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this is exactly how they behaved in those.
you also didn't look up, if when anyone says something, it mustn't be true?
if that guy says 'house kurita is a fascist regime' it mustn't necessarly be true.
just as the everyday lefty uses any of these words to describe whoever they don't like
The novels never came out in my country. They simply aren't here. I read the lore on online resources, and the clans are different here than in, let's say, Mechwarrior 2 and Mechwarrior 3.
The care for "civilians" seems out of character for somebody who finds disgusting freeborns, for instance. It's like they tried to depict clanners as more cuddly and freedom lovers than they would be.
It is weirding me out a bit. And that chick? who lost a timber wolf arm against a single duel? For bloody hell, i would beat her in an Adder while she uses a Dire Wolf.
She would deserve an artillery strike in the back of her mech, to teach her a lesson.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines fascism as a "political ideology and mass movement that dominated many parts of central, southern, and eastern Europe between 1919 and 1945 and that also had adherents in western Europe, the United States, South Africa, Japan, Latin America, and the Middle East.", adding that "Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: "people's community"), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation."
The Holocaust Encyclopedia defines fascism as "a far-right political philosophy, or theory of government, that emerged in the early twentieth century. Fascism prioritizes the nation over the individual, who exists to serve the nation." and as "an ultranationalist, authoritarian political philosophy. It combines elements of nationalism, militarism, economic self-sufficiency, and totalitarianism. It opposes communism, socialism, pluralism, individual rights and equality, and democratic government."
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines fascism as “a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition”
Militaristic nationalism? Check. Contempt for electoral democracy and cultural liberalism? Check. Belief in natural hierarchy and the rule of elites? Check. Economic and social regimentation by force? Check. Subordination of individual interests for the good of the state? Check. Centralized autocratic government with a dictatorial leader? House kurita literally checks all the boxes.
Not like any of the other great houses are really any better.
Yes. Because she outranks you. Ergo she gets to set the terms of the engagement. Clan society is all about duels against 'worthy' opponents. There would be a whole ritual combat process to go through in order to challenge Sara Weaver for her blood name and her rank. It would be an interesting story arc for sure, but also unlikely to happen since she canonically dies when her Mech gets blown up on Tukayyid. So you don't get to kill her, some random Com Guard guy does.
They call the Draconis Combine Fascist because they believe the Draconis Combine is Fascist. The clanners (Smoke Jag in particular) have grown up for generations under the belief that the tyrants of the Great Houses destroyed the Star League and all that was good and right in the world.
No. She is not supposed to be a likeable character. She is supposed to be someone like Sepp Dietrich from the 1st SS Panzer Division. She is not a goodie.
Actually facist were italy and Germany. Afterward there has been no facists since the ideology ended 1945
Yet nobody can really say what makes facism any different.
It is a blueberry in the pie. It was nothing else than a movement of italy who keep losing every colonial war. The failure were so grave that some would see it as such italy was desperate trying to win a game.
That facism still exist in italy. Hostility toward strangers have made the economy of italy into stagnation. Even if Italy had every reason to win it hasn't.
I don't know what to say about it, a self destruction of the civilization where people have very little to do than to join the military.
This is why one shouldn't see utopia as ideal.
Italy is the utopia. Inside utopia you have no privacy or ownership.
Some would say it is just a hidden communism.
Can you really say there is a difference?
When capital fails. And the people have nothing to fight for they call for charismatic leaders to guide them back to the capital gain by help of guns.
Liberty is very close to be same thing as facism if one look at history. Liberty enforced landlords to be taken from their wealth to give it to others as in utopia you don't own anything.
If you try to own a thing they will make sure you don't have it. Since you don't have an army at your disposal. People loyal to you as a one big company.
If one should be scientific, every corporation is a facist regime.
But being this big means you are the government.
And star league see the big houses as nothing else than companies who grew too big and started to use weapons as business.
Technically they're all the mafia.
They became pirates who stole freedom of people for profit.
The oldest trading stock has been people and children.
They didn't wanted to be rulers and why the great houses came to be continue.
Every time one great house was about to be defeated another became allied to prevent this from happening. Over the centuries the great houses have self been playing a game where they pretend to be different houses since they so much wish to be companies and not the government.
One could picture it as EU members vs EU itself.
Some just want to play a game against each nation and other are the the ruler.
Just take example of Brexit and Brics.
They not gaining anything. They just want create discord and antics.
It is only in the ruins of the society the communists can win.
I have already stated it, but i will repeat it more clearly.
My issue is not with classifying House Kurita as "evil", to use a pedestrian terminology, but the use of the word "fascist" from a clanner. It is bad writing, in a sci fi setting set into far future.
And she defeated your character in the trial of position after you already dueled twice, and she was fresh and in a new mech, more powerful than your own.
And if i could have played that part of the duel i would have shoved her dirty face in the mound and stomped on her with the claws of my mech, before tearing her out of the cockpit and tearing her asunder with my bare hands.
But alas!
If one were to blame anything specific for its origin of erroneous overuse, we can perhaps look to Umberto Eco. Interesting philosopher, but at the end of the day, he was a depressed Italian and likely could not come to terms with how Italy was wilfully warped under Mussolini.
At the end of the day, try not to sweat Perez saying it. I was not too fond of its use there either but it is what it is.
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Hmm. That's right, after all.
I have a question, however. Are they any good? Or are there any particular book/series that is worth a reader's time?
Righn now i am reading Eruption from MIchael Crichton and i have a Stephen Kind novel waiting to be read. If i am reading something i would prefer for it to be at least decent. I will accept suggestions, although i have been burned from "game books" in the past.
Maybe IRL.... but no... north korea is in fact fascist
here is the definition
it has to have a leader, and it is a nationalistic, antidemocratic organisation/ideology.
so we have the kim family, no democracy and pretty nationalistic.
oh wow - look what fantasy space regime is formed after that :)
it's house kurita and house liao
that was easy