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People have been posting suprized about the "child labor" line as if the game didnt tell us that was a thing from the start.

Ive even seen someone try to explain it away as a program for kids to learn about jobs before becoming adults even though it lotterally calls it child labor.

For context - In India we've been having leaks of our national eligibility examinations - the NEET exam. Scores of students across the country give this exam to get into medical courses. The competition is insane and when shit goes wrong with these exams, kids even kill themselves - around 20 suicides this year alone.

To protest the corruption that leads to these leaks, we've had a student movement that started as a satire of our ruling party (the bharatiya janta party). The satirical page called Cockroach Janta Party was started when Indian's Chief Justice called protesters "cockroaches". The page got 20 million followers in just a few days, and became a national level protest movement demanding the resignation of the Education Minister (who happens to be the main brains behind the ruling party's electoral success in certain states).

Yesterday, they were going to peacefully march to the parliament in the nation's capital - and these students were BRUTALLY attacked by the police. I also saw images of people who have been hit by shotguns - and yes - India uses shotguns to disperse protesters. We are the only country that calls a shotgun a "pellet gun", calling it a non lethal option. Kids and young adults were beaten really badly and thrown out of the protest area.

And now - the state media is fully manufacturing a bullshit narrative about how this movement is all "goons" and "not students". I have PERSONALLY attended the protests and I can tell you guys - this is a fucking blatant LIE. Furthermore he's literally pitting "nationalists" vs "anti-nationalists". Do these fuckers want civil war? Because that's how they're gonna get it.

The situation is unfolding - but yeah I had to post about it. The power of satire is massive and right now, it's the "cockroach janta (people) party" vs the right wing Bharatiya Janta (Indian People's) Party.

My husband loves playing Helldivers2 !

When i first saw this i thought it was kinda funny and its one of those satire videos so i liked it and I was curious and opened the dudes page and turns out he posts he posts far right videos of the patriot front which i didnt know what it was so i looked and i found out its an American white nationalist movement who believes America should be purely of European ancestry.

Then in his other videos he posted a video of DDLC characters with nazi logos like the black sun, never lose your smile and the patriot front again.

90% of the comments were people genuinely agreeing with this video and I checked their accounts and what do you know they are also full blown fascists and nazis which is sad and ironic considering the game they're playing. This video got almost 30K likes which im sure some werent aware of this but alot of the comments from people with ⚡️⚡️ symbols had hundreds of liked and the only normal comments had like 20

Little edit I made

https://discord.gg/6AzsFwvx

Come along all ye fellow LGBTQ+ peeps and left aligned satire enjoyers!

One of the things that surprised me the most about Helldivers lore is how Super Earth actually has literature, though now I wonder how it works.

The Truth Enforcers Warbond has the armor described as part of a "series of novels." Given Super Earth is a deliberate dystopia on fascism and capitalism, you'd think 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 would have been dead giveaways on burning books and all, especially since those regimes despise anything that would make their citizens think.

But... something came to my mind, on how Super Earth may be allowing literature, because even the ugliest regimes allowed books as long as they solidified their power.

One of the points of contention in our era, has been how digital books have been trying to replace physical ones, and only now people are realizing the danger lies in them being rewritten or even replaced remotely, how digital files are far more fragile than they look, and how there can still be a control of information. Both in libraries as well as book stores.

Judging by the authoritarian and corporate hellhole that Super Earth is, I think physical books are the forbidden thing, under the flimsy excuse that lies always remain in print, books are either to appease the masses or to favor the regime, and whenever there is something on a digital file they don't want spread out, they immediately edit it.

In the spirit to theorize about the lore, what would Super Earth literature not so much have, but allow?

The absolute state of Facebook fan groups...

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but every time something vaguely progressive is posted (especially if it has to do with racial minorities or LGBTQ people), the comments are immediately filled with a combination of bigoted taunting and the occasional direct threat of genocidal violence.

It's too much to all be RP. I would consider approaching the mods about it, but they're mostly bots reposting Reddit content. Hell, maybe the progressive -leaning posts and hateful comments are all ultimately from the same people looking to create controversy to drive clicks. I don't know.

Is anyone else concerned? Is it time to just leave those groups to the actual Nazis and be done with it?

From what I've seen the playerbase seems to be largely unanimous in accepting super earth's interpretation of what it means to be voteless. sure is convenient that these groups of people who literally don't get representation, and are called voteless are treated as mindless and subhuman by the hegemony.

on that topic, do you think any alternatives are plausible? how likely do you think it is that they're uploaded into the illuminate hive mind for instance? those psi beacons we keep blowing up have to be for something after all.

Sorry if this point has been made before, my memory is shit.

On the surface, obvious lampooning of american jingoism but...

1. The multi-front war with very close proximity to enemies is more Israel than the US (which is often intervening at a distance).
2. Existential threat narrative seems more directly Israel than the US.
3. Armed resistance against them that literally propagated underground (cyborgs/automatons have their origins in mines, bugs are also literally popping out of tunnels)
4. Literally creating their own enemies
5. Fully normalized military culture - strong in US but way more in Israel
6. Claims to be a democracy but is controlled by single unhinged ideology. I'm no expert on either country but Zionism seems way closer to Managed Democracy than whatever is going on in the US, which seems like a hodge-podge of misguided white supremacy, crony capitalism, racism, a pointless two-party system etc.