The Media Literacy Leftists are on the Ropes

[@儀水鏡の妖怪霊]

I just realized Leftists think about the Austrian painter with the same regularity the common man thinks about Rome. It is part of their foundational myth, after all.

[@FrostyMts]

Ah yes because the Ethno nationalist has more in common with Marxist cucks than the literal Roman Empire they modeled themselves after.

[@freespeechenjoyer]

If they thought about Rome they'd just transplant their worldview to that. >Errrmm you see ackshually everyone in Rome was gay and they were fascists and actually Caesar is just like Trump

[@campomambo]

I think about him that often too…. but maybe for different reasons

[@jmlaw8888]

They also think about him because the only difference between them is National vs International. Beyond that their goals align.

[@Toodream]

So this, ive been calling them the "international socialists"​@@jmlaw8888

[@TheLastRussianYT]

Concord - Space Inclusion - ~25,000 sales, refunded. Space Marine 2 - Space RACISM - ~4,500,000 sales

[@ChillyReaper]

Space Marine 2 has now reached 5 million sales.

[@h..8083]

It genuinely isn’t the fault of the rich that mass migration is happening. In order for a collective National identity to take root, it is essential that all members of the ethnic group are accepted. Poor people have not accepted rich people into their collective. I’m sorry, libertarians have simply been excluded from the populist movement. It’s not their fault, it’s yours.

[@wingsoffreedom3589]

Wait who is excluding us libertarians and why?

[@sabre051]

@@h..8083 ....What?

[@djkymaera]

@@h..8083 huh?

[@Booma4142]

The leftist imagines himself as the brainbug. The overall hivemind. Not the disposable soldier bug.

[@Brobrobagins420]

Spot on they suffer from main character syndrome it’s terminal after a certain point

[@adrianocs4]

​@@Brobrobagins420 To be more precise a Mary Sue main character that can do no wrong. Not a well writen character whith an engaging backhistory and challenges that molded him into heroic status.

[@indrickboreale5463]

Personally I find the idea of a bug that thinks... Offensive.

[@ARandomLetterA]

An overall hivemind slave to the Bug Queen, so a simp insect.

[@Wiwaz]

Borgs

[@shazmodeus2795]

Ya know, Heinlein wrote the bugs as an analog for communists. So it's hilarious that modern day communists always sympathize and side with them in everything.

[@admontblanc]

Almost like they instinctually perceive an attack at their core beliefs...

[@googleandsusansucks]

It really is strange when you think about it. Are there millions of people so much lacking in imagination that they can't see how living as an ant would suck?

[@doublescoopovanilla5835]

Leftists siding with the bugs is actually not outgroup preference after all?

[@sgtmac110]

It’s very funny they ARE the bugs.

[@DezaltOfTheDreg]

I mean commies are well known for their human waves tactic during battle so he's not far off lmao.

[@Fiddleslip]

27:48 "obsessed with toughness, masculinity, heroism, honor" He says that like it's a bad thing. Bugman sympathizers are exactly how you'd expect them to be

[@techpriest6962]

Pick One: *A* - Wastes of Space? *B* - Wastes of Resources? *C* - Wastes of Oxygen? *D* - Wastes of Braincells? *E* - Wastes of Life? *F* - Wastes of Data? *G* - Wastes of Time? *H* - All of the Above?

[@jj-fk5ij]

@@techpriest6962 it's H all of the above

[@TSTD_Punisher]

How dare someone want to be heroic? Don't they know that saving someone is taking away that person's agency? Being rescued is dehumanizing

[@ericm3327]

Obsessed with everything awesome about men and humanity, ohhh Nnnooooooooo

[@bc-cu4on]

Well, they are obsessed with weakness, feminity, crime and money. Obviously they'll disagree.

[@yaboiportch]

"YOUR hobbies and interests are problematic and fascist. OUR hobbies and interests and wholesome and heckin' valid."

[@Schwiegermutter]

Do they have Hobbys?

[@lostalone9320]

Trick question, their hobby is LARPing as a communist.

[@MrPlainsflyer]

​@@Schwiegermutter Their hobby is ruining your hobby

[@NearEDGE]

Saying heckin' valid made it too real

[@patrickbateman312]

I'd even be alright with that. The problem is they keep trying to change all the things I like into the slop THEY like

[@Kdub09swm]

Adam Something is absolutely insufferable.

[@sadhappy8860]

thunderfoot levels of smug

i knew the video was going to be dogshit as soon as youtube pushed it onto me. never even clicked it.

[@Kdub09swm]

@@sadhappy8860 You're right, I used to be fan of his too, until 2016 happened...

[@freespeechenjoyer]

@@sadhappy8860 Smug yet consistently wrong. Right out of the gate with the Tulsi russian agent thing and RFK is not antiv*x either of course. He just opposes forcing them on people especially that one specific one. Gotta love a foreigner declaring someone who has served her nation's military as a traitor and then doesn't even bother to explain his reasoning, just states it as a given.

[@sadhappy8860]

@@Kdub09swm same. They are both obsessed with Elon which is what made me think of it. Their hatred of Elon has long ago corrupted their thinking. Interesting though. How one's dislike of a person can warp your 'rationality'.

[@PanemCircenses]

I maintain that both "The politics of Starship Troopers" & "The politics of Demolition Man" are two of your best videos, and indeed two of the best videos on this platform.

[@SoMuchFacepalm]

And "The British Crusade against Slavery" The number of black Americans reacting to it and loving it is just funny.

[@afkalmighty1557]

Same, I was on the "interested but not sold" state but then got hooked by those two videos.

[@Captain-Thievius]

Adam: I have Media Literacy. Gabriel Angelos: Such are the ways of Daemons, to lie and mislead us! Destroying it is the only way to avoid its influences!

[@googleandsusansucks]

Inb4 getting smacked by a deamon prince.

[@hillehai]

God, the term "media literacy" is so utterly inane. They throw it into any sentence regardless of context. It's basically just calling someone "st00pid" for disagreeing with them in a way that they think sounds more fancy. Just another method for them to not actually address the arguments and partake in real debate.

[@Captain-Thievius]

@ Indeed. Just to give an example, I was accused of lacking media literacy and taste just because I thought Starwars Andor was pretentious, long winded, post-modern nonsense. Didn’t matter to the guy what my arguments were, he was butthurt that I disliked a show he liked. Ironic, considering how a lot of Andor fans portray themselves as adults, yet totally lose it if you don’t worship a Disney show like they do.

