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UK Government-Backed Anti-Extremist Game Backfires Creating Iconic ‘Amelia’ Who Has Become A Hero To The Brits And Beyond
Rair ^ | Teresa Hamilton

Posted on 01/22/2026 4:35:10 AM PST by MarlonRando

The player meets Amelia early in the story. She is introduced as a classmate and, according to the plot, is involved in political activism linked to right-wing movements. Suddenly, timelines were filled with Amelia fan art, edits, and screenshots. Rather than being seen as a ‘dangerous nationalist extremist’, as the creators intended, she became an ironic hero—a kind of mascot for resisting the very ideas the game was designed to promote.

(Excerpt) Read more at rairfoundation.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Education
KEYWORDS: immigration
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To: MarlonRando

Imagine if Musk had not bought Twitter.


21 posted on 01/22/2026 5:36:00 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: BradyLS

I imagine Starmer asking his Minister of Love: can we strap a cage of starving rats to Charlie’s face to make him betray Amelia?


22 posted on 01/22/2026 5:41:51 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Pam Bondi is the George McClellan of attorneys general.)
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To: MarlonRando

That’s all fine well and good but it’s going to take more than an AI generated “girl” to turn this all around.


23 posted on 01/22/2026 5:45:23 AM PST by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: The Louiswu

YEP


24 posted on 01/22/2026 5:50:12 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Salman
"Humbly report, sir, I'm here again."

Up until 20 years ago I would not have believed that the UK government could ever be as rotten to the core as the Austro-Hungarian Empire was, but here we are.

25 posted on 01/22/2026 6:33:17 AM PST by niteowl77
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To: niteowl77

Hey now, what’s your beef with the Austro-Hungarian Empire?


26 posted on 01/22/2026 6:52:24 AM PST by dangus
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To: MarlonRando

UK Government: This is Amelia. Isn’t she racist and horrible?

Internet: We love her! She’s our new hero!

UK Government: What? No! Stop that!


27 posted on 01/22/2026 7:02:06 AM PST by servo1969
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To: dangus
Hey now, what’s your beef with the Austro-Hungarian Empire?

Well, it started when some fella called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cos he was hungry.

28 posted on 01/22/2026 7:14:06 AM PST by Rinnwald
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To: niteowl77

Hey now, what’s your beef with the Austro-Hungarian Empire?

I ask this out of actual curiosity as to whether it was so bad, or it’s just a presumption that they were the bad guys. From what I find, quality of life was fantastic in Austria relative to the rest of Europe. However, the sharp contrast with Croatia, etc., points to endemic problems that perhaps fueled the unrest.

Life expectancies of European countries (not necessarily nations) in 1900:

Austria, 67

Hungary, Not found, but the death rate was very close to Austria’s. Maybe even it was counted as Austria’s?

Norway, 53

Netherlands, 48

Britain, 46

France, 45

Belgium, 40

Portugal, 40

Ireland, 40

Germany, 39

Poland, 36

Sweden, 36

Bosnia, 35 (Part of AH Empire)

Spain, 35

Denmark, 33

Romania, 32

Italy, 30

Russia, 29

Croatia, 29 (part of AH Empire)

Greece, 28


29 posted on 01/22/2026 7:18:21 AM PST by dangus
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To: The Louiswu

But if she gets to enough young people with the truth or if she just gets them asking questions it’s a start. It’s similar to what Charlie Kirk was doing on campuses. Getting kids to think about the nonsense they were being told not just blindly following. Look at the effect he had.


30 posted on 01/22/2026 7:39:51 AM PST by redangus
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To: redangus

we have to get to the point where being a nationalist is cool. The programming is pretty intense and white people especially are treated like idiots and fools and not cool and the big black guy is sexy, sexy, sexy. We just have to get to the point where it’s no longer cool to be a gay furry leftist blue haired Lesbo with a buzz haircut.


31 posted on 01/22/2026 8:00:21 AM PST by MarlonRando
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To: dangus
Hey now, what’s your beef with the Austro-Hungarian Empire?

Despite all the of gemütlichkeit, it was an extraordinarily class-conscious autocracy with a brutal and extensive internal security apparatus.

That being said, I knew someone whose parents grew up under Franz Josef, and they were fairly happy because they were part of the bureaucracy, ethnically Germanic and very comfortable with rules, rules, and more rules. Sort of like some DC insiders

32 posted on 01/22/2026 9:23:34 AM PST by niteowl77
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To: MarlonRando

Her *American* version would possibly be named “Amy” or “Mia”, both derivatives of “Amelia”.

What would you like to see with the American AI version?

Cowgirl
Short shorts
Guns - shooting
Horseback riding
Motorcycle riding
Surfboarding
Swimsuits
Cheer leading
Military-Police uniforms

etc.


33 posted on 01/22/2026 11:13:02 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Stare too long into the dachshund and the dachshund stares back.")
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Cowgirl!


34 posted on 01/22/2026 11:54:45 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILLL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: MarlonRando

We need some clever lad to create our own conservative equivalent. She should be from Texas, full of sass, blonde and be named Amanda.


35 posted on 01/22/2026 4:48:55 PM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

See post 35. I tried to create her but don’t have the skills or software access.


36 posted on 01/22/2026 4:53:20 PM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: Sequoyah101

In the early oughts, “Belly Girl” was our “battle sister.”


37 posted on 01/22/2026 7:20:03 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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