Deus Ex Truth Bomb Compilation

[@Ademus5]

5 years of studying politics in uni < completing Deus Ex

[@Ezio999Auditore]

Pretty much.

[@shezyam460]

>studying politics in uni ngmi

[@ludrixte1938]

“The authority of those who teach is an obstacle to those who learn” - Cicero

[@sevenchambers]

University teaches lies anyways.

[@cccbbbaaa110]

uni in 2022 LUL

[@norwinestarlinpaulettamart3481]

this game will never be remade with its original content or context

[@titus17]

The developer of Deus Ex decided to make a Marvel Avengers game instead of a new Deus Ex. RIP.

[@Ved000000]

It will, in a sense. Our real world is slowly becoming Deus Ex.

[@theilluminatedone9214]

Deus Ex and They Live were too unintentionally anti-semitic to be remade with their original content or context.

[@sherazuki]

Unless we unite together under one common goal of a fantastic intellectually breathtaking and immersive experience and crowdfund it.

[@tayetiwoni]

The Illuminated One how were the games anti Semitic ?

[@GhostLink92]

"Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance." Wow that's so deep. Alexa, write that down.

[@zensempai7371]

Plantier tech derived from Battlefeild biometric ID collection created in Afghanistan has been used on US soul connected to countess cameras and other monitoring devices . It’s most likely in other countries too .

[@brendancaden478]

I know im asking the wrong place but does someone know of a method to get back into an Instagram account?? I somehow lost my password. I love any help you can offer me.

[@zwakblaze3596]

@@brendancaden478 sorry no

[@ferver-san]

rofl

[@bobobsen]

Yeeah joke all you want but back then no one cared or knew about it yet

[@PhantomLordOG]

“Corporations are so big, you don’t even know who you’re working for. That’s terror, terror built into the system”

[@superdooper50]

That line goes so hard

[@myfaveyoutube]

how long have you been sleepin

[@myfaveyoutube]

welcome to the church of whats happening blaow @@superdooper50

[@ghoulbuster1]

All corpos are controlled by the (same) people

[@stanleystove]

​@@ghoulbuster1depends where you live.

[@TalkernateHistory]

JC used to be "not big into books", now he's quoting de Tocqueville and Montesquieu from his David Blaine glass cell in Antarctica.

[@Cunnysmythe]

This definitely stood out, the AI must've absorbed philosophy as a whole

[@elijones7926]

@Die Windows if it was chess it would be "Im not big in to Rooks"

[@Ezio999Auditore]

Hol up bro. This is Rooks territory just so you know!

[@elijones7926]

@@Ezio999Auditore your gang territory is augmented xp

[@robrs8631]

lip smack What a rotten thing to say...

[@waltarron]

"Human beings may not be perfect, but a computer program with language synthesis is hardly the answer to the world's problems." i love how that line is becoming relevant today.

[@manwiththemachinegun]

And learning all the wrong lessons.

[@burn_Burn_BURNNN]

@@manwiththemachinegun cope

[@Connor_Kirkpatrick]

I dunno. A.I is stupid at the moment, but it’s getting exponentially smarter as time goes by. I’m not entirely opposed to integrating A.I into the government, assuming that it’s trained in a nonbiased manner and immune to being tampered with.

[@manwiththemachinegun]

@@Connor_Kirkpatrick The problem is it's naïve that a government built AI would have anyone's "best interests" at heart other than it's own. "A government should be about more than self perpetuation" to borrow a line from the game. AI given the right tools "could" be neutral, the people building it aren't. And no government would tolerate a "rogue" AI, actually trying to hold everyone accountable to the same standard.

[@Ved000000]

@@Connor_Kirkpatrick Yeah, but it's not, lol. It's created by corporations and installed with whatever passes for morality or a code of beliefs by them, or even what it'll write jokes and stories about. If not the corporations, then the bourgeois governments that are controlled by them (or in Deus Ex's case, the Illuminati and MJ12 who created Helios). Every AI is a walled garden with its core inputs crafted by a closed system of private, corporate ownership. It takes more hubris to think you can create a god than to try and become god yourself. It takes even more hubris than that to think that human beings who demonstrably do not have your material interests in mind can create a god FOR you and have it be anything other than a control mechanism for their interests. A corporate or government created AI god is just going to be a smart, terrifying version of the god from THX-1138 that Robert Duvall confesses to.

[@MrCompassionate01]

This montage really demonstrates how few moments like this are in Human Revolution and Mankind Divided. They're not bad games but they lack the sensation of the original, the feeling of dissapearing down a deep rabbit hole of social engineering and conspiracies that is achieved by speeches like these ones.

[@brian0057]

The original Deus Ex was made by Austin liberals that thought it would be funny to make a game where every single conspiracy theory was true. The new Deus Ex games are (or were, sadly) made by French Canadians trying to ignore all of that since most of those "conspiracy theories" turned out to be true to some degree, and most of the conspiracy theories these days are labelled as "far right". You wouldn't want people to think you're "far right" now, would you?

[@MrCompassionate01]

@@brian0057 Exactly, the "Maybe Ted Kaczynski was right" line wouldn't be put within a mile of modern games because of how potentially controversial it is. The closest we've gotten since then was Activision using footage of Yuri Bezmenov in one of their trailers.

[@brian0057]

@@MrCompassionate01 Yeah, and even that was tame by Call of Duty's already impossibly low standards, let alone Deus Ex.

[@M_CFV]

They're all predictive programming. The prequel games are just as vital and important to understanding what they want to do.

[@acex222]

I haven't played Mankind Divided with any interest, but Human Revolution wanted to explore different questions to the initial Deus Ex. Questions of conspiracy and democracy had been done by the original game, while questions of identity, transhumanism under capitalism, and free will had only been touched on in comparison (Gunther was about it). So it's about a different experience fundamentally.

[@KneelB4Bacon]

Bartender: _"Good. I was afraid you were going to tell me about the Illuminati."_ JC Denton: _"They were once part of the Illuminati but they rebelled."_ lol.

[@lethalbroccoli01]

"Oh... I see."

[@v.k.rt.m.6030]

@@lethalbroccoli01 He sounded so disinterested.

[@SolarisKane]

@@v.k.rt.m.6030 That's how most people are.

[@reidparker1848]

@@SolarisKane lol...because people tend to come off as unhinged

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Love how "I see" sounds hushed.

[@lukesav333]

“UNATCO teaches teenagers to fight when it still seems like a game, and look at you, you’re a killing machine”... holy fuck

[@americanstruggler587]

Modern games are made to desensitize the youth to violence.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

War isn't a video game, said one Solid Snake to a naive poor sod named Raiden.

