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Been hearing a lot of rumblings from normal people in the warhammer community they are tired of fascists worshipping the imperium of man in their community.

is it like a human supremacist group in the lore or something like the empire in Star Wars?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Fascists are morons who are too stupid to understand they're being made fun of

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

It really doesn’t help that GW constantly oscillates between “the theocratic fascism is really self-destructive and stupid and is why the imperium is a decaying wreck, and having an autocrat and his large adult sons in charge of everything totally fucked it all up in the first place”, “the fascism isn’t great but it’s necessary and justified because it’s the only thing saving humanity from unimaginable horrors that vaguely resemble whatever ethnic group you’re most afraid of”, or “the space marines are unambiguously good heroes with honour and piety who keep everyone safe, yay for the good guys”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

whatever ethnic group you’re most afraid of

ooh! don't forget gender or sexual minority either! scary gender-indeterminate slaanesh demon :cri:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And don't forget, Slaanesh was created by the Eldar having crazy sex. Sounds exactly like fascist allegory, saying that "removed" will destroy society... somehow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

slaanesh as a monsterous evil always made me really uncomfortable, and what makes it quadruple uncomfortable is how apparently one of the evil things they can do is make you enjoy fighting which is evil in a world where people fight all the time (???????)

like theres no actual philosophical critiques of hedonism inherent to slaanesh, its just ":le-pol-face: pleasure bad"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They've tried to change it recently, by making Slaanesh more a "god of perfection and artistic obsession" but really that's just a way of making the drugs and the rock and roll cover up all the sex.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

lmao that's not even like what that's actually better

like actual, selfless monks are perfectionists that do artistic expression

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