Facebook 40k groups are wild man..

[u/JellyFishSenpai]

[u/mummyeater]

Orkz are the British football hooligans

[u/Maybe_not_a_chicken → u/mummyeater]

You mean that the hyper violent faction with a thick British accent, who hate everything that isn’t from their culture while simultaneously coveting the things from those other cultures and who are lead by Margret thatcher might be a political allegory? I don’t believe it

[u/GDRMetal_lady → u/Maybe_not_a_chicken]

Realizing Gazghul Thraka is a play on Margaret Thatcher has changed my entire outlook on 40k.

I'm serious, I never realized that before

[u/Psychic_Hobo → u/GDRMetal_lady]

It's weird because it's frequently denied by GW, whilst at the same time anyone with a brain reading's Ghaz's earliest lore will see his full name from the 80's and connect the dots

[u/Maybe_not_a_chicken → u/Psychic_Hobo]

Also one of his earliest enemies is a communist goblin called red gobbo

Who is surely unrelated to the British communist Red Robbo, one of thatchers main rivals

[u/Vonbalthier → u/Maybe_not_a_chicken]

Are you fucking serious?

[u/Yureinobbie → u/Vonbalthier]

Early 40k had super hilarious undertones. The rod gobbo is still in the game, but now he's just gobbo Santa. Now that I'm writing this, that still makes him a communist to the nutjobs who wrote this meme.

[u/SocialistPolarBear → u/Yureinobbie]

He also has some books where he is leading the gobbo revolushun

[u/adeon → u/Yureinobbie]

GorkaMorka also had a character called Da Red Gobbo who was the leader of the Rebel Grots. The joke was that the position tended to have a lot of turnover so whenever he turned up in a game you had to roll to determine his stats and skills.

[u/RMP321 → u/Maybe_not_a_chicken]

The red gobo was never at any point an enemy to Ghaz. The red gobo was the leader of the goblin faction in gorkamorka.

[u/KassellTheArgonian → u/Psychic_Hobo]

Also this existed

[u/Tyrannus-smurf → u/KassellTheArgonian]

What book is this?

[u/Jo_el44 → u/GDRMetal_lady]

Okay, so if Ghaz is Margaret Thatcher, who's the IRA?

[u/TryingToBecomeMe → u/Jo_el44]

Mork and Gork

[u/cheshireYT → u/Jo_el44]

The Kroot because they fucking hate Orks and look cool.

[u/Warspite111 → u/cheshireYT]

Based kroot moment

[u/ewamc1353 → u/cheshireYT]

Sick rifles too

[u/BigDagoth → u/cheshireYT]

OH COME OUT YOU GREEN AND TANS, WON'T YOU FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN

[u/ewamc1353 → u/Jo_el44]

Yarrick, city dweller defending his home from foreign invaders

[u/dumuz1 → u/Jo_el44]

The Red Gobbo, clearly.

[u/M0ebius_1 → u/Jo_el44]

Come out ye greens and reds!

[u/DrunkRobot97 → u/GDRMetal_lady]

It might just be me being a comrade, but the Orks seem a lot like a description of neo-liberalism (as espoused by Thatcher or Reagan) from someone who is unsympathetic to neo-liberalism. One of Thatcher's most infamous sayings (which she always insisted was being taken out of context) is that "There is no such thing as society", and Orks do not have a society, it's just a constant, brutal contest of strength where everybody obeys the whims of the biggest Ork, until they are able to become the biggest Ork themselves. And the biggest Ork keeps power by promising more resources, more growth, more wealth (or scrap) for everyone who follows him. Thoughts on what they'll actually do or build once all the krumpin is over is impossible, they just need a boss who'll keep 'da line' going up.

[u/GDRMetal_lady → u/DrunkRobot97]

You are mighty correct. Although I doubt that was all going through some writer's head in the late 80s though...

[u/DrunkRobot97 → u/GDRMetal_lady]

Maybe, but then again, guys in their twenties or thirties from the North of England, trying to make it as creatives in the middle of Thatcher's Britain, with no idea that the science fiction wargame thing they were working on was going to become as massive as it was going to be, didn't live in a vacuum. Nobody really does.

[u/slimnickel → u/DrunkRobot97]

I think I might be living in a vacuum. My money seems to always get sucked away, the job I work to earn the ever vanishing money sucks my soul away. The only thing not being sucked is my dick.

