KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]
Liberals believe one of two things in my experience, in regards to that: Either that’s all fake news, Ukraine didn’t bomb anyone, there were no ethnic cleansings, and if there were, it was committed by a rogue militia that has nothing to do with the government, or
The existence of ethnic Russians is because Russia is attempting to ethnically cleanse Ukraine, and that they should be expelled anyway because they’re not Ukrainian
What’s even funnier is that this is basically the only hint that Claire is trans. There’s a line in her ingame bio that mentions it, but unless you look it up, at no point does any of her dialogue mention that she’s trans. She doesn’t even have a trans flag on her outfit or anywhere visible behind the bar she works at.
She is as far removed from “shoved in your face” as a trans character could possibly get.
Why is it capitalists can’t make up their mind? Are we supposed to buy their shit or not?
Even if it was 80% plastic, the advertising would still be positive advertising, trying to spin it as still a good thing.
Compared to Cyberpunk 2077 where their artificial slop is basically advertised as being the most disgusting slop ever, but people still accept that anyway
He was a lib, but he was also a lib with deep understanding of class and class consciousness. He fucking hated celebrity chefs, and celebrated the working class cooks and dishwashers he worked alongside. Where most celebrity cooking shows went to France and shit for the fanciest duck farts plated on endangered wood from Madagascar, Bourdain’s favourite place to go was for a bowl of street noodles in Vietnam, sitting on the curb with a beer. A lib, but less insufferable than most, and one that may have become a comrade later.
The thing is that Cyberpunk 2077 exaggerates the evils of capitalism so far into absurdity that it stops being a critique of capitalism. Instead of the true mundane horrors of capitalism we have today, where companies basically knowingly stuff everything with microplastics and get away with it by greenwashing, and where single billionaires can inspired coups in foreign nations, Cyberpunk 2077 is a world where corporations feed you literal slop made of 100% artificial substances using the most crude and disgusting advertisements.
What CDPR does is basically make the most over the top faux capitalism where people do obviously evil shit and then gesture at it to go “haha wow glad we don’t live like that, huh gamers?” There’s absolutely zero meat to their critique, it’s a capitalist strawman.
Johnny also does this during Judy’s quest line to start a revolution at Clouds, a brothel.
Despite being portrayed as a revolutionary and a rebel, Johnny spends the entire time shitting on Judy and the other sex workers specifically because they’re sex workers - the plan isn’t good, but Johnny’s problems aren’t with the plan at any point.
All cyber, no punk.
This demonic entity in human form was good friends with August Pinochet, who during his coup of Chile murdered anyone left of him in extremely vicious ways
He also presided over the bombing of Cambodia and Laos, leaving both nations with so much unexploded ordnance that to this day, thousands are maimed every year despite the Vietnam war being decades over
He is directly responsible for at least two genocides
May he rest in eternal hellfire and boiling piss