[@Shin_Mothra]

​@@hillehaiThey're the same people who will tell you art is subjective while pointing at a rock.

[@hillehai]

@@Shin_Mothra Exactly. The more pretentious something is, the better.

[@enocescalona]

Adam is the same guy who thinks people liking white marble statues are racist apparently lmao. Surprised he took to 40k. I wonder if MentisWave will make a vid of this one too.

[@Shin_Mothra]

Ah, a man of culture!

[@Dernellar]

It was obvious they will come after it, for the nightmare future of the 41st millennium is utterly incompatible with the leftoid fantasies about the world. So was Warhammer and that's one of the reasons why it was turned into the Age of Sigmar slop. (WH40k is the GW's main profit stream so they couldn't do that to it.) You can see what an ugly grotesque happens when wokeism is applied to the grim darkness of the far future in VGs like Gladius (Dark Eldar Wyches and Succubi wear full, head to toes, set of clothes) or Darktide (Player is given orders almost exclusively by whamen. In cutscenes it's women, women, women). And in Rogue Trader (2023) too

[@Aleyck]

The reason he took to 40k was because he sees it as ideological territory to conquer and subjugate.

[@killsode4760]

MentisWave is great

[@davidlewis6728]

mentis mention! also, sorry, but i doubt there's anything of worth to respond to. mentis likes to make his videos with an ulterior, large-scale purpose behind it.

[@filiodesathanas7019]

1:42:15 The whole point of this Comic is "The Emperor Protects" is not that the guardsman was a misguided into believing that dying was somehow the Emperor Protecting him. Rather a defiant statement in that "I am an instrument of the Emperor, through my sacrifice people will be saved." Hence, The Emperor Protects. Sargon, you are correct, these people can't see the forest for the trees... or rather Their people for their identity....

[@lostalone9320]

They see someone who has actual, unironic faith in a god, and they have to stamp on it. Apparently you can only be religious, even in a universe where gods provably do exist, because of brain washing. By the way, the Tau actually do brainwash their dudes to not believe in gods.

[@TranscenGopher]

They can, just don't want to. It's a conscious choice.

[@the_real_ch3]

Also the top comment about the eldar just using a fate dice to pass the 4++ was perfect.

[@Morgomir09]

The Emperor literally protects their souls after death so there is that too

[@CAESAR777IlIl]

TRUMP 2024!🔥TOTAL VICTORY! WOOOOOOO!🔥

[@plick645]

I'm still riding the victory. Things are getting better, they're getting better everyday.

[@CAESAR777IlIl]

#TRUMP2024VICTORY🔥

[@CAESAR777IlIl]

@@plick645 YO STRENGTH AND HONOR!⚡

[@captainmaim]

The god-Emperor protects!

[@ShadowAkatora]

Why do these people always side with the bugs? 🤣

[@RunninUpThatHillh]

Because they are bugmen.

[@haraldbredsdorff2699]

They are anti civilization, because they think human are born good and corrupted by civilization. So, any society, not based around destroying the society of the past (aka, Communist), they believe preserve evil and must be combated, even to the destruction of humanity. Because they think it is better we all where gone, than us being "evil" in their eyes.

[@crazypissman6721]

because thinking about siding or preserving the existence of your own species would literally be just like that one German ideology they never educate themselves about.

[@JeffyPDiddy]

Because it makes them feel morally superior. It’s the same reason they so often side with the criminals.

[@crazypissman6721]

Because wanting to protect your own species from extinction is just like that WW2 ideology they know nothing about.

[@Shin_Mothra]

Adam would defend the demons from Frieren.

[@guildam7105]

Sargon should take a look at the philosophy of the demons in the frieren universe

[@GabeSweetMan]

​@@guildam7105 Never have I seen an author dedicate so much time and so many pages specifically dismantling any attempt people might have for defending the demon race in Frieren's universe.

[@mattmark94]

@GabeSweetMan and this is why Frieren is so based

[@NoahSprague]

But guys the demon said it's sorry while is was holding your daughters heart😅

[@TearThatRedFlagDown]

Because they have a lot in common. My attitude towards Adam and those like him is also very much the same as Frieren's attitude towards her world's equivalent.

[@techpriest6962]

What he says about *Cadia* proves he is not a fan, not even a tourist, he's a subverter. As no one in their right mind would belittle 40k's lore in such a manner.

[@TranscenGopher]

He wouldn't last a day and some such.

[@Darthsabi]

"A faction that no-one plays or cares about" -someone who doesn't know what army superman plays

[@ryan.1990]

If nobody cares about them, why is it so important that they be made female? 🤔

[@yetanotherspuart3993]

I think I bought this up on Arch's channel. A guy responded with he probably just a or stunt and was paid to do it. Possible yes. But I am sure we would have heard that gw hired him if that was the case. But no, the tourist just doubled down.

[@Karathos]

How the hell are they constantly siding with the boogs? It's just incredible. Does earth have a no-bullshit Genestealer Cult problem?

[@Zergslayer_42069]

Iv seen people unironically side with chaos like they deadass think chaos are the good guys, and yes they had they/them in their bios.

[@varietywiarrior]

It's definitely a cult of some kind.

[@Zergslayer_42069]

@@varietywiarrior yeah I agree, it’s definitely a death cult, they want the human race to cease to exist, iv even see some of them make arguments to have the human race go extinct bc they think we are the cancer to the earth

[@steveswanson5890]

​@@Zergslayer_42069 lefties are no bullshit IRL chaos corrupted with the OG corruption of our universe Satan.

[@wingsoffreedom3589]

Yes now pass the holy bolter

[@windrider970]

you got one thing wrong, Carl: GW didn't turn woke because they wanted to cozy up to Amazon. they've been infiltrated for years. they have a bunch of employees that are lefties who hate the old lore, and a lot of them are now in management positions. this also applies to Black Library, as they keep conracting authors who are openly woke and push their agendas in their novels. the only thing that kept GW going full mask off, is that the people on the very top keeping them on a short leash because they know that once they do, their money tree dies

[@windrider970]

nvm, you addressed this later in the video

[@John-kc4cg]

It also happens because the company is a total shitshow in terms of management - constant stock issues, wildly inconsistent on quality of design and Black library seems to have no editor in chief or at least a very bad one.

[@benjaminstorace6699]

@@John-kc4cg Editor-in-chief isn't as useful as one might think without a good setting bible, which i'd be willing to bet if they have one at all, its VERY thin.