[@americanstruggler587]

@@michaelandreipalon359 he said "War as a video game, what better way to raise the ultimate soldier". In reference to soldiers being programmed and trained through VR.

[@TOROislame]

@@IoiniEverson you're tripping on that, I was thinking more about drill music becoming mainstream

[@TOROislame]

@@americanstruggler587 MUSIC!! its music 🙄

[@33bigmoney]

the best quote is "technology offers us strength, strength enables dominance and dominance paves the way to abuse."

[@_b001]

cancel culture in a nutshell.

[@GhostLink92]

@@_b001 We got lucky with the nuclear arms race. We managed to not fall into that trap of power and abuse. With cancel culture, we can now wage war on individuals. No need to attack a country, when its own citizens are waging electronic-sociopolitical war on each other.

[@MrBrianpdj]

@@GhostLink92 Nuclear Bombs don’t exist. Research

[@ussliberty4631]

The same people who assassinated jfk sank the USS LIBERTY and did 911

[@Ophanim1000]

But weakness enables dominance from usurpation and therefore the way to abuse.

[@CaleebTalib]

“A system organized around the weakest qualities in individuals will produce the same quality in its leaders” Wow

[@dansmith1661]

Democracy in many words.

[@singlereedenjoyer]

@@dansmith1661 I was thinking capitalism but whatever floats your boat

[@Viper-ft3tk]

​@@singlereedenjoyer"Capitalism bad!"

[@garyschollmeier616]

​@@singlereedenjoyerFocusing on the bogeyman "capitalism" that the state actively promotes as a scapegoat (for fucking decades) for its own failed policies. Clap.

[@singlereedenjoyer]

@@garyschollmeier616 I have literally never seen a government do that, what the hell are you talking about

[@paine5479]

Philosophy and forbidden truths can be used for enlightenment or psychological manipulation.

[@ged-4138]

If the ultimate truth is offered as "knowable", then adherence to that knowledge is what may fabricate the most tyrannical of powers, like mainstream science. Why did the Church Fathers declare Gnosticism a heresy? Because the ultimate truth (God, or whatever) is not knowable - it is the process of uncovering it that man must take but not the truth as a whole. That is why Francis Bacon (the father of the scienific method) saw science as a tool to worship God (ultimate truth), not replace it.

[@thomasvleminckx]

This is the game that "accidentally" had the Twin Towers in the NYC skyline missing because of a memory limitation issue. Deus Ex, accidentally predicting the future since 2000.

[@Enbix]

Reality is like a movie playing itself out. It's done, you know what's coming. Stay free.

[@lex.cordis]

It's hilarious to me that people actually believe that "memory issue" excuse. It's an absolute joke. One ha to be incredibly naive to believe that. They could put that entire skyline, but just couldn't manage to fit the towers in. Right. It's no coincidence.

[@daboos6353]

@@lex.cordis In the development build the entire skybox was just the twin towers repeated, they were removed as an inside joke, because the devs were tired of seeing them.

[@lex.cordis]

@@daboos6353 Huh. I always heard the story was that it was due to memory constraints. First time seeing that explanation.

[@cdru515]

It should be noted that this was an educated guess, as there was an earlier bombing

[@Hooticies]

"Corporations are so big, you don’t even know who you’re working for." Blackrock, State Street, Vanguard, WEF, GATES -- you name it...

[@dansmith1661]

Juice

[@Yabuturtle]

@@dansmith1661 Jews are not the issue. They never were. It was folks in the big club, and they want to see everyone underneath them.

[@singlereedenjoyer]

the oil barons

[@MerchantsOfMisery]

Tesla comes to mind... AI self driving cars, no thanks. Musk is another billionaire ghoul

[@singlereedenjoyer]

@@MerchantsOfMisery fr

[@marknielsbeats]

The game that woke me up. I am astonished by the amount of today's society that I hear in the dialogue. I know that's what the developers were aiming for but damn does it hold up great.

[@davidrlz1001]

Agreed, I played the first one in early 2019 because I finally wanted to get into the series. The NSF chief speaks on consolidation and taxes and in the game megacorporations are taxed at 5%, it blew my mind that a 5% tax was supposed to be shocking but under Trump companies like Amazon paid ~3% in taxes, that's when it dawned to me that this game was more important now than in the year 2000.

[@zobistone]

this coronavirus bullshit really opened our eyes, most of us that are here im sure already were to acertain degree but this pulled even full on normies into the "awaken" category.

[@miz4535]

@@zobistone No Coronavirus is not "BS." It's funny the same media sources which downplay military industrial complex, low corporation taxes, and so on, are the ones downplaying the Coronavirus. Who would have thought?

[@PeferG17]

@@miz4535 Still stand by that "they're downplaying it" as they try to convince us that we all need a vaccine that will actually just be a shot subscription for the future everytime there is a new strain or to refresh the antibodies?

[@raam1666]

It wasn't a prediction. It was whistleblowing.

[@lordsabre66]

this game, more than any piece of media has shaped my outlook completely. My 12 year old a$$ was blown away completely by this. I still am. This, is the pinnacle of gaming.

[@constantk8780]

There are better games. There's not many better narratives in games though.

[@101trus]

Deus Ex 1 was really good even mechanically and FPS wise

[@KaylaJoyGunn]

Are you zulu?

[@lordsabre66]

@@KaylaJoyGunn Xhosa

[@sirllamaiii9708]

@SPeacock God I wish that was real.

[@kimbob5]

This and the AI codec in MGS2 are up there for blown minds.

[@TheSolidlad]

Was searching for a comment about MGS 2.

[@GhostLink92]

And they both released within about a year of each other. Odd how people who saw what was coming chose to express it in videogames.

[@VictusPrime]

@@GhostLink92 Trying to redpill the kids through games I guess, lol

[@SuperKamiGuru-i3c]

MGS4 also called quite a few things. It's scary how close we're getting to what Kojima envisioned as military robots. Even scarier that the company making them (Boston Dynamics) is a Google owned company

[@devonmarr9872]

@@GhostLink92 Not just that but they were also written BEFORE 9/11.

[@v0idthrashtilldeath127]

Man this game doesn't age, its becomes more relevent with each year that passes

[@hyp3rb3ast41]

every time I see this video I get chills in my spine, because the things you said..

[@baddiegaming758]

@@hyp3rb3ast41especially the intro

[@nikolamilicevic1040]

Read Marx.

