@babyjirl's comment on ':marseyexcitedexosuit: :marsey40k: Battletech Gothic announced, immediately denounced as Nazi Bar'

apparently it's some one-off alternate-universe thing, but le heckin' CHUDS might like it because it's a 40k skin (with kaiju) on mechwank. :marseyshrug:

Sure, and I doubt that the BT writers are about to careen into preaching ethnonationalist theocracy, but I mean... propaganda can be accidental. Like, Heinlein set out to write progressive scifi about more tolerant societies and ended up a crypto-fascist icon. And as the saying goes, once nazis start hanging out at your bar, you're not a bar anymore, you're a nazi bar. They're your market, and you'll end up serving them.

:smugjak: this le heckin' RAT-M chorus kills fascists:

Oof. I lived in the Midwest for a long time. Lot of great folks, but some of those who work forces, are the same that burn crosses. Where I live now is a state that has a long history of mixed peoples and so these issues, still exist, but aren't at the forefront anymore.

:marseydownvotemad: :

writing an ideology into a piece of fiction, and even having it as the protagonist in that fiction, is not a bad thing and means nothing. making clear statements that This is Good and the way Things Should Be in a lore descriptor thats written to be in an objective tone, however, is a clear statement of endorsement by the author. this is basic media literacy?

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_riemann1413 gay/lord Back at it. 7d ago #7985502

Sure, and I doubt that the BT writers are about to careen into preaching ethnonationalist theocracy, but I mean... propaganda can be accidental. Like, Heinlein set out to write progressive scifi about more tolerant societies and ended up a crypto-fascist icon.

:marseybrainlet: These are the same neighbors that be talking about "media literacy" lmao. They can only conceive of things in complete black and white like children.

Starship Troopers (the novel) was genuinely pro-militarism while also being very progressive in terms of race and gender. It's about humanity as a whole uniting under one banner to wage a war against aliens, and how being in the military gives people a real sense of purpose and identity that elevates them.