[@Ewil.Bluetooth]

Looking at the black library releases you can see that all of a sudden most new novels focuses on new female characters. Or rather females larping as badass men.

[@JohnDJ08]

Thanks to black rock investing GW can sell out because the consequences of letting the activists rewrite the lore are lessened by the offset from investment money. Which is why we not have “female” custodians.

[@windrider970]

"GW changed the lore of a faction that noone plays of cares about" this dude... Custodes were a thing long before they were a playable faction and a lot of people loved them. in fact people cared about them so much that internet forums were full of conversions and paint jobs of them. people took their regular space marine miniatures and did their best to make them look like custodes WAY before even primaris space marines were a thing. I bought the Visions of Heresy art book back in 2009 BECAUSE it had a ton of custodes artworks in it.

[@lostalone9320]

Notice how they always do their weird "Urgh, why do you even care?" negging. They constantly tell us its so weird for us to object to them changing things, while being obsessed with changing the same things that they say we shouldn't care about.

[@LordNithilus]

@@lostalone9320 It's always weird that people will hunt you down in order to ask why you care no matter where you are. It's almost obsessive the amount of effort they will go through over something that doesn't matter.

[@Brobrobagins420]

They really be thinking they have the ultimate POV….

[@happyhammer1]

Even if humans did intiate a war with aliens I still want humans to win. I guess I'm old fashioned.

[@Liketreeswalking556]

I wish they did. Bugs in MY solar system? I don’t think so!

[@randomcrandoface2363]

Aliens were not made in God's image

[@techpriest6962]

Shucks for them, almost like we are humans or somethings. If I have to choose a side, not extinction is always the right choice.

[@00yiggdrasill00]

I'm always amazed by how many people think we will have just SO MUCH in common with an alien species that grew up in a completely different biome with completely different baselines to their biology and culture. I would be surprised at communication let alone negotiation.

[@grumbledore424]

It's always amusing when people make fun of Starship Troopers and Ender's Game saying the humans are the problem. They're both stories of humans responding to a hostile bug race. 😂

[@ukaszbrozek3141]

That's so telling how he had to invent a whole conspiracy theory about the bugs being inocent to poison the well.

[@Zephyr503]

If the director said Aliens were a satire, some people would side with the Xenomorphs against the human colonists.

[@nicolaspeigne1429]

What did you think decolonisation meant ? It meant face huggers and stomachs bursting.

[@TranscenGopher]

​@@nicolaspeigne1429 as Ken(d)y says, the only solution to past colonization is present colonization.

[@ARandomLetterA]

Imagine the same with The Predator or the Thing, people siding with it against all of humanity.

[@maxh_music]

Weren’t the marines and Ripley denying Newt’s individual autonomy by rescuing her from the station?! How could they assume she didn’t want to stay with the Xenomorphs???

[@Beleidigen-ist-Pflicht]

​​@@ARandomLetterA yea such people exist mind you, and one of þe arguments þey spout regarding "þe þing" : "beCauSe iT jUsT waNTS tO survIVE" "bECAuSe it'S aLoNe on an AlIen WORLd " Þese people HATE þeir own species , þey are projecting þeir emotions onto someþing utterly non-human

[@bobdole3804]

The war against men finding purpose in what they sacrifice for others continues it seems. I suppose it's very hard to corrupt people of strong moral character with real purpose.

[@rozoro4215]

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." -Nietzsche It is why they are so fond of censorship, propaganda, and Indoctrination. If they can get rid of a person's sense of traditional moality and values and replace them with leftist Ideology, then they can make their cause your "why." Older individuals who already have a sense of traditional ethics and values are not as malleable and like you stated not as corruptable, which is why they must target the youth who are impressionable instead.

[@baddragonite]

A funny parallel thing to think about is the Halo series. In Halo the UNSC is arguably actually bad and do bad things, and the Covenant ARE thinking beings instead of mindless drones, AND YET the UNSC are still the good guys in Halo because the Covenant wants to destroy Humanity

[@shazmodeus2795]

yeah, the Spartan-II's were originally designed to decimate human rebel forces, which is kind of bat-s*it insane when you consider the power level of the Spartans compared to your average Joe soldier. Halo humanity just got lucky they had them when the Covenant showed up. And on your point of the Covenant, they were not good guys either, their entire war against humanity was started on a lie created by the prophets after they found out that humans were the chosen ones by the Forerunners, who they worshipped as Gods, which would destroy the Covenant faith if it got out, and the prophets power.

[@zacharythomas8617]

I want a Covenant Run of Halo.

[@rickhigby39]

​@@shazmodeus2795 They were chosen by the Primordials

[@chromicm6686]

​@@shazmodeus2795When you look at the background, the rebels began using nukes on military targets, and then on defenceless civilians. The UNSC started doing the same thing in response, nuking rebelling colonies before they lost control of them. They launched a series of conventional invasions to deal with rebel uprisings, but the casualties on all sides were massive. It quickly became obvious to everyone if something wasnt done, the conflict would expand into a full scale nuclear civil war. The response to that was the Spartans, as a way to covertly take out the rebel leadership and bomb makers, without letting the conflict expand. Considering what they can acomplish, they would pay for themselves very quickly.

[@KopperNeoman]

@@shazmodeus2795 I'm kind of fond of the original Halo games' Christian undertones, no better expressed than in ODST. A lot of people think it's a failure of writing that the unaugmented Alpha-Nine are almost as capable as the greatest SPARTAN-II, John-117. I think it's a deliberately brilliant leaning on the idea that the power of these heroes ultimately comes from God. If God willed it, the Rookie would be able to snap John like a twig.

[@bandohjfusion4885]

Adam Something has made videos on how Europe should be federalised and how both France and Russia should have their empires dismantled. Guess which Austrian wanted to do the samething.

[@ryan.1990]

Another literal nobody larping as a wannabe statesman then, what a narcissist

[@F.M671]

Yeah Socialist moment

[@leviticusprime4904]

How the fuck does he want that to happen, I swear these idiots ask for the most dramatic and sweeping changes, and yet never actually think about implementing them in reality.

[@michaelsorensen7567]

​@@leviticusprime4904 why think about practicalities when you're pushing for utopia? And of course that's before you even get to the point of "do they even have to competence to KNOW whether it's even possible?"

[@Error-rc9es]

"the most bloody and cruel faction" i'm sorry i didn't realize we were talking about dark eldar.