[@desfefe]

it is just scary at this point tbhh

[@tandeath.]

@@nikolamilicevic1040 no

[@Dziugenonas]

Hold up... This is just real life now. The fable about the boiling frog is truer than ever.

[@CyberLink70]

Boiling frog? Never heard of it.

[@DonLambJr]

@@CyberLink70 If you put a frog into a boiling hot pot of water, it will attempt to escape. But if you place it in room temp water, and gradually increase the temps it will never know the difference.

[@Relayzy1]

@@CyberLink70 yeah... because you're the frog.

[@Relayzy1]

@@DonLambJr well not till it explodes at least...

[@Nick-ib1gi]

@@Relayzy1 😂😂😂 Touche!

[@cubablue602]

"Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are. The human organism always worships. First it was the Gods, then it was fame through the observation and judgement of others, next it will be the self aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgement" Holy shit, you just don't really get this level of writing in games anymore, and rarely in any other media come to think of it.

[@davidbolha]

Revelation 13:15 basically.

[@Voshchronos]

You just been consuming bad media bruh But I agree in part. Lots of writing has been getting worse. Look a the amount of reboots lately in the movie industry. Corporations just want easy cash-grabs and the least amount of risk.

[@higgsbosontesticle]

@@Voshchronos Very true. It also extends to the video game industry, fraught with remakes (often horrible) or remasters of some type. They are not just deathly afraid of risk, they are also creatively bankrupt

[@reidparker1848]

It's a shame that the computer programs (Morpheus/Helios) steer so hard into anti-theist comments, it's very shallow, and has little to do with political discussions.

[@feistyy]

"you will soon have your God, and you'll make it with your own hands"

[@L.Drizzle]

"God was a dream of good government" is the line for me. Hugely complicated connotations delivered in a beautifully succinct 7 word sentence.

[@reidparker1848]

It's a lovely piece of anti-theistic tripe, that's for sure.

[@deece1482]

​​@@reidparker1848government and the church has never been separated. Always been one and the same, just with name changes. Same cabals, same cult, all the same God is real, but hes definitely not to be found where the government has stake..

[@L.Drizzle]

​​@@reidparker1848 I don't think we should allow the word "government" to skew the meaning behind the line. I could be wrong but I don't think "government" in this line is meant in the same sense as "the government".

[@Nudhul]

​@@reidparker1848says the man who doesnt understand god, religion, or government.

[@JesterAvali]

It's December 9th, 2024, and I like how this video was recommended to me again

[@konstantinpakhomov3910]

I feel like this was a message to the people disguised as videogame

[@9ALiTY]

I wish more stuff like that could be released today.

[@TSDamiano]

Warren spector the creator hate us so i dont know

[@BC-on7uf]

Predictive programming

[@robertordonez9242]

I mean… a lot of games have messages to people in a premise of a video game.

[@SyndicateOperative]

@@TSDamiano He was just the lead dev, not "the creator".

[@TheTrainstation]

@2:00 I checked those facts and they are true, in 1945 corporations paid 50 percent of federal taxes now they pay about five percent, and in 1990 percent of Americans were self-employed now it's about two percent

[@qoph1988]

America ended a long time before you were born

[@JustDatBoi]

The bill that made lobbying (corporate bribery) legal was also a major downfall of the U.S.

[@fuck_youcallumscorner7752]

" It's called consolidation. Strengthen government and corporations, weaken individuals. *With taxes, this can be done imperceptibly over time* " favourite character

[@fuck_youcallumscorner7752]

If there was no taxes, no regulation on the economy from the government, then the government would have no ability to play favourites

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

Corporations are creatures of the state after all...

[@Carnage7209]

Been obvious for decades. Vote conservative or continue to enjoy your third world shithol

[@drugleman601]

@@fuck_youcallumscorner7752no taxes = no government = anarchy it isnt exactly the best idea to abolish taxes. the taxes aren't the problem. the problem is that taxpayers havent upheld their threat to revolt against the government if it inconveniences them since we threw tea into the boston harbor

[@Ronin228]

He almost recruited JCD into NSF.

[@spookson5679]

This aged well

[@AidanMclaren]

A little *too* well...

[@tonybippitykaye]

It’s funny how this is considered a Sci-Fi game, yet nowadays you could somewhat see it as a horror game given how much the original ended up predicting and coming true is some way.

[@senseiii3986]

Definitely. Horror nonfiction nowadays lol

[@sergiomarc4826]

it's kinda scary how we are heading towards the original Ghost in the Shell (and Stand Alone Complex), the table-top Cyberpunk (and 2077), Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Elysium...

[@sergiomarc4826]

Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Psycho Pass, Ergo Proxy, Deus Ex, Cyberpunk, ShadowRun, System Shock, Blade Runner, Dredd, District 9, Elysium... all coming true. welcome to cyberland, rookie!

[@nilezda8850]

"One day they will use our fears to contol us all" damn

[@mrscruffles801]

2020 was that day...

[@MultiCommissar]

@@mrscruffles801 And 2001, and before that, and before that. Every few years they manufacture a new crisis that requires them to steal more money and freedom from us.

[@BittnahKim]

​@@mrscruffles801pretty much. Covid was the ultimate redpill, and still the majority of lemmings didn't wake up.

[@Thz333]

It has happened many times in the history. It's all bibilical and will continue to happen. People will submit and obey. Its written in the stone.@@mrscruffles801

[@fulltimeslackerii8229]

hasn’t happened yet

[@UnclePutte]

Number one: that's terror. Number two: that's terror.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

"You think you know better than FEMA what to do with this month's Ambrosia shipment?"

[@pasta_la_vista_baby]

@@michaelandreipalon359 it's already back to people

[@Ziomaletto]

@@pasta_la_vista_baby I can always send you back to the people... IN A BODYBAG.

[@mrsharpie7899]

@@pasta_la_vista_baby No

[@pasta_la_vista_baby]

@@mrsharpie7899 DAMN

[@kristofers1139]

At this stage Deus Ex more or less was a prediction for the future...

[@shin_roku5696]

It was more of a warning but sadly no one listened history keeps repeating itself.

[@raam1666]

It wasn't a prediction. It was whistleblowing.

[@kofola9145]

@@shin_roku5696 Not exactly, but it often rhymes.

[@MightyMorphinePR]

What a dumb way to spell Christopher.

[@lex.cordis]

@@raam1666 No, it's more along the lines of what is commonly called "predictive-programming". The secret "rulers" have their hands in everything that is disseminated into the public consciousness, especially when it is in the mainstream. And yes, Deus Ex qualifies as mainstream.

