There is no campy ridiculous villain thing from movies that real Nazis and Klansmen don't do
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
That's what fascism is, it's the ultimate self-indulgence, all those selfish cliquish grandiose bullying impulses we have from childhood
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
In Star Wars the Jedi Code is "Maybe you should grow up and get over yourself" and the Sith Code is "CAN'T MAKE ME"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I'd argue it's more like the Democratic Party platform vs the GOP one, in that the evil one consistently gets RESULTS and the good doesn't
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
"Let's all try to be mature adults about this", to be fair, has a generally poor track record politically
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
People don't grow up and get over themselves, they keep saying they intend to but they don't, this is the whole basic problem
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Replying to @arthur_affect
The biggest thing that's hard for me to adapt for in overcoming lies fiction told me is the idea from "mature" fiction that evil has reasons
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
Like Ozymandias from Watchman doesn't exist and never will but there's a Joker and a Kingpin in every corner office
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Yeah I always point to the Tau from WH40K as mocking the trope "There's nothing worse than doing evil in the name of the greater good"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Like, sure there is. You can be evil just for the fun of it. Or bc you're just super racist. Or bc you're really angry and hate everyone
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You can even be evil just bc you don't process that your actions even have any consequences
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Like, every other faction in the game is more evil than the Tau, there's all kinds of ways to be more evil than they are
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GW is terrible at conveying that though. I once met an extreme Catholic bigot who believed sincerely the Imperium was right
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