[@hardromeo436]

Adam Something has zero clue about the world of 40k. It is painfully obvious he got his opinions from other pearl clutching midwits who see Nazis behind every rock

[@ARandomLetterA]

I thought they were talking about Khorne Flakers.

[@TherealTenmanI]

"The most bloody and brutal faction" Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

[@spocko2181]

For the record, bad mustache man was a vegetarian, so this Adam dude can no longer eat vegetables.

[@JackRichardsonM8]

Adolf wasn't a vegetarian. Even if he was by your logic Adam Something can't have a moustache.

[@ReptilianLepton]

@@JackRichardsonM8 Correct. Hitler breathed air, therefore...

[@martinholt7229]

@@JackRichardsonM8he was very famously a vegetarian. Do some research. If your referring to the weird injections he got from his doc that had animal byproducts in them, he was totally unaware of that.

[@AndyJarman]

​@@JackRichardsonM8do you know something about Austrian painters we don't ? He wasn't a vegetarian?

[@JackRichardsonM8]

@martinholt7229 There were reports after 1943 he was a vegetarian before that he chowed down on Bayerische Weisswurst. Dorftrottel.

[@djfoord]

"Most people who play video games don't want to be an asshole..." Clearly he's never heard of GTA

[@Ewil.Bluetooth]

He also fails to understand that playing as a Paragon in Mass Effect leads to more cutscenes and conversations aka lore, and that's the biggest reason as to why players choose the Paragon approach. It's also worth mentioning that if you don't choose paragon consistently you lose out on the reward. If you choose some paragon paths and some renegade paths you will not get the reward for anything. It's baffling who the guy can be so consistently wrong about everything he uses as an example.

[@VitaliyMilonov]

"People who play differently the way I do are fascist".

[@evanvalenta1898]

" The Bugs did not send the meteor! We don't know how it got there, but we're sure that if it was sent, The Federation did it! We can't provide any proof, but the director told us what happened post hoc, so you need to just accept that! Also, authorial intent doesn't matter!"

[@Ellingmint]

It's even worse than that. The director didn't tell them what happened after the fact, well not what they want to believe anyway. In his commentary track Verhoeven himself explicitly states that the asteroid (meteor in his words) that hit Buenos Aires was sent by the bugs. They often pull a 180 on their position wrt the idea of death of the author when you bring that section up.

[@admontblanc]

Leftist conspiratard logic at its finest.

[@michaelsorensen7567]

I'm half surprised they didn't explicitly state "ok it's happening, and here's why it's a good thing!" Although that IS implicit in the "humanity started it"

[@Nerzana]

>tyranids aren't intelligent what the hell am i listening to, they may be a ravenous horde that eats everything in their path but they clearly display enough intelligence for tactics like flanking, ambushing, and coordination between different units.

[@DezaltOfTheDreg]

They just drones that follow the hivemind's command once they lost connection with hive mind they're no better than a wild animal.

[@michaelbuick6995]

Low level tyranids are not individually intelligent. Strategy and tactics are handled by higher forms that "manage" them via what is essentially a psychic link. They're a hivemind that's why the human forces will go to great efforts to take out "leader" caste tyranids like hive tyrants. Without them to coordinate the tyranid forces they become essentially just a disorganised rabble. That said, since the hive overall contains all knowledge absorbed from it's victims, the living hive fleets are probably the smartest living things in the universe.

[@jmlaw8888]

The Hive Mind is supremely intelligent. Tyranid bioforms are not. They are in the most part organic machines. They arent even sentient. But even the most powerful and rare bioforms that do display intelligence only do so at the behest of the hive mind. People dont seem to quite grasp that they are like the Borg meets Xenomorphs.

[@Zergslayer_42069]

@@michaelbuick6995kinda like leftists of today

[@lytalo]

Ha, the hive mind is so super intelligent and super psychic that they create a shadow that blocks all communication and scanning over a huge volume of space. Plus they send spy and infiltrators in advance to weaken the Empire.

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

I would far rather be living in the Terran Federation than living in Stasi Starmer's UK. It was kicked off by veteran soldiers in Scotland who decided that they had just had enough of the way our leaders were screwing things up. So, Stasi Starmer seems to be setting up the premise of the foundation of the Terran Empire.

[@Vorpal_Wit]

The thing everyone misses about the Imperium of Man is the impossible choice of risking losing/sacrificing their humanity for the sake of trying to save humanity. Thats what makes the imperium interesting.

[@cheekibreeki4638]

You could definitely tear apart some individual things done in the imperium, but despite it all, it still stands and humanity lives. Despite the cataclysmic forces they fight daily.

[@thetallestdwarf7041]

Just one thing. In Starship Troopers, the movie, we did see one of the bugs poop out an asteroid and hurl it to space. During the space battle sequence.

[@RunninUpThatHillh]

Sweet. I’m watching it rn. Thanks!

[@AndyJarman]

Yes, they just pulled it out of their arse!

[@michaelbuick6995]

They launch spores not rocks, however they seem to be able to do this with extreme accuracy and use asteroids essentially as billiard balls.

[@Maynarkh]

That was a plasma ball, but they were using those bugs to knock asteroids around

[@piratewhoisquiet]

"fortieth millenium" TOURIST SELF REPORT

[@michaelsorensen7567]

Ironically he's waving a red flag...

[@MichaelDavidson-x3y]

I don't think these people are capable of thinking of a political paradigm outside of the post-Enlightenment vision of politics To them all political bodies MUST exist as sovereign nation states, that are either liberal, socialist, or fascist I can't imagine how utterly confused their view of history must be

[@AndyJarman]

Except they are nihilist globalists. They want total management of the planet and it's people. So "sovereignty" is outmoded in their eyes.

[@ianchristian2844]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that. Could you explain "all political bodies must exist as sovereign nation states"?

[@violenceislife1987]

He admitted that he believes only what he perceives as the majority opinion.

[@davidlewis6728]

you mean "that are either socialist, or fascist"

[@MichaelDavidson-x3y]

@@ianchristian2844 so the idea of the nation state is how we think of nations today: a geographical region ruled over by a singular governmental body that has a monopoly on the use of violence, control over managing crime and punishment, and administers education, medical care, and other duties through a number of centrally commissioned bureaucratic institutions. This is not the only way to organize a nation, in the Fuedal ages in Europe for example, a King did NOT have a monopoly on violence, but instead shared it with his various vassals, and he rarely had any sway over education, as it was managed by a internationalist religious body. Nation states are a very recent form of political and governmental organization that is very much the result of post industrial technology, infrastructure, and philosophy.

