Re: Fantastic Fascist Fantasy

From: John Hughes <john.hughes_at_cPr_r8FH8worJVOoeLtLUCJJ_um1VpiwCujzVAztAT6oUueVVED6Am_omBWYlV3Y>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:52:15 +1100


At 10:39 PM 22/03/2007, Sam wrote:

>Let me see if I get this. You're trying to recruit gamers by appealing
>to their base nature. You want to launch a coup and install Prince
>Harry as Prime Jackboot of Australia. Kick the Abos and all the other
>non-white non-natives out, then sit back and wait for Bush to invade.
>Then you're going to tell them it was all a joke. That more or less it?

Luckily, the module is about preparation and recruitment, not implementation. Releasing your inner fascist (or not). Certain streams of Oz rp convention gaming are pretty introspective realpolitik pyschodrama - hence my need to introduce an OTT DnD game within a game.

But yeah. Fascist ideology has changed a lot in the last half century, and in Australia, our 'inspirations' are Pauline Hanson (populist politician with racialist zero-IQ agenda) and the religious fascism of the American right (hatred of racial and sexual minorities, collective anti-rationalism, Dominionism, uber-patriotism, President-talks-to-god stuff) rather than European nazism. Plus the War on (some types of) Terror of course.

I can see the 'attraction' of Heil Harry as a figurehead of sorts, but in all probability we will dump the monarchy as soon as Chuck and the Rottweiler ascend the throne. I don't think Bush would invade: even if he could, and a fascist Australia was considered for some reason a threat (highly unlikely), by past experience he would probably invade Chile or Vancouver instead.

>Well, good luck to you. The only thing I'd suggest is, when they try and
>get you to run a DNA test on Hazza, tell them you don't believe in that
>DNA stuff.

???? I've got no idea what you're raving about. 'Hazza'? Please type slower. My original post was done late at night, in the aftermath of two vodka stingers and medical bloodletting earlier in the day. What's your excuse?!?!

Nor, btw, do I have any idea what Stu was raving about with 'moobies'. While not understanding what Stu is raving about is pretty much par for the course, in this case it may be a dialect thingee. 'Boobies', I get.

Cheers

Never-a-hippy-Jimbo


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