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Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?
Posted By: Bry <bmulheran@gmail.com>Date: 2/8/09 6:45 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists? (InnerRayg)


: As the various planets in the Halo universe are directly called Colonies, the
: UEG/UNSC is a single Earth based entity that claims control over all of
: them, and there is a constant struggle by the UNSC to gain economic
: control of the various planets, I think it qualifies.

Yup, its an Empire basically (and remember once upon a time during the British Empire, countries like Australia, the US etc would be called colonies).
The colony planets certainly don't get to vote about their fate.
But I guess there is more than a bit of a stigma, just like communism, that Empire or Imperialism instantly equals bad guys.
Likewise when thinking of the Insurrectionists etc, a lot of people instant think of Terrorists which is all it takes for many to instantly just think "Yup, they are the bad guys and they are scum, end of".

And since in Halo a lot of people are very used to thinking of the UNSC as the simple straight up good guys fighting the alien threat, well... I guess it can be difficult to also think they were less than ideal politically.
While it would be almost disturbingly grounded to think Halo would be deep enough to consider that there are no good guys at all, just some groups that aren't as bad as others, that can be a big leap to make.


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Harvest... a planet full of socialists?UNSC_Trooper 2/7/09 4:58 p.m.
     Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?Pete Cooper 2/7/09 5:30 p.m.
           Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?UNSC_Trooper 2/8/09 7:45 a.m.
                 Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?Pete Cooper 2/8/09 8:41 a.m.
     Dirty handsJillybean 2/7/09 5:33 p.m.
     Here's an easy way to tell...stan 2/7/09 5:47 p.m.
           God damn Commies!J23 2/7/09 6:13 p.m.
                 Re: God damn Commies!BlueNinja 2/7/09 6:30 p.m.
                       Re: God damn Commies!J23 2/7/09 8:31 p.m.
                             DEAD BEFORE REDBlueNinja 2/8/09 2:45 a.m.
     Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?Hawaiian Pig 2/7/09 6:38 p.m.
           Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?J23 2/7/09 8:34 p.m.
                 Sir, have you no decency? :P *NM*SonofMacPhisto 2/7/09 9:43 p.m.
     Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?InnerRayg 2/7/09 7:53 p.m.
           Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?General Vagueness 2/7/09 11:48 p.m.
                 Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?InnerRayg 2/8/09 1:11 a.m.
                       Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?Bry 2/8/09 6:45 a.m.
                             Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?Jillybean 2/8/09 7:03 a.m.
                                   Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?Sep7imus [subnova] 2/8/09 8:40 a.m.
                                         Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?Jillybean 2/8/09 1:57 p.m.
                             Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?InnerRayg 2/8/09 3:33 p.m.
                                   Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?Champ H 2/8/09 6:16 p.m.
                                         Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?Bry 2/8/09 7:57 p.m.
                                               Moral of the story?InnerRayg 2/8/09 8:37 p.m.
                                                     Haha!UNSC_Trooper 2/9/09 1:24 a.m.
                                                     The Flood are communists?Jillybean 2/9/09 6:11 a.m.
                                                     Re: Moral of the story?Hunt3r 2/9/09 6:36 a.m.
     Re: Harvest... a planet full of socialists?Leviathan 2/7/09 8:01 p.m.
           theyre on the multiplayer map provided *NM*nomis78 2/7/09 8:56 p.m.
                 Thanks, I guess I should try that part out... *NM*Leviathan 2/7/09 11:06 p.m.



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