It hooks them up to a VR simulation of 1950's america and they're the abusive husband to a hot wife and two kids. Racism is alive and well and the USA and white people by extension run the world.

They can never leave, much like the matrix they're locked into the simulation for life but it's more humane than wholesale genocide because let's face it, a lot of people in the USA deserve it.

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I know you're joking, but still, "simulation theory," or deism for techbros, is a well-trodden and extremely sus belief system, and the worst part of it is how easily the average techbro can perceive people they don't like as "NPCs" in that aforementioned "simulation." Arguably that makes it worse as a belief system than deism.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah memes aside, the "NPC" shit is cover for fascism and justifying the murder of the out-group. Reactionaries are creatively bankrupt, so all they can do is appropriate. In this case, they took stuff from The Matrix (red pill, simulation, etc.) that was an allegory of capitalism and observations of social constructs (gender especially).

It's ironic how they view others as "NPCs" when they're so easily programmed by outrage while being incapable of producing meaningful art.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's ironic how they view others as "NPCs" when they're so easily programmed by outrage while being incapable of producing meaningful art.

It fits how much King Bazinga and his chud minions are so fond of treat-printed simulacra versions of both King Bazinga and anything that is of interest to chuds. It is appropriate because their idea of reality is that plastic and artificial to begin with, as is their distorted perceptions about how their would-be philosopher-kings actually look.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did you mean to say solipsism or am I just missing the Deism connection?

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

A case can certainly be made for solipsism there too, yes, but I said deism specifically because of the techbro habit of believing that they come up with super original ideas because they can't be bothered to check if someone already thought of that idea before, such as the idea of some creative force (the "simulation's" programmer) creating the entire world as we know it (the "simulation") and then setting it to run itself according to established physical laws (the "simulation's" programming) and otherwise doesn't intervene.