Also the lines themselves

We went from

“victory lies ahead”
“Glory to the Sindorei”
“Death to all who oppose us”
“We WILL have justice”

To “we endure” “through perseverance, strength”

God it’s so fucking lame and spineless and live love laugh. Give the Sindorei back some fucking teeth you wimps

I feel like this is a pretty straightforward example of normalizing edge positions at work! Sneak something in the huge rollout of a gigantic can’t fail media franchise and help shift the Overton window/susceptible viewers’ minds bit by bit to view this as normal. Yknow, propaganda.

But people always forget the nuance of how media is consumed and how the devs will insert discriminatory views, prejudice, the fetishizing and sexualizing of cultures and peoples, and the dehumanization of marginalized people :<

It can reinforce systemic violence through propaganda

Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.

And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.

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