This attitude is also reflected in Millennium Dawn’s submod scene. This thread, archived from 4Chan’s infamously turgid /pol/ board, features a screenshot of a Spencer regime in North America, saying, “I guess I have no choice other than to secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” (This is a reference to the 14 Words, a white supremacist slogan.)Ī few posts down, another user responds: “ Hearts of Iron 4 Millennium Dawn is awesome. From there, you can pass segregatory legislature, introduce David Duke as a government employee, and rebuild the country as an ethno-nationalist state. If you decide to push the country in that direction, he’ll be made president. But like the rest of Paradox’s games, some of Ted’s work on Millennium Dawn has been embraced by the fringes of the ultra right-wing.įor instance, the leader of the nationalist faction in the United States is Richard Spencer. Ted52 achieves this by reworking the game’s National Focus system, which allows you to determine exactly which policies and ideologies your state will focus on. Or they can pilot the United States, and welcome Jill Stein in as the champion of a new far-left brigade. Players can control the Islamic State’s caliphate and continue the campaign into Damascus. Ted’s work in Millennium Dawn essentially does the same thing, except it simulates the political rumblings of the 21st century.

You can also do the same in Germany and build the Marxist, Soviet-sympathising state that Hitler feared. You could, for instance, take control of the British parliament, plunge it into Nazism, and replace Winston Churchill with the real-life wartime fascist Oswald Mosley. That was an era of fascism, communism, political revolt and genocide, and the game’s toolkit lets you play with it all. Here’s what Ted is referring to: Paradox Studios’ Hearts of Iron 4 simulates the tumultuous political landscape of the early 20th century, from 1933 to 1949. “I am not getting paid for any of this, and I can’t be bothered to explain to every 15-year-old edgelord who just discovered 4chan last week why fascism is not something I want to see.” “The immense toxicity that is developed by these fundamentalistic ideological fronts within the community is where my patience ends,” said Ted when I interviewed him over Discord last year. As someone who’s found himself in the centre of the culture war raging inside of the Hearts of Iron 4 mod scene, this is just how things work.

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