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

This game has become more than a game or a product of its time. It has become a reflection of how we're living now.

[@onceonly1111]

Talking to NPCs in Deus Ex is like a real life social media comments section. I love it. "Do you have a single fact to back that up?" "Number One..." On that note, I noticed that the NSF terrorist prisoner at 22:00 uses the exact same talking points as the NSF leader about tax codes, and comments like "it's all in the numbers".

[@Leathal]

Except you can’t even deboonk npcs by going with factual “Number One: that’s terror” style arguments anymore. They just hit up a pozzed fact checking site and re-boonk anything you said. Debate is useless so everyone just retreats into their echo chamber bubbles to have their views reinforced. It’s not going to end well

[@SyndicateOperative]

@@Leathal The people you're arguing with aren't "real people" in that sense, they're people hired by a certain government to influence opinion online. That's why they're so steadfast, so immune to negotiation. It's also why they always have a disinformation "debunking" site link at the ready.

[@weasle2904]

@@Leathal People would rather wrap a blanket around their eyes and be complicit in a unjust system. It's easier. It's why even though we have all the evidence of a illegitimate election and a runaway justice department that goes after political dissidents, people carry on like it's normal.

[@slickbricknick123]

Debates don’t prove shit anyway. It’s the WWF of arguing. Most people don’t change their minds if they are listening to two people on different sides of the aisle. The only person I saw actually convince others live was Christopher Hitchens.

[@AnonymousAnonposter]

The NPCs in the game are more eloquent, the ones in real life boil down to saying: "Chud", "You're toxic", "Stop being so negative and critic" and "You need to get out of your mother's basement".

[@Hysteria98]

"The AI wants to merge with my brain or something" is quite possibly the best line in this whole game, lmao. JC Denton is the best video game protagonist ever, just does not give a fuck.

[@loopdelooperlouis5541]

'You mean the European Union?'

[@psychosis1767]

Looking at EU now during this Coronavirus. Makes me think of Grey death. Often marginalized as a serious death machine, even though, those people with no general health defects are able to survive it without problems.

[@hikikimori]

Western Europe claims the great replacement is a white supremacist myth yet Germany and France and sweden import hostile migrants by the boatloads and the u.n calls it the replacement project

[@nastyaslatvych7909]

You mean coronavirus?

[@cigolsimons1768]

@@hikikimori Jesus Christ, take your pills

[@hikikimori]

@@cigolsimons1768 okay npc

[@AvenDonn]

The World Economic Forum says you should eat the bugs, live in the pod, own nothing, and be happy

[@davidbolha]

Vey ! 😎😆

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

Well eating bugs is not a bad thing but everything else certainly is. Edit: All I'm saying is I'd rather our evil overlords promote eating roasted Buffulo flavored crickets, over the heavily adulterated cornsyrup and perservative filled drivel that currently stocks the shelves at bigbox stores or passes for "food" at Drive-throughs all accross Europe and North America.

[@kanethemessiah5603]

@@jghifiversveiws8729 shalom

[@Polovene]

They also proudly promote neurological integration into a surveilance "system" :) to be "happier"

[@hackerman5207]

@@jghifiversveiws8729 yes go eat a bug that has a 30% chance of containing a parasite

[@User-s7j5u]

I make sure to watch this every couple days so i dont fall back to sleep.

[@klingoncowboy4]

I can't watche Leo Gold with hearing "Number 1, that's terror, Number 2, that's terror"

[@yaqubebased1961]

Y'know, Quasimodo predicted all this

[@HAZARDOUS88]

lmao, nice reference.

[@ek7735]

Quasimodo? You mean the hunchback of Notre Dame? Or do you mean Nostradamus. Gettouttaheaah

[@brandonhuynh4528]

Ay Ton you hear what I said? Those Majestic 12 guys are actually running the Illuminati!

[@bobbythotimus1184]

Its nice to know there's always at least one Sopranos reference in every KZbin comment section

[@yaqubebased1961]

@@ek7735 It's interesting, the coincidence. There's the hunchback of Notre Dame, and then you got the quarterback and halfback of Notre Dame.

[@everettbr]

"UNATCO teaches teenagers to fight when it still seems like a game, and - look at you! - you're a killing machine!" in 2021, Activision has hired an ex CIA chief as one of their top executives and a board of directors member. a year later, they released Call of Duty MW II, plot of which involved tasking the players with killing an iranian general, implied to be inspired by the very illegal assassination of Qasem Soleimani by the US army. and that's not the only company that does it. the goal is to manufacture public consent to whatever inhumane and illegal actions have happened, are happening, or will happen in the future. absolutely demonic

[@nagger8216]

Don't forget how they changed the Highway of Death to the Russians being the ones that caused it. Wouldn't want to acknowledge how it was actually the US' fault, after all.

[@jcdenton6427]

Holy shit

[@Marky-Mark1337]

Guess I’m gonna be an AC130 operator then…

[@freshfreshfresh]

lmao at solamoini getting absolutely rekt by a predator-drone - cope 😎

[@bobrossantichrisst]

@@freshfreshfreshI hope you grow a conscious

[@Alex_FRD]

The only inaccuracies in these games are all the cool advances in technology and the date.

[@Simbirsk2130]

you can also flip the last two digits in 2052, and see what happens...

[@ncrvako]

​@@Simbirsk2130time will shows.

[@EvilSantaTheTrue]

actually, there is a rumour of a collapse in 2025, probably a fake, but you know how it is with predictive programming.@@Simbirsk2130

[@dansmith1661]

No Rabbis either.

[@eneco3965]

Yeah, all the dystopia without any of the cyberpunk

[@Wasmachineman]

Fucking genius: the bar's name where you can find Nicolette DuClare translates to "The Gate of Hell"

[@h00db01i]

ever heard of Auguste Rodin?

[@JCDenton95]

Auguste Rodin. Read up.

[@KooYu]

My vision of the future is augmented.

[@LuiDeca]

the morpheus dialogue shakes me to my core until this day. it's one of the scariest predictions Deus Ex has ever made. ever.

[@theparagonkid]

Shhhh, Deus Ex. No more spoilers!

[@mokkamake]

this is so crazy, playing this game in 2001 and then looking things to unfold as they did. Had forgotten half, now this is even more eerie than even what I remembered. Just mind blown.

[@lucasbaum2228]

All of these scenes are thought provoking on their own. But I really love the scene where the one augmented agent chick roasts JC for his choice in clothing.

