I fucking told you this was coming. I warned you that the GOP was plunging headfirst into Nazi ideology. It was fucking obvious to anyone who took even the briefest course in Holocaust Literature and examined the Nazis’ ideology and their rise to power in the early twentieth century. Hell, multiple Holocaust survivors themselves tried to warn about it.
And when those of us who actually studied this shit tried to raise the alarm, ignorant asshats screamed, “Stop calling them Nazis! That’s immature name-calling. You can’t just call anyone you don’t like a Nazi.”
I don’t call them Nazis “because I don’t like them.” I call them Nazis because they are fucking Nazis. As in they have adopted, point for point, the Nazi ideology.
(Oh, many of them will still object to being called Nazis–even while their supporters literally march with Swastika flags. But then again, except for a brief period when some tried to “reclaim” the term, most WWII Nazis didn’t like being called Nazis, either–it was originally the short version of a name that was popular with uneducated rural folks, but that came to mean basically “stupid hick.” And it just so happened to work well as a shortened version of the actual party name.)
Things I learned from the video Michael Chu released that I found super interesting or just kind of neat:
- Soldier 76 started as the OC of Bastion’s voice actor, who is one of Blizzard’s developers.
- Roadhog was a farmer in the outback before Junkertown was built.
- D.va’s MEKA squad is comprised of several pro gamers, pilots and even a F1 driver.
- Moira was recruited directly by Reyes to help with “genetic issues he already had”.
- Mei is one of the developer team’s favorite characters.
- Orisa watches footage of Reinhardt’s old battles and considers him her hero/inspiration.
- Mercy left Overwatch before it was shut down.
- McCree’s name was half pulled from a list of names, half from one of the developers. The team wanted him to have “the most cowboy name they could think of”.
- Genji’s VA improvised some of his Japanese lines to make them “flow better in Japanese”.
- Fareeha’s dad was/is a public servant.
- Hanzo and Genji’s backstory is inspired by a documentary about a family-inherited sushi restaurant.
