Gonna write a think-piece about how the fascist aesthetics and over-priced miniatures of Warhammer 40k led directly to the Presidency of Donald J. Trump
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where's the lie tho
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As long as we don't assume exclusivity I can draw y'all a pretty straight line here, yeah, lol
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I like 40k aesthetically although I've never played it, but anyone that takes it seriously in any way has problems that cannot be attributed to the game itself
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Honest question: You spend much time on chans/Reddit? Because there's a *huge* overlap of 40k fandom and the very worst of the alt right
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No, I never did. Didn't know that, actually, although I knew about the 'god-emperor trump' bullshit
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Yea, it's not a casual connection there's legit causality between "40k helped make fascism popular on 4chan" and "4chan kinda helped swing the election" :/ It's real af
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sometimes, when people roleplay hypermasculine authoritarian militarism for giggles, they find out that they have a real taste for hypermasculine authoritarian militarism
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the number of times I’ve started to reply to that tweet and thought fuck it who cares
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IT IS ONLY COOL TO CARE ABOUT FUN, FOR FUN SAKE
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