[@jacobwiren8142]

It always makes my eyes roll when a person claims 40k is racist. There is literally no racism in the setting. It is a future where racism between humans is abolished. All of humanity is united in a single purpose of self preservation and prosperity. WE WERE BORN TO RULE THE STARS!

[@Zergslayer_42069]

Oath this is my favourite take as everyone and anyone can be turned into fodder on the front lines for the emperor of man kind. On a serious note I love it bc there’s literally zero racism between humans

[@dean_l33]

​@@Zergslayer_42069Except if you're a mutant, doubly so if it's not one of the useful abhuman

[@Zergslayer_42069]

@@dean_l33 ahhhh we don’t talk about those

[@zacharythomas8617]

Shh.

[@vladtepes8461]

​@dean_l33 to be fair to this position mutation is most often linked to chaos and the warp. Therefore mutants are suspect of corruption and cannot be trusted. Chaos is a threat.

[@Paul-A01]

The worst kind of spoil sport who wants to interrupt your playtime with scolds of " um you know that's just a stick and not a sword? knights were bad and you shouldn't pretend to be one?"

[@Rawdiswar]

Womxn?

[@violenceislife1987]

Explains alot

[@the_real_ch3]

A few years ago when I would watch wrestling my annoying sister would constantly say things like "he didn't really hit him" and "that was fake." So one day she was watching game of thrones and everytime someone got stabbed with a sword or any other fight would happen I would say "you know that was fake right? they didn't really get decapitated" She got the point quickly

[@blackosprey2219]

This Adam guy has the voice of soneone who thinks they're extremely smart and funny...

[@admontblanc]

He makes people laugh, though not because he's funny.

[@suddenlythatenderman5800]

missunderstanding starship troopers as is tradition

[@liarwithagun]

Because it is an anti-commie movie. If the commies understood the criticisms that it brought, they wouldn't be siding with the bugmen in the first place

[@weeFred]

Brits crack enigma during ww2. Adam: the brits sacrificed resources for a typewriter.

[@FormerGovernmentHuman]

Well they certainly sacrificed the man behind it.

[@harbl99]

​@@FormerGovernmentHuman Oh, the guy incriminated himself to the police. "And how did you meet the young gentleman who stole your wallet, Mr Turing? ... Are you sure about that? Is that definitely your answer? Think carefully."

[@thefjalar1869]

Didn't Poles crack the enigma tho?

[@weeFred]

​@@thefjalar1869No.

[@jmlaw8888]

​​​@@thefjalar1869No. They did NOT. Also they didnt "win" the Battle of Britain either. In both cases they made MODEST contributions. Polish stolen glory in WW2 is getting ridiculous now. Poland provided Enigma machine replications and lots of early work on cracking it. Again: a contribution, a worthy one, but nowhere near enough to steal the credit.

[@dologongpoloponobonotongpo235]

same guy that got called out by his own audience when he said the soviets were actually environmentalists. conveniently forgetting that they drained an entire sea.😅

[@danielhaigler556]

Drained a sea, irradiated.... Well, everything. desolated the landscape planting failed crops, strip mined anything you could mine. What environment did they preserve??

[@DezaltOfTheDreg]

The great leap foward enters the chat.

[@tzuyd]

"Don't you get enough practice being a good person in real life?" No, no they don't.

[@wintersking4290]

I don't know Carl, the leftists seem to agree with the Austrian mustache man a lot when it comes to environmentalism, veganism, and how to treat their enemies.

[@TranscenGopher]

You noticing patterns, a risky endeavour these days.

[@Zergslayer_42069]

“Everything inside the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state” That’s what you’re looking for

[@vladtepes8461]

Don't forget 'nothing against the state.'

[@Zergslayer_42069]

@ did I fix it XD

[@freespeechenjoyer]

NOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST USE OUR PROPAGANDA FOR YOUR OWN ENDS THAT'S MEDIA ILLITERATE!! 😂

[@MrBuns-yi2hk]

I'm not a Warhammer nerd, but the biggest argument I have heard against retconning the male factions is that there are a bunch of really cool female factions in the game that have a lot of interesting lore. If their goal is to be inclusive, they already have it. It really does seem like they just want to abuse the Warhammer IP to write their own "original story" that wouldn't ever leave the writing room.

[@violenceislife1987]

They want only to bash the chuds and adam admits it

[@FormerGovernmentHuman]

Worst thing is this overshadows one of the coolest factions in the game. The sisters of silence, who are just normal women honed to the point they can even fight alongside custodes but lack a soul/negative presence in the warp so that comes with some caveats. There are also the sisters of battle, the adepta sororitas who are a fan favorite faction and one of the most popular. One of my favorites with some of the best characters, armies, aesthetics and lore all while still being feminine.(compared to space marines atleast) As well as many fantastic females in the lore such as several inquisitors (the most powerful political operatives in the galaxy) and others like ship captain lotara sarrin. All sidelined for a character that has absolutely no depth and just shouldn’t exist.

[@MrBuns-yi2hk]

@FormerGovernmentHuman so yeah, the woke progressive people are just lazy and entitled. They think they deserve money and attention without putting in any real effort.

[@googleandsusansucks]

@@FormerGovernmentHuman not to mention Eldar farseers.

[@migrivp2672]

​@FormerGovernmentHuman I'd love my sister of silence to have those sister of battle terminator armor type of shit and have them fight the taus in their own battle suit

[@cthulhuscot3940]

His brain broke before the guard did.

[@techpriest6962]

Not much of a challenge now is it? He's a leftist, it was broken since the start.

[@mrbigglezworth42]

"Warhammer is a universe where people fight each other using hammers" Was the only true statement said in the video from that guy.

[@zacharythomas8617]

Thank you for changing my heart on things. Never leave.

[@iambob6590]

So once again, a Socialist wants to falsely label non Socialist things as Socialist. The long pattern of behaviour continues.

[@shazmodeus2795]

goes all the way back to 1946 when the winning socialists wanted to distance themselves from the losing socialists so they didn't look so bad.

[@iambob6590]

@@shazmodeus2795 Goes back a lot further than that. Socialists have been labelling other Socialists as 'right wing' since the French revolution. Robespierre was doing it. It's their way of labelling each other as 'Heretics', now it's so ingrained into the Cult that they actually believe that some Socialists are not actually Socialists but in fact right wing. Look at it as a quasi-religious Cult, because that's what it is.

