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[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Okay but which great house does Marx join?

Edit: Trick question, he'd be an ashlander.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Honestly Marx pretty well approximates Nerevar.

Had all the power to make a positive impact on the world and then three asshole dictators drag his name through the mud long after his death.

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

...while he's high on skooma in a hole somewhere

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Stark, probably? 🤷

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 29 points 2 months ago

But which copotype would he be in Disco Elysium?

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago
[-] Cossty@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

I remember some people on Twitter being mad when at the end of the game, the game told them that they were fascists. It's funny to me because unless you were playing a total piece of shit, you always came out as a communist in this game.

[-] shani66@ani.social 4 points 2 months ago
[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 2 months ago
[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 1 points 2 months ago
[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 2 months ago

idts. the “morrowind” text has a font weight far thicker than the rest, and the morrowind book covers something in the background that peaks out a bit at its top left

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Can someone please explain the joke?

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

Just a bit of absurdism. Modern-day leftists often fight over the legacy of Marx, who was hugely influential; the joke here is that "IF MARX WAS HERE TODAY HE'D-" and instead of "be 'x' ideology" it's "Enjoy a well-regarded classic game"

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Ah, thank you stranger. I feel kind of dumb now lol.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

No worries! Sometimes memes seem like they might have some more subtle joke to them, but no, in this case it's just being silly.

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I also tend to over think shit. Sometime a cigar is just a cigar.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

a cigar is just a cigar

I have never heard this saying before, what the fuck could a cigar be? Did someone think it was a worm? a stick? a bomb??

[-] chocosoldier 3 points 2 months ago

it's a reference to a (possibly apocryphal? i'm not very well educated) anecdote about sigmund freud. freud had a hypothesis that basically any phallic object in a dream represents an actual phallus because supposedly basically everything in the human psyche is connected to sex. someone pointed out his fondness of cigars and he replied with the quote, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It's a quote often attributed to Sigmund Freud. I don't believe he ever actually said it though.

[-] cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago
[-] Mechanite@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Shame on you, sweet Nerevar.

[-] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 6 points 2 months ago

He would prefer Skyrim, because Skyrim belongs to the Nords.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago
[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Referencing Marx is any fashion is tankie behavior?

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Just consider it a warning for everyone here, is all. Praising Marx unprompted is definitely leaning into dangerous territory.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

You may need to get out more. Marx is the father of modern sociology, a debt even Max Weber acknowledged. "Marx wasn't all bad" isn't a hot take outside of anywhere that doesn't hang a tattered, non-code compliant American flag from the front porch.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It's not that everyone who appreciates Marx is wrong, no no no, it's just a nearly universal belief among all of the worst examples of human beings which are unfortunately swarming all over lemmy in an attempt to radicalize people.

So avoid that shit whenever possible.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Surrendering Marx because shitheads use him as an aesthetic is like surrendering the American flag because shitheads use it as an aesthetic. All you do in doing so is lending power to your enemies for no good goddamn reason. Even less justified, really, since Marx has pretty clearly stated inclinations, while the US flag is far more abstract.

Especially silly when half of the tankies on here haven't read enough Marx to fill a thimble, and regularly and blatantly contradict him.

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[-] VerilyFemme 8 points 2 months ago

What's your point? This meme is tankie because tankies like Marx? Makes no sense. This meme even has the original political statement removed from it as the main joke and you're talking about how it's tankie?

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

If I were accusing the meme of being Tankie I wouldn't post a warning at all, I would just report it.

[-] VerilyFemme 2 points 2 months ago

I mean, if the meme's not tankie then you shouldn't need to give a warning at all...

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Not even Tankies admit to being Tankies, you have to read the signs.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I would urge you to block lemmy.ml if you think they're swarming. It's pretty much only there, I blocked .ml and omg it's been so nice here now

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That would prevent me from downvoting their posts but still allow them to show up in comments all over.

[-] Stamau123@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Marxism /= Marxist-leninism

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 3 points 2 months ago
[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

But

Marxist-leninism = Marxism

So better to stay away from it.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Ironically that statement is not controversial on .ml because they want it to be true.

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[-] swag_money@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Marx kinda based ngl

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Calling any mention of Marx "tankie behavior" is fairly close to Nazi behavior, ngl. You need to grow an ounce of critical thinking from this experience, or you'll turn into a loser who hangs out with fascists instead of punks.

[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I don't know what a tankie is and at this point I'm afraid to ask.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

A tankie is an authoritarian communist, the kind of folks who play apologist for the Soviet and Chinese regimes running over protesters with tanks. Hence the name.

[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

cool not me then

I took a test once and it told me I was a filthy socialist.

It is my core belief that corporations need to be hit with big sticks regularly to keep them in check

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Well, a lot of us here would put it more along the lines of "Corporations need to be run by workers, not investors", but I think you're pretty safe from tankieism with that view.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I want your psycho, your vertical schtick (hey)

When you're in Morrowind, oh, baby, that's sick

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