Whether it was a conscious decision or not, a blood and soil White woman is basically their greatest enemy. Because women are not spontaneously based, so the presence of one means a righteous structure is in place somewhere.
It's part of an "own goal" situation that they should have seen coming, because goth is associated with sexual attraction (whether or not you personally find it desirable in short or long term, "big tiddy goth GF" is a well-known meme), but they didn't think that would be an issue to the teenage boys they're propagandizing to.
and the funniest thing is when you play the game, only your character, Charlie, gets in trouble, not the cohort that lead you there, Amelia. Which means either the British government doesnt think anything you do in the game is illegal, or they think that Amelia is too far gone to be swayed, but "Charlie" isnt so they legally bully him.
What a strange game, they literally have "rules for thee but not for me" baked in.
“In a way it gets to the heart of what we might term the ‘dissident’ far-right – individuals who position themselves outside of the mainstream political scene – whether that’s ‘shitposters’ who are just into provoking, others who are in twee memes. A whole ecosystem has embraced it. Clearly, the sexualised imagery is also key to this. The target audience is almost exclusively young men.”
This is as close to the left admitting that their no longer the resistance as we're gonna get.
The origins of the character are ironic, to say they least. An early iteration of Amelia began life in a counter-extremism video game funded by the UK Home Office and created to deter young people aged 13-18 from being attracted to far right extremism in Yorksergamini points out that the original initiative was never meant to be a stand-alone game. Rather, it was intended to be used in the classrooms alongside a suite of teaching resources, a fact he says coverage and commentary has ignored.
Pathways: Navigating the Internet and Extremism is a simple multiple choice format game with basic animation. Its players are taken on a journey as characters at a college. They are invited to make decisions in scenarios including whether or download potentially extremist content or join an Amelia character on a rally organised by “a small political group” protesting against changes in society and the “erosion in British values”.
“There has been a lot of misrepresentation unfortunately,” he said. “The game does not state, for example, that questioning mass migration is inherently wrong.”
Others have suggested the initiative had backfired, not least by casting a “cute goth girl” as a negative character, leading to her inadvertently becoming a focus of admiration. But Bergamini said the game – which used feedback from focus groups with young people and was developed with a specific local threat picture in mind – continued to be used and feedback from schools and others was positive.
“The game does not state, for example, that questioning mass migration is inherently wrong.”
Of course not. It's all done through insinuation, implication and association like any good nudge unit tactic. To outright state it would undermine it and also remove the level of plausible deniability that let's them say that.
You couldn't even take the neutral option of researching the "facts" the govt was spouting without being punished. They want you to blindly accept your own replacement
Yorksergamini points out that the original initiative was never meant to be a stand-alone game. Rather, it was intended to be used in the classrooms alongside a suite of teaching resources, a fact he says coverage and commentary has ignored.
"Hey now, don't say we're bad at propaganda. This shit works way better with the ADHD drugs and constant emotional abuse it's supposed to be combined with to induce compliance."
This is always the academy's play whenever they step on a rake. "There's actually a lot more CONTEXT behind it that conveniently cannot be examined, but all the smart people understand the world is COMPLICATED and there's a lot of CONTEXT that makes the hoi polloi look unsophisticated"
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, an analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), said: ...
Institute for Strategic Dialogue sounds Orwellian 2.0 as fuck.
Also, Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, imagine a nurse having to call that name out in the waiting room. She'd pronounce it perfectly. Because they're in London and that's the 5th Venkataramakrishnan she's seen this morning.
The worst villain the UK government could come up with is a goth girl who isn't covered in tattoos, loves her country, and wants to have your babies.
Whether it was a conscious decision or not, a blood and soil White woman is basically their greatest enemy. Because women are not spontaneously based, so the presence of one means a righteous structure is in place somewhere.
I'm struggling to think of how it could be worse for them
Only thing I can think of is she's a ride or die support gamer.
Why goth girl? Is that desirable now?
It's part of an "own goal" situation that they should have seen coming, because goth is associated with sexual attraction (whether or not you personally find it desirable in short or long term, "big tiddy goth GF" is a well-known meme), but they didn't think that would be an issue to the teenage boys they're propagandizing to.
If you don't get the appeal of goth girls I don't think I can explain it to you. You're either wired that way or not.
I'm definitely not wired that way.
My condolences.
Always has been
and the funniest thing is when you play the game, only your character, Charlie, gets in trouble, not the cohort that lead you there, Amelia. Which means either the British government doesnt think anything you do in the game is illegal, or they think that Amelia is too far gone to be swayed, but "Charlie" isnt so they legally bully him.
What a strange game, they literally have "rules for thee but not for me" baked in.
>schoolgirl
college student
yeah - I’ve seen her drinking beer
they couldn't even stick to it in the propaganda
>AI-generated
Unless the gov't folks at Pathways are admitting they used ChatGPT to make their game, this part of the headline is wrong, too.
a lot of the amelia fanart is ai, i assume that's what that means.
but this is journos so zero benefit of the doubt, you right.
man i forgot how jewish the (((guardian))) is
every written word is a lie made by a kvetching kike
There's a reason Beau from Lotus Eaters sighs during his breakfast show whenever he has to read the Guardian front page.
This is as close to the left admitting that their no longer the resistance as we're gonna get.
It's a paragraph-long quote to say "we lost the youth".
In case you didn't know where 'Amelia' came from.
Of course not. It's all done through insinuation, implication and association like any good nudge unit tactic. To outright state it would undermine it and also remove the level of plausible deniability that let's them say that.
You couldn't even take the neutral option of researching the "facts" the govt was spouting without being punished. They want you to blindly accept your own replacement
Now they have to explicitely say "It's okay to question mass immigration", lol
"Hey now, don't say we're bad at propaganda. This shit works way better with the ADHD drugs and constant emotional abuse it's supposed to be combined with to induce compliance."
This is always the academy's play whenever they step on a rake. "There's actually a lot more CONTEXT behind it that conveniently cannot be examined, but all the smart people understand the world is COMPLICATED and there's a lot of CONTEXT that makes the hoi polloi look unsophisticated"
Cool, cool...
How much did they spend on this "suite of teaching resources"?
Institute for Strategic Dialogue sounds Orwellian 2.0 as fuck.
Also, Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, imagine a nurse having to call that name out in the waiting room. She'd pronounce it perfectly. Because they're in London and that's the 5th Venkataramakrishnan she's seen this morning.
When your name is a Leftist meme...
Ain't no way I'm spelling that. He's Sid from S.I.D. now.
Darth Sidious? No, Sid Darth!
Dude, welcome to last month already.
Don't hassle the posters, there's only 3 of them and they don't have much to post to begin with
rofl, I was just adding background to the Amelia meme. Not everyone is immediately clued in to what is going on.
Boomer usually implies they're out of touch with the younger guys.
That's a "boomer" that knows exactly why it worked and doesn't think like a typical boomer, I think.
Why does the real life version of her look like Shoe0nHead?