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[lladas]

Loving where the thread is going. Makes me wonder if there has been a critical reading group that read Mage the Ascension along with something like Wallersteins World Systems Theory.

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That could possibly be the case for the NWO, Progenitors, and maybe Iteration X, but I don't see how anyone could read the Syndicate as left-wing. Their whole source of magic is private accumulation. The Void Engineers are weird since they are both the most explicitly militaristic and imperial in their logic, but also written as being willing to co-operate with the Traditions and Covenants the most. Again, that's just an example of how these things really can't be read as one-to-one representatives of IRL politics. Hell the lack of political cohesion in the Technocracy outside of their general...

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A self described ancap (who also sees themself as a peasant?) complaining about a private owner policing the behavior of consumers who have concensually decided to exist on a forum they privately manage to discuss the owners product is the most on brand thing I've seen in a long time.

I was pretty cynical about where this thread would go, but this definitely took the cake. Like of course Mage is political. Of course it's focused on particular coalitions and forms of pluralistic politics. It was never about diversity and inclusion to all worldviews. It was about underdogs and the strange...

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Also of those modern secular Calvinists who are basically eugenicists.