I’m really developing a violent reaction to the “video games are escapism” line.

Like, that’s all the art form is to you? A means to escape your life and turn off those dumbass noises in your head for a while?

Also,

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People who hide behind the word “escapism” are absolutely the sort of people who will go off on a rant about how places like China or Russia or [insert target country here] are full of unthinking drones that wouldn’t dream of contradicting the status quo. :projection:

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The main goal of the Nazi film policy was to promote escapism, which was designed to distract the population and to keep everybody in good spirits; Goebbels indeed blamed defeat in World War I on the failure to sustain the morale of the people.

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Goebbels indeed blamed defeat in World War I on the failure to sustain the morale of the people.

What a dumbass. Not only did he want to reduce art to a distraction, but his analysis of the war is also completely wrong. What no material analysis does to a mf

Common Nazi L

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Goebbels indeed blamed defeat in World War I on the failure to sustain the morale of the people.

Bro thought the HOI 4 wiki was a tactical handbook

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Maybe morale fell low because people were starving, and no amount if teeevee is gonna change that. Fuckin idealists always end up as nazis I swear.

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That’s what the Bolsheviks want you to think. In reality, Germany was one apolitical video game away from establishing the Kaiserreich over Europe.

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Don’t trans people have the right to escape from transphobia also? Flip it on their heads.

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They would say that trans people not coming up at all would be an escape from transphobia lol

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“Keep politics out of games” and the whole “escapism” line are nonsensical the more you think about it.

Video games are not an “escape from reality” into something completely new and different, they will always be reinterpretations of our current reality because that’s all we know and all we can create. Reinterpretations that display how we believe the world works, how we feel about the world and what we would like it to be. Any piece of art involving any kind of society will therefore always be political, because you can’t write a society without displaying how you believe societies work and/or how they should work.

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:alfred-sohn-rethel-shining:

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damn that’s crazy, anyways, any of my trans and NB comrades want to hop into tf2 and legally convert everyone into a femboy?

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I want to illegally convert everyone into a femboy.

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if you could magically turn back time pls.

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Dang, I had the spironolactone ready and everything :/

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I can’t support trans rights because the transes killed 30 million people.

Oh wait that was the nazis.

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Literally half of all players on TF2 are LGBT. I’ve been playing TF2 about 20 hours in the last 2 weeks and I have YET to see a non-trans medic.

They all have Mediguns labeled “Estrogen Dispenser” or other such trans references.

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Hmm when I played tf2 I mained medic

I just like helping people

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I did too but only because the Crusader’s Crossbow can destroy cocky snipers in long range and most classes at medium.

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