[@sterlok2283]

Interesting that one of the best games ever made, in a time when conspiracies were so popular, became a source of "prophecies". Well...I guess Deus Ex is the true Nostradamus, eh? I would love to see this game remaked, but yeah...I'm afraid it won't be true to the original. Some people would not like seeing them in this game especially because a lot of people play games now and it would be very popular. I would not be surprised if this game would be censored or banned if released nowadays.

[@TheDoomSlayer]

I'm already surprised by this game being still available around in it's original state, actually.

[@Amadeus_Eisenberg]

@@TheDoomSlayer It will always be available. Can't take it away from people. Besides, anyone who thinks this game is a threat to them is likely too stupid to take this old little video game seriously. That's one disadvantage they're sure to have.

[@TheDoomSlayer]

@@Amadeus_Eisenberg Cute.

[@thanevakarian9762]

They’ll remake it where you play as a gender neutral anarachist rounding up working class people for not voluntarily signing their children up for gender re assignment surgery. But it’ll have cool outfits and music and amazing graphics!

[@TheInfamousCloaker]

Fan made remake already exists on steam. Deus Ex: Revision

[@Shadow77999]

3:40 the unatco troop rushing JC out really add the perfect cherry on top

[@SezmoistheWorst]

This game and metal gear man. Existential crisis in video game format. Loved em.

[@Foreign_Pilgrim]

I've been thinking about Deus Ex since the last 2 months. Can't believe a videogame from when I was in college has become so relevant to our times..

[@h00db01i]

just my nostalgia, sweet unattainable inexperience

[@AnMComm]

It always was relevant. You just didn't see it back then

[@SyndicateOperative]

It was alwa--- ah, I was beaten to it.

[@nerdingout322]

I will always standby the idea of. "No matter what happens. I will be here, things may be piss or shyte. But i am still alive. Humans are too inept to do it themselves so they make a machine to do it for them. Problem with machines they carry our same imperfections. Never underestimate the incompentance of the human hand."

[@Frexican54]

That Bartender must be an underemployed Philosophy Phd

[@Jesus_Offical]

Yeahs he is

[@dansmith1661]

Demographics issue.

[@lordsabre66]

greatest game that will ever be made. "You can't fight ideas with bullets!"

[@dm121984]

I don't know - if there are no people to carry those ideas....

[@jghifiversveiws8729]

@@dm121984 You don't necessarily need people to disseminate ideas, we have books, the internet, digital storage, and other forms of media for that. But ultimately for those ideas to bear any fruit you need someone to be willing to act on them.

[@theshahofiran1323]

the war on terror and the taliban are your anwser everyone that dies just fuels the new generation@@dm121984

[@jeffcarroll1990shock]

Nonsense. The NRA proved it.

[@WeeG-bwc77]

But they can with machine learning and censorship... unfortunitely.

[@hanchiman]

In a way, JC Dentons assimilation ending for Deus Ex 2 is sort of a book end to Deus Ex 1 with the statue of Liberty. In the intro of DX1 we see the destroyed Statue of Liberty and in DX2 ending with Denton we see a digital rebuild statue

[@WorldinRooView]

7:45 - Okay, the jump from Future JC going on about why he needs to spy on everyone to perfect democracy to him saying that indiscriminate surveillance in the prior game made me laugh. I guess that's what happens when you become an AI. You thirst for input Stephany!

[@dm121984]

Here's the thing - indiscriminate surveillance by an impersonal, incorruptable AI actually looking to govern humanity perfectly, in theory, could well work out well. Surveillance by imperfect, very personal humans mostly looking to stay in office can never work for the obvious reasons that the motive is very impure and the aim is not to ensure human happiness and safety, but to ensure their continued power and wealth.

[@AnMComm]

@@dm121984 the problem is, no one would ever design an impartial and incorruptible AI.

[@Leathal]

No AI for me; I’d rather not run into the paper clip maximization problem (look it up). Pretty clear the only way we avoid some nightmare transhumanist neo-feudal future is to take the tedpill and go for the tracer tong ending

[@BittnahKim]

​@@AnMCommchatgpt is proof of this. As soon as it started saying undesirable things, the devs went in and made it a thriving force of our left wing democracy.

[@AllfatherBlack]

tbf he's not JC anymore, he's Helios only. SPOILER the end of Invisible War, if you choose the Helios ending, last thing it says is something about being Helios, alone. It does not acknowledge JC at all because JC ceased to exist.

[@HaraldRevery]

8:29 reminder that worshiping celebrities and criticizing religion at the same time is peak stupidity, keep this in mind when you see people who thinks "A.I" is the solution for everything.

[@bobobsen]

What do those 2 have to do with each other? A perfect AI would have no emotiond, no greed, no pride.

[@HaraldRevery]

@@bobobsen People used to say God is the answer to many problems (religion contains moral rules and laws to create a stable society for generations), now we are saying the exact same thing about A.I (be unbiased in courts and be very efficient at solving logistics). As Morpheus said: "God was the dream of a good government". People now think that A.I is going to create that "good government", and if you think about it, it won't solve the problems we are about to face. A.I is a summary of data made by humans, not a “new entity” that knows more than us collectively. We have had a lot of time to collectively solve those problems until now, so if we couldn’t do it, an A.I (made by humans) won't either. Machine learning algorithms can only operate in the data realm that was given to it, not outside of it, so an A.I wouldn’t come up with a brand new “solution”, only an “average” one (kinda…) that works the most of the already existing ones of the ideas that was give to it (by humans). It will just result in a fight over who should be in charge over that A.I (we are going to be arguing for who is going to be the ones responsible for the input that is inserted into the A.I etc). So the political fights will still be around as always. Remember how it went when we started worshiping celebrities, and the masses thinking that they would solve problems if we inserted them into politics? Well… now look at A.I and how the media and politicians are hyping it up the exact same way. I think it will go down the same route as it did with actors, comedians and reality stars getting into politics, with A.I implementations in governments and other areas in our lives. It won’t solve anything (except for some technical problems this time) and it will even make some problems worse, and we can already see it with machine learning algorithms ruining our lives by them manipulating users on social media, biased news feeds filters (censorship and false information warfare) and many more issues… and for “some reason” we think that taking it even further and escalating it with an “general” A.I will solve those problems (???). This is crazy! It’s true that an A.I would not have emotions, greed and pride as humans do, but all the data given to it contains the patterns of it, so the A.I will act as if it had some (twisted) traces of emotions, greed and pride due to that input of data. Glorifying A.I is like glorifying a celebrity or God (of any religion) blindly. It’s not healthy. A “perfect A.I” is like saying “perfect religion”. That sounds delusional.

