Someone should make a ROM hack where Pokémon centres charge a game-world fee equivalent to what a person would pay for healthcare for serious injuries in the US, with insurance and loan sharks.
Arceusism is the state religion and others are barely tolerated.
Gyms are privatized and cost per attempt.
Pokemon sweatshops.
PC access is a freemiun model where you get the first 5 for free, but beyond that you have to pay for Pokestorage+ and pay monthly. Also pokes come out hating you so pretty sure they getting abused. And occasionally pokes get lost.
I think that was literally a plot point in one of the earlier games or anime? That one will be easy to adapt, just make Team Rocket the heroes for being shrewd businesspeople and you the villain for daring to question the will of the free market.
Problem is, in several of these countries half the people are unhappy with a lurch towards fascism, while the other half are unhappy their country is not fascist enough.
Which is actually a good thing. When people are aware that their system is screwed, there’s a room for growth. As an Indian, all I can see is nothing but grim future for ourselves. Maybe we’ll experience the most extreme forms of late-stage capitalism, maybe our country might break, maybe there could be a genocide. I hope that the syndicalist movement grows more powerful - perhaps the South would be a proper pocket for leftist movement?
ikr, embarrassing. corporate propaganda works i guess.
i do wonder about the sampling bias. usually these surveys bias towards urban college educated top 25% upper caste people, they should ask lowest income quartile.
The issue today is Jesus was washed away in mainstream media as a rebel against Rome. They didn’t want to sell that part of the story because, well, the Lord whipped and cursed them and they’re still doing it.
I was driving through, I think Utah, a while back and I remember seeing a billboard ad for a local bank. They were heavily leaning into religious marketing (or maybe they were a “Christian Bank”) and I remember thinking “Y’all im pretty sure Jesus had major issues with using the lord’s name for business” lmao
I always figured Jesus was trying to piss everyone off and martyr himself. He showed up to Roman controlled Jerusalem, during a pilgrimage month, got the local leaders riled up, has people worshipping him and calling him king, (don’t call yourself a king in a Roman province unless you wanna see what Romans do to Kings), his followers are lopping off ears, and disturbing the pax Romana. Really didn’t leave Roman authorities much choice but to please the locals by taking him out.
You should probably read the book some time. People called him king but it wasn’t a title he wanted or requested; the only title he used of himself was “Son of man”. He didn’t request anyone to lop ears off (and in fact repeately tried to drill into people that the way forward is love) and on the one occasion it’s documented he rebuked the lopper and stuck the ear back on. It was the Pharisees and Sadducees that got riled up because Jesus exposed their hypocrisy, and the local leaders originally weren’t interested because they just saw it as an internal religious matter, but the P&S knew what buttons to push and that’s what got JC crucified. Pilate actually said he couldn’t see what Jesus had done wrong.
That’s the story told by his followers decades later. He would have been an apocalyptic peasant preacher, and most of those people have some combination of narcissism and mental instability. Most likely, he got killed for exactly what the sign on his crucifix said. Whitewashing his personality came later.
It’s no good reason to kill someone. The Roman Empire was a brutal place. But he probably was guilty.
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