• DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I refuse to believe this isn’t a troll. There’s no way there’s a person out there that knows all of these and believes all of them to be false, that level of cognitive dissonance would literally melt a human brain.

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    • Ho Chi Minh would have “sided with the US and instituted democracy”
    • The US should have invaded Saudi Arabia instead of Afghanistan

    It amazes me how these people are wrong even when they’re right.

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    Holy shit these people are delusional. They just belive whatever the party wants them to believe. Nope that ain’t it either. Some of these are not even denied by party. They are creating fan theories about why white supremacist empire is good and they actually done good thing or how the thing they have done is good

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    Accuses the left of “historical revisionism” precedes to engage in laughable historical revisionism, or in this case outright denial of reality

    Neoliberalism is a cult and that’s why it will die, they can’t modulate their views or analyze real conditions, they blindly stick to a propaganda framework that predates the internet and alternative media, they still think it’s 1985 where blatant fabrications and lies that defend Chicago school economic liberalism can penetrate the public consciousness with ease

    To bad for them this cult shit weirds people out

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          As others have said, it’s an expensive tabletop wargame for adult children to scoot their army man toys around while pretending to be generals. Here’s one of my inquisitors. It’s about an inch and a quarter tall:

          Unfortunately, it’s attracted a lot of chuds because it takes place in a dystopia. It’s where the term “grim dark” comes from, since one of the game’s tag lines is “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. An eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsty gods.” They ignore how the game was a parody of various sci-fi franchises and taking the piss out of fascists, insisting on taking it all very, very seriously.

          As far as the game itself, it’s currently in 10th. Edition and I prefer older versions of the game. And again, it’s expensive. Cheaper than skiing or cars, more time consuming than video games. Other non-Games Workshop miniature games are far less expensive. You can usually get models from $0.50 to $2 each from most manufacturers. Games Workshop charges anywhere from $5 to $50 each for their equivalent infantry models. For comparison, I got 100 of these soviet infantry models for $25 total and $15 of that was shipping:

          They’re only a few millimeters shorter than the model I showed above. Here’s a monster I’m working on made from $1 animal toys and modeling putty/clay:

          Luckily, a lot of people who actually play the game are friendly and welcoming (at least where I’m at). Chuds get chased away real quick because of their shitty, sore loser attitudes and lack of creativity.

        • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          It’s a tabletop game played with absurdly expensive plastic miniatures, but there are a ton of video games from the franchise now, and I would bet that the majority of online warhammer fans have never even touched a miniature before. (not that I blame them, it is a huge waste of money).

          “Warhammer” is fictional fantasy world with fantasy elements like dwarves and elves and french people, and warhammer 40,000 (or 40k) is a sci-fi fantasy that was created as a parody of absurdly grimdark sci-fi where everything is shit for everyone all the time, but like any popular parody, people unironically enjoyed the setting and now the vast majority of content related to the franchise takes the grimdark stuff 100% seriously.

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    I love the condescension from every neoliberal when it comes to war. “Finding out what wars are good and bad is hard, but I’m so smart I can do it.” Maybe instead you should look at common patterns such as “the US destabilizes the middle East to keep control of oil.”

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    Some of that shit is so frustrating because they are putting it out there as not being true and it’s stuff that you can’t really prove one way or another but regardless is still absolutely true.

    I was alive and an adult during the build up to the Iraq war. Americans, by and large, absolutely 100% supported it. Not just in a “I support this but war is bad” sort of way but in a “woo-hoo, yeah! I can’t wait to go kill them Aye-Rabs!” sort of way. There was fervor. A glee about it. An anxious anticipation for the bloodletting. It was sickening.

    I opposed this very publicly and even demonstrated and you would not believe the hate we got. Westboro Baptist Church demonstrations got less hate.

    The revisionism really disgusts me. I took shit from family and friends and the community for being “anti-American” (and this was before I actually shifted and legit became anti-American) and these fuckers are unironically trying to steal valor. Their side supported this! Their side was 100% on board with it. Pelosi even said she knew the fucking “evidence” of WMDs were fabricated and voted for that shit anyways!

    Yes, I’m mad. All the other shit, too. But that one, I’m mad most about.

    • Hestia [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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      I’ve been anti-military my entire life. My dad served in Iraq and he was always an example on what I didn’t want to be.

      I remember being super young and asking him if he killed anybody and he dodged the question. I’ve known my father was a murderer virtually my entire life and was always confused about why people take pride in murdering people overseas.

      I remember in elementary school, the entire school doing the pledge of allegiance to a massive flag and felt an innate sense of discomfort. In middle school I began identifying as a pacifist, instinctively rejecting American values. I became an anarchist the first election cycle I was able to vote, and a communist not long after that.

      There is not a single fucking moment that I have been proud of my country. I knew what kind people fought for it, after all.

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    I haven’t heard of the idea of invading Saudi Arabia before, but now I support it actually. Le’s go, quick 10 minute adventure. I’ll join up with the anti-war pro-“invading Saudi Arabia” movement RN

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    Leftists and their conspiracy theories like “Food is required to sustain human life” or “If fish left the water they wouldnt be able to breathe”