40k is a story of humanity colonizing the stars, committing genocide, and then acting like a victim because aliens fought back and their oppressive genetic overlords turned on each other.
The obvious satire clearly went over your head.
Comment on Goes right over some people's heads, I tell ya
bigmamoth@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The worst exemple you could choose is wharamer 40k. Like the fucking universe where humanity has to fight to survive. And fight more horrible things than even exist in ours.
snooggums@piefed.world 15 hours ago
ddplf@szmer.info 12 hours ago
no no look here. bitch. point is. WAR. IS. FREAKIN! COOOL!!!
bigmamoth@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
“aliens fought back” bro do u hear yourself ? u think we gonna sit with them and have peace talk ? the point of the setting is a never ending war and humanity is at war with force that dont negotiate
Zoot@reddthat.com 15 hours ago
I guess it really shouldn’t be a surprise that a trumper can’t recognize obvious fascism
bigmamoth@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Not american but between that and the masterclass of the horrible creature that are describe as killing anything they see aren’t nice cause we are the badies I will take it
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
This has got to be the dumbest thread.
CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 10 hours ago
The problem with Reddit exoduses creating more Lemmings is you get the people who didn’t already quit Reddit.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Somebody didn’t read any of the Horus Heresy.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 12 hours ago
Bruh, 40K literally started as a satire of fascism during the punk movement. From medium:
The farther we go forward in time, the more Umberto Eco’s seminal essay on the definition of fascism (“Ur-Fascism”, 1995) applies. Read these (very abridged) qualifiers and think about what you know about 40k, space marines, and the Imperium of Man.
- Cult of Tradition/Traditionalism
- Rejection of Modernism
- Cult of Action for Action’s Sake
- Disagreement is treason.
- Racist by definition/diversity is bad.
- Derives power from individual or social frustration.
- Nationalism/Tribalism/”Appeals to people who feel deprived of a clear social identity”
- Followers feel humiliated.
- Life is lived for struggle/life is permanent…
Think about every line you know from 40k, and everything that ever happens in this setting. It’s incredibly fascist coded and the fault of the fascists for being in their situation.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 6 hours ago
TBF the videogames have been a little lighter on the irony than the original.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Edit for all the moron than think politics are an integral part of wharamer juste replace wharamer with full metal jacket and how it was meant to show war ks horrible and the audience got the message thebmilitarybis cool.
I always love the irony of someone being called stupid in a borderline illiterate response.
Especially when you’re completely uninformed about the history of “wharamer”
Egonallanon@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
Nah the entire point of the 40k is a satire of fascism and all the horrors it brings. Humanity is fighting to survive because everyone else in the universe quite rightly hates them for their 10,000 year campaign of conquest and genocide. Even the more horrible things than humanity like chaos are heavily bolstered and fed by the actions of the imperium. Every problem humanity faces in the 40k universe(except the orks I guess) is of their own doing.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I’m not with buddy. More here to talk about the lore of W.H.
Didn’t humanity try to be peaceful at first, but then the other species used our kindness as a way to take advantage of us?
Again, I’m not getting into the political side of it, just the lore.
Egonallanon@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
Lore wise humanity was more chill in the dark age of technology and earlier there was a lot a lot of back and forth though a lot that lore is deliberately very vague and there certainly might be parts of it I don’t know as it’s been a couple of years since my last 40k lore hyperfixation. For the 10,000 years or so the setting primarily covers humanity is full on murder mode from the moment the emperor elects to reveal himself to humanity, conquer terra and engage in the campaign of galactic conquest.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Ah I gotcha. I don’t get a lot of time to read nowadays, but what I have gotten from YouTube channels lately has been cool to learn about.
Humans are definitely not the good guys. But I don’t think anyone really is in that world. Tau maybe and Orks are just Orks. Can’t fault a bird for flying and fish for swimming, won’t hate a Ork for Waaaggghing.
The dark age is def a section I wanna know more about. It’s when A.I turned against right?
CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 10 hours ago
Less “better” more not waging a literal genocide crusade from the comments made by surviving AIs from the Cybernetic Revolt. Only in that context it was only because AIs don’t have genes.
It’s also hard to tell because it was before the Eldar got got by Slaanesh so there’s a big element of humans simply not having the power to do it even with their higher tech level.
bigmamoth@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
yeah except the ork, the insect that just wanna propage indefinetly like a cancer and the warp ppl that are just under control of an entity that want the end of mankind. who the fuck in that universe is like your war was really mean we gonna make a never ending war in revenge ?
how the fuck u saw 40k and think fsatire of facism ???
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Because thats how it started? The Imperium is not a good place to live. It is the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable, per every 40k book ever. It is a setting with zero “good” factions.
bigmamoth@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah so can u imagine any other type of regime for this hellscape universe ? Do u think the settings was build to criticize political regime ??? Wtf