This is the same problem with the 40k universe. At some point people lost the thread that the universe was a response to the political climate of the time.
Now it’s just space fascists.
I stand by the fact that the only “good” faction is the Orks. They are just trying to have a good time.
It’s genuinely impossible to read Eisenhorn and come out the other side thinking the Imperium are anything other than utterly, banally, horrifyingly terrible. The issue is that the Meme Kids only interact with Salamanders memes.
Yeah I'm having to remind people in a group I'm in on FB on a fairly consistant basis that Space Marines all uphold a religio-fascist regime which means that no chapter, even the "good" chapters are actually good guys.
Sounds painful… and people always leap to the Imperium’s defence, as if the fact that they’re so comically evil ISN’T why they’re fun? It’s not even fascist in some ways. It’s just literally feudal evil, if that makes sense? Just “everything that could be bad is”. Like servitors?
Just remember when, on my teens, I helped in a small film festival my best friend was assembling in our very small town, and Starship Troopers was the only movie the council of culture had problems with and we did not get permission to play it, because they did not understand it as satire... Fuck em
Problem is facists are so stupid they think its great for their cause - same for Helldivers 2 lately and ofc for 40k these people do not understand subtext
Fascism is so rooted in the aesthetics of strength that they will see any depiction that doesn't point and laugh in their faith as a positive representation.
Whats worse is he isn't "against me" as an invidiual trans person, its you know, the "group" vauge mask on behaviours but hes been way more emboldened lately with mask off shit since trump
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Now it’s just space fascists.
I stand by the fact that the only “good” faction is the Orks. They are just trying to have a good time.
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