• PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    When in fictional Warhammer 40000, thousand people are killed daily to keep travel in entire galaxy safer, it is something monstrous.

    When in real USA during the pandemic around thousand people died daily to keep the top bourgeoisie profits high, it is freedom.

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      8 months ago

      Tbh, the satire in 40K (and satire in general) seems harder to distinguish from life in the West the longer I live.

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      If you do even some basic back of the napkin math on how many psykers are sacrificed to the God Emperor of Man each day compared to how many people there are in the imperium and figure out how many are born and die each day you’ll end up with a very small percentage. It was actually a fun exercise to figure it out in my friend group.