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lorty@lemmy.ml 3 months agoIf the context is 40k, definitely not an unexpected question.
Hupf@feddit.org 3 months ago
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Why did the guy feel the need to announce that they are, in fact, Nazis? The giant swastika is a bit of a giveaway
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The giant swastika is a bit of a giveaway
One would think there are “dead giveaways”.
But apparently pulling a Nazi salute on stage at a presidential inauguration doesn’t seem to be one. Can anyone explain why?
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Libel suits will hit anyone who claims someone is a nazi who is not claiming to be one.
scutiger@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The giant swastika is a bit of a giveaway
No, that’s just an unfortunate faux-pas
madjo@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Just an autistic doodle.
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The abridged series tend to go with the theme of the episode but change the dialogue significantly. SAOAbridged is great for this
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Right, in that context it wouldn’t be.
Soulg@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Is there something about the tabletop portion of the community I don’t get? I just like the lore of the universe and if someone asked me if I was a nazi based on that I would be very confused.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Think about it this way, if you joined WWII reenactment, you’ll mostly come across guys that have a general interest in WWII and will play the role of most factions (including Germany if needed). But you will also run into guys who are enthusiastically on the German side 90% and less happy playing anything else. That second guy is most likely a Nazi but tries to maintain plausible deniability
AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
“I only play black templars and krieg. No, what shovel meme?”
hmmmmmm
Comrade_Spood@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
I hate that nazis have adopted the DKoK. I love them because I really like the french inspired aspect of the design (like the trench coat) and I really love gasmasks. I got into 40k because of them and started an imperial guard army. But the amount of chuds that play them and the broader imperium grossed me out. Now I play chaos space marines (Red Corsairs (cause pirates) and Thousand Sons (cause I like magic and the drama)) and am gonna convert my imperial guard into chaos guard.
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I always kind of feel like a bad leftist because I really like playing germany in Hearts of Iron. I can’t help it that germany has a monster industrial base and democratic countries are mechanically limited. I just like my jank tank battalions and some nice relaxing map painting but no other country has the industrial base for that without also being limited by the democratic ideology mechanics or having to go through the whole process to switch ideology.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I thino that’s more to do with Hearts of Iron not being fully realistic in Germany’s industrial capacity. All the memes and myths about them make them out to be far more capable than they really were in reality and HoI are matching that perception.
In reality, Germany’s success was largely due to huge risks and brinkmanship, and the Allies kept backing down and letting the Axis take bites out of them. There were many points in time where any allied response would have wiped out the German military, particularly their invasions Alsace-Lorraine and the Sudetenland. On top of that, all of the Axis had military doctrines based on fast, intense, and most importantly short campaigns where they could soly rely on stockpiles.
Once the Axis achieved some (admittedly large) successes, they started believing they could take on the Allies in a full scale attritional war, which is what eventually ground them to dust. They could have potentially won if they kept taking small bites, but that’s not the war that was fought.
Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I too am confused about the correlation since I’ve never run into nazis playing 40k. Though to be fair I run slaaneshi chaos so I don’t think I’m in their demo of black templars.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Warhammer 40k lore is on the level of racism and genetic determinism that resonates with nazibrain.
Every faction is a caricature and parody of some ideological concept where every member is obligated to live and die exactly as they’re supposed to.
Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
That’s not at all what I picked up from it. Could you give an example?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The Imperium fanboys that only play with regular Space Marines, Custodes, and the like seem to be the demographic. If they complain about playing any xeno races, that can be a tip. Then again, some of them are just really autistic. It’s not an absolute guarantee, but yeah, the Imperium, understandably, attracts fascists.
Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Ahh so the ones chasing the Roman empire feeling (that’s what I always got from custodes)
kmaismith@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I feel like we probably need to address the fact that, unfortunately, the rigid fix rules based world views of society are inherently appealing to those on the spectrum. By no means does being autistic make one automatically tolerant or decent. Autistic people can vote, can endorse the violent oppression of those found disagreeable, can persuade others to their view, and be all manners of discriminatory.
I believe being on the spectrum may make it easier to open constructive dialog, but not always.
Being on the spectrum myself coming from a conservative upbringing, i am in no illusion of what kind of person i could have been. It has been countless peoples conflicting perspectives and patience that has lead me to (what i hope to) be fair and tolerant to other perspectives and backgrounds
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The Imperium of Man is overtly fascistic. Some really like this bit for all the wrong reasons