Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them
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samus12345@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
No way…what about wolfenstein??
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Whaaa Don’t you remember the scene where they said nazi made things better? /s youtu.be/3tJRVRx66GI?sT6VlEsv8uESpiuK
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Damn I gotta play that one it looks fucking dope
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Heavily censored in Germany apparently, which kinda seems odd and protective of Nazis
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah they have a blanket ban on Nazi iconography with no carve outs for art, even if antifascist.
SARGE@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Murder?
I think not. Murder is a crime. And it’s bad. (crime doesn’t necessarily mean bad, see Robin Hood for more details)
Nazis don’t count, all you’re doing is cleaning up the trash.
You can’t murder a nazi. You can certainly kill them though.
It’s an important distinction, in my opinion.
araneae@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
The scariest thing about Nazis is that they’re human and even pretty smart sometimes. To reiterate what others are saying: dehumanization leaves you in a blind spot for the humans around you who can silently undergo vast transformations from people you thought you loved into Nazis. They throw away their humanity yes, but they had to be human to throw it away. Dehumanization is also how the process of becoming a Nazi starts. Don’t even mirror it in jest, try on radical empathy and face the truth: humans are horrifically complex. Nazis are unfortunately humans.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Nazis are incredibly mechanical honestly. They lose empathy and then others become mearly disposable objects. You might commit murder just like you would throw away a plastic bag. There is a totally absence of care which leads you to inflict terrible things to others.
I also doubt how many actual Nazis there are. It is often thrown around which leads it to lose the horrible meaning. I’ve seen people shout Nazis over much less deadly things. Don’t confuse systematic mass murder with someone having a questionable character. They can be a terrible human but they haven’t committed the level of crimes as mass murder of millions. The level of death and suffering caused by the holocaust is not a joke and certainty not something to use when your upset.
Sorry for the rant I just needed to get that off my chest. I’m not really addressing anyone in particular.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Why can i not murder a nazi? A murder is the deliberate ending of someone’s life. Why is that not applicable to Nazis?
SARGE@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Murder is a crime. And it’s bad. (crime doesn’t necessarily mean bad, see Robin Hood for more details)
Nazis don’t count, all you’re doing is cleaning up the trash.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
[off topic]
One of the biggest mind fuck novels I ever read was "The Iron Dream’ by Norman Spinrad.
On one level it’s a ‘hero’s journey’ story about an exiled prince who returns to his homeland and defeats a bunch of evil mind controlling wizards. Lots of excitement and adventure and terrific battles.
The fucked up part is that it’s the last novel Adolph Hitler wrote after migrating to America in 1921.
Hitler was a popular illustrator who eventually felt confident enough to start writing in English. He was a popular figure at conventions and had a huge fandom.
roscoe@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
I’m very confused, but I have to go into work. Can someone summarize for my lazy ass what the fuck is going on here?
Woht24@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
From wiki
The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by American author Norman Spinrad. The book has a nested narrative that tells a story within a story. On the surface, the novel presents a post-apocalyptic adventure tale entitled Lord of the Swastika, written by an alternate-history Adolf Hitler shortly before his death in 1953. In this timeline, Hitler emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1919 after the Great War, and used his modest artistic skills to become first a pulp science fiction illustrator and later a successful writer, telling lurid, purple-prosed, pro-fascism stories under a thin science fiction veneer. The nested narrative is followed by a faux scholarly analysis by a fictional literary critic, Homer Whipple, which is said to have been written in 1959.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Read the wikipedia article. It makes more sense but still a mindfuck
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
You picked the wrong guy to ask.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Hard glance at Frank Miller.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Apparently, Miller had some serious problems that he’s been dealing with.
I give the guy who created Martha Washington a lot of leeway.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He’s fine with nazi dogs though…
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
“Who’s a victim of moral luck? Who’s a coerced actor? Is it you? It is! It is you!”
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Off with his head!
TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Germany be like, “Nazi symbols, NEIN!”, showing it is totally not missing the point, specially given whom they support.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
There are no more restrictions on Nazi symbols in videogames, except that glorifying Nazism remains illegal regardless of the medium, of course.
Schmuppes@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
What
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Don’t tell them about speeding
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
“Bethesda covers its arse in anticipation of a bunch of terminally online American teenagers who just learnt the word ‘nazi’ and would use it to describe a fuckin nun if it made them feel a bit morally superior for ten seconds”
SARGE@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
I’ve heard plenty of people try to say WOLFENSTEIN glorifies nazis
I’ve had one idiot tell me ANY media that paints them as competent or successful is glorifying them. And setting anything in a world where they succeeded and progressed technologically instead of collapsing is basically saying Hitler’s world view is valid.
I still don’t know how to respond to that beyond “if you think the nazis were incompetent you don’t know history, and if you think showing a future where fascism took hold is unrealistic I have some bad news for you”
It’s fantasy, and specifically a fantasy in which you get to go on a massive killing spree against some of the worst people in history, how you can somehow pull “this game is making these guys look good” from that, I’m not sure.
rhombus@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It should be noted that a lot of their blunders later in the war can be traced back to Hitler (or one of his sycophants) getting involved and overruling far more experienced Generals, many of whom were not party members. It could also be argued that the economy they set up, while impressive given the state of Germany post-WWI, was an entirely unsustainable war economy that relied very heavily on slave labor. That’s not to say they were completely incompetent, but they did vastly overestimate their own abilities and made many mistakes as a result.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
And people still wonder why I pick so much on the wishful thinking fallacy… I mean, that’s basically it, right? “Nazi are morally bad, I hate them, thus they must be incompetent”. And if you correctly highlight that this is fucking stupid, you’ll get some kid saying stuff like “I dun understand, why are you defending Nazi?”.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Here’s my problem with wolfenstein. The daat yichud or whatever was a little too close to the secret Jewish cabal that real life Hitler believed/claimed was working behind the scenes manipulating society for is own gains. I don’t think the series is pro Nazi, I’d have to be stupid to believe that, but I feel this particular plot point was a little tone deaf in a historical context.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How exactly does he think…
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…a whole shitload of things exist? Everything from microwave ovens, to nasa space rockets, to jet engines? Shit! If the nazis weren’t so god damned evil they would have been pretty awesome…but they aren’t. You know, because of the whole evil facist racists thing.
But damn they knew how to invent stuff, and have stylish military uniforms while doing so.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
If they didn’t have at least a few competent nazis, they wouldn’t have been such a threat; WW2 would be over in a month. I’m sure there were even competent Talibans and North Koreans.
TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
If they think that, they may have a problem with what they consider glorified. They may want to avoid recognizing parallels that are far more personal to them.
Classy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Maybe it’s a skill issue. They never could make it past level one so the nazis are programmed to be too good!