[@JeffPalasek-cw2hv]

​@@shazmodeus2795 I thought it was because the US and Britain were allied with the Soviet Socialists and fighting the Fascists and thosr other guys. And so the Allies agreed for the purpose of propaganda that National Socialism was really a variant of Fascism, and that the Fascism of the Italians & Germans was significantly different from what the Russians are doing. That's just conjecture on my part. I see all of them as the same centrally planned collectivist garbage in practice.

[@jeice13]

1:20:20 mass effect is a hero fantasy, that's why people play paragon. Look at grand theft auro and you see people running over pedestrians for laughs because it's a sandbox crime game

[@doublebassman123]

I would like to also point out that even though the aliens you encounter in the game are different, behaviorally, culturally, to humans, they still end up being very human in their interactions with you when the quest is finished. If they were all like the Starship Troopers bugs we might not have a problem being ruthless with them.

[@Ewil.Bluetooth]

My Shepherd is always renegade in many conversations. That's what makes him badass.

[@dickc.normous6369]

Also what's the metric for saying people played paragon i played predominantly renegade but made several large decisions with the paragon options as being renegade is actively punished by the time you get to 3. There's clearly a path endorsed by the game and it's paragon

[@shazmodeus2795]

@@Ewil.Bluetooth My Shep was always renegade when it came to that reporter on the Citadel.

[@Ewil.Bluetooth]

​@@shazmodeus2795Yeah that's one a given. 😂

[@mites7]

I’ve haven’t seen someone demolish a bad take this well in a while lmao

[@TherealTenmanI]

He is a relic from golden agw of internet arguments. It's an lost art.

[@pelicanlogs4782]

These people legitimately cannot roleplay anything outside of their world view.

[@zacharythomas8617]

T1 PC Dm. There can be only one!

[@TranscenGopher]

Exactly why all media now has to include at least one character that's exactly "literally me" for the usual suspects - for the lack of ability to empathize with anyone else.

[@bad-girlbex3791]

And having seen what they roleplay as during Pride festivals, I know enough of their world-view to understand that they thought the old adage was "give me licentiousness or give me death!" right up until AIDS tried to make good on that agreement.

[@ekimaulthar2044]

I bet this dude's blood would literally BOIL if the God Emperor came out and said "leave the Kids Alone!"

[@belisarius3175]

Regarding "schrodinger's shitpost": Maybe that is true of some people, but I think it is much more true of far more people that when they post over-the-top political memes, they are expressing a massively exaggerated and farcical version of beliefs they *really* hold as a form of catharsis. A MAGA person who wants smaller government and political reform memes about "putting people in the crystals", or a person who wants less immigration says that "they're full" or indulges in nationalistic mythologising. The truth is that they have fairly reasonable or “moderate” views-- the memes are a maximalist form of them to the point of conscious self-parody. I think this is true of both right and leftists a lot of the time when they shitpost.

[@tomwinterfishing9065]

Yeah. Dunno about leftist memes. Didn’t know they exist tbh.

[@cailancook9720]

What a compelling perspective. Never thought about this.

[@evanvalenta1898]

You're right. It's kind of fun to lean into some silly extremist memes to poke some fun at yourself and keep you grounded. The only people who would argue against this are the people that post such extremist memes unironically.

[@wingsoffreedom3589]

Really I always thought that was obvious?

[@belisarius3175]

@@evanvalenta1898 I don’t really believe in extremism because I don’t take the idea of a moderate centre very seriously. The point I’m making is that people who actually believe these things to the extent that they do either don’t meme about it, or if they do, you wouldn’t be able to tell from the memes they post necessarily.

[@TearThatRedFlagDown]

People on the side of the isle that produced regimes like the USSR and Cambodia don't get to lecture us about supposed morality.

[@Kyle7565]

The Eldar would consign whole worlds of mon-keigh to oblivion if they foresaw it saving the life of one Eldar. Screw the craftworlds

[@nathanielrourke8886]

To be fair, the Imperium would consign whole worlds of humans to oblivion to kill one Eldar.

[@Godsabum]

​@@nathanielrourke8886based

[@jsriolo87]

That video came up in my feed as well - thanks for saving my time!

[@Ewil.Bluetooth]

It's interesting that this video turned up in so many normal folks feeds even if they never watched the channel before.

[@Toodream]

How do they get away with arguing in nothing but fallacies.

[@techpriest6962]

Because they are low lQ people.

[@nicolivoldkif9096]

Because like themselves their audience will never do any thinking on their own to check their work.

[@techpriest6962]

@ They are a hive mind.

[@baddragonite]

You'd think Adam would be all for eating ze bugs

[@Booma4142]

Katyn massacre was the Polish slaughter by the Soviets.

[@harbl99]

I had a history professor who maintained that was western propaganda against the good, honest, decent Stalin-era Soviets, in the 1990s! The Russians had admitted "Yeah, that was us. Here's the documents" years before, but he still held onto that article of faith.

[@ronmastrio2798]

@@harbl99 Yeah some commies legitimately think that evidence taken form the Soviet archives is "western propaganda".

[@lostalone9320]

"Warhammer is a problem because people post memes." - Big brain, media literate.

[@AndyJarman]

The bit about games being displays of morality is very interesting. Instead of being escapist fantasy, games are viewed as psychoanalytic displays of inner drives. Like interrogations of the mind or even tge soul. As though the mind has to be acceptable as a political entity. This is the toralitarian drive laid bare. Not even your personal fantasies are above scrutiny and censure. I heard Jordan Peterson remark a lot of wokeism seemed to be a reflection of a lack of game playing during childhood. Resorting to trans identities was a symptom of being unpracticed in negotiated social transactions and poorly differentiated from the parent

[@thibaldus3]

Trans identity is just perverts conflating attraction for the opposite sex with the desire to become it.

[@KopperNeoman]

If a game lets me play as the bloodsucking vampire, I'll take the opportunity. It's an incredibly interesting role to play. My dream game in fact is a survival horror where you play AS a vampire trying to avoid being dusted by any means necessary. Some elements of reverse horror would be included, but only if you're winning. That doesn't mean I want to stand in rebellion against God in real life.

[@TranscenGopher]

​​@@KopperNeoman I believe there is a vampire game like that, where you live for a thousand of years, and it heavily inspires you to keep low and cover your tracks, to avoid fights that can cost you dearly. There's also a memory mechanic in it where your character gradually loses more and more humanity as he gets more powerful (humanity as in you forget something important from your previous life, like how your wife looked, things like that). The name of the game escapes me, sadly. I know there was definitely a board game variant of it (two player, the vampire and the game master), maybe also an RPG of that kind too.

