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Antiquarian. European Federalism. British & German politics. Beautiful Paper. RP ≠ endorsement. Counterfollow.
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Who is this for?
Not sure there is any voter block (or broadsheet) left appreciating a Theresa May Brexit reenactment in 2025 leading (in the unrealistic, best case) into negotiations about never to be baked cake recipees with Brussels.
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tbf a lot of this might be performative. Europe needs time before the final, definitive break with the US and every month with negotiations going nowhere (and no one does these better than the brits) is a month for preparations won.
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I don't see the CDU/CSU getting back to 30%. This dynamic has just started. Greens & Die Linke got record number of new members last week. The gentle smearing of ~700.000 protestors (incl. people like Michel Friedman) as "far left extremists" goes down bad with a lot of cons. voters.
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Well... www.rnd.de/politik/5-00...
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Taking everything out including the -isms in the game leaves the world dramatically bled dry, like a tragedy but without the suffering.
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And it makes sense. The main VtM theme is the tragic struggle with oneself, which can only end in catastrophy. The more destructive, entropic energy the world brings, the better. BUT if you marry the racism within the game to the written racist stereotypes it gets IMO very difficult to untangle.
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(Background research might have been a bit lazy back in the day. Venice had impressive skyscrapers in the 1st Ed.)
The actually depicted -isms in the game (classism, clanism, which was just racism by another name) had an important function though. The vampire society as described is fascistic.
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E. g. Clan Giovanni in Vampire: The Masquerade was the italian vampire clan, based in Venice, mostly incest and necrophilia affine Mafiosi, so a really terrible racist caricature. That alone could be fixed, I guess, in a complete rewrite and if I remember the authors did in the 5th ed.
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That was an insightful read! Thank you!
I've never played D&D but the re-imaginings into less problematic game worlds and structures of long running rpg franchises is a fascinating topic.
One still open question to me is if you can reform any game world which had racism ingrained for a long time.
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Erstellt wurde sie von @dasechteorakel.bsky.social.
Danke dafür!
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Oh ja. Viele Shadow Bans, verschwindene Likes und Retweets, etc. Ich musste zig großen pro-Ukraine-Accounts jetzt schon 5-6mal erneut folgen, ohne sie je entabonniert zu haben.
Was hilft: Eine Ukraine-Liste erstellen oder raussuchen. Ich folge zB dieser: twitter.com/i/lists/1587...
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Thank you for the invite!