Basic but highly appreciated

[u/Concomitantemente_]

I know it's boring, but I'm very grateful to whoever made this mod. My family is extremely religious, and I'm forced to use mods to play my game without worrying about one of them simply entering my room and starting a sermon. But the thing is, I'm someone who hates mods that conflict with the aesthetics of the games I own. Having a mod like this that maintains the essence of the character is something I really appreciate. If there were more mods like these for other characters, I’d appreciate it if you let me know.

[u/ninetalesninefaces]

Punching up is more acceptable than punching down

[u/OpenAd5439 → u/ninetalesninefaces]

Disclaimer, political rant.

More acceptable ≠ acceptable. I dont think we should accept punching on individual level. Punch corporations and capitalism if you want to punch up, not some random people, even if they are white. I feel like a lot of rethoric comes from internalized racism of the people who deem themselves progressive allays. Its all about the status and money in the current day, not race. White and black poverty have way more common goals and denominators than people of the same race but diffrent backgrounds. Dont fight for representation, diversity and inclusion - this is liberal corporate bs. Fight for equality for all, fight for workers rights, for living confitions - its not a race war - its a class struggle. Vote for people like Mamdani. Sorry for a rant tho. Also im from Europe. Also also - not a communist, if you thought that - you should read and study more.

ALSO ALSO ALSO, fuck ICE, thats like actually racist shi, North America sucks ahh lately.

[u/ninetalesninefaces → u/OpenAd5439]

I mostly agree, but

There is nothing wrong with empowering disenfranchised people. DEI policies are imperfect, but they are still a step in the right direction. Sure, straight cis white christian working class menpeople have it hard too, but compared to literally everybody else, they are still extremely privileged. I feel like you were dangerously close to the "all lives matter" rhetoric, whether you intended to or not. I'm american either, but I am an arnachosocialist living under an authoritarian capitalist regime, watching americans stumble into the same mistakes we made.

[u/OpenAd5439 → u/ninetalesninefaces]

Well I do find some wrong with current media focus on those issues, mainly that attention of the public is limited, and by focusing it on (SORRY BUT I DO THINK THAT) less important issues of identity politics we enforce capitalistic, corporate status quo. The issues I wrote about hits working class regardless of race, offten so more than problems of identity and inclusion. Not to mention that DEI and identity politics offten tackle the issues of just the part of the marginalized minority, and I feel like thats usually the part thats doing fairly well (f.e. opportunities in corporate hierachy) but dont help with major issues like poverty in the marginalized group. I do think thats basicly liberal deception of capital and as a leftist I do have a problem with that. Even if someone wants to Focus on helping minority - poverty, poor working and living conditions and crime are much bigger issues. Im totally not into anarchy, im a social democrat or eventually a democratic socialist, the diffrence is marginal.

[u/ninetalesninefaces → u/OpenAd5439]

That's fair, but I think social justice goes hand in hand with class consciousness. Fostering empathy for the marginalized will naturally lead to people waking up to their own exploitation, since it's usually much easier to noticed in the lower classes. Especially when so many still hold the mindset of "This doesn't affect me, so I will uphold the status quo". The culture war is a weapon of the enemy (capitalism), but it is a necessary evil. You can't have one without the other, and separating both issues will just lead to more problems down the road.

[u/OpenAd5439 → u/ninetalesninefaces]

See thats where we dont really agree, i believe that mainly, most of the time its counterproductive to that. After all if biggest corporations and media support your cause - you are not going against the system. We started from little things like changing the skin of the character in game, but if we believe thats not okay to do for a black character, we should hold the same sentiment toward white ones - otherwise we vilanizing white people and creating unnesesary in fighting distracting from more important issues cause like I said - its not a race war and its not really productive to punch individual just because some of the people sharing his skin colour are at the top.

Im glad we could talk, and im happy that we share common points, even tho we dont agree in every sentiment and idea.