@realJennaEllis Trump needs to win so that the old Conservative justices can retire and be replaced by younger pro life Conservatives. We cannot risk our older justices dying while a democrat is president!
DO NOT RISK LOSING THE COURT OVER LEGISLATION THAT WILL NEVER PASS IN CONGRESS!
@LucarioDoT@Looperlors11@D3ltaZone@MrTootyFruity@Med1_D1v3r Don't try to gaslight me you weasel. I want you to have the balls to say who you think the fascists are.
"Also, the satire mainly comes from the fascists being like this normally in real life". Who are the fascists in real life?
@MAGA_boy420@Looperlors11@D3ltaZone@MrTootyFruity@Med1_D1v3r YOU feel it necessary to defend Super Fascism.
This is a you problem.
Also, the satire mainly comes from the fascists being like this normally in real life without any tangible and/or coherent enemies.
@LucarioDoT@Looperlors11@D3ltaZone@MrTootyFruity@Med1_D1v3r I asked you if you thought that the people who voted for Trump were fascists. You replied with "what?". You then gave me a circular answer. Are the people who want a wall fascists? Are the fascists people who suppprt CECOT? Because I don't know who you're referring to.
@LucarioDoT@Looperlors11@D3ltaZone@MrTootyFruity@Med1_D1v3r It's not a me problem. I have no problem defending humanity under a flawed system. Especially when the only alternative the game presents is the destruction of humanity.
What fascists are you even talking about?
Why are you playing the game if you have such a problem with SE?
@Looperlors11@LucarioDoT@D3ltaZone@MrTootyFruity@Med1_D1v3r The Cyborgs were absolutely not justified in massacring billions of civilians outside of Cyberstan. Like, this is a problem with the satire. The game makes it necessary to defend Super Fascism to save humanity, despite the sins of the past.
@Leastestofthe@D3ltaZone@Med1_D1v3r Lmao, you can go ahead and side with the bots, the rest of us will defend humanity.
Why do you play a game where you defend Super Fascism?
@Leastestofthe@D3ltaZone@Med1_D1v3r Like, your best case scenario that you are proposing to me involves the near complete genocide of humanity and its total subjugation. No.
Your proposed alternative is a vindication of Super Earth.
@Leastestofthe@D3ltaZone@Med1_D1v3r How so? Super Earth brought 100 years of galactic peace after victory in the first Galactic War. This peace only ended after the other factions attacked. The people who are alive today had nothing to do with the events of the first game.
@stroolingbood@Med1_D1v3r 2. The power fantasy directly undermines the satire because it adds a level of badassery to the very strawman that is being mocked. There have been more than one instance in which the game's satire has been at odds with the gameplay.
@stroolingbood@Med1_D1v3r 1. We as the player are forced to support Super Fascism if we want to play the game in which the objective is to win the war. The satirical critique is nothing more than goofy little texts that remind the player how silly this fictitious strawman is.
@otori_asuka@Kubin222@M_Bohemond Sure, we couldn't justify these things in our universe since they go against modern day standards. But in this fictitious universe Super Fascism is the only political force capable of saving humanity. You would rather live in Super Earth than be occupied by any enemy faction.
@otori_asuka@Med1_D1v3r See, you never did answer my question.
Just because I don't want Jews subverting the US government so that it can support Israel's genocide doesn't mean that I expect the Jews to just allow themselves to be massacred.
Palestine has as much of a right to defend itself as Israel
@otori_asuka@Med1_D1v3r I mean, would you actually expect the Jews to just allow themselves to be genocided by Arabs?
(As an aside I think you'd be surprised that we actually share common ground on Israel)
@otori_asuka@Med1_D1v3r You really have no idea who you are dealing with. If I had it my way I would have the US stop all military aid to Israel and force AIPAC to register as a foreign lobbiest. The two state solution has long since failed.
@otori_asuka@Kubin222@M_Bohemond Assuming that we both play the game, then we're both cattle. And I want to keep this shitty system because the game is fun. Which leads to another point: satire doesn't work when the thing you're mocking is really cool, fun, and justified within the context of the setting
@stroolingbood@Med1_D1v3r 2.
Everything a leftist hates is justified within the context of this setting. It really does not surprise me that AH consistently finds themselves at odds with their audience.
@stroolingbood@Med1_D1v3r 1.
Not really. AH are the ones who write this fiction and they decided to create a satirical straw man of Neo-conservatism. Their issue is that they have made this straw man an integral part of their universe in which humanity cannot exist without.
@otori_asuka@Kubin222@M_Bohemond How so??
Since this is a game, the player has to be incentivezed to win. Factors also include player agency and game limitations. Satire just doesn't work well when the player is forced to defend humanity through a flawed system. SE is hypocritical but what other choice is there?