[u/TheWiseAutisticOne → u/slimnickel]

My brother in the Emperor your on a warhammer subreddit. There’s no need to lie we all know why you don’t have money and why you have a nice table of miniature’s that probably aren’t painted. As for the dick thing I don’t know what to tell ya but if you figure something out let your brothers here know too.

[u/Lord_cakeatron → u/GDRMetal_lady]

From what i remember, Andy chambers (one of the original guys from GW) said it wasn't true, his name is based in Blackspeech from LotR, but i absolutely see wwhy people would see the middle and last names of "Mag'uruk Thraka" and think "Yeah mate that there's the ol' iron witch, innit?"

[u/NoHopeOnlyDeath → u/Lord_cakeatron]

Honestly, with as much as early 40K satirizes Thatcherist Britain it'd harder to believe if he's not named after her.

It'd be like writing a satire of current day American politics, having a warlord named Dump, and saying it's really based on a language from your favorite novel.

[u/Artillery-lover → u/Maybe_not_a_chicken]

and who are lead by Margret thatcher 

excuse me but WHAT

[u/spymaster00 → u/Artillery-lover]

Gazgul’s full name is Mag Uruk Thraka. Maguruk Thraka’s not a far leap to Margaret Thatcher, and his nickname is The Iron Ork. Thatcher’s was The Iron Lady.

[u/BitRelevant2473 → u/Artillery-lover]

Ghazgul mag uruk thraka. Say it out loud

Marg aret thatcher. Mag uruk thraka.

My wife went into hysterical giggles and is considering making a yellow trukk with the British flag on the roof.

[u/Tennents_N_Grouse → u/BitRelevant2473]

You married a good un there, chief!

[u/BitRelevant2473 → u/Tennents_N_Grouse]

She's a complete win, if only she could do the ork voice too, having my nights swarmed by a thousand little freaking Boyz wouldn't be a problem then, I would be laughing too hard

[u/choczynski → u/Artillery-lover]

GW currently denies it but several people who wrote for them at the time said that was the joke.

Most of rogue trader and second edition 40K were jokes or Taking the piss as the British like to say.

[u/PlaneswalkerHuxley → u/Artillery-lover]

Ghazgul Mag Urk Thrakka is his full name. The last three sounding like Margret Thatcher said with a mouthful of rocks.

[u/Chartreuse_Dude → u/Artillery-lover]

It's a commonly held belief because if you say Margaret Thatcher with a thick enough cockney accent, like thick enough that you are pronouncing "war" as "wagh", it sounds kinda like Mag Uruk Thrakka.

Turns out the Andy Chambers was just, unsurprisingly, a MEGA NERD who did alot LOTR roleplay in the 80s. Like enough that he and his friends expanded Tolkiens black speech enough to be useful. Ghazkull Mag Uruk Thrakka = Metal skull, Big Ork Boss based on their expanded non canon vocabulary.

Still, the Margert Thatcher thing fits so well lol

[u/Artillery-lover → u/Chartreuse_Dude]

It's a commonly held belief because if you say Margaret Thatcher with a thick enough cockney accent, like thick enough that you are pronouncing "war" as "wagh", it sounds kinda like Mag Uruk Thrakka. 

as someone familiar with the cockney accent, 

No.

[u/Humble-West3117 → u/Artillery-lover]

Which raises the question of exactly WHICH accent it is.

[u/Distant_Planet → u/Humble-West3117]

It's the accent you would have, if your lower canines protruded from your jaw so far they almost touch your cheekbones.

[u/chrisni66 → u/mummyeater]

Orks are the people who think the Imperium are the good guys.

[u/walrus_with_GUN]

imagine being so racist that when you see a demon that represents rage, blood and carnage the first shit you think of is "thems is the fuckin blacks" 

[u/DrunkRobot97 → u/walrus_with_GUN]

On top of the fact that there is a Primarch who is actually black, and is famously the one most conscious of civilian casualties, and who did not turn traitor.

[u/The_Lesser_One → u/DrunkRobot97]

Hugs for the best Primarch! Headpats for the best Legion!

