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this silly little post managed to make the redditors over at the disco elysium sub drop bangers like
''Orwell is cursed to be misunderstood by both left and right 
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''How dare the Union do [CRIME] to fund their militant activities?? Don't they know [CRIME] is BAD!??''
This ain't even a media literacy issue, this is a literacy skill issue.
Look at my communists dawg! We're never getting anywhere! 
The two student communists seem convinced of Harry’s genuineness by the end of the quest, even if they still acknowledge him as “gendarme”. Helps when you’ve accrued enough commie points and read through some theory to get the better ending.
Yeah, you're right. I didn't mention those two because I interpreted the students as representing very young, western armchair leftists. Or ultras. Who knows what they'll find genuine next week
Or they represent the very common experience of wanting to connect with leftists in your area, you hype yourself up to get a revolution started, then discover the local party is two guys who hang out in an attic and argue over three sentences of theory. This game is too real.
Lol they call you a gendarme? Thats kind of amusing and also slightly confusing because the gendarmes are basically military police and completely distinct from regular police. Although the RNCP is supposed to be a militia so that could fit, im just really surprised how many french cultural and linguistic pointers the game uses, i remember it really weirded me out when i first played it lol, like “why the hell does everyone have a french accent”
The RCM is literally a remnant of the former ICM, the "Black and White Army" of the Communards, so the line is blurry.
And yeah, Revachol and some other parts of the Insulinde were colonized by Sur-la-Clef/Suresne, a not-so-subtle French analogue and the name itself is inspired by a famous French anarchist. I assume Robert Kurvitz just took inspiration from the Paris Commune and let worldbuilding take it from there.
huh huh, I had forgotten about all that. I just think its hilarious that Harry likely speak french then, considering what the website (rightfully may I add) thinks of the french