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It's really not meant to be taken seriously. These comments are made from segments of an alcoholic, depressed, and jaded detective's fractured psyche. He's so fucked up that each element of his psyche speaks to him in his mind as entirely separate entities.
Amazing game though
Jfc, can't even talk about anarchism in a fucking anarchism community anymore.. 🤦♀️
I am aware this is from a game, it literally says so.
Who said it and why doesn't matter, it was posted as is in an anarchism community, but doesn't actually reflect anarchism at all. I replied in literally 3 sentences to point out why.
If that is "too serious" for you, maybe you should stick to the meme communities...
Im just participating in the conversation by providing context as to why its a bad take. Im agreeing with you for fucks sake.
Who said it and why does matter because it explains why its a bad take. Its not coming from a rational place at all.
If you cant have a conversation about anarchism without getting defensive then maybe you should stick to the meme communities
You were defensive in your first reply, because I think you know you fucked up.
If you think the quote is wrong then you should frame it as such. As it is this quote is given no context. "It's from a game" isn't enough.
Loads of people don't know what that game is and even if they do the explanation of what's wrong with the quote should come before it, not buried in the comments because you let someone else do it for you.
The framing of this quote implies agreement, not critique.