CicadaSpectre

I live in the US and joined a party, but I really don't have much hope. The general mentality I've seen in most USians is that when Trump acts like a despot, they immediately turn to comparing him to socialists. "What are we, a bunch of Asians?!" is unironically how a majority of them act. If capitalists take over government agencies and privatize them, they call it socialism. If capitalism fails and grocery stores run out of food, they call it "communist bread lines". If fascists push for anti-diversity policies and a bloated military, they're equated to the DPRK. As much as I hate to give credit to Orwell, he was very correct about "doublethink".

More and more Americans are being radicalized, but I fear it's not happening fast enough. Maybe I'm being pessimistic, but I think meaningful resistance will be hampered, if not outright betrayed by anticommunist liberals.

Hold up, are we suddenly not all secretly necromancers?

It has the energy of a middle schooler seeing how far he can get away with it, but having a shitty excuse to backpedal with.

"But, teacher, I wasn't doing that! I was giving my heart out to the class! They're totally different!"

Just came from a CNN article rambling about Chinese censorship on Rednote. There's something really ironic about American media trying to paint China as the villains for censorship when the thing that prompted the migration was the US banning an app just for being Chinese. It's the same kind of two-faced hypocrisy as when they got caught spending years of making Russia a villain for Ukraine, then dismissed the highly visible crimes of Israel in Gaza.

At some point, I'd hope more Americans will realize there's a big difference between what the US claims rival countries are doing, and the very visible reality of what allied countries are doing. I'm glad to see thousands of Americans realizing they've been lied to, but I know millions more are only going to see the cultivated media response and reaffirm their programmed biases. Hard to stay optimistic, living in the Imperial Core.

I remember something about the colonization effort being unsustainable and basically doomed to failure unless it was properly guided, so there was an undercurrent of the decentralized anticapitalist choices would ultimately kill everybody. But again, years have gone by. I could just be misremembering.

My one complaint about the Outer Worlds is you still don't get any communist faction choices. In fact, you're kinda led by the narrative to choose balanced, liberal capitalist choices. If you go full anti-corpo, there's usually some dialogue implying things will be bad, and the full-corpo route is just comically evil. Balance, though, is usually presented as sensible and sustainable. The anti-corporate choices also all seem to lack anything like socialism, just different flavors of anarchism.

It's been awhile since I played it, though. Maybe I missed something. The self-aware anticapitalism was great, but the limited solutions and presenting anticapitalism as violent anarchy with questionable demagogues was... disappointing.

And then everyone acts like it's the greatest game ever, with astounding writing that no game since has matched.

Warframe is free to play, just had a major update, and the community that I've seen is pretty inclusive. It's also pretty addicting.

I hate it here.

Personally, I think it's most likely to happen after the US loses control of a significant portion of its empire and has to resort to using its harsher policies domestically. We're exploited here, and we're aware of our evils abroad in a vague way, but I don't think that's really going to sink in for most Americans until they're having to deal with at home, live under the full extent of capitalism's evil, and realize that it can't be rehabilitated.

I think it's more likely, however, that the US could step back from fascism, even be restructured. But even then, I suspect whatever follows would just be shades of liberal and capitalist.

Personally, I think it's most likely to happen after the US loses control of a significant portion of its empire and has to resort to using its harsher policies domestically. We're exploited here, and we're aware of our evils abroad in a vague way, but I don't think that's really going to sink in for most Americans until they're having to deal with at home, live under the full extent of capitalism's evil, and realize that it can't be rehabilitated.

I think it's more likely, however, that the US could step back from fascism, even be restructured. But even then, I suspect whatever follows would just be shades of liberal and capitalist.

Oh, looks interesting. I'll keep an eye out.