Ask the IRL Christians how the nuclear family shit is going. No shortage of cheating and drug abuse happening, I bet
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why are they wearing the Orville uniforms
no racism
white af family is the only visible race
Yeahhhh no fucking thanks.
The helldiver's two launch cutscene does show an interracial couple in a state propaganda video. Racism is one of the few ways the game doesn't to my knowledge show the government being fucked up. Everything else is horrible though
The helldivers also have randomized skin colour, so soldiers of all races can become elite troops.
"elite troops"? You haven't met my teammates.
I think Helldivers have about the same rate of friendly fire as Navy Seals, and they probably write less books about it.
If there were only two humans left on Earth, they would find a reason to hate each other.
what? no we wouldn't. fuck you for suggesting that.
[i meant that as a joke love you dude]
I mean TBF we have a sample size of one family here, but also idk what this post is about so idk idk
If there is only one race, racism can't exist? 🤔
If everyone had the exact same skin tone, people would still find something else to use as fuel for discrimination.
There is only one human race, and racism still exists.
I get the feeling that this anon would read A Brave New World and have an issue with it being labeled dystopian fiction.
Even the author of BNW wasn't sure of the world really was a dystopia or not. A lot of people do seem to have a lot of freedom, and most seem happy (or at least, not unhappy). Sure, a lot of questionable things have been done to achieve that goal, but if 99% is happy with their life; can it really be a dystopia?
A lot of Westerners look at dictatorships and authoritarian states and cannot comprehend why the citizens would accept such a fate. The answer is: food, safety, housing, and cultural and religious homogeneity. People don't really care that much what the people in charge are doing as long as their life is good.
I once had a multiple hour long discussion with someone who claimed it's clearly a utopia... Free drugs, sex without consequences, guaranteed job,...
Freedom is for suckers apparently.
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They started an unprovoked three front war, prioritize citizens differently based on a state defined class system, got the earth blown up on at least one occasion, use their soldiers as disposable cannon fodder, and send everyone who disagree with them to reeducation camps. Other than that its a swell place.
Its tiring how bad general media literacy is that I can't tell if the 4chan post above is a joke.
The 4chan post probably is a joke.
The problem is, with a lot of their jokes, other users can't tell, so it becomes reality. See also, basically everything wrong with the US and MAGA idiots today.
Voting Trump for President started as a joke on 4chan, and later on Reddit with r/The_Donald. And look where it got us, the butterfly effect in full force.
I've seen one Lemmy bigbrain recently argue that even when artists are showing mafia or army to be terrible for people in them, they romanticize the mafia and army nonetheless, and that in general media glorifies its subject matter regardless of the author's intent. This schmuck would probably say with a straight face that ‘Helldivers’, or whatever this post is about, actually advocates for its model of utopia even if it pretends not to.
The idea of there being no anti-war films is older than Lemmy. The problem is Poe's Law related. You can make a movie or a game that shows the horror of war or the tyranny of distopian totalitarian regimes, but regardless of the intended message, your creation is filtered through your audience's lenses of perception, and some of that audience has been raised to be white supremacists, some have been through schooling that acts more as indoctrination than education, and some of that audience are just seriously fucking stupid.
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no racism (no blacks, Asians, jews)
The wife in the intro below is black.
Coincidentally, that is the cure for Racism that racists prescribe too. Huh, neat.
Can't have racism if there is only one race.
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Is this helldivers? The game where half of a planet’s population is forcibly turned into bug fuel every few years?
A lot of people I've met would honestly happily take a 50% chance to be sacrificed to ensure that those who aren't chosen live a happy life. I have no doubt that they'd think that right up until they're actually chosen, then they'd scream bloody murder about how unfair it is.
Theres a reoccuring problem with bigly brained thinkers where they omit all the terrible shit and look at only what the propaganda wants them to. Even in a game this remains true.
Most clips from Starship Troopers on YouTube have filled comments' sections with people waxing about how based the society is and it's actually a utopia (to your point).
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"amazing quality of life"
Sure, if you're the right kind of super citizen.
Yea, when choosing a fictional world to aspire for, it's useful to consider how most citizens are treated.
Our current world is great too, for some.
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