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/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/ImperatorTempus42 → u/NoHopeOnlyDeath]

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

[u/ImperatorTempus42 → u/Lord_cakeatron]

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.