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Managed Democracy

It's bizarre to see people role-playing enthusiastic fascism with the world the way it is right now.
- It's possible to be an anarchist while roleplaying a hardcore fascist in a tabletop RPG. It's fantasy. Fascism's best kept as a non-tenable, mockable idea for fiction.
  
  Rping in a game is one thing. Bringing it into the world with memes and more is just...icky.
- Not fascism, managed democracy. The bugs are the fascists
  
  I thought we started it, by invading, and they were acting in self defense?
  
  I know this is was crossposted to the helldivers sub, tbh i duno anything about it.. but the meme image is from starship troopers and its defo a fash government
- The fascism in the game is ironic and on the nose in a way that's easy to laugh at, like "what if?"
  
  I'm aware. This isn't the game, though. It's not even in a sub about the game.
- Please visit your local democracy officer for re-education
- Is it? I think externalizing our bad impulses is the only way we as a species could possibly survive. People love to hate. People love to group around shared hate. Internally, that urge causes social unrest and racism, externally it could hit someone else and give humans something to come together around, the hatred of everything else…
  Sounds super cynical, and it is. But we are just dumb monkey tribes who figured out to obliterate their own world with the push of a button
  
  I used to think this way, until I tried writing more sci-fi and I kept running into weird moral quandaries trying to keep stuff realistic on a human level. I genuinely don't think there will ever be a threat that could rally all of humanity at this point. Not only because I don't believe aliens are a thing we'll ever experience, but also because everything I've seen points to people being too chaotic. Even the perfect enemy (some bugs that just want to kill us all) would have humans helping them out, a contingent of people who think the whole thing is a deep fake, and a multitude of people preying on the flawed reality of those groups and others to horde whichever resource (money, food, manpower, etc.). That's before you even get into the various well-intentioned factions that would form around a variety of "best" approaches to the issue.
  I'm not even saying this in a doomer kind of way, I'm rather optimistic and believe we tend to stumble forward. I'm just saying the rally around the flag moment for humanity feels like a total fantasy.
  
  Except the fictional "fixing" of humanity involves an inhuman "enemy", a thing that very much happens in real life (dehumanizing others in war or oppression), which tracks because these things are satire of that real world scenario.
  All of this is to say that embracing the fiction without that distinction as satire really just enforces those innate bad impulses you brought up, and we have enough of that right now, imo.
  
  I feel ya. We need sole aliens out there for us to mostly stop hating ourselves.
- Sounds like traitor talk!

I would like to know more
- Probably one of those corporate sponsored memes for that game that ships with a rootkit virus.
  
  You should probably watch starship troopers. It's a reference for the recruitment videos in that movie.

"Yes. Please for the love of God. I would rather be torn asunder by an alien bug than spend another day in this depressing shithole."
- Have you ever watched The Mist? it would be a nightmare to get captured alive by those horrifying spiders
  For anyone that doesn't know, the spiders size varies from a tarantula to a dog, and they reproduce by inserting hundreds of eggs inside you, they then eat you alive inside out when hatching
  Also they have acid webs tha shoots like lasers
  
  Yeah, but have you tried working retail?
  
  I actually watched it just a few nights ago. And yes, fuck those spiders. 😱
- Day 5 of seeing your comment. Your username and pfp makes it easy to recognise you

How ’bout a nice cup of LIBER-TEA?

Leave it to humanity to invade other planets to "fight for humanity".

"But only 40% said they would if it was on the Automaton front"
- I’d be shocked if we got 40% of the player base to the bot front, I’d say 80% has never seen the creek

I would defect to the bugs' side
- I don't understand these hyro-glifics. Can you just switch the number over to SEDI (Super Earth Directional Inputs)
  
  Keep slayin' it. ✊🏽
- Found the Enderkin
- We have a group that meets up Friday's under the Brooklyn bridge.

Mars One https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One received over 200,000 applications for a one-way ticket to Mars & raised money way too easily, before going bankrupt.
- Lolz. LMAO, even.
  
  People just don't want to live on this planet anymore

!helldivers2@lemmy.ca
Edit: BTW, since you already posted it there, if you copy the URL for the uploaded image, you can re-use it and lemmy will detect that it's the "same" post and show the cross-post link to the other post.
- I actually started to post it there, but I was worried that maybe I'm posting too many memes in that community, so I thought I'd slow down... If nobody else does it first, I'll crosspost it a little later today.
  
  That community needs your support! Would you like to know more?
  
  I was worried that maybe I'm posting too many memes in that community
  Ya know, I was worried that I was doing the same thing. But fuck it, Hell Divers is too memeable to go to waste.

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- WE ARE EARTHICAN!
- Sweet Liberty! Noooooooo

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Do we get power armor?
- Yes, but it still reeks a bit from the last soldier who used it.
  
  ... describe him please.

Guess I’m not a “man” because fuck that.

Nothing would please our billionaire overlords more than all of us "little people" getting the hell off earth for another planet. It's unlikely anything comparable to the paradise of this planet, even in a global warming event or an ice age, will be reachable any time soon.
And we should leave it for them? Duck that.
- They can keep it. I wanna bring democracy to the cosmos and clap alien cheeks
- I'm doing my part!
  
  There it is!

It depends on the severity of the situation. I would only leave the planet for this purpose if it was a potential extinction event. Otherwise it would have to be an actual invasion of my area of my country. I am not a good citizen.

Heavily depends on the planet and the aliens. I'm not about to kill cute peaceful molerat people on a desert rock of a planet. This sounds like terrible time to me. If it's some sort of Strogg situation on a decent Earth-like world though count me in.
- The teeth, though?
  Peace was never an option!

We have to wipe out the tribbles.
- Don't tell Uhura.

I was not in that study.

Only if I get one of those sweet photosynthesizing green bodies from Old Man's War

Eh, it's not like the universe needs humans.

Wow, 100%. That's really a sound result for a poll
- I think about 4-5% of answers are intentionally against the norm for some reason. I'm sure there is a name for the phenomenon.
  
  Sure, i think nowadays we call them trolls. And i'm sure fighting for humanity sounds better than the realities would imply. But 100% is still high, i would like to see how the question was formulated and the sample selected. Unless they were at a wh40k convention, i would still doubt the result.

For the emporer of mankind.

Getting real WWI vibes - it’ll be an adventure, we’ll get to go to new and exciting places, it won’t last too long…

I think it's honestly sad how people think aliens would invade and overthrow us. We have so many conflicts on this planet that we just assume other planets would be imperialistic as well.