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I‘ve been waiting in eager anticipation for the release of Seth Harp’s The Fort Bragg Cartel. Glad to be able to read it soon.

DriveThruRPG decided to listen to supporters of fascism and ban the Rebel Scum TTRPG because it's anti-fascist.

Soon, I'm going to remove everything I sell on DriveThruRPG, and I will never use it again

I'm scared, because I don't make much money and around half is from DriveThruRPG

but im done

Policy like this, which conflates explicitly anti-hate content as “hateful content”, filters out any dissent to the fascism and imperialism that is destroying lives throughout the world. DriveThruRPG is manufacturing consent for the jackbooted Gestapo thugs and the imperialist war machine.

Tide-mark
And top of the ages' strike,
Verge where they called the world to come,
The last advance of life -
Ha ha, the rust on the Iron Dome!

- Herman Melville “The Conflict of Convictions”

Something I haven't seen discussed is that these are Operation Condor era tactics, specifically the Dirty War in Argentina. Clandestine detention centers (CCDyE) were hosted in basements, offices, even garages.

A fantastic video by YouTuber Indie Nile that covers a lot of ground regarding videogames as military recruitment tools; disseminations of imperialism and Islamophobia that manufacture consent for the GWOT and the genocide in Gaza; and act as memory holes for US war crimes.

youtu.be/aTeakaJRBPY

My trolls have enlisted me into the Green Berets, the most elite fighting force in all the land. This was the last thing I ever wanted

“The war machine reforms a smooth space that now claims to control, to surround the entire earth. Total war itself is surpassed, toward a form of peace more terrifying still.”

- Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, “Nomadology: The War Machine.”
#TTRPG

That’s a great question. I target those who have a scholarly interest in war and games as propaganda and training tools for wars of imperialism. Nomadic War Machine is an art piece inspired by OSR, Storygame, Tactical, military shooters and Tom Clancy games. In place of lore will be critical essays.

I debated writing a “What is a role-playing game” section, but I find it a more thematic introduction to the book than I had originally planned. #TTRPG