is he wokle woking so woke oh no. 40k is not fucking anti progressive, its a satirical setting made to represent a horrific future, its a unprogressed world not an anti progressive world. you speak with such a narrow minded and un-nuanced version of progressivism.
Hatred of xenos in the Imperium is not racism, but a rational reaction, Is it possible to love the Orks, the stupid tower savages? Or the Eldar, who with their whoredom gave birth to an entire god of chaos? Or the Tau - a chemical dictatorship that loves to brainwash? Or the Necrons, literally alive robots that hate life?
Surprisingly well made video! first one i see from you and what a treat! You actually made my head spin and reframe myself and my habits inside that infinte never ending cycle
I think 40k is Heaven, i would drop my life here and happily go kill xenos for the Emporer LOL. Im not sure what that says about me but hel yeah sign me up lol.
America has to purge our own bloated bureaucracy before we can help the rest of you, but if any country can pull it off it's us; I can think of no people as fundamentally intolerant of being told what to do by useless sops with an overinflated notion of their own importance as we are. Rednecks, our most vital resource, just need to collectively realize that our chaotic behavior, indignant obstinance, and access to military-grade equipment and fertilizer would make us extremely dangerous if we'd stop being indolent drug addicts so often and we'll be golden lmao
I feel I should point out that libertarians hate giant corporations as much as everyone else; the libertarian point of view is that they basically couldn't exist without government bureaucracy to protect them from fair capitalistic competition
Pretty good video, I agree with most of your arguments except maybe the central point of it all. There is no "message" or theme or point to Warhammer 40,000 except that it's cool. That's really it. It doesn't exist because it's trying to satirize science-fiction, or because it wants to illustrate the worst aspects of human nature, or to make some commentary on the nature of struggle. Warhammer 40,000 exists the way it does because a bunch of nerds in Nottingham back in the 1980s thought the idea of roided up superhumans in power armor fighting alien demons in space cathedrals was badass as hell. And they were right. All of the lore that sprouted up around 40k in the ensuing years was in the direct pursuit of the goal of selling more miniature army men to do cool shit on the battlefield. The Space Marines aren't genetically modified and removed from general society because it's a commentary on the nature of humanity and what actually makes us human. The Imperium isn't hyper-religious because of the failure of progressive policies in its past. The buildings aren't Gothic because of the need to draw parallels with the fractured and disharmonious nature of European political institutions in the Middle Ages. It's literally just because it looks cool. It exists because some nerds in the 1980s thought the words "space marine" and "God-Emperor" sounded cool. That's it, there's no deeper message. Sure there are plenty of authors and content creators in the decades since that have expanded on the lore and tried to get their own messages across, but that should really be addressed on a case-by-case basis because the setting itself as it was originally envisioned had nothing to do with any of that. tl;dr people need to stop injecting politics and counter-politics into Warhammer 40k because it's a board game where superhuman soldiers fight aliens and demons in outer space, and that's all it's meant to be. Any discussion beyond the Rule of Cool is like trying to have a discussion on how G.I. Joe was actually about the horrors of the military-industrial complex and gunboat diplomacy, when in reality it was also just to sell toys to children.
The whole premise of the warhammer universe is that we would not want to live in it. It's horrible. It's grim and dark and fucked up. Social progressivism has no place in a world where all beings are in constant nightmarish survival mode. In the real, current world, let us continue to work to make life more beautiful and inclusive for all, and what-not. Freedom to be who we are and love who we want without bigoted fascist autocrats using xenophobic fear-mongering and runaway capitalism to grab us by the pussy with impunity... but in the world of Warhammer... STFU and DIE FOR THE EMPEROR, HERETIC! 😂 To enjoy this type of media, I think it's best to just turn off your brain and enjoy being a casual edge-lord for the time it takes you to take out your opponents army. If u can't appreciate grim/dark settings, that's totally fine, we can watch my little pony: friendship is magic, instead. That shit is cute as hell 😂❤
At the very end I think that really sums up what I like about 40k. It's something different. Any sort of outlook like the one presented in 40k has no representation in modernity. I'm also fond of the cyclical view of history and civilization. I'm not a super fan and I have plenty of issues with the setting but at least its different than most things out there.
I don't know how people can delude themselves into thinking there's any real difference between belief in simulation theory and belief in a monotheistic God that created everything everywhere
It's insane that we've managed to convince some women to not take pride in the fact that women literally grew all of humanity inside their own body. The Idea that men and women are somehow in competition is so wildly illogical and dystopian that I don't understand how people can buy into it
The "Imperium is NOT Fascist" section reminds of Judge Dredd, which is my own personal favorite Sci Fi franchise. Tons of the authors who work on jt talk about how they think they are depicting fascism, but they just... aren't. The Judge Dredd universe's Mega City One and Judge system actually come CLOSE under the criteria of the five pillars of fascism that you outline in your video on fascism, but they fall quite short of clearing fascism by that definition (namely, missing the relentless march of history pillar and mostly failing the uniformity pillar) Amusingly, even by the terrible standards of Umberto Eco, they only hold 3-4 out of the 14 "fascist" qualities. Lots of artists really just don't understand the difference between authoritarian and fascist.
You seem to define fascism as fascists defined it, which I don't think it's wrong, especially at a time during which fascist ideology nostalgia is in power in Italy.
42 minutes of saying "erm acktually not all authoritarian dictatorships are technically fascist." ok? ,but like you understand what people mean. 29:48 holy shit... never mind people are stupid.
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9:46 rofl the evil chaos faction is the trans...no wonder they want to infect Warhammer so bad...also no wonder all these streamers love the non-light factions and put down the light factions HAHAHA
Aragorn may be the epitome of masculinity, but Sam is the real, absolute Chad. He followed Frodo the throughout the whole journey, through all his struggles with the ring, he had to put up with Gollum, he came back when Frodo sent him away, and he single handedly defeated Shelob. Sam is the ultimate definition of a man.
I love this video. I like that AoT has some fascist imagery because it actually highlights why fascist agendas don't work and that we need compation otherwise humanity is just disparity. I think starship troopers is more authoritarian. My only disagreement is that everyone shouldn't be a soldier to engage in politics. The senator in Star wars is scary because he has the means to bypass the needs of the people and force individuals to fight against their own self-interest. Not because he hasn't bled for the state. I see your point though that the appeal to conviction and volunteerism of the common soldier is not fascist. I just disagree with the over complication of the American career soldier.
I don't even understand this debate, you have gods trying to take over reality, funky fungi people wanting to beat you up for a laugh, hungry hungry bugs showing up to consume all, and other unexplored horrors ALL bearing down on humanity whose fight for survival is fueled by corpse starch. It's not really a time or place for rainbows and tolerance, it's a place where you go down the basement to clean a spill as a janitor and find a cult trying to bring litteral deamons inside. Yeah yeah love is love very cool, now grab this lasgun and hold the line.
If they keep saying how much they hate this game. They are literally going to cement it as a timeless classic. They do not understand the internet or gamers do they 😂 People will turn this into a religion 😂
