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God-Emperor (mostly dead sitting on a cybernetic throne preserving his life, requires like 100 psychics a day to feed on to live) wants to spread his Religious-no-religion religion across the cosmos, and the brutality with which is required is a small price to pay for industry.
And then they choose to like the guy unironically. But if they're really into Slaneesh then they just get a special brand of weird.
1,000 per day. Every day. For Ten. Thousand. Years.
So you know, just a drop in the bucket, no big deal.
And to be fairrrrrrr.... The emperor himself wants no religion at all, and it's the corrupt and zealous officials that spread the "the emperor is a god" thing, he straight up destroyed a planet because a chapter of marines converted it to Emperorism once. That was before he got stuck on his death throne, obviously.
Anyone who genuinely admires ANY of the factions in 40k just doesn't understand it.
They all suck. There are no good guys. Honestly I'd say the closest thing to good guys there are would be the tyanids, because they're just doing what tyanids do. You don't get mad at cows for being cows. Or wolves for being wolves. They are what they are and they do what they do. It isn't malicious intent.
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I think the problem is that despite everyone being evil, they are all also cool, and there is no real satire in it when there is no point being made.
looks at nurgle
Uhhhhhh I'm not so sure about that one.
But hey, if you want papa nurgle's blessing, go for it.
While the runners these days may not have any kind of satire in mind, it's pretty obvious a large portion of the Imperium is based on a mixture of 1940s German and (80s-now) modern American ideals, as well as capitalism in general. The Eldar are arrogant isolationists and the dark Eldar are gluttonous.
Most of 40k can have parallels drawn to modern society and the dials are all set to overload.
While they may not have a direct point, I do think it still can have a message.
"don't be like this"
Too bad we are failing...
Originally it was a parody of Thatcher's England.
Given the time it was created, that's not surprising.
Also a good time to remind everyone that thatcher's grave is a gender neutral bathroom.