Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

If you guys are going to keep making video game references, I`ll have to ask for a Disco Elysium episode. I think What`s Left people are better equipped to make sense of its politics than the average middle/upper class PMC leftist.

I don’t know if @Tinkzorg has played it, but I’m a few hours in. Certainly a lot of time/energy went into writing and reading all that text. And the Ch*pos as voice talent

I enjoyed the game and plot, but what I found specially interesting were the reactions of leftist players to its politics. 1/6

From what I saw from discussions and analyses on reddit and youtube, many self-described leftist players took at face value the corporate partner`s claims that the Dock Workers` Union is a crime syndicate and that the union boss is corrupt and self serving, 2/6

despite the game offering evidence supporting alternate interpretations, so they came out of the game feeling that the Union is as evil as the Moralintern/Coalition government that keeps the country in misery. 3/6

This preference for viewing the striking workers in the worst possible light seemed to me very consistent with What`s Left`s discussions about the upper class left`s contempt for the working class and hostility to workers` self directed political action. 4/6

Despite communist dialogue options being mostly exaggerated and humorous, there is a dialogue option for a communist Harry with high conceptualization skill that kind of reminded me of Aimee, 5/6