited the idea of the "civilizing mission." And with the "war on terror" came the sudden but unsurprising defection of imperial core atheists from secularism more generally, to anti-muslim bigotry specifically. They joined hands with the Christian Neoconservatives and said "even though we don't believe in Jesus, we are culturally Christian" and "Islam never had a reformation unlike protestantism." and "Christianity is more progressive than Islam even though both are wrong." and other such nonsense copes to justify their bigotry.
smh kids these days aren’t growing up watching Penn & Teller shooting Bibles with revolvers on TV
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:farquaad-point: this man wants to shoot minorities
He probably thought "that cup" was endlessly hilarious and wants one IRL for his own office. :kitsuragi-depress:
i simply could not get past the first sentence "in previous videos i have expressed my distate about the wokeness in video games" i will now go clean this from my history feed on youtube so i don't get sugested more of this
This is more of an exercise in political illiteracy than anything else. Or even just illiteracy in general. Fascism in DE is literally reactionary, in that it requires zero thoughts and only Harry 'reacting' to things. The only thought cabinet I believe is the pseudo-scientific race theory that can only be used with Measure-Head, because no other fascists know what the fuck you are talking about.
The man is literally too dumb to be made fun of.
I got to the part where he unironically says people are "coping and seething" and decided I would rather do anything else
I’ve encountered some people who said “it’s based” when talking about something in real life
I hate that term because when I hear it IRL (all too often) it's from bigots and chuds. :grillman: :solidarity: :frothingfash: :solidarity: :heated-gamer-moment:
Disco Elysium isn’t woke or political. It’s an apolitical RPG about being a cop
You can even choose what kind of cop you want to be, like an apology cop, or a disco cop, or an apocalypse cop.
I watched the whole thing. Right wing garbage through and through. His breakdown of how Disco Elysium innovated the rpg genre was descent imo.
I'd imagine sticking my dick in a blender would be less painful than watching this.
damn i thought its a parody because of this perfect condecending "Coininseur" tone .. but its real..
This guy believes in "Good Entertainment" more deeply than any of his self-affixed labels of 'christian' or 'right-wing'.
What's really amazing is that despite being a believer in "Good Entertainment" his critical analysis skills are basically zero. Idk how he can even tell 'good' from 'bad'. It's just purest vibes sounding.
