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What I’ve Learned about People Who Believe in the Mainstream Narratives from Board Games
Clarissa SchnabelFor many years now I’ve been a member of a gaming group — the old-fashioned, offline kind. We started out with fantasy and horror role-playing games and have over time moved on to board and card games. The group itself has seen members come and go, but our hard core of five has persevered over the years. We mainly play cooperatively; that is, us against the game.
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A lot of academics are sloppy with their research. Look at the level of plagiarism in their thesis and dissertations that is being exposed.
I do wonder if the game represents the appalling degeneracy of the Weimar Republic, as personified by Anita Berber, a coke and opium fiend. She was bisexual and hyper-promiscuous. She famously had a threesome with a woman and that woman’s fifteen year old daughter. She died at 30, if I recall correctly.
If the game otherwise has sound mechanics, I am sure there is a way someone with enough time on his hands could write a variant where a player could choose any faction.
Finally, seeing this game is of German origin, I can sadly liken it to the sort of national flagellation that Germans have subjected themselves to for almost 80 years. It reminds me of a video game called “Through the Darkest of Times.” in which one cay play a dissident during that time, with options as communist, social democrat, or Zentrum, and the like. A player cannot overthrow the regime or accomplish anything, other than not get caught and survive the war. I cannot image a more enjoyable video game than stewing Kriegschuld yet further. /s
Or that somebody like Steven Spielberg would knowingly sell those lies as facts.
Spielberg knew they were lies? He’s always struck me as a mainstream Jew who believes and propagates the official narrative rather than someone duplicitous.
As for the game, it’s too bad that crushing the communists and restoring the monarchy are not options.
According to the evidence presented in The Last Days of the Big Lie, there was no way Spielberg would not have been aware of the fact that some of the stories in his “documentary” were lies or at the very least gross exaggerations. In other cases (like the black GIs who supposedly liberated Buchenwald or whichever concentration camp it was), it just might have been sloppy research – I’ll grant him that, for all it’s worth.
If the game is successful, maybe the creators will get brave and develop an extension pack with other factions, like monarchists or even the NSDAP. We’ll see.
Just wondering, does anyone there ever think about what would’ve happened if the Spartacist uprising had succeeded? I can take a gander at that. With both Russia and Germany as Communist powers, then Spain would’ve gone full Bolshevik. Then Poland falls, while Winston Churchill wags his finger and tut-tuts from a distance. Eventually France gets it too, and the Iron Curtain starts at the Atlantic. But hey – at least the “extremists” didn’t win!
I would leave a like, but apparently that function is broken right now, so… 🙂
Agreed. That’s what good people like my friend refuse to see. They still regard communism as “not that evil”, simply because they never had the misfortune to live under it. Or they imagine something like the relatively benign post-Stalinist regime in East Germany.
As for France, something that was interesting to learn was that German communists actually fled to France (which had strong communist sympathies) after Hitler came to power and then ended up in the resistance against the German occupation.
It didn’t seem to me that East Germany was all that wonderful. It’s mind-blowing that a third of the public was recruited to be snitches. Other than that, they shot people in the back for trying to get out, but people tried anyway.
Worse, kids these days seem to think that Communism is all about free goodies. At least that’s how it is here, thanks to our defective educational system.
It certainly wasn’t wonderful. During one of my researches I came across Elfriede Brüning, a successful writer in the GDR and an ardent communist long before 1945. She was quite a character, whatever one might think of her politics – I spoke to her on the phone a couple of times when she was already 102 years or so old, but still very sharp, both of mind and of tongue. What she said during an interview (not with me) was that they – meaning the GDR government – had to built the “Berlin” wall, because the people were fleeing in droves. When questioned about that, she argued that those people just wanted luxury. I highly doubt it, but even if so, who was she to deny them the freedom of making that decision?
I still remember vividly the fall of the wall – it was a fantastic time in Germany! A shame all that positive energy got lost in what happened after. (I’ve meant to look into the Treuhand who administered – wrecked – the industrial assets in East Germany for a while now. I wonder whose interests it really served…)
Yes, I see graffiti espousing communism all the time here, so clearly a younger audience as well. Like I said, they never lived under it, so it’s easy to be a fan.
I enjoyed this read a lot. Your experience reminds me of playing the game in the states called “Secret Hitler,” as well as conversations about my views with otherwise intellegent people who cannot open their minds to even the slightest deviation from hollywood narratives and things taught in middle school.
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