Managed Democracy
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2024
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It's bizarre to see people role-playing enthusiastic fascism with the world the way it is right now.
It's possible to be an anarchist while roleplaying a hardcore fascist in a tabletop RPG. It's fantasy. Fascism's best kept as a non-tenable, mockable idea for fiction.
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Not fascism, managed democracy. The bugs are the fascists
I thought we started it, by invading, and they were acting in self defense?
One of my favorite lines in the game is (paraphrasing):
The problem with the bugs is that they're relentless expansionists. We've found them on almost every planet in their territory that we've colonized.
It's also pretty clear that we've been farming the bugs for space oil.
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I know this is was crossposted to the helldivers sub, tbh i duno anything about it.. but the meme image is from starship troopers and its defo a fash government
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The fascism in the game is ironic and on the nose in a way that's easy to laugh at, like "what if?"
I'm aware. This isn't the game, though. It's not even in a sub about the game.
The headline, which very likely isn't even real, is also not inherently fascistic. If anything its more a statement on people being so stressed with life, that a fantastical idea of going off to live a sci-fi movie life is appealing.
You're pulling the fascism from the movie, which is inherently satirical. It makes sense something like that, which was already popular, continues to be so when the satire has more real world connections. You're on a platform with a ton of nerds, they're gonna reference sci-fi classics. If anything I'd say that's a healthy sign. Satire is arguably one of the strongest forces pushing back against fascism and the like on a cultural level.
Please visit your local democracy officer for re-education
Is it? I think externalizing our bad impulses is the only way we as a species could possibly survive. People love to hate. People love to group around shared hate. Internally, that urge causes social unrest and racism, externally it could hit someone else and give humans something to come together around, the hatred of everything else…
Sounds super cynical, and it is. But we are just dumb monkey tribes who figured out to obliterate their own world with the push of a button
I used to think this way, until I tried writing more sci-fi and I kept running into weird moral quandaries trying to keep stuff realistic on a human level. I genuinely don't think there will ever be a threat that could rally all of humanity at this point. Not only because I don't believe aliens are a thing we'll ever experience, but also because everything I've seen points to people being too chaotic. Even the perfect enemy (some bugs that just want to kill us all) would have humans helping them out, a contingent of people who think the whole thing is a deep fake, and a multitude of people preying on the flawed reality of those groups and others to horde whichever resource (money, food, manpower, etc.). That's before you even get into the various well-intentioned factions that would form around a variety of "best" approaches to the issue.
I'm not even saying this in a doomer kind of way, I'm rather optimistic and believe we tend to stumble forward. I'm just saying the rally around the flag moment for humanity feels like a total fantasy.
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"Yes. Please for the love of God. I would rather be torn asunder by an alien bug than spend another day in this depressing shithole."
Have you ever watched The Mist? it would be a nightmare to get captured alive by those horrifying spiders
For anyone that doesn't know, the spiders size varies from a tarantula to a dog, and they reproduce by inserting hundreds of eggs inside you, they then eat you alive inside out when hatching
Also they have acid webs tha shoots like lasers
Yeah, but have you tried working retail?
I actually watched it just a few nights ago. And yes, fuck those spiders. 😱
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How ’bout a nice cup of LIBER-TEA?
Leave it to humanity to invade other planets to "fight for humanity".
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"But only 40% said they would if it was on the Automaton front"
I’d be shocked if we got 40% of the player base to the bot front, I’d say 80% has never seen the creek
Mars One https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One received over 200,000 applications for a one-way ticket to Mars & raised money way too easily, before going bankrupt.
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Edit: BTW, since you already posted it there, if you copy the URL for the uploaded image, you can re-use it and lemmy will detect that it's the "same" post and show the cross-post link to the other post.
I actually started to post it there, but I was worried that maybe I'm posting too many memes in that community, so I thought I'd slow down... If nobody else does it first, I'll crosspost it a little later today.
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Do we get power armor?
Guess I’m not a “man” because fuck that.
Nothing would please our billionaire overlords more than all of us "little people" getting the hell off earth for another planet. It's unlikely anything comparable to the paradise of this planet, even in a global warming event or an ice age, will be reachable any time soon.
And we should leave it for them? Duck that.
They can keep it. I wanna bring democracy to the cosmos and clap alien cheeks
It depends on the severity of the situation. I would only leave the planet for this purpose if it was a potential extinction event. Otherwise it would have to be an actual invasion of my area of my country. I am not a good citizen.
Heavily depends on the planet and the aliens. I'm not about to kill cute peaceful molerat people on a desert rock of a planet. This sounds like terrible time to me. If it's some sort of Strogg situation on a decent Earth-like world though count me in.
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No.
No.
I was not in that study.
Only if I get one of those sweet photosynthesizing green bodies from Old Man's War
Eh, it's not like the universe needs humans.
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