he's just a lil illithid

So his plan is to take a whaling boat to Treasure Island to gather the funds required for World domination, and Robinson Crusoe is for if he gets stuck

Reading some 1920's weird fiction, and a cop who is dishevelled is referred to by his sergeant as 'looking like a frenchman's bed' lol

Even in their introduction in the 3rd edition the OG T'au had the Ethereals having some-sort of para-normal control(implied to be pheromonal) over other T'au, but yeah the mental indoctrination/re-education etc stuff came later

Counterpoint: the boot who gave Goring cyanide

afaik the caste system is due to actual biological differences, right.

Kinda, before the Ethereals united the race the different tribes of T'au that became the castes had some minor regional genetic adaptations, post-unification over time and due to implied selective breeding/eugenics these traits became more pronounced and they separated further genetically e.g. Fire caste became bigger and stronger than the rest, Air caste developed hollow bones etc

Yes non T'au races aren't subject to the caste system, and follow their own social hierarchies: Kroot follow their Shapers, Vespid rely on Strain Leaders to speak for and communicate with the T'au and other races, There's not a huge amount written about non-military humans(Gue'vesa: humans in the T'au military have their own sergeants etc who are in turn take orders from T'au commanders) in the T'au empire but they could well practice communism among themselves in some instances(the T'au empire being a post scarcity society in most places helps with that) but they are ultimately subject to T'au officials and officers

True, they only real criticism of them is their attitude to Chaos(as until 'recently' they haven't had to deal with it much as the T'au race's souls are not 'bright' in the warp so not good Daemon chow, unlike some of their auxiliary races),

The 5th sphere expansion encountering T'Au'Va a Warp entity/god formed from the belief of the psychic auxiliary races in the greater good with many T'au considering it an abomination(as T'au consider the Greater Good purely a philosophy not a religion) leading to a new faction of T'au who are intent on ethnically cleansing the empire of all non-T'au species may take that in an interesting direction

They're better guys, but as its 40k there's no good guys

Finland never got denazified and it shows, i don't even know if their concetration camps are taught about in their public education

If ruzzia did this it would be an act of war

Though the T'au have their own methods of control(and aren't communist they have literal caste system ffs) the IoM is much more oppressive, a human auxiliary in the T'au empire has a much greater quality of life and intellectual freedom(they are free to still worship the emperor or other religions if they wish) than the average human in the imperium which is a worker in a Hive City eating corpse-starch, breathing pollutants living in a higher population density than Kowloon walled city, working 18+ hours a day and if they slip up in the slightest(I recently posted a quote where on some imperium worlds its illegal to read without a license) the get lobotomised into a servitor(T'au have mental condition 're-education' but it pales in comparison to literal lobotomising and having most of your brain replaced with circuitry)

Guy who said that to you only knows meme-lore

The only think I can even remotley think he's talking about is in the scouring it says Sharkey's Ruffian's were mistreating hobbits, to take that to mean SA without additional implications is a huge stretch, assuming he's talking about the books??

Or at my most generous, maybe by IRL he means Tolkien's WWI experience, though he never mentioned SA in his letters it did happen

Ah now I remeber who this guy is

Franz Halder’s writings helped popularize the "human wave" myth, a false narrative depicting the Red Army as an unthinking mass of "Asiatic hordes" winning through sheer numbers rather than operational skill. This idea originated as wartime Nazi propaganda and self-serving postwar memoirs by German generals seeking to excuse their defeat and shield the Wehrmacht's reputation.

After World War II, Halder was cheif consultant to the U.S. Army Historical Division, directing German generals to write official histories of the Eastern Front.

These memoirs consistently blamed Adolf Hitler for military failures while framing the German military as professionally superior, attributing their losses to an endless, faceless Soviet multitude