360 points

If you ask someone if they are Nazis, and their answer is to get confused and ask about the premise of the question, there is about a 90% chance they are Nazis. Non-Nazis will say, “What? No, definitely not.”

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144 points

I would also accept “did you just call me a fucking nazi?”

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If you ask someone who isn’t a Nazi if they’re a Nazi out of nowhere then confusion seems pretty valid. If there’s a premise to it that they understand (by being Nazis or acting like ones) you’d get less genuine confusion.

E: I wasn’t talking about the specific case in OP but in general

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56 points

If the context is 40k, definitely not an unexpected question.

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12 points

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.

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4 points

Right, in that context it wouldn’t be.

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28 points

Yeah but even if there’s some initial confusion, most normal people will get to a clear negative answer pretty quickly.

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6 points

That’s true. But I’d definitely also want to know what prompted the question

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Meh depends on the setting. My partner and I are organizing smaller concerts from time to time. If we are about to book an unknown band sooner or later we have to ask the Nazi question.

The setting here feels similar.

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5 points

what do you look for in their responses?

surely they dont go „oh yeah we are nazis, you got us“

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4 points

Of course setting, their actions and whatnot matter. It isn’t out of nowhere if there’s some context for it that the recipient also understands.

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32 points

This is the answer right here.

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27 points

Tbf, if someone asked to join my discord server and asked if we’re Nazis I would also ask for further clarification. Not because there’s a chance we might be Nazis but because it’s an odd question.

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9 points

I’d be wondering ehat did I do to make them think I might be on a Nazi Discord server lol. I get you.

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23 points

Non-Nazis will say, "What?

This is also ‘getting confused’, to be fair, lol.

I get the impression that even those agreeing with the Nazi-like stuff are not literally self-identifying as “Nazi”, so I think you’ll get that initial “huh” reaction regardless.

Might be better to ask a more specific telltale question.

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2 points

I mean if they go “well the left calls anyone they don’t like nazis, what even is a nazi”, they’re a nazi.

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188 points

Always amazing when people don’t get satire.

My Dad actually thought Starship Troopers was pro-military.

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88 points

How?

That movie has the subtlety of a brick to the head

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123 points

So did The Boys and Helldiver’s 2, and yet a substantial population of conservatives took it literally. Now The Boys has to be so blatant, it’s not as funny anymore.

Some people are just idiots, just the way it is.

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68 points

Lmao about the boys. I started watching that and definitely in the first season it wasn’t even subtle, by the 4th season, which apparently is when conservatives got mad (?), it was beating you into submission with the messaging. Like, subtlety was not even in the lexicon, more like bulldozing you.

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14 points

Maybe if they paid more attention in English (and history) class, they wouldn’t miss subtext the size of a tractor trailer running into them. But conservatives and STEM bros almost always seem to be on the same page with that shit “No one needs English classes, it’s always just like ‘hur the curtains are blue’ bro.”

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13 points

They see the part that gives them a confirmation bias and willfully ignore the rest of the message.

As the saying goes: Spread the facts on the floor like a fan, and throw away the ones that make you feel bad.

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11 points

I’d like to know more.

In all seriousness though, I thought it had some aspects of good, which was odd given that it’s satirical commentary on fascism. For instance, gender didn’t really matter and women were promoted, and while the shower scene was meant to show how fascism castrates the masses (or something like that, iirc), I thought it was a relatively wholesome scene, all things considered.

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3 points

Potentially some leakage from Heinlein’s later works?

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11 points

Because the dad read the book, and hasn’t seen the movie.

The book definitely is pro-military.

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4 points

Actually, it was the movie lol.

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7 points

A brick to the head…

Good idea.

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4 points

Put it in a sock first.

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3 points

Half of America has the literacy of a 5-6th grader. They can understand the words, but not the "deep"er meaning of things. If it’s not explicitly spelled out by name, they won’t connect the dots.

If you’ll recall, their defense of the quid pro quo during the Ukraine impeachment was that he never used the phrase quid pro quo, so he could have done that.

They’re that stupid

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49 points

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14 points

So, I have read and been told this many times before. Some times I will rewatch the movie to try and see that narrative. And I’ll admit, I’m and idiot. But I can’t get past the idea of: Bugs are just icky, no matter the size. Remove at all costs.

