Ethan 🌑 @Ethancdavenport@retro.social

As I re/play thru the #AssCreed series, u will be commenting on the antifascist themes and other cool stuff. It will be threaded and CWed. Reinstalling the first game now. :)

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#AssassinsCreed Origins is 75% off on #steam right now. The base game is us$15 and the gold edition is only us$25.

I will get to this one in my anti-fascist analysis re/play....eventually.

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@delta hey, what email service do y’all recommend to play nice with your chat client? Gmail and (free) ProtonMail don’t seem to like it.

Overall I appreciated this game a lot more this time around. I've still got some Subject 16 rifts to find and I want to train my baby assassins all the way up, but I'm gonna start downloading Revelations now.

Here are the obligatory hashtags. #AssassinsCreed #AssassinsCreedBrotherhood #AssCreedBro

If you're finding this randomly in the pubtl, check out my threads. I'm reviewing the whole game series in order with a focus on the antifascist themes.

Cesare and Lucrezia are...tempestuous to say the least. Cesare abandons her when her usefulness to him reaches its end.

Ezio says over and over again in the course of this game that freedom, wisdom, and action must be chosen by individual people, and that coercing the masses by force is never right. He also tells Leonardo, "I built this Brotherhood to last, with or without me." That's some praxis, as far as I'm concerned. Killing fascists and their lackeys and empowering the masses.

Another contrast occurs in the healing of Ezio and Claudia's relationship, fractured when Claudia takes over running one of Roma's brothels as a cover for the Assassins. Ezio rushes in after an attack only to discover that Claudia, several years his junior, has taken out four Borgia thugs with a single knife. (Would have been nice to see any of this training in AC2!) Claudia is formally inducted into the Brotherhood, and wears a totally sick outfit.

The Borgia siblings less so.

As you progress through the game, you erode Cesare Borgia's power base (troop commanders, financiers, etc), as well as destroying Borgia bases and allowing the people of Roma to resume business and stuff.

Eventually, Cesare returns to Roma to find his support vanished. He kills his father Rodrigo with a poisoned apple which Rodrigo meant to use to poison Cesare. This stands in contrast to La Volpe's near-killing of Machiavelli--prevented by Ezio in an effort of goodwill.

#Atlanta Vintage Books has a whole corner full of radical lit and stuff. Downstairs in the back corner. Check it out.

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@tootapp y’all’s boosts and faves are giving me the power to work this sixth day of two six day work weeks in a row.

This thread brought to you by #TheWobblies by #PatrickRenshaw, and also the incredible thread-drafting power of @tootapp.

“It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for the every-day struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.” 6/6

“...thus making an injury to one an injury to all.

Instead of the conservative motto, ‘A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work,’ we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, ‘Abolition of the wage system.’ “ 5/6

“... Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers.

These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries of necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, ...” 4/6

“We find that the centring of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. ...” 3/6

“Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system.” 2/6

“The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so pong as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.” 1/6