I find it hard to believe that your family could starve to death just from some mistakes but I might be in the "too positively biased against AES" stage of my radicalization journey

  • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Very clearly obviously it’s propaganda based on the western projection that the commies were the same as Nazis and Nazis were famous for the “show your papers” thing.

    Ironically the US police have always treated block people the way media represents the Nazis (and communists, inaccurately). Don’t ask Americans about why that’s ok but some old Soviet Union border guard asking for a passport was supposed to be representative of…anything more than what it always is

  • Soviet Snake@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    It is liberal propaganda, the game is fun, though, if you ignore it. I'd recommend more The Return of Obra Dinn which is another, much more superior, video game by Lucas Pope.

    • Carrow@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Return of the Obra Dinn is probably one of the best games I've ever played. It is simply fantastic.

      • Soviet Snake@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Indeed, I really loved their approach to languages and the gameplay is fantastic. I consumed it voraciously because it was so fascinating.

  • Munrock@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    The border and migration controls are something socialist states do to protect workers and their economies. The "your family will starve if you fuck up" or "our laws are inhumane and we don't care; if you care you're fired" are absolutely propaganda.

  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Reading these comments is hilarious.
    If any of you took two minutes to go to Wikipedia and actually read about the games design you wouldn't need to make all of these assumptions.

    Propaganda? Lmao It's a little indie video game made by a guy in his spare time. If this is twisting all your panties in such knots I'm really afraid for you if you ever learn about the real world.

    • rjs001@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Oh, I never knew if something was made by one person that it couldn’t be influenced by or contain propaganda. Very interesting that if only one person makes something they aren’t influenced by the propaganda that the society they live in is seeped in. Thanks for illuminating that for me.

  • Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    No, I don't think Arstotzka is modeled after any particular country.

    However, under Stalin, workers were paid for their work based on a piece-rate system, meaning that if they didn't hit the quota, they were paid less.

    This, coupled with famines caused by the mismanaged production and distribution of food, like the one in 1933, could certainly lead to a working man not being able to provide for his entire family.

      • Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        Ah, didn't realize this was lemmygrad 😅

        Just out of curiosity though, which part of my comment do you consider to be propaganda?

        Btw, by my understanding a "reactionary" is a person who seeks to restore an earlier political state of society. Wouldn't that make people who want to return to the "good old days" under Stalin the true reactionaries?

        • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          The last paragraph referencing the Holodomor, which is a hoax, and as is refuted in the breakdown I linked. I haven't looked into the various wage systems the Soviet Union experimented with so I can't speak to that.

          To be a reactionary is to seek to conserve the current structures of power, ie. to defend capital, and in so doing to oppose revolutionary and even non-radical progressive liberal movements. It is not reactionary at all to look back on revolutionary movements in a positive light.

          https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Reactionary