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Except they aren’t bugs in your home, they’re isolated to their own planet already.

Plus, consider the justification for the attack;

“the bugs attacked Earth first”

REALLY?

Consider the amount of maths and physics knowledge for us to get to our own moon. We have to calculate the trajectory of our own moon, the spin of the Earth, gravity, etc.

Now, in the movie, apparently the bugs bombed Earth.

FUCKING HOW. They exist outside our solar system. The level of maths for this is impossible without computers.

Not only have you got all the complications we had for a celestial body which was closest to us, but our sun has its own orbit within the milky way.

The narrative that the bugs attacked Earth first was a false flag. It was almost certainly just a meteor which couldn’t be stopped, which gave someone a reason to keep the perpetual motion machine of Fascism alive.

Without a common enemy, Fascism turns inwards.

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The most satire parts are not about fighting the bugs. The “only a dead … is a good …” is a classic fascist trope, but it’s the parts about disregard of human life and health and the propaganda in the movie that really mock fascism.

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9 points

I watched it way back when I was young and didn’t get any of the satire. I watched in my 20s and I asked myself:

You have technology to move through space and shit, they could just rain bombs from orbit or throw asteroids onto the planet. But no! The best way to fight is to use masses of underquipped soldiers that fight the horrors of bugs.

The war seems secondary, killing soldiers looks like the first priority in these movies.

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2 points

The most blatant satire part of the movie (imo) is when the recruiter with the prosthetic arm says “the mobile infantry made me the man I am today” and scoots his chair back revealing both legs missing.

Also near the end when NPH shows up in what is almost a direct copy of an SS uniform. It’s a bit on the nose.

The brilliance of the movie is you follow the main characters who are 100% indoctrinated into this shit. There’s really no voice of reason. Nothing (aside from the whole nazi uniform thing) really screams fash if you’re not paying attention.

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I will never understand how they made the entire movie and then had any possible thought people would understand their perspective. The problem is they got lost in the utopia part of the fascist utopia. Sure their culture looks weird from our perspective and has a fascist paint job., but is it really that bad of a society to live in as depicted? Everyone is depicted as generally agreeing with society and it’s norms, society seems to filter people into the roles that actually let them reach the best of their own abilities and that of the culture. No semblance or poverty or even elitism – except against bugs which are mindless as far as the audience knows. The closest we get to seeing that the bugs might be sentient is a psychic dude telling us that a prisoner of war is feeling fear while it is bound, defeated, and surrounded by its enemies.

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Silkworms are bugs, as are honeybees

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0 points

Black Mirror: Men Against Fire S03E05 will help you figure it out

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Well, the book is… The movie tho, yeah Paul Verhoeven has opinions about fascists. 😂

His commentary on that film is truly one of the better commentary tracks I’ve ever listened to.

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28 points

The book is pro military, the movie is a very intentional satire.

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2 points

The book is super pro military; arguably it’s a political science treatise arguing about the nature of the monopoly of violence and, given that concept, how society inevitably flows. He also throws a few digs in there at communism.

He then dedicates the rest of the book to figuring out the training and doctrinal approaches of literal space marines.

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9 points

The book was

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I know the book was but this sort of people who think that starship troopers is profascism, are also a sort of people that will definitely not be well read.

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3 points

I can interpret something as pro facist without being a facist. They are not mutually exclusive things

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It’s amazing the number of people who do.

It’s got Neil Patrick Harris in it how on Earth can it possibly be pro military?

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105 points

I was briefly into 40k in the 00s, but once the 2010s started I slowly started getting an ick feeling from it but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

specifically, I was still cool with most of the lore, but the Imperium fanboys were getting to be unfun to be around. As I got older and wised up, I figured out around the same time many others did, that these same people just had a fascism fetish in general.

so with all that said.

Death to the false emperor Let the galaxy burn BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

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As someone who likes the Space Marines, but hates Nazis and understands that Warhammer 40k is satire, I’m greatly saddened by the Fascism fan boys in the community.

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11 points

The 80s 40k is satire. That ship sailed long, long ago tho.

