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this silly little post managed to make the redditors over at the disco elysium sub drop bangers like

''Orwell is cursed to be misunderstood by both left and right cri cri''

''How dare the Union do [CRIME] to fund their militant activities?? Don't they know [CRIME] is BAD!??''

This ain't even a media literacy issue, this is a literacy skill issue.

stop-posting-amogus

Look at my communists dawg! We're never getting anywhere! agony-acid

link, because I am not a liberal

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 6 months ago (12 children)

It’s entirely intentional that Joyce is one of the more affable people you come across juxtaposed to Evrart who is an unscrupulous sleazeball; yet one is knowingly an agent of Capital perpetuating misery (and eventually death) in Revachol while the other represents a net good for Martinaise and potentially a force for positive change, however messy and flawed. The game isn't even subtle about it.

People hung up on his amoral actions in that thread are apparently missing the wider context about how bleak things are in a city where Corpos feel comfortable enough to hire bloodthirsty, racist mercenaries to break strikes. Or how every little bit of organized struggle on the ground is what revolutions (“The Return”) are made of.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's a pretty interesting point. I kind of wish there was an option to make the communist rant you can give Joyce more coherent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

if it came coherent out of a cop's mouth, it would be realistic

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