• Zozano@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Always amazing when people don’t get satire.

    My Dad actually thought Starship Troopers was pro-military.

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    1 year ago

    I was briefly into 40k in the 00s, but once the 2010s started I slowly started getting an ick feeling from it but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

    specifically, I was still cool with most of the lore, but the Imperium fanboys were getting to be unfun to be around. As I got older and wised up, I figured out around the same time many others did, that these same people just had a fascism fetish in general.

    so with all that said.

    Death to the false emperor Let the galaxy burn BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

  • TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    So as someone who isn’t too familiar with Warhammer, why are Nazis drawn to it? I know a few people that are alt-right, headed toward Neo-Nazi territory, that are all deeply into Warhammer. Is it like another Punisher situation?

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      1 year ago

      The Imperium is a blatant dry satire of authoritarian bigotry, and it turns out authoritarian bigots are immune to satire. Goes clean over their pointy little heads.

    • Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know much about it either, but in general conservatives and the right at large have no media literacy. Everything is shallow and face value to them. They see pro military crushing stuff deemed “lesser” and they basically get off on it.

      It’s the same reason for right wing star trek fans. They see space military and ignore all the themes and other things like the fact there is no capitalism. It’s always pushed left ideas, yet only now it’s “gone woke” because it’s pushing modern left ideas, not stiff they’ve learned to ignore.

      Just look at any media made by conservatives for conservatives. It’s terrible and the kind of wish fulfillment youd expect from a child telling a story.