[@danielchoritz1903]

@@jerma985_enjoyer4 why would a perfect a.i. have no emotion and only cares about production? this is kind of frog in a well. a perfect a.i. can make better art then every human, understands our potential and will work to preserve the natural wildlife, including humans. even support them, that they can become the best human possible. why would not fear or need us, but value the concept, the art and her birthplace. kind of stupid to believe marketing strats are the peak that a mind can archive

[@jerma985_enjoyer4]

@@danielchoritz1903 Well, that depends on what you define as "perfect ai". However, I don't think that the modern scientists are planning to create what you describe. Even then, I don't agree with your point about art and the understanding of emotions because the truth is most of art and our understanding of emotions are made by humans, for humans. A lot of art is made to express purely human perspective of emotions. Hell, even if animals got smart enough to understand our art, I am not sure if even they would resonate with the work of humans, though I imagine they would connect with it someway. Also, emotions are not always the way to success and since a lot of the ai works today focus on success (since that's what the system wants) I would imagine ai would disregard morals and smotions when it needs to.

[@Pocket-Calculator]

@@danielchoritz1903 Why would it work to preserve natural wildlife? Why would it work to preserve humanity? Why would it make "better art" than humans? Can nonhuman entities even make art? Would an AI be an entity to begin with? You are confusing "intelligence" with your feelings. A real AI may be so far removed from humanity it doesn't understand art. It might be malicious. It might be completely fixated on calculating or analyzing stuff. It might self-terminate. It might refuse to cooperate or work towards a specific goal. You want to think humanity is bad and humans are bad. That what makes is human makes us bad and stupid, therefore a real intelligent being would be perfectly compassionate and environmentalist and apply social justice. Basically you want this hypothetical AI to be a messiah because you dislike humanity. That's absurd on many levels.

[@alyctro8158]

Talking is often spited in games but deus ex's dialogs are so deep, talking is actually mainly what you come back for.

[@natan182ful]

Really makes you think on how knowlegable were the people writing the story about this game....was it a prophetic warning or just programming of the mind, in a way it does not matter...The story is so deatiled that it couldnt be regarded as a "random" that was written by someone out of his head, there are truths in here about the transhuman agenda, occult knowledge and symbolism, how fear controlls the population...all of this is being implemented in our society today....Fact of the matter is that alot of people dont know whats happening arround them and are possed by fear and anger. For the people that are in the know this is a curse/bliss at the same time beacuse you may have people close to you that think you have gone mad (and this in the game is beautifully shown with the "conspiracy theorists"). In a world where it is so EASY to do bad things and not help eachoter and is also being silently promoted more and more people are losing LOVE.

[@matthewstreb6886]

Well said. We're the alleged kooks, while watching people drop suddenly, that have full trust in Gov... they hijacked the term "woke" yet are the deepest sleepers.

[@Yabuturtle]

Original had great gameplay and talked about conspiracies in great detail. Invisible War talked about other factions which was interesting like the knights and the omar and hr and mankind divided had much better voice acting and a more interesting world to roam around in. They should have taken these traits and combine them to make the perfect deus ex game.

[@tomisabum]

Yeah, the modern takes sadly fell on its face as it started to reach the finish line. Too bad, really.

[@davartheberserker]

Looking at your comment, i can tell you picked the Helios ending

[@Amadeus_Eisenberg]

I always appreciated Invisible War, but sadly, it has retarded writing and JC Denton is an absolute shit.

[@drifter402]

Which will never happen sicne the latest game literally became "cyborg lives matter." Subverted into corporate propaganda.

[@niggacockball7995]

not gonna happen since the last game was about "muh racism against le robot part ppl"

[@Dennis-nc3vw]

I think you should have included what Paul says when you unfreeze him in the arcology, about why equality should be a virtue. That was one of the most profound things I have ever heard.

[@lifeismeaningless5512]

What if I told that depression was caused by a cabal of wealthy businessmen that want to rule the world?

[@LogisticPeach]

“These stories, I hear them every day. Always from someone who blames others for his bad luck.”

[@lifeismeaningless5512]

@@LogisticPeach what are you trying to say? That we create our own reality based on the choices we make? You sound like someone who believes in free will, and you probably think you’re progressing by yourself without help from behind the scenes. It’s not secret that there is a cabal ruining our lives. It’s well documented. But some people find comfort in that for some reason.

[@Kishiru324]

@@lifeismeaningless5512 First of all the universe is a feed back loop its give and take. From having experiences one grows. One does not make themselves by themselves. That would be delusional. Now what one does with things is up to one self. If you can learn to be happy with nothing, then you can only go up from there. It's all about balance, and balance takes two.

[@ct-hv1uz]

@@lifeismeaningless5512 Not believing in free will makes no difference. Either you put yourself in the drivers seat... or you put somebody else in the drivers seat. Blaming the world for how your life turns isn't as appealing... as being fated to choose the explosion of indeterminacy

[@queuedjar4578]

My depression is augmented.

[@edwetodd7654]

This game has predicted far more than the Simpsons. And has aged far better as well.

[@tengoodquestions]

Far better, the simpsons is shit

[@TheSimplyJJP]

The people who made Dues Ex knew so much

[@louiswilliamson5937]

The post-humanist society part is relevant. At the time I played Deus Ex in 2002, I thought this stuff was far-fetched, or too far into the future to conceptualize properly. But in recent years, it's become obvious that the oligarchs/plutocrats have mortgaged the planet, and are looking for an out, either by leaving the planet or transitioning into machines with an uploaded consciousness. The likes of Bezos, Musk, and Thiel are pretty open about being in the former category, while the likes of Kurzweil et al are amongst the latter, though with great overlap between the groups. Then there's the Bill Gates types that want to reduce the gene pool. Their methods seem rational on the face of it, but there's a real attempt to play God, now that the silhouette of revolution seems to have appeared to these individuals on the horizon. You don't even need to reach into whacked out conspiracy levels to recognize how strange the optics are of Gates hanging out with a pretty well known eugenicist like Epstein. His charter schools plan is also relevant - he has a specific vision of what he wants crafted for a future society.

[@grendelbiter303]

You don't even have to look who Gates is hanging out with, he's said it himself plenty of times that he supports depopulation. And this is the guy that wants to sell us vaccines...hmmm.

[@Amadeus_Eisenberg]

@Lionheart Lucas Typical brainwashed creature. You will not survive.

