• drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
    151·
    1 month ago

    Bruh, 40K literally started as a satire of fascism during the punk movement. From medium:

    The farther we go forward in time, the more Umberto Eco’s seminal essay on the definition of fascism (“Ur-Fascism”, 1995) applies. Read these (very abridged) qualifiers and think about what you know about 40k, space marines, and the Imperium of Man.

    1. Cult of Tradition/Traditionalism
    2. Rejection of Modernism
    3. Cult of Action for Action’s Sake
    4. Disagreement is treason.
    5. Racist by definition/diversity is bad.
    6. Derives power from individual or social frustration.
    7. Nationalism/Tribalism/”Appeals to people who feel deprived of a clear social identity”
    8. Followers feel humiliated.
    9. Life is lived for struggle/life is permanent…

    Think about every line you know from 40k, and everything that ever happens in this setting. It’s incredibly fascist coded and the fault of the fascists for being in their situation.

    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      TBF the videogames have been a little lighter on the irony than the original works. And the user does make a point that there are surprisingly worse fates than service of the empire in 40K, namely the (other) chaos gods.

      • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
        11·
        1 month ago

        I’m sure there’s a kill-la-kill-esque point to be made about fashismon, and one-third of the hobby bring dedicated to painting all your little war sluts uniformally