• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    2 months ago

    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.”

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      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

        • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
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          2 months ago

          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.

          • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 months ago

            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

  • ssillyssadass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s quite simple really.

    If they play the Death Korps of Krieg, who look like this they’re probably really nice people.

    • drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The funny thing is that they are closer to soviet ideology then nazi. It’s a pitty because if you understand 40k they are the poster boys for how fucked up and insane the galaxy is.

  • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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

    • Meursault@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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.

  • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Always amazing when people don’t get satire.

    My Dad actually thought Starship Troopers was pro-military.