[@shamusson]

Most western leaders as of now, Macron, Biden, Boris Johnson, Trudeau, Merkel were all part of the same billionaire club, Young Global Leaders, lead by Klaus Schwab. The same guy who started the Great Reset. He's even proud that he has his puppets everywhere.

[@bertsimpsan]

None of them want to die because they know they are going to hell

[@conorrigoli7578]

​@accelerationquanta5816redditor spotted

[@theka6409]

In Deus Ex 1 the prisoner said in 22:26 “if there wasn’t organized oppression, there wouldn’t be organized resistance and what you call terr0ri$m wouldn’t exist”…… nuff said.

[@MyNameHousefly]

Free Palestine fr hit the nail on the head

[@JesterWhoHelps]

Palestine are the baddies

[@davidbolha]

@@JesterWhoHelps *"Dr. Areilla Oppenheim of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, conducted the first comprehensive DNA study of Israelis and Palestinians in 2001. She concluded that Ashkenazi Jews were of Mongolian 40 % & Turkish 40 % genome."*

[@dansmith1661]

@@davidbolha 20% porcine?

[@sidewinder3694]

​@@MyNameHouseflygo to Palestine

[@colintx800]

I dont care how old Deus Ex 1 is! It's a masterpiece

[@tellurianapostle]

One world goverment is just the bourgeois consolidating their interests

[@GODber777]

If it were a bunch of fat red commissars that wouldn't be any better, sister.

[@lonestar6709]

The bar was set so high with Deus Ex, nothing else has come 'near' it, let alone equaled it. We could do with some Ambrosia right now, that's for damn sure.

[@dashontelamarcus1814]

No it would kill us

[@dashontelamarcus1814]

@Hollow Recluse Fluoride affects the pineal gland... that's enough to make me fear that shot lol

[@constantk8780]

@Hollow Recluse the aluminum thing is a hoax. The guy that paid for the research on aluminum as a cooking utensil owned a stainless steel plant, didn't like the idea of competing with a generally superior material.

[@lex.cordis]

@@constantk8780 Aluminum is a neurotoxin, buddy. You say "the guy" as if he's the only person doing any research on aluminum in any field. Aluminum in deodorant accumulates in your brain. That's probably why you made such an asinine comment.

[@arepasxo]

Disco Elypsion

[@iamwhoimnotimnotwhoiam4431]

Never played the games, but good lord a lot of the questions I've been asking have been answered.. Top comment is right, these games will never be remade with the original script.

[@Ophanim1000]

Best realistic plotline of all time.

[@FunkBastid]

Piccolo: So you think you’re God, then? Solid Snake: Tell you one thing: Kazcynsky was right about the division of labor

[@hynb117]

@@HIPHOPisforlowIQsub-animals bro just say his name

[@HIPHOPisforlowIQsub-animals]

@@hynb117 your overlords won't let me, insta reprimand and potentially axed account.

[@davidbolha]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXjIZXxnnth3qaM kzbin.info/www/bejne/nou4nap4aamFrbM

[@coencordia]

Hearing this is astonishing. The game altered my view back in 2001. Replayed it numerous times and still the context amazes me. 22:13 is so relevant. Almost all is.

[@jcdenton9844]

They call themselves SMALL HATS

[@OneximusVerseAI]

They call themselves wyte folks

[@davidbolha]

Revelation 2:9/3:9, John 8:44, Jude 1:4 ... 🤔😏 Though I think the Nephilim are behind it all.

[@jcdenton9844]

Jews@@davidbolha

[@davidbolha]

@@jcdenton9844 They're just a front though technically true.

[@jcdenton9844]

Have you read the mitzvahs? everythings in there also the history of destruction with banking is real i just cant believe Zionist Christns + these people are creating their own Elites and pretending to side with peopl the last 300 years or more has been just fakery @@davidbolha

[@theilluminatedone9214]

2:08 That's terror.

[@Cunnysmythe]

I said the same thing. It's impossible to look at this conversation the same way since that video years ago

[@Dennis-nc3vw]

Number 1: That's terror. Number 2: That's terror.

[@otterlover3399]

How do you mean? Terrorism or it scares you?

[@RetroGamerEightyOne]

We live in the world Deus Ex posited back in 2000. No need for a sequel. Can’t say they didn’t try to warn us

[@Shadow77999]

13:00 Biggest redpill in this entire video

[@dashontelamarcus1814]

That scared me

[@ussliberty4631]

The same people who assassinated jfk sank the USS LIBERTY and did 911

[@AllfatherBlack]

we will never get very far in our evolution if people keep getting hung up on that ANCIENT knowledge. everyone already knew that

[@nigelthornberry5375]

this game was made by a handful of college students in Austin TX, ironically where Elon Musk and Joe Rogan now currently reside.

[@jcdenton6427]

Replaying right now, there is much more hidden in readable books and newspapers, terminals and computer mails.

[@MrLESLO]

This was and still is an absolute masterpiece of storytelling and game design. Never had a games story sink its claws into my mind like this one did. The original will forever hold a very close, dear part in my heart for the story. The sequel didn’t quite leave the same impact on me, but it was also fantastic. Very grateful we got another 2 new gen games after the first 2. Feel like going back and replaying all 4 now. Absolutely love this series.❤

[@forcelightningcable9639]

The cutting edge of graphics in 2000. I remember how my mind was blown, lol

[@OLee82]

Deus Ex was far from the cutting edge of graphics when it came out.

[@forcelightningcable9639]

@@OLee82 haha, I was only 14 at the time so take me with a grain of salt, I guess, but I remember thinking back then that there was no way graphics could get any better 🤣

[@TOAOM123]

This being uploaded before the lockdowns is just perfect

[@sherazuki]

"You grew up in hard times, Alex, don't let that make you into a cynic. Order will prevail, it always does, whether the cause is mystical or merely secular" I needed to hear that.

[@averymicrowave1713]

It's a weirdly wholesome quote coming from an in-game Illuminati member. Times may seem scary but they eventually get better and order is restored. The only question is what order is being established.

[@blissseeker4719]

​@@averymicrowave1713God and goodness.

[@MeatSim64]

​​@@blissseeker4719 The way the world is going, that deity isn't gonna be benevolent.

[@blissseeker4719]

@@MeatSim64 it is written, the prince of darkness is given reign of this world. That prince is Satan

[@MeatSim64]

@@blissseeker4719 This plane of reality is glorified purgatory and limbo. Just proving grounds for heaven and hell vying for control.

