Thread by @docsquiddy

a bunch of incredibly attractive antifascists don't know they're antifascists yet

https://twitter.com/ISamOmega/status/1641158540457852946

I think this is gonna be one of those things that people will go "huh? I don't see it" about for a while, since I know where the fascists need to go in the story for the story to be good.

operative phrase here would be 'boiling frogs'

i think you're gonna see some stuff, and if you know your history and your theory, you're going to go "oh, I'm starting to see some of this" but it's not gonna like hit you in the face until a different project

gotta lay groundwork first

I think once THIS game is done you could probably examine the game and actually talk about the fascism latent in the society in which the characters live, as well as identify characters who are pushing fascist ideology?

but actually recognizing and dealing with fascists will happen later. we need to lay the groundwork for this entire universe first.

i guess a way of putting it is that this shit doesn't emerge, instantly, in a vacuum.

it happens slowly. it happens _understandably_ (that is, we can understand the conditions that create it and figure out how to cut them out)