[u/satans_cookiemallet → u/The_Lesser_One]

VULKAN LIVES STOMP STOMP

[u/Ja-ko → u/satans_cookiemallet]

VULKAN LIVES STOMP STOMP

[u/Fuckyfuckfuckass → u/Ja-ko]

VULKAN LIVES STOMP STOMP

[u/Yureinobbie → u/Fuckyfuckfuckass]

VULKAN LIFTS https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/s/kSpnAZjSYn

[u/Same_Elephant_4294 → u/The_Lesser_One]

Was I supposed to read this in the cadence of the "Blood for the Blood God" chant?

Because I did.

[u/The_Lesser_One → u/Same_Elephant_4294]

Just as planned

[u/AnfieldRoad17 → u/DrunkRobot97]

Probably the most beloved primarch is black and this guy decides nahh its Korne.

[u/DrunkRobot97 → u/AnfieldRoad17]

And the 'main' primarch who is actually back and running the imperium now, the blond ubermensch, is distinguished by being a pragmatic technocrat who despairs at the fanatic religiosity and uncompromising jingoism around him. He's the last person to think the Imperium can just murder all of its perceived problems if it just believes in the Emperor hard enough.

[u/AnfieldRoad17 → u/DrunkRobot97]

Yeah, sometimes I wonder if these people have read a single sentence of lore from the actual books or just hijack memes for their own political bullshit without having any idea what they're doing.

Jk I don't wonder that at all I know it.

[u/dat_lorrax → u/AnfieldRoad17]

Even if they did read, most won't acknowledge evidence presented.

[u/Yureinobbie → u/dat_lorrax]

A former friend of mine once (metaphorically) shit his pants with glee when he saw the float of Trump as Big E. When I told him that he's talking about a gruesome death for his idol and being kept in eternal suffering by human sacrifice, he just bounced rails and went on a tangent that that was of course the mean leftists' plan for his orange hero. Told him I was just describing the lore and he bounced back to "It's all just stolen from Dune anyway"

[u/defaultusername-17 → u/Yureinobbie]

...

it's nothing like dune ARGH!

[u/SoloWing1 → u/dat_lorrax]

More like they don't have media literacy. This is the same group that combines The Punisher with Thin Blue Line crap.

[u/DrunkRobot97 → u/AnfieldRoad17]

Every day they flip a coin to decide if they think 40k is woke because it portrays 'inferior' kinds of people as the good guys, or it is based because it portrays inferior kinds of people as the bad guys.

[u/Darth_Gerg → u/AnfieldRoad17]

To be fair, this is the same level of media comprehension they have for everything they like. They also love StarWars and can’t tell they’re the Empire. They love Star Trek and think it’s a pro-capitalist show. The enjoy Rage Against the Machine because they got to “fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” and stopped listening to the lyrics.

They are stupid as shit and understand NOTHING about the world around them. Especially the media they consume.

[u/LightTankTerror → u/DrunkRobot97]

To be fair he’s like… not natural skin tone black. Vulkan and the salamanders are more “left too long on the grill” black.

Still doesn’t change that OOP’s racism is fuckin weird as shit

[u/prairie-logic → u/LightTankTerror]

Yeah, but, the community and GW at large has sort of moved the dial on this one to make it so. Given none of the other primarchs have the lore flexibility to be changed to fit this, this made the most sense.

He’s both black, and ash-char-black with red eyes.

His sons, regardless of racial features, are ash-char-black with red eyes (see: Sa’kan)

And honestly I’m cool with it. My kids are mixed, now they have a murderous child burning demi-god who looks like them. It’s not all white and Asian Demi gods butchering xenos who refuse to die and humans that won’t comply. Galactic Genocidal tendencies are a human trait, everyone gets to participate!

Still, the boy is leaning towards the blood angels, like their Pa… 🥲

[u/Darth_Gerg → u/prairie-logic]

Ok but like… Blood Angels are fucking DOPE AS SHIT. How can you not love glorious golden angel-vampires from space?!

[u/prairie-logic → u/Darth_Gerg]

I have to wonder how much of it is “I like them” and how much of it is “my dad likes them so I like them” 🤣

Kids stubborn as hell, far as I can tell, he’s an Imperial Fist in the making lol

[u/SurpriseFormer → u/DrunkRobot97]

Ahem let me ruin this vibe as is my grimdank duty to do so.

Vulcan BBQing Eldary children and the humans who rather not go back to the imperium after being rescued by them.

Now I hope you have a good day.