[@Toodream]

The party of troons calls everyone incells

[@ryan.1990]

Typical projection. I'm sure Adam is swimming in tail lmao

[@GulagMoosefeller]

It's awful listening to that guy's channel. Nonstop lie after lie.

[@King_Thulsa_Doom]

By the way, congratulations on becoming a Chaos Warlord, Sargon. I know you are secretly a loyalist, though.

[@Zergslayer_42069]

Could it be Sargon is actually Alpharius? Or maybe his omegon

[@dickc.normous6369]

When GW crosses the line and goes broke him an Arch need to crowdfund to buy GW and write him being saved and turned loyalist and made the new primach of the Iron Hands or Blood Angela

[@mrvoltem9379]

Hydra dominatus

[@rudi5139]

'Every time we killed a thousand bugs at a cost of one M.I, it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution...'

[@BogaSlawa]

A bad showing from the Czechs 😬

[@abcdeabcde4877]

Many such cases.

[@BogaSlawa]

@@MrHarrystank I just checked his community posts and social media. It's Dev levels of bad, possibly worse.

[@setsunatenma9467]

​@@BogaSlawa yeah his community post about doubling down on his shit idea about how to change social media was the worse I have seen.

[@bluecoin3771]

For Democracy! For the Emperor. For Capitalism!

[@techpriest6962]

You still believe in that fairytale? Read a bit of Aristotle and you'll thank me later. He knew more about Democracy than 99% of people.

[@SoMuchFacepalm]

@@techpriest6962 People generally don't differentiate between Democracy and Polity. Vootin is Vootin.

[@Luciferkrist]

Note to all future viewers: If you EVER feel like siding with the bugs, you're the problem. Take a minute and reassess your lives, ethics, and priorities.

[@GenXSpiritWarrior]

The trouble with the guy making the criticism of Warhammer 40k and Starship Troopers isn't just that he is wrong or that he is lying. The real problem is that he is too stupid to understand the concepts that are clearly stated in both the book and the movie. It is as I have said for years. There is no wilful evil as destructive as stupidity. Stupid people don't do or promote evil because they are evil, they do it because they are stupid and don't know any better.

[@AndyJarman]

Mmm, I still suspect they are merely naive, I just can't bring myself to write off people entirely.

[@haraldbredsdorff2699]

I used to think they where dishonest and lying. It is only recently I realized, these people really are unable to answer the breakfast question of "How Would You Have Felt If You Hadn't Eaten Breakfast?". Unable to grasp scenarios in their mind. Not all, but many of them, really seem like low IQ people.

[@campomambo]

They are not naive. Most of these people are either stupid or ideologically captured. The ideologues know what they are doing. The ideologically captured have fully bought the propaganda. They rabidly push the ideology with blind obedience. However, stupid people say the same thing as the ideologically captured, but make their own side look stupid while doing it. Naive people, are people who accept the propaganda, but don’t try to push it. They just assume it must be true because people in authority say so.

[@Zergslayer_42069]

@@AndyJarmanI can, when you yell and call people fascists yet support fascists policies I can definitely write someone off if it means self preservation.

[@wingsoffreedom3589]

But what happens when you are both evil and stupid?

[@reval1989]

Jesus this Adamsomething guy is really bad faith

[@TranscenGopher]

The same dude who defended soviet brutalist architecture is arguing in bad faith? You don't say...

[@reval1989]

@@TranscenGopher Oh. Defending brutalism should be illegal

[@TranscenGopher]

​@@reval1989 "it's efficient" or something.

[@singlikeyoumeanit3261]

Wholesome moment to have your son cameo

[@NinjaQuick]

It's incredibly weird to bring up the Iraq WMDs red herring as a parallel - since that happened more than 5 years later. Starship Troopers released in 1997. There is no parallel.

[@IchHassePasswoerter]

The first Iraq war wasn't.

[@ghola82]

If you would've told teenager me, that was walking out of the theater, in the 90's. After seeing this goofy space shooting, bug killing, scifi romp of a flick. That it would be used in philosophical online debates 30 years from then. I'd say you were freaking mental! We really do live in interesting times.

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

I mean, the Book is the only fiction book that is required reading at West Point, so the philosophical thesis Heinlein put in the original text(and managed to seep into the film despite Verhoven's misunderstanding of it) were definitely already valuable.

[@Nukestarmaster]

I see the bugmen have been bugposting again.

[@grumbledore424]

Is this a bugaloo? Hope they brought their Hawaiian shirts. 🤣

[@plick645]

Lol. Is gamergate in the room with us rn? Im shaking.

[@plick645]

The problem is no suspension of disbelief. In the book the "bugs" were an advanced race with equal technology roughly. I'm willing to entertain the 'millions of years to reach Earth' argument as well, but that means it has fuck all to do with the Mormon Extremists. That means they planned to attack regardless, possibly to colonize before they knew it was habituated or didn't care either way.

[@bad-girlbex3791]

It never left.

[@JeremyRight-zi4yp]

At this point he's not just "media illiterate", he's literally a propagandist for the space bugs...

[@techpriest6962]

It's sad when the *Japanese anime* version is more truthful to the book than any movie or game made for *Starship Troopers.*

[@sgtmac110]

Traitor of Mars is REALLY good I’m ngl.

[@ericmcmanus5179]

If I saw actual demons coming out of wormholes in space. If I saw them devouring all life from my planet. I'd be a bit ideological as well if I saw an army of giant super soldiers come down and save me. Being saved is definitely more beneficial than being sent to the warp for an enternity of torture and pain.

[@TranscenGopher]

If you **saw** demons, you ain't going to be saved in 40k. That's purging material.

[@ericmcmanus5179]

@TranscenGopher hahaha

[@tuseroni6085]

"everything for the message, nothing outside the message, nothing against the message"

[@N0stalgicLeaf]

Adam keeps finding dirt because the bottom of the barrel is gone, and so is the floor and the foundation and the gravel underneath all victim to his furious reaching.

[@STEVEIAM1]

I thought the point of the system in star ship troopers was that only people willing to serve are worth leading.

[@kOfTheQ]

Why do the progressives KEEP CHOOSING THE BUGS?!