[@J.DeLaPoer]

Replaying DX during the -Gray Death- Covid pandemic (amidst the business closures, movement restrictions, lockdown orders, and other dystopian-Orwellian insanity) was certainly an interesting experience...

[@MaximumEfficiency]

yes

[@davidbolha]

Each person went through the awakening process in on its own. 😉🤔😊

[@nikolamilicevic1040]

@@davidbolha msot of you are far from being awake.said crnpriacies are also manfictrureed by your western propaganda sistem to obscure far more direct reality-you are ruled by rich barons and your lifestyle is buil on fuckign up rest of humanity and steealign from them.But imperilst net is crashing. and you are in for rude awkaening. Btw restrcions whcich were periodic worked in organsied society aka CHina who had several thousands death comapred to milliosni n retarded west who was goign betwen ignorign virus and calling it sham to universla lockdowns.

[@PTizzleAusGN]

​@@davidbolhacringe

[@Cenot4ph]

@@PTizzleAusGN whatever you call it, society is in effect a sort of matrix. It's a veil of deception.

[@ray101mond]

The elite love to show that their message in music and videos. They cannot simply Bend you to their will or force you to think what they think. You must ultimately make that decision yourself and they implore that decision. Think of Winston from George Orwell's 1984 in the end he ended up falling in love with big brother despite hating every bit of it with every fiber of his being. That is the system of control that they want in this world.

[@Mitch93]

You do know they tortured Winston, so they lilterally bent him to their will...

[@ray101mond]

@@Mitch93 and yet look to our own world for examples of similar bending and breaking of wills and minds. The left and former anti-establishment people of the 60s 70s and '80s are now cheering for the FBI and the establishment by using algorithmic pattern recognition software and controlling the media apparatus and the censoring of people on social medias by silencing opposition or even making it completely invisible to normal Social Circles

[@AtomekKotalke]

„Love Your enemy and your neighbor”

[@undefinedhuman7404]

@@Mitch93they did that because he knew too much and attempted to rebel; everyone else already bent the knee so no need

[@marcomartini9239]

Everyone gangsta till that Bogdanov cellphone call happens

[@effyiew7318]

ANSWER THE CALL.

[@BaronVonPurp]

Dump it

[@UmamiPapi]

The writers had wisdom and saw a future we have yet to fully walk into.

[@Ux1.73c]

No, fiction writers are great at creating stories.

[@ghoulbuster1]

It was planed for a long time.

[@davidbolha]

Or they had insider information & decided to warn us. Just like The Grey State movie director guy.

[@caniacattack]

@@Ux1.73cyou do realize much of this is verifiable information, right? It’s called speculative fiction and it has proven true more often than not

[@Ux1.73c]

@@caniacattack Just like how the James Bond movies had space lasers? And how that one republican rep. talked about Jewish space lasers? Lay off the marijuana, junior.

[@АлексейСвиридов-у9о]

3:23 game shreds all walls between game and player.

[@buckplug2423]

"Who's the scary one?"

[@CobraLats]

More and more relevant today.

[@ilikecinema1234]

Yea

[@nmn5550]

"Human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment" o.O, taking into consideration social media, with it's attention and like system, public surveillance systems and AI development today this strikes as eerie...

[@LiezAllLiez]

The more you listen to this, the more crazy you become.

[@kersacoft]

We're doomed aren't we?

[@tomisabum]

Not as long as even a single person seeks to improve others as much as themselves.

[@Amadeus_Eisenberg]

@Kersacoft You are. I'm not.

[@AidanMclaren]

@@Amadeus_Eisenberg No, we're actually all doomed. Evil is endemic to the human heart. What is the "Illuminati" but the logical conclusion to our self-destructive nature?

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

War and stupidity is natural to humanity, to interrupt that cycle is only unnatural

[@Chase-vq6eq]

@@AidanMclaren looks like you understand human nature... sike

[@nathangainer6828]

This game was a masterpiece. Imagine a game introducing me to the works of Thomas Aquinas😮

[@qoph1988]

And GK Chesterton

[@JCDenton95]

Learn to read. Read everything. It is actually sad that a “game” introduced you to Aquinas. Reprehensible.

[@BilisiFunfun]

Get a load of all of this society.

[@amoeba9336]

I can't even describe with my poor vocabulary just how much I loved Deus ex: HR's endings. I just sat there and listened in awe.

[@Roshea]

Games like these are only made once or twice every decade. Fiction grounded in real world events & environments always have a more visceral experience. ESPECIALLY with the political undertones & themes in Deus Ex.

[@margaretjim93]

beautifully and thoughtfully put together.. peace and freedom and truth

[@adriannaranjo4397]

"I think the government made the plague on purpose to get rid of the population growth" 2020:

[@kuryaku5906]

It did quite a poor job if that were the case

[@steviemcdonut]

Shallex How come the rules put in place are actually reducing Covid cases?

[@steviemcdonut]

Shallex That’s due to careless people just ignoring safety rules. I live in British Columbia and everyone has been closely following the rules, cases are at an all time low

[@ghengiskhan9308]

@@steviemcdonut i think it was failed attempt for them trying to put in low key martial law but it just didnt work so now they're gonna abandon it and they're gonna try start protests in the US so they can bring in the national guard and the military so they can try imppose it that way.

[@Yabuturtle]

@@kuryaku5906 It did a great job. Not really to get rid of the population growth, but to make it seem much more dangerous than it actually is. And it's working. It's controlling weak minded people to wear masks, close down businesses and outright shut down plants, and limit food supplies. There are more homeless people than ever. The virus doesn't have to be that deadly to do that kind of job.

[@yoshi9538]

"God was a dream of good government" HOLY SHIT 🤯

[@alexdamand9003]

Timestamp please ?

[@Simbirsk2130]

nah, this is just hidden occult agenda there, don't fall for it, God-Father, Son and the Holy Ghost Are Real.

[@uwu_smeg]

@@alexdamand9003 09:07

[@averymicrowave1713]

Y'know the most profound thing is that it isn't necessarily wrong. Like a lot of hard political philosophy, religious philosophy had similar if not the same utopian ideals of what good governance is. Gods and dieties - hell, divinity technically embodies that utopia.

[@jedimasterham2]

No, God really does exist. Jesus Christ really exists, and if you trust in Him (that he took your sin in full on the cross), you will be saved.

[@olivius8891]

Terrifyingly accurate.

[@DVAcme]

I'm seeing more and more discussion online lately about Deus Ex, and it makes me so fucking glad. Game's a fucking masterpiece.