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It's the dunk tank.

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Neoliberalism's inconsistencies can be summarized as such: neoliberals want the neoliberal status quo to be perpetuated, no matter how tattered and ragged it already is or how much a growing proportion of the world hates it, and they want to feel smart and superior for their status quo advocacy because it feels good to receive colonial treats while feeling superior for being the recipient. smuglord

[–] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Moralism is still the best option". Someone didn't find out about the Archer...

[–] YuccaMan@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if you never manage to find the Archer, the game beats you over the head with the idea that the Moralintern not only stands for nothing, but is willing to resort to insidious tactics to stand up for that nothing. And even if you manage to never pick up on those hints, the few representatives of the Moralintern that you're able to meet and speak with are parodies of your average dull-minded pro-austerity EU bureaucrats. I mean really, imagine declaring your full throated support for a parody of Mario Draghi, that the game openly mocks you for supporting sunday-friend

[–] ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it throws a wrench in things that Kim is a moralist. Not a die hard, but certainly loyal to his duties. And anyway, being a die hard would hardly make him a proper centrist. He stands for nothing aside from loyalty to the RCM.

[–] YuccaMan@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what he says, sure, but it's implied at points that he harbors more sympathy for the communards than he lets on. I personally doubt that he'd be too upset about a second revolution, particulary considering that Harry's station captain is probably the one conspiring to bring it about.

From a quick look through the wiki, he seemed to hold some admiration for the revolutionaries when he was 10. He also had an affinity for Franconigerian Knights as a child. There’s no indication which side, if any, he blames for his parents deaths in the revolution, or even which side did it. I suppose both-sides-ing it and writing it off as “violence is bad” would be a very moralist stance. He considered himself a moralist in his 20’s and later simply resolved to be loyal to the RCM.

I think you’re correct that he would side with Captain Pryce during The Return, regardless of his previous political beliefs. His loyalty is such an incredibly strong trait, even when it’s to his detriment, that I don’t see him going any other way. And the RCM doesn’t have its roots in slave patrols like American cops, but instead in revolutionary militias. I don’t think this means ACAB doesn’t apply, but there’s more contradictions there than with most police forces in the imperial core.

[–] egg1918@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen the Civ games described here as liberalism: the game so the OP is right but for the wrong reasons lol

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

more like whig the game (i'll keep playing that slop)

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[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

This is what happens when the World Bank discourages the Cuban literacy program around the world and instead promoted capitalist NGO “literacy programs”

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

To answer the question posed in the reddit-logo thread: It's Mass Effect.

The correct answer to their original question is definitely Sim City. Claims to be an impartial reflection of innate natural truth, while imposing a bizarre worldview straddling the line between technocracy and libertarianism within a context of a universalized of post-war American car dependence, all while desperately suppressing the role of factors like class and race.

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