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If the context is 40k, definitely not an unexpected question.
Hellsing Abridged on the topic.
Why did the guy feel the need to announce that they are, in fact, Nazis? The giant swastika is a bit of a giveaway
The abridged series tend to go with the theme of the episode but change the dialogue significantly. SAOAbridged is great for this
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?
Libel suits will hit anyone who claims someone is a nazi who is not claiming to be one.
No, that's just an unfortunate faux-pas
Just an autistic doodle.
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.
The Imperium of Man is overtly fascistic. Some really like this bit for all the wrong reasons
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
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.
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.
That's not at all what I picked up from it. Could you give an example?
I mean, the space marines are genetically engineered soldiers who are locked into their roles they inherited from the primearch who's genetic ancestry they are from, all of which were crafted based on the genetically superior being of the emperor. The eldar and orcs are literally bio-engineered weapons weapons of a race that were basically gods. The Tau have a lot of layers racial hierarchy, bio-engineering, and similar levels of eugenics stuff going on. The tyranids basically just consumer biomass to filter for genes that can benefit their race and incorporate the new genetic data. I mean, unless you didn't pay any attention to the game lore, I really don't know how you missed all this. Like, this is the core of the game lore.
Beyond that GW have straight said that each faction is a caricature of some form of extreme ideology. The imperium are basically theocratic space nazis, the orcs are pretty much how the classical empires, or something like that imperium, see less developed human groups, the barbaric hordes. Etc.
Many people are not taught much political philosophy in schools so even if they know the lore they might not actually grasp what fascism is.
I know Im spending a lot of time right now clarifying what is fascism, what is nazism, and what is neither and is just a government being evil for other reasons.
The space marines regularly have groups that splinter off from their ideology (soul drinkers) or renounce it entirely (see chaos), last I knew the dark Eldar are the ones who got corrupted by a chaos God but the craft world Eldar weren't "created by a deity", the orks are space fungus that have a psychic connection which creates their deities of Gork and Mork.
I can see how it can be interpreted that way and the gene seed is a really good point but I'm having a hard time making all the other connections. Even the inquisition has tons of characters that either change their ideology or side entirely.
The old ones are who created the eldar, not literal gods, but a race that was so powerful they wielded cosmic power. They disappeared 10s of millions of year ago, and you can still see how deeply their bio-engineered structure is still influencing their creations. However, in their absence, the eldar have replaced them with new gods, and had to adapt to how the galaxy is post war in heaven. The Orks are a fungus, that was created as a bio-weapon race by the Old ones. The war in heaven, which was old ones vs C'tan, cause the psychic/spirit/whatever aspect of the universe to be corrupted into the warp. That taint is what caused most of these splinter groups. However the whole structure of things is based of lineage, everything important is the result of, and/or practices eugenics of some sort. You can even see it in the structure like how Hive cities are organized. Just because there are splinter groups doesn't mean this stuff isn't that. If anything it leans into it because the biggest reason things splinter from the groups largely have to do with warp influence, which is what real groups, like the nazis, would call degeneracy. Also, if you look at groups like Nazis there was always infighting, fractional groups, internal rebels, etc. The existence of things resisting the system doesn't mean that isn't what the system is, and that it isn't the preeminent concept at the foundation of everything.
Goddamn, I missed an entire section because I don't remember the old ones and I've been playing for decades. Got any books to recommend so I can catch up?
honestly, I haven't read any WH books since the 90s. Most of what I know recently is from my friends who are really into it.
here is a YT channel with a bunch of lore playlists, and isn't a right wing weirdo
https://www.youtube.com/@ArbitorIan/playlists
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.
Ahh so the ones chasing the Roman empire feeling (that's what I always got from custodes)
Little Kitten (The Captain General) is definitely not a fascist. Not sure about the rest of them, I'm pretty sure they went entirely around the bend once Big E got confined to the golden throne.
(This is fourth degree TTS warpfuckery)
I must be behind on the heresy lore, I had no idea they were named little kitten
Oh boy! This isn't actually canon, it's a fan made YouTube series that GW killed off a couple years ago.
If The Emperor had a Text To Speech device
His (The Captain General's) full name is literally hours in length.
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
Right, in that context it wouldn't be.