• bigmamoth@lemmy.world
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    4 days 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 ??? How the fuck can you write it s a satire of facism ??? It s not and isn’t even the point of the IP and all the derivative that came from it Wtf

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      T’au and Leagues of Votann are both doing well and not horrible places to live. The Craftworlds are nice enough.

      James Workshop has been pretty fucking direct and consistent that the IoM is horrible and it’s largely humanity in general and Big E specifically to blame.

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        I thought it was more the fanatical religious cult that formed around the emperor rather than him as a person that turned the imperium to shit

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          He was a fedoraclad, Reddit-atheist, autocrat with delusions of grandeur, a messiah complex, and a love of violence without regard for the agency or even the sapience and will of other people long before he was installed on the chair and became a god.

          “The Last Church” is a story from during the Unification Wars on Earth, which long predate the Crusade and Hersey (and therefore are more than 11,000 years before the setting of 40k), which provides some insight into what a douchecanoe Big E has always been.

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      Yes that is exactly what it was done to do. Political satire was a central component to GWs early development of it’s properties(shouts out to the margaret thatcher banner) and it has remained part of it in varying degrees over the decades. You’re not supposed to like the imperium or any faction within 40k, it’s not a setting to be celebrated. It’s meant to be showing things at their absolute worst including the hyper racist empire that represents humanity.

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        Omfg. The hyper racist empire Lmao Yeah yeah everything is political and once again your identifying yourself with the bugs

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          How could you possibly talk about fascism, a political system, without being political

          My god man. We’re not making this shit up, this is literally the story behind 40k, per the people who wrote it.

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          Bro the imperium has a religious inquisition that goes around executing people for religious heresy and thought crime. Space marines are brainwashed, drugged up child soldiers and the mechanicus are so religiously conservative they’re essentialy the amish with laser rifles.