Star Wars fandom is weird because you see just how much of the population doesn't actually know or care much about politics, but picks teams from narrative fragments, aesthetics, & attitudes. There really are a ton of folks who are like "the empire rocks, rebels are p--sies"
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The biggest problem with representing or exploring nationalist/fascist tendencies in video games is that a fuck ton of the politics-ignorant and not-ethically-motivated audience is just like "that sounds like a reasonable pitch, sure, I'm rooting for those dudes."
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We say "you can't parody fascism" but it's also dangerous to mine it for broad entertainment, even when you're doing so from a critical lens. Because most folks have no critical instincts or ideological/ethical antibodies to fascism: "I want a world like Starship Troopers!"
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What if instead of depicting fascism vs its antithesis, fascism vs fascism-1SBU* is depicted iteratively in media until we find the exact threshold of minimum fascism that the average human psyche is capable of being satisfied with. *Standard Badness Unit
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