[@w00d5m4n]

i went on reddit once and now im transgendy

[@ReptilianLepton]

I rowed a boat once and now im transgendry

[@Dibbsi]

I played veilguard and now I'm transgendry

[@AndyJarman]

Oooer missus, sounds painful. What type of underwear do you have to wear?

[@varietywiarrior]

I wore a hat once and now I'm trendy.

[@luxie8097]

I installed linux and now im transgendy

[@robertanderson9509]

But carl, having women represented as genetically modified warrior-slaves is empowering. Also, a futuristic dystopia without feminism is just madness.

[@wingsoffreedom3589]

I'm sure plenty of Slaanesh cultists are feminists.

[@mattjames6847]

If course this guy sides with the Tyranids, he's a mindless consumer

[@redacted5052]

Yeah; you do still have the best starship troops video.

[@Billmaster115]

Adam Something is the reason why "Blessed is the mind too small for doubt" is a true statement. Space Marines are not fools or unlearned barbarians. The slogan is saying their mind has no room for doubting the self evident good of fighting for the prosperity of Mankind the Emperor's glory. Think about it, if they were saying they're unintelligent, why would they use "doubt" & not "questioning"? It definitely could be applied to the facgual truth, but I will not doubt its truth in regards to moral truth

[@billyherrington5112]

Some are

[@Billmaster115]

@ Yes, they’re called Heretic Astartes

[@billyherrington5112]

@@Billmaster115 some loyalists too to be honest xD

[@Billmaster115]

@@billyherrington5112 you steppin’ into some heretical waters, Brother! (XD)

[@billyherrington5112]

@@Billmaster115 I mean some of loyalist are unlearned barbarians. I once read a book where some loyalist marines that comes from feral world where illiterate xD

[@venn7eance925]

I was recommended that video the other day as well, and it turned out that I was subscribed to the channel. He must have created a really good 40K video in the past to have earned my sub, but that sub was very quickly retracted when I heard his opening statement and read through his comments section. It's fascinating just how many people who claim to love 40k are so completely wrong about the lore, what it represents and the intentions of the original creators and lore writers. Nothing they say or do will make me feel any less appreciative of the franchise, and I simply choose to ignore all of the attempts to rewrite canon to suit "modern audiences". Thankfully, a very large portion of the Black Library's Horus Heresy novelisations were already written before this cancerous nonsense began to seep its way into the hobby. I haven't made it to the Siege of Terra series yet, The End and The Death trilogy being the books I have wanted to read now for over a decade when I asked Dan Abnett "Who will actually be writing the fight between the Emperor and Horus?" while he signed my copy of Horus Rising long ago at Games Day, but I trust Dan Abnett enough to have treated that pinnacle aspect of the lore with the due reverence and respect it deserves (Pls no spoilers! I stopped reading the series in 2011 due to medical problems and have only recently looked into how the series had progressed). The Silent Sisterhood and the Adeptus Sororitas will always be the ultimate female badasses of the universe, Custodes will always be exclusively MALE as will the Astartes. The Imperium of Man is a fucking work of fiction and it doesn't mean I am a fascist or a nazi for simply enjoying their lore. The same way I can appreciate and really love the aesthetic of the Nazis during the war without wanting to resurrect the Reich or go on a genocidal spree. It is quite possible (and extremely easy for people with intelligence) to entertain an idea without accepting it and making it part of your character which only adds to the mountain of evidence that leftists aren't especially intelligent.

[@sigy4ever]

He keeps using "gamergators" as an insult but the GamerGator movement was what the leftie anti-gamergate 'movement' was called so this dude doesn't even know anything about gamergate (which tbf was 11-13 years ago so he was probably 8)

[@00Rennah]

I guess that guy never heard of GTA or Postal. Also, if you want some more moral complexity in 40k, there's Rogue Trader.

[@kevinh2345]

One important aspect of Heinlein to be mentioned is that he didn't campaign alongside just any Democrat politician. He campaign for Upton Sinclair, who was at the time an unabashed Socialist. Both of them hated Communism outright, and eventually turned on socialism recognizing it for the evil it perpetrated.

[@Zauberer1]

It honestly sounds like this guy asked ChatGPT to generate a video essay script that arrived at the conclusion he desired because too many of his points fall flat in a botlike way.

[@TranscenGopher]

He just be like that. Older videos are proof, there was no ChatGPT yet back then.

[@Zauberer1]

@TranscenGopher ah OK I had no context for this goober.

[@ultramarine0123]

Ive played custodes before they had a codex and you had to download a pdf, and I think they should remain all men

[@DrLimeGreen]

When you read the actual novels of the inquisition (perhaps the most infamously cruel human faction) you will find that they're not complete horror shows of villain protagonists going ape on civilians for muh heresy. Pretty much all of the: "oh we had to exterminates the planet because chaos taint" exists in rulebook fluff and vague references at best. Characters in novels are generally written to be likeable, heroic, and reasonable - because it's a story! and you're meant to empathize with them. When acts of mass cruelty do show up in the novels, its universally depicted as evil at worst or a RARE necessary evil at best. The novels are really not satirical at all, except for a few early exceptions.

[@thetreelander7378]

the inquisition is peak example of giving individuals ultimate power and telling them to do what they think is right to protect whatever. a giant mix bag of good actions but mostly killing innocents to get that one guy, what honestly is fair due to chaos being a thing.

[@DrLimeGreen]

@@thetreelander7378 That's my point, though- its not "mostly", not in the novels anyway.

[@orkstuff5635]

"The problem with the 40K War Game is that it's too violent" 🤣

[@manofmartin]

Castodes are a wildly popular faction. Especially after henry cavill popularized it!

[@Nadaters]

It's very predictable. "It's fantasy. Why does your suspension of disbelief stop there?" to "Why do you even care so much?"

[@WoWisdeadtome]

The reason leftists constantly focus on the failed Austrian painter is because, in their minds, that conflict against him was the last time "they" (since none of them were personally involved) were unequivocally the good guys. Alternatively I still see the US, Canada, the UK etc. as the good guys though they seem to be working hard to cast off that distinction. In 40k however, I am 100% behind the Imperium of man and not just pro-human but unaugmented humans. I have two armies, Adepta Sororitas and Astra Militarum. In particular the guard have a very real appeal to me just in their "This is my rifle, there are many like it but this one is mine" feel. In a world of genetically engineered super soldiers, technology so crazy it is indistinguishable from magic, literal demons spawned from men's fears, and rampaging alien killing machines, the guardsmen are just men and their rifles who do their duty despite being outclassed by their opponents almost always. That's what heroism looks like.