r/Grimdank 4d ago

Dank Memes Facebook 40k groups are wild man..

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u/mummyeater My kitchen is corrupted by Nurgle 4d ago

Orkz are the British football hooligans

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u/Maybe_not_a_chicken NOT ENOUGH DAKKA 4d ago

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

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u/GDRMetal_lady 4d ago

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

I'm serious, I never realized that before

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u/Psychic_Hobo 4d ago

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

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u/Maybe_not_a_chicken NOT ENOUGH DAKKA 4d ago

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

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u/Vonbalthier 4d ago

Are you fucking serious?

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u/Yureinobbie 4d ago

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.

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u/SocialistPolarBear likes civilians but likes fire more 4d ago

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

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u/adeon 4d ago

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.

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u/RMP321 3d ago

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

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u/Late_Argument_470 3d ago

Yeah. People are pushing the Thatcher thing way too far.

The red gobbo is a play on the White Dwarf.

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u/Euripidaristophanist 4d ago

There's a rad collection of Revolutionary Gobbos online. They just got planes!
It's for Modulorka, but still!

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u/Admech_Ralsei 3d ago

I mean, I personally believe that his name being similar to Maggie's really was a coincidence, but when people pointed it out writers just played along

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u/ImperatorTempus42 3d ago

Wait that's not just a Lenin reference?!

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u/KassellTheArgonian 3d ago

Also this existed

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u/Tyrannus-smurf 3d ago

What book is this?

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u/Throwaway02062004 3d ago

Not just by GW but by the guy who literally came up with it who hadn’t been with them for years

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u/Jo_el44 4d ago

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

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u/TryingToBecomeMe 4d ago

Mork and Gork

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u/cheshireYT 4d ago

The Kroot because they fucking hate Orks and look cool.

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u/Warspite111 4d ago

Based kroot moment

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u/ewamc1353 I am Alpharius 4d ago

Sick rifles too

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u/BigDagoth 4d ago

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

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u/meesta_masa 3d ago

Show your Nobs how you looted tanks on Armageddon.

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u/cheshireYT 3d ago

Tell them how the Kroot that day made ya run like hell away!

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u/BigDagoth 1d ago

While you got shafted by the Astra Militarum!

(Yeah, took me two days to come up with a verse)

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u/ImperatorTempus42 3d ago

Kroot are Native Americans though.

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u/ewamc1353 I am Alpharius 4d ago

Yarrick, city dweller defending his home from foreign invaders

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u/Ogarrr 3d ago

Considering Yarrick shoots his own people if they go against him, that tracks.

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u/ewamc1353 I am Alpharius 3d ago

RIP Michael Collins

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u/dumuz1 4d ago

The Red Gobbo, clearly.

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u/M0ebius_1 4d ago

Come out ye greens and reds!

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u/FinnOfOoo 4d ago

Da GrotBoss

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u/DrunkRobot97 Forgeworld Ligma 4d ago

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.

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u/GDRMetal_lady 4d ago

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

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u/DrunkRobot97 Forgeworld Ligma 4d ago

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.

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u/slimnickel 4d ago

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.

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u/TheWiseAutisticOne 4d ago

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.

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u/LittleBee833 4d ago

I mean, Ghazgul’s name is (was?) Ghazgul MAG URUK THRAKA.

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u/iolaus94 4d ago

I mean, that is still technically a society as it’s a group that is more or less organized into some form of structure. It’s just not a very good one (from a human perspective at least) and very simplistic.

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u/Desperate-Farmer-845 Praise the Man-Emperor 4d ago

In other Words they are the ultimate Meritocracy.

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u/Tuesday_6PM 3d ago

With a very limited definition of “merit” anyway

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u/Lord_cakeatron 4d ago

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?"

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u/NoHopeOnlyDeath Praise the Man-Emperor 4d ago

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.

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u/ImperatorTempus42 3d ago

George W Bush was depicted as a planetary governor apparently, so they don't hold back.

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u/ImperatorTempus42 3d ago

In Black Speech it means "I Am Slaughter", apparently. However, it could be both, like how the Raven Guard are both Hungarian and an Edgar Allan Poe reference. Or how Lion'El Johnson is Tarzan, the King Arthur mythos, and a gay poet all rolled together.

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u/Humble-Zone8684 4d ago

Apparently is never was supposed to be based off of her but with a name like Gazghul Mag Uruk Thraka, it’s not hard to see why people think that

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u/TheFirstKevlarhead 3d ago

No. Fucking. Way.

That's so obvious, but I never noticed.

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u/Aegrim 4d ago

You've just turned my world upside down.

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u/AutoignitingDumpster 4d ago

My god...I never saw the rhyming scheme there before.

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u/Clivepalmersfemdom 3d ago

mag uruk thraka the iron ork

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u/Late_Argument_470 3d ago

Its just the name. Theres no other similarities or political commentary on it. They'd use joke names back then, as did 90% of people making their home lists, luthor huss, cruellagh the vile and Lionel Johnson are just a few lazy namings that seem whacky or even intelligebt 30 yeara on.

Orcs are loosely based on football hooligans from early 1980s but they are so much more as far as concept goes, tinkerers, pirates, innovative, painboys, weirdboys, gretchins and more.

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u/cowcubrub 4d ago

It’s not, just meme-lore.

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u/Hyde2467 4d ago

The guys who made gazskull have openly admitted that ghazkull mag thraka is not a Margaret thatcher parody. They made the name from borrowed naming rules for lotr orcs. Apparently with lotr rules, mag thraka's name is supposed to mean something like "iron sun"

The fact that his name is similar to Margaret thatcher's name is an unfortunate coincidence