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.
Rping in a game is one thing. Bringing it into the world with memes and more is just...icky.
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.
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
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
Managed Democracy
"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. π±
Leave it to humanity to invade other planets to "fight for humanity".
I would defect to the bugs' side
I don't understand these hyro-glifics. Can you just switch the number over to SEDI (Super Earth Directional Inputs)
Keep slayin' it. βπ½
"But only 40% said they would if it was on the Automaton front"
Iβd be shocked if we got 40% of the player base to the bot front, Iβd 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.
!helldivers2@lemmy.ca
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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Guess Iβm not a βmanβ 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.
Do we get power armor?
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.
No.
I was not in that study.
No.
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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