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“Poor soft power projection” is just revealed a most blatantly western lens when it comes to assessing a nation’s culture. The idea of “soft power” as if its a good thing only works if you see your own cultural artforms and media to be superior to those of others, and subsequently end up supplanting that of a “weaker” culture. US “soft power” only serves to stifle local culture by overshadowing it with foreign US media and norms, and in some cases eradicating the interest and cultural norms of a people (particularly in the youth). Most Europeans all follow the same fashion, watch the same films and listen to the same music, much of which comes from the US, and this is supposedly a good thing? I’d say that regardless of who’s doing it, this sort of “power projection” isn’t something to yearn for.

Why is half of Pakistan bad and the other half only somewhat bad?

I am never shaking hands with a Dutch person ever again.

Idk, probably one of the only accurate things on the map, but almost certainly for the wrong reasons.

Wizards of The Coast, they own the D&D brand

Why on earth does Holland gain territory? Colonial bastards should be balkanized themselves.

The trope that “German’s Fled to Latin America after the war” is overinflated anti-Latin American propaganda at this point. The US and broader west took in just as many if not more Germans who fled.

Worst comes to worst they can still wave the flag of AES countries, at that point banning even those would start to have its consequences. It’s a losing battle by the bourgeois state, because socialism isn’t tied to specific symbols and flag waving, we can adapt.

They can’t ban stars and the color red, lmao. So long as those are around they’ll be good.

More messed up is that it took them this long to do it

Interesting. Perhaps I was giving them the benefit of the doubt in terms of intelligence. In a way buying into the idea that “Human nature” made our ancestors destructive and genocidal to some extent. Reality is probably not anywhere near as extreme.

I thought there was some debate about this, how their intelligence may have been on par with or perhaps even better than ours, and that we won out because we breeded them out/killed them all.

Human: Robot, go kill this guy

Robot: I can’t its against my programming

Human: Put rat poison in bowl

Robot: Ok

Human: Put soup in bowl

Robot: Ok

Human: Serve bowl to this guy

Robot: Ok

If you’ve read Asimov you’d know that the rules were meaningless in the end, the whole point of the story was to show how no matter what you can bend and circumvent them. A robot can be programmed to never WILLINGLY break the laws, but you can always trick them into doing so without realizing it.

Well, not really, the game was developed by Ubisoft Montreal, with support from various European branches, not that theres any real difference ideologically, but in this case its not the US for once. Which I’d hazard a guess and say is the reason the game is so muddled, if it was by a US studio then it would be much more likely to take a more obvious pro-US stance. What we got just seems to be a jumbled mishmash with no ideological grounding whatsoever.

To be completely fair they also dropped Ukraine.

Also Belarus for some reason.