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3 points

Stillz got Orkz

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15 points

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I also played around the same time as you, but by total chance almost our entire group played xenos. I was craftworlds and harlequins, there was a necron player, a tau player, a tyranids player, and an orks player. We had one space marine player, I had a very small grey knights army, the necron guy had a small guard army, and a couple of chaos players. It was quite jarring to see how much GW and the hobby at large focussed on the Imperium

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3 points

i never even got to the play stage. I got frustrated with the cost of materials, and having to learn how to paint, it was like trying to run 2 hobbies at once. ended up selling my stuff. so my interest was mostly video games. and still then, theres only a handful of 40K games I liked

tried it again in the later 2010s, same effect, i wont make the mistake a 3rd time.

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If the setting and tabletop gameplay interest you but the craft and painting side plus the associated cost puts you off, it might be worth looking into Tabletop Simulator. Basically a virtual tabletop, and one of the many things you can play on it is WH40k - and now, of course, all the models come pre-“painted” and at no additional cost per model

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2 points

yeah played as a child, first lotr, then fantasy and then a little bit of 40k

for 40k i had a space marine army because they where in the starter box and i liked the bolters, but besides the generic space marines (which could be painted in any color sceme you liked) there where just the wolf chapter (grey wolfs or something?) and the blood angles back then, the other armies where all different races and in my local gw every faction was present.

but a year ago i dusted off my collection, got back into lotr (now mesbg), it was always my main game, but also took a look at the warhammer stuff on the gw website:

More then half the fucking 40k factions are now different flavors of space marines! What happened to coming up with own lore for your space marine chapter/color scheme?

There are now even space marines in fantasy! WTF?! (Stormcast Eternals)

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5 points

GW became a publicly traded company and has to keep the stock price up. This means flogging whatever sells and pandering to whoever will pay, which means Space Marines all the time for everyone.

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7 points

I played Imps and I still cannot wrap my head around people thinking the empire is the good guy. The appeal to me is that they are normal people pulled into an unfair and cruel world led by people who are entirely indifferent to their suffering. The best IG stories always involve a lot of infighting.

These days I don’t really tell people I am into it.

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3 points

It sounds like most people who are really into superhero comics, then start to question the whole “let these elites fight for their brand of justice without the consent of anyone else” and then you wonder what your principles are.

Mine currently swing between “huh, maybe elites with a good code of conduct is a net win” and “huh, maybe anarchy is ideal form of state”.

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91 points

So, uh, where’s the diagram?

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35 points

but obviously a diagram doesn’t help the willingly blind ;-)

but curious to see the slides too.

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15 points

If you know what the Imperium is about, it isn’t surprising for neo-nazis to play out their fantasies that way.

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7 points

this is an edit on an older green text, but the premise was gym, based, and cringe.

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7 points

Makes sense. It is an oft discussed trend though. There are large unmoderated 40k FB groups they are very focused on anti trans activism and Trump worship, and smaller GB groups that are, worse.

There are also plenty of fine groups, or at least groups that put miniature photos firsts.

YouTube is similarly split between creepy Black Templar afficionados and channels more like my recent fav Shining Nathan

https://youtu.be/ufiwszsw-Eg

40k Brunch Gossip Episode 1 #warhammer40k

But you didn’t hear it from me.

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40k is a pretty shit game to begin with, the painting and maybe the lore is the best part. Everything else, including collecting at those ridiculous prices is a joke.

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67 points

They only people I know who play 40k are obsessed with Orks. Dunno what kind of person that makes them, but at least they aren’t nazis.

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41 points

It might be the same phenomenon as bimbofication / puppygirl stuff, where one longs to be released from the responsibility of thinking

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28 points

where one longs to be released from the responsibility of thinking

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3 points

I have plenty of experience there

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27 points

Also known as “Waaaaaaagh”

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6 points

We got football, pints and coke for that, mate

Wait a minute

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22 points

The lore around 40k Orks is hilarious

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14 points

That makes them fun

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8 points

If I were a 40k player I would a Necron simp.

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It’s my understanding that orks are the most luck based faction, so they are either chill people or cheaters that fix dice rolls.

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