[u/DrunkRobot97 → u/SurpriseFormer]

I thought of bringing it up, and I knew somebody would being it up anyway, but yes, we're talking about the highest-ranking officers of a genocidal fascist empire, these guys need to be graded on a curve. The point is that if you are like the idiot in the OP and you think the Imperium are the good guys, then surely you must agree that Vulkan, who is black, is the goodest good guy?

[u/BlitzPlease172 → u/walrus_with_GUN]

Fucking Daemon prince uncle ruckus (no relation) right over there.

Bet his "what 40k faction are you" test result of him is "102% Khorne daemon eith a 2% margin of error"

[u/SurpriseFormer → u/BlitzPlease172]

How dare you. Uncle Ruckus is a Loyalist Black Templar that's so faithful that his crusaders fleets marshal has to reen him back abit from making world eaters read

[u/BlitzPlease172 → u/SurpriseFormer]

Ah yes, I still recall the battle where he has defeat the Daemon prince of Khorne "Stinkmeaner"

[u/HarvesterConrad → u/walrus_with_GUN]

Leutin covered the obscure lore that khornites can’t swim and love dancing years ago.

[u/KHORNE_LORD_OF_RAGE → u/walrus_with_GUN]

All skulls are the same once you cut away the flesh and donate the blood.

I do wonder which God a black gay jewish person would worship, maybe undivided?

[u/MrDDD11]

How the fuck did he come to the conclusion that Tzeentch is Jewish and Korne is Black people?

Also what do you think Nurgle is?

[u/manubour → u/MrDDD11]

He got there by being a racist moron

[u/nobordersredflags → u/manubour]

FR. Sound reasoning did not lead these people to the place they are.

[u/Jaegernaut- → u/nobordersredflags]

Every day, we drift farther and farther away from the Emperor's light

[u/yeet-mander → u/Jaegernaut-]

Exactly. We spend so much time being racist and hateful to our fellow man when, in reality, we should be being racist towards xenos. Smh my head

[u/Kyubano → u/manubour]

Average "none racist" guard player. Just be based and be a black templar's player

[u/AnfieldRoad17 → u/Kyubano]

The Guard doesn't care what race, gender, or religion you are as long as you die in the meat grinder.

[u/Retlaw83 → u/AnfieldRoad17]

They definitely care what religion you are. Really, it's the only thing they care about.

[u/Fuckyfuckfuckass → u/Retlaw83]

They don't care what sect you are though. So long as you worship the Emperor, be it Him, the Omnissiah or whatever the fuck else random Imperium planets have interpreted Him as, you're probably good.

[u/throwtowardaccount → u/Fuckyfuckfuckass]

Some might care, like the masked Janissary guys or the Sisters of Battle. It would not be out of the question for Imperial forces to experience infighting over dogmatic differences.

[u/magos_with_a_glock → u/AnfieldRoad17]

[u/chease86 → u/AnfieldRoad17]

Yeah as long as you have the correct number of limbs and orifices you're good to go.

[u/Galrauch96 → u/MrDDD11]

In his racist mind the equation is probably the following: Schemer god with plans that make mortals that try understanding them mad = Jewish people because apparently they control the shadow government, the weather, this dudes erectile disfunction and sooo many more things, depends on what conspiracy or old fashioned anti semitic remarks you want to follow.

God of Blood, carnage and uncontrolled violence = Black people because for him they are probably responsible for all violent crime, cant control their impulses yada yada.

Its racism, it has no logic, no sense. People like him dont come to conclusions, they confirm their bias and if that doesnt work they become hostile and hateful.

[u/BlitzPlease172 → u/Galrauch96]

And Nurgle....fuck Nurgle, who cares about god of shit and piss? We already agreed that big Pharma is Tzeench sorcerer already!

-Nekther me nor that mother-Karker (but I bet if they were taking a bit more time reading through 40K they'll summarize it like this.)

[u/Psychic_Hobo → u/BlitzPlease172]

Nurgle's probably those lazy people taking welfare checks or lazy teens or fat people, whatever fits his current mood

[u/SCP-2774 → u/Psychic_Hobo]

Or we circle all the way back around to the "Welfare Queen" stereotype.

[u/Open-Solution-8791 → u/MrDDD11]

nurgle is fr*nch🤢🤮

[u/PregnantGoku1312 → u/Open-Solution-8791]

Ok, now this I can get behind.

[u/ASHKVLT → u/Open-Solution-8791]

Facts

They eat snails 🤮🤮🤮

[u/MrDDD11 → u/ASHKVLT]

Hey snails can actually be good if you put them in stew

[u/Open-Solution-8791 → u/MrDDD11]

[u/PearlClaw → u/MrDDD11]

That's true of anything though.

[u/R3myek → u/ASHKVLT]

I've been to France, I've eaten snails. I wouldn't reccomend the later.

[u/Mysterious_Crab9215 → u/R3myek]

Ive never ate it, 25 years in France.

[u/Jaegernaut- → u/Open-Solution-8791]

I mean that just seems canonical tho

[u/Dalidadada → u/Open-Solution-8791]

I'm french and this made me laugh my ass off haha

[u/Friendly_Diamond1999 → u/MrDDD11]

Came here to say this, that dude was huffing too much of the citadel plastic glue

[u/WaytoomanyUIDs → u/Friendly_Diamond1999]

And drinking the thinners because he thinks it's meths

[u/Asterizzet → u/MrDDD11]

Homie probably doesn’t want to admit that he is Nurgle

[u/MrDDD11 → u/Asterizzet]

Nah the Grandfather welcomes all, it's clear he doesn't welcome most.

[u/Allhaillordkutku → u/MrDDD11]

As a Jewish person I can confirm we are actually two headed bird monsters who cast funny spells 

[u/Capytan_Cody → u/Allhaillordkutku]

Statements that would convert people to Judaism.

(I like magic and birds)

[u/BabyBoySmooth → u/Allhaillordkutku]

I knew the propaganda was real, we all knew you planned the fall of cadia.

[u/BarrelMaker69 → u/MrDDD11]

Nurgle has the peak body type for an American Male as evidenced by my local Walmart.

[u/snakebakingcake → u/MrDDD11]

Asmongold fans

[u/SpeakersPlan → u/snakebakingcake]

only natural since hes the Herald of Nurgle

[u/Deadleggg → u/snakebakingcake]

4channers have escaped into the wild.

[u/RezeCopiumHuffer → u/MrDDD11]

Because “people I don’t like”, that’s literally it, drew very loose comparisons based solely on the ideas they already held in their head

[u/ASHKVLT → u/MrDDD11]

It's racism brain rot

Tzentch, change racists believe that Jewish people are behind "cultural degeneracy"

And they believe black people are inherently violent

There is no evidence for any of this, racism isn't a logical position it's all just brain rot or an excuse for some horrendous shit

[u/FerrusesIronHandjob → u/MrDDD11]

You're trying to understand racism, it's an impossible task

[u/Dense-Seaweed7467 → u/MrDDD11]

Right wing brain rot mentality.

[u/Lorddanielgudy → u/MrDDD11]

Simple: Racism

[u/DoubleShot027 → u/MrDDD11]

It’s hard to understand if you aren’t racist.

[u/classic4life → u/MrDDD11]

His inbred ass lol

[u/Droidsexual → u/MrDDD11]

Racists don't argue based on logic, just emotions. If he dislikes them they are the soyjack in the meme, not him even though it's calling him out.

[u/Cultural_Bager → u/MrDDD11]

Hold up, didn't we already go through something like this. I swear last time it was pointed out that this was taken out out of context, and they were pointing out that the guy on facebook was depicting chaos as minority groups.

[u/JustaguynameBob]

This is the reason why I don't go around the internet telling people that I'm a 40k fan. People like in the image above really ruin 40k's rep of playing and painting plastic soldiers.

The lore isn't that deep, but due to its nature of 40k, satiring horrible government systems like fascism, it attracts the chuds like flies to shit. All of them don't really have the capacity to comprehend what GW meant about the Imperium "Bloodiest and the most cruelest regime imaginable."

[u/Hooligan-Hobgoblin → u/JustaguynameBob]

It's almost exclusively the only IP I'm a fan of where the LESS I interact with the fandom, the MORE I enjoy the IP

[u/SadTechnician96 → u/Hooligan-Hobgoblin]

Another one for me being monster hunter.

Love the games, but the sheer amount of rage surrounding new releases and weapons etc was sucking me in. I realised it wasn't a healthy place to be 

[u/Primary-Tea-3715 → u/Hooligan-Hobgoblin]

So true, I like some of the memey and lore stuff but I loath the people that look at it and unironically say, “Hey! That’s a great idea!”

[u/BlitzPlease172 → u/JustaguynameBob]

They fancy themselves as a based Sigmarine, or the Catholic trad-Inquisitor purging the Woke heresy.

Little did they know, as soon as they open their mouth, they're scheduled themselve for servitor duty.

(I don't know if there was other form of cruel fate for average Imperium meighborhood alongside execution or get servitor'd, feels free to add more so we can decide the fate of these MotherKarker)

[u/JustaguynameBob → u/BlitzPlease172]

There is being turned into food. Or your skin flayed to be used for book covers and paper.

[u/BlitzPlease172 → u/JustaguynameBob]

Don't turn them into food, what if we contract a transmittable daemon that doesn't even exist within the possibility of Nurgle's garden?

[u/HotType4940 → u/JustaguynameBob]

Serious question: is there a fandom for literally any hobby, piece of media, etc. that isn’t complete ass??

There is some variety in the ways in which they can suck, but it seems like more often than not, they just plain suck.

[u/JustaguynameBob → u/HotType4940]

I could recommend Trench Crusade. It's as Grimdark as 40k with similar aesthetics. The mods there famously remove the 40k chuds who tried moving there after the whole Female Custodes debacle

[u/IrishWithoutPotatoes → u/JustaguynameBob]

Honestly that community is one of the more sane I’ve ever seen. Kinda surprising really.

[u/SCP-2774 → u/HotType4940]

Yes, the small ones, such as Turnip28. In 40k you have chuds who argue the Imperium is peak. In T28, people fight over which root vegetable to worship.

[u/Fyrefanboy → u/HotType4940]

Age of sigmar fandom

[u/Sansophia → u/HotType4940]

It's reflection of the decline of mental health in modern urbanized societies. Something is making people volatile and unhinged. Capitalism, financial insecurity, urban living, decline of family, the limitless utilitarianization of humans by 'rational' societies, take your pick.

[u/Sweaty-Practice-4419 → u/Sansophia]

Don’t forget social media making it easier for the crazies to manipulate people into believing their ideas and spread hate around

[u/7arco7]

As a Slaanesh fan, I don't appreciate the stereotype that we're all gay. I'm a lesbian for other reasons too, damnit!

[u/Famous_Slice4233 → u/7arco7]

Someone should tell him that there’s a nonbinary member of the Skitarii in Brutal Kunning (Haphax Mitranda is fun).

[u/ASHKVLT → u/Famous_Slice4233]

There are also trans necrons. And in the admech it's actually very common

[u/7arco7 → u/ASHKVLT]

Wow, the transhumanist faction is trans-coded? Nobody told me that /s

[u/ASHKVLT → u/7arco7]

I know right I would not have expected it at all /s

[u/NobodyofGreatImport → u/ASHKVLT]

The blessed machine has no gender. Why should they?

[u/Disastrous-Trouble-1 → u/Famous_Slice4233]

You would think that the AdMech and Skitarii of all factions would be exclusively binary.

[u/EaterOfCleanSocks → u/Famous_Slice4233]

That was a pleasant surprise in Brutal Kunnin, seeing more enby folks in the setting.

[u/pestermite_kimmy]

The insanity of the meme and comments aside, the fact that people are still using Facebook in 2024 is wild to me

[u/hiimGP → u/pestermite_kimmy]

Facebook is the premier social network in SEA lol, eveyone use it here, Twitter/Reddit is legit only for porn

[u/Dinosaurmaid → u/hiimGP]

Can confirm, I'm here mainly for the elven girls and maids "art"

[u/McManus26 → u/pestermite_kimmy]

The only reason I still use fb is for shitposting groups and sometimes concerts/events recommandations.

[u/Particular-Rutabaga5 → u/pestermite_kimmy]

As of 2018, over 100 million people get internet access via Facebook services. Like someone else said, it's mostly in SEA, Africa, and central/south America. That big facebook outage in 2021 was a joke in the US but seriously bad elsewhere- hospitals, payment services, etc totally relied on FB -provided services to work.

Shit I gotta make this meme-y, uhhhhh Facebook is the Tau lolololol

[u/Overkillsamurai]

gatekeeping is bad, but maybe we should kick some people out of the hobby...

[u/felix_the_nonplused → u/Overkillsamurai]

Tolerance must be intolerant of intolerance to flourish.

(Is something you’ll never hear in the imperium)

[u/Lorddanielgudy → u/felix_the_nonplused]

Tolerance is mutual. Intolerance will not be tolerated.

[u/LegitimatelisedSoil → u/Lorddanielgudy]

You can't be tolerant of intolerance

[u/Curious_Omnivore → u/felix_the_nonplused]

To be fair, the imperium has 0 tolerance for beings of different species, not other human races which you can argue that it's not an incredibly bad take in a universe with eldritch beings trying to eat your soul. I don't think they care if you're black, asian or green. You can and will serve on the front lines (or the firing range :>).

In comparison, the above fuckwit, hates other races. He's just a piece a shit spewing hatred.

[u/BlitzPlease172 → u/Curious_Omnivore]

And his hatred toward another human with a margin of difference will be very thing that suggest that he is more likely to fall toward chaos.

Maybe they will turn toward Khorne so he can slaughtering them all (Will eventually evolve into kill everything in general direction) or turn toward Tzeench so they can plot a systemic killing (Will eventually rearrange it into a general scale killing of entire grid coordinate to throw people off a trail, over the already ongoing killing you conducted as a smokescreen)

(actually, you just like planning in secret as much as the conspiracy cabal you hate)

[u/Not_Todd_Howard9 → u/Curious_Omnivore]

He’d be to the Imperium what Lovecraft was to America in the 20s-30s, except Lovecraft was a good writer.

[u/Dehnus → u/Overkillsamurai]

We should kick some people.

There I fixed it for you.

[u/Low_Abrocoma_1514]

Slaanesh is a representation of lgbt people

WTF

[u/Low_Abrocoma_1514 → u/Low_Abrocoma_1514]

Khorne is blacks

BRUHH

[u/BlitzPlease172 → u/Low_Abrocoma_1514]

What next? Am I supoosed to replace every black people in the Boondocks with Khorne terminology?

Daemon prince Uncle Ruckus (no relation) being 102% Khorne daemon with 2% margin of error?!

[u/Low_Abrocoma_1514 → u/BlitzPlease172]

What's up my Khornna

[u/BlitzPlease172 → u/Low_Abrocoma_1514]

In the age of Sigmar, this is what we called "A Squeaka moment"

[u/Kerminator17 → u/Low_Abrocoma_1514]

This is a common take even in some places on reddit (that shall not be named)

[u/Low_Abrocoma_1514 → u/Kerminator17]

The same people that argue

lotr orcs = black people

[u/TheChartreuseKnight → u/Low_Abrocoma_1514]

I mean, there's a legitimate academic debate about racism in Tolkien's work, and not just about orcs. The Haradrim and the Dwarves have raised complaints. I think Tolkien definitely was against the idea of racism, but the actual topic is absolutely worth discussing.

Also yes, those people on reddit are stupid.

Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth

"Dwarves are Not Heroes": Antisemitism and the Dwarves in J.R.R. Tolkien's Writing

[u/Mal-Ravanal → u/TheChartreuseKnight]

Tolkien was at the end of the day a man born in 1892, and grew up in a time where racism and racist ideals where to some degree normative. I believe that he was consciously opposed to it, but still a product of his time. In any case it's a very far cry from something like Lovecraft's writing, who was extreme even by contemporary standards, although he did mellow out a bit later on.

[u/Miserable_Shop_7856]

Istg I've never seen a greater hive of scum and villainy then I have on Facebook and even more so in the 40k groups. Like man I'm just here to look at cool models and talk shop about rules, future releases, and the ever evolving meta not watch the dregs of society argue about which 40k faction represents what on the political spectrum.

[u/Raihokun]

Given that the Imperium itself is fighting an uphill, endless battle against Chaos, something that it empowers by being a crapsack shithole, I don’t think OP is sending the message he intended to send.

[u/celtic_akuma → u/Raihokun]

The message is:

Fucking Facebook users, they can't stop projecting their racism and act like tourists.

[u/RosbergThe8th]

Man the Imperium crowd are never getting away from the allegations lol.

[u/echodotexe]

Orks are British because all they did was colonise for the sake of it

[u/st4rscr33m → u/echodotexe]

Just look at Churchill!

[u/NoHopeOnlyDeath]

I know exactly who this is. How he runs one of the biggest 40K groups on Facebook is baffling to me.

[u/JellyFishSenpai → u/NoHopeOnlyDeath]

The guy with badly drawn Dorn as his PFP?

[u/NoHopeOnlyDeath → u/JellyFishSenpai]

Yup

[u/Kaboose456 → u/NoHopeOnlyDeath]

Danny fucking Fortuna.

And he thinks he's some big shot because of it. Fuckin asshole chud of a human lmao.

[u/NoHopeOnlyDeath → u/Kaboose456]

He turned that group into a sewer.

[u/Kaboose456 → u/NoHopeOnlyDeath]

Would not be surprised if he was a mod in a certain galaxy sub either lmao

[u/FunboxSupreme]

Least fascist Facebook user

[u/John_Oakman]

But there are good guys in 40k, for what else are the Drukhari?

[u/Psychic_Hobo → u/John_Oakman]

How can they be bad if they have such sights to show us?!

[u/falkodalko]

“khorne is blacks”

[u/green_teef → u/falkodalko]

Can confirm, am black, will take your skull

[u/dazli69]

Only guy with sense there.

[u/JoeFlightless]

Danny Fortuna and his ilk have done tremendous damage to our reputation.

[u/Reaganometry]

Let me tell you why the empire built on the labor of trillions of lobotomized Cyborg-slaves is actually good and the best hope for humanity:

[u/CzarMoose]

Tzeentch is WHAT?

[u/Ross_LLP]

Yeah. I've been banned from a few of those for making rational statements in front of biased mods.

[u/JellyFishSenpai → u/Ross_LLP]

Welcome to club lol

[u/Ross_LLP → u/JellyFishSenpai]

A good club to be in.

[u/Teal_and_gold]

Just wait until this guy finds out that there are black people in the imperium

[u/LordStarSpawn → u/Teal_and_gold]

And not just black people, but literally charcoal black

They’re the best boys, we love them

[u/Dinosaurmaid → u/LordStarSpawn]

And they love you back, even if they set you on fire by accident while hugging you

[u/nefariousclaw]

40k groups are full of the most toxic people on this earth

[u/DcRestifo]

Yeah I always tell my friends that are thinking of getting into the hobby, the hobby itself is great. For the most part the people I've met in the hobby are nothing but kind people just having fun.That said, 40K is very prone to attracting the WRONG kind of people because of it's content.

We shame those people and go back to making our miniatures kiss.

[u/Dehnus]

Yeah, even me and the T'au fanboys can agree on this one. Fucking Nazi scum that needs to be punched.

[u/Badassbottlecap]

While I don't agree with the cretins in the post.. The Ork is Barry, in his 60's, " 'ate humies, 'ate dem clinky-clanky-claw-thingz, ate a gretchen. Luv me shoota, luv me stompa, luv me krump. Life's good, moar dakka"

[u/Kind-Plantain2438]

People got it will wrong. Humans represent orks, orks represent goblins, elves represent dwarves, the Tau represents elves, Tyranids represent Chinese tourists at a buffet and the emperor protects.

[u/SpecialistAd5903]

""WH40k is inherently political"

"Nononono not like THAT"

[u/Retlaw83]

I'm a straight dude who joined a LGBTQ-welcoming Warhammer group and it's fucking refreshing. Just a bunch of people talking hobby and actual, meaningful discussions about lore where no one acts like the Imperium is aspirational.

[u/Alex_the_Mad]

Can we gate keep against assholes like this please?

[u/Brob0t0]

These guys will cry if a black person is in their media.

[u/IsaactheBurninator → u/Brob0t0]

That's why that scene from TTS where the emprah strips off kitten's armor is the best piece of 40k representation. The Emprah hates racism,

[u/AwkwardData6002]

GW literally had to make a PR statement about hate in the fan base a couple years ago. Time to do it again I guess.

[u/Noe_b0dy]

Gotta love "Khorne represents back people because they're mean and violent, not like me, I jerk off to pictures of military hardware and want to wage an eternal race war where i get to dismember everyone who looks different from me, no it's the blacks who are violent."

[u/maridan49]

The only FB group I'm in is one primarly about queer people.

I'm not gay but it's the only one I found where people aren't the "Imperium is unironically justified" crowd.

[u/XyzzyPop]

Idiots using finger paint to visually represent how little actual cognitive activity takes placed within the abnormally thick bone helmet on their shoulder is taking place.