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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

3,000 a day at the peak, literally 9/11 every day for the Denny's to stay open.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

thousand people are killed daily to keep travel in entire galaxy safer

100+ die every day (on average) in US traffic accidents (42,795 for 2022)

[–] machiabelly@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The population of the imperium is in the hundreds or thousands of trillions or even way more than that. Sacrificing 3000 people a day to make it so that demons don't attack every single spaceship, and to ensure the reliability of ftl travel, is considered grimdark.

In a country of 330 million 3000 people a day died during covid to protect 6 months of corporate profits. But its ok because those people died for the freedom to drive to mcdonalds matt-jokerfied

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

But its ok because

I've actually seen people defend the deaths because it was mostly the homeless and the unemployed; a lot of people are just utter trash, but now they can broadcast it through social media.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Makes a point about Americans being propagandized, only to veer into unexamined propagandistic tropes about Designated Bad Country at the very end not-immune-to-propaganda

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

imagine having a leader you would die for, first of all

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why does everyone think North Koreans call Kim Jong Un "dear leader" or whatever? Is it a misleading translation of Korean honorifics or official titles or something? I know the main reason is bigotry, but this is so pervasive that I wanna know where it came from.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Same reason people keep referring to DPRK as North Korea, it's a result of decades of western propaganda. DPRK along with Cuba have been hands down the biggest targets of US propaganda because they remain as the closest analogs of USSR today. They utterly reject capitalism and don't even make an attempt to make any concessions to the west.