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  • RandyLahey [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Fun story: My first real brush with unironic fash was posting on the Hearts of Iron forums about ten or so years ago and I made fun of Himmler for being such a fucking loser (seriously, dude was a massive loser who probably joined the nazis to get revenge for Jewish kids giving him wedgies or something, he absolutely would have been a /pol poster), and all these people came out of the woodwork to tell me how he was so successful and managed a whole branch of the state and at least he did something with his life, unlike me who of course lives in my mother's basement and contributes nothing.

    At the time it was such a jawdroppingly bizarre experience, even for such a cursed forum, and it's striking how that sort of response would probably be pretty normal these days.

      • RandyLahey [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        This was back in hoi2 days, and all the paradox forums had their After Action Reports where people would make sort-of novelised stories out of their campaigns from the perspectives of the higher-ups in the countries. They were dorky but harmless except half the hoi ones were these stories from their german campaigns where they had Goering and Himmler etc chatting as the protagonists, it was really fucking creepy. Germany was kinda their default "can you change the course of history?" campaign but it always felt way too gross for me to ever play as them.

        • anthm17 [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          That's why you play as the soviets and DON'T STOP.

          :stalin-shining:

          • Jorick [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            "NOOOOOOