Idk, this is just some rant post but this thing keeps fucking happening to me, it just happened to me. I will find out someone online or someone whose work I’m interested in or someone I was talking to is essentially and irreversibly reactionary
I’m sure the guy who makes these is also fucking brainwormed somehow but there’s a XKCD comic about the constructed language “Lojban” that I’ve been learning that goes like this:
[Cueball and Black Hat are having a conversation.]
Cueball: If you learned to speak Lojban, your communication would be completely unambiguous and logical.
Black Hat: Yeah, but it would all be with the kind of people who learn Lojban.
And it’s so fucking real. Just ughhh idek where to begin, so lemme start “here” as in Lemmy or the libiverse. The only other Lojban speaker I could find on here is on the fucking furry porn instance we aren’t federated with lol. Btw, I forgot this person’s pronouns and I don’t even wanna go look at this person’s profile again (you will see why) so I will do this, sorry: le furry porn instance Lojban speaker ku goi ko’a (I bind free variable “ko’a” to refer to this person)
But I was like, okay, ko’a seems kinda off (ko’a translates everything ko’a says from Lojban to English even though ko’a is Amerikkkan and speaks English natively) but that’s fine, I like weird, weird is often good, ko’a is autistic, I’m autistic, maybe I will message ko’a and say hi. Then I go to ko’a’s linked Github profile and find out ko’a is a literal fed, as in ko’a openly works for intelligence services 
, mildly afraid to even mention ko’a but ko’a can’t be that high up right? Ko’a has an acct on the furry porn instance linked to ko’a’s fed shit lmao. Ko’a’s listed job description is much more ominous and creepy in Lojban than in English btw which I don’t wanna go into here but yeh 
. Not even getting into ko’a’s other brainworms here but I read ko’a’s stuff a while ago
Okay, there’s no speakers I want to talk to here, fine, fine, it’s very obscure, I was lucky to find the fed on here if anything. So I go to the chat/IRC and find out it is infested with insufferable techbros who DON’T EVEN SPEAK PARSABLY VALID LOJBAN, one of whom is basically an open misanthropic blue fascist, who believes in like… an unelected Democrat monarch to control the stupid masses or something
Regardless, I was asking some questions about my ongoing translation of “Combat Liberalism” in there, talked with someone for a while who was at least helpful but then my account on [unspecified platform bridged to the IRC, I’m sure you could find but whatever lol, there’s nothing publicly visible] was reported for spam and then I was no longer allowed to speak in any groups. The only thing I can think of for why this happened is some lib, too cowardly and too pathetic to disagree with me in the open, mass reported everything I sent and got my account basically temp-banned. Wild right? Yet somehow not unexpected. Also pointless cuz I just logged on to the real IRC and kept my conversation going lmao. Oh and btw, ko’a is in the chat too ugh
Okay, okay, whatever it’s fine it’s fine, I should expect this. What about the people on the Wiki or in the Logical Language Group that, is at least supposed to, develop(s) Lojban? So I was reading through some of the articles and profiles on the wiki and they are much better. Then I somehow ended up at the personal website and blog of an LLG member, who was once the lead person or president or whatever of LLG to read about his takes on libertarianism and the age of consent among other things I forgot 
. Or I read the takes of the insufferable Randian logicians on the wiki which somehow are often okay on limited aspects of the language yet they are also Randians who should be purged
This is not the first time this has happened to me, this basically constantly happens to me cuz of my weird nerd interests who I must share with some of the worst people on the planet
It’s so fucking exhausting dealing with these overwhelmingly white, massively techbrained, toxic, insufferably 
cishet men and all their brainworms. No wonder most people who can even speak Lojban are like this, yet I persist for some reason 
Idk, there seem to be some people in the community which are cool but yeh
Be glad you’re not into 40k. There are some reprehensible people into that hobby.
Reprehensible and loud about it
I listened to 1 lore focused 40k podcast for a portion of an episode and it took maybe 20 minutes before they started ranting about feminism for some fucking reason
What’s hilarious is the actual hobby and tabletop communities are much better. It’s the LORE fans that need the Inquisition.
40k brainworms, living up to my username
Fandoms are to Capitalism as Genestealer cults are to Tyranids. Their whole purpose is to attract a monstrous all-consuming hive-mind, while sowing chaos and disruption among a population while eventually taking it over, and prepping it for consumption.
Then again, I played Tyranids back in 3rd edition, so maybe my opinion is suspect…
And it’s not even supposed to be called “lore.” It’s “fluff,” which is to differentiate it from “crunch.” Crunch are rules (hard to bite into, difficult to swallow) and fluff is story/background (easy to chew, goes down smooth).
The YouTube and book slop secondaries are obnoxious because 40k is first and foremost a game where grown ass adults can play with toys. If it’s assembled and painted, it’s canon. The communist furry cat girl army that’s at least three colors and flocked has more claim to being canon than the mental gymnastics used to explain why there aren’t female whatever.
Regardless, reactionaries find their way into a lot of places they shouldn’t be in. My Little Pony, Sonic the Hedgehog, Vampire the Masquerade, Nintendo products (Pokémon, Mario, Zelda, etc.), and so on all have chud infestations.
That’s the funny thing. I actually really like the lore, but only when the Imperium eats shit. But that’s so fucking rare and even when they do, they still come out on top somehow. Like the 13th Black Crusade. Ugh. Chaos forever. May the corpse emperor rot for eternity.
Unfortunately, and unlike Warhammer Fantasy, the 40K lore is overwhelmingly Imperial focused. The lore works best when it supports the “everybody fighting everybody” of the tabletop. Giving more perspectives to the other factions would enrich the lore, give a much needed alternative perspective to the Imperium, and support the tabletop.
Yeah, I know :\ I’ve read quite a few books and I hate it. Even my favorites, the Ahriman series, just have him failing over and over again and the Imperium isn’t even present most of the time.
Just goes to show even though 40k may have started as satire/making fun of fascism it’s now a full throated endorsement of it, no matter what gw says about “warhammer is for everyone” they’ve really dedicated themselves to the human ubermensch enforcing his will on the removed, foreign galaxy through force of arms. It doesn’t matter how many times they write that its the most brutal regime in history if they keep portraying that regime as right and the only hope for humanity.
I just want to build and paint model kits and make them go “pew pew” in a silly world where orks belief can alter reality and the god of the theological empire is dead but nooo gw had to embrace the most boring fascist part of the universe. Horus Heresy was a mistake, Space Marines should be portrayed as the barely human indoctrinated child soldiers that they are and not the holy angels of the god emperor
It’s obnoxious and why I refuse to play any Imperium faction no matter how cool they are to me (Admech is dope af, but needs to break the yoke of the Imperium). So I stick to Chaos mostly. Fuck the Imperium.