• RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    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, knifecat escape from what, exactly? bridget-pride-stay-mad

    • Wheaties [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      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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      • RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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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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        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.