🎵If you’re alive and you doubted, clap your hands🎵

Planely not.

That’s still not accurate. Propaganda is much more effective than most people are aware of/willing to admit.

You don’t have to be weak or stupid to fall victim to effective messaging and when all of the most trusted sources of information repeat the same pro-corporate and anti-worker propaganda for several lifetimes, everyone who’s not actively searching for independent sources (which is probably 25% of Lemmy but 75% of the general public) will inevitably be fooled into believing the lie since that’s the only information they have available

Calling people weak for that is textbook victim blaming and pretending that all we need to solve the problems is to be “stronger” is the kind of oversimplification used in the lies that got us here.

That whole “hard times make strong men” litany is pro-war gaslighting, not how humanity works.

The real (main) reason is the corporate takeover of every part of American society, including the parts that were supposed to defend against and denounce it.

In effect, you have to be a corporation or have a net worth of at least a hundred million dollars in order to have any real autonomy in the US and corporatist fascism is the inevitable result of that.

Makes me think of a classic Megadeth album for some reason 🤔

Just hope that there’s no cubists or surrealists at the party…

you don’t look at comedians and accuse them of lying

Reasonable people don’t. Hasan Minhaj got semi-cancelled for a while for including inaccurate details in jokes about his life 🤦

The Outer Worlds is pretty much what Starfield could and should have been and was made by Obsidian, the developers behind a ton of other great games such as (in chronological order, with the best of all games ever bolded)

• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2
• Neverwinter Nights 2
• Fallout New Vegas
• Pillars of Eternity
• Tyranny
• Pillars of Eternity 2

There’s even a sequel to it coming out some time this year so you don’t run as much of a risk of running out of game any time soon!