I don't want to put this specific person on blast - this is a common sentiment but also a wrong one in important ways. Is one game, specifically, going to condition how people think about WWII? No. Is the totality of the culture they consume around it going to? Yeah, obviously.

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And not only will the authoritarians do these horrible crimes, they will make you, you personally suffer these crimes, or they will make you - again, you personally - be complicit in them (and in many cases, both). And that moral horror and outrage needs to sit and solidify into resolve: not here.

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And if "that reflects more on their intelligence" - cool, yeah, except not having fascism right now fundamentally depends on persuading a population, 50% of which is, definitionally, of below-average intelligence. About important things, we must be blunt. And this is an important thing.

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Like, everyone knows what's going on, it's why TMZ sent paparazzi to Kalamazoo, MI to ask Pete Buttigieg to weigh in, but there's very good reason why Pete is smart enough to refuse to venture anywhere near the implications. You can't touch it without becoming the story.

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Did you know that the Taco Bell Chihuahua ad campaign was actually associated with lower revenue for Taco Bell? Attention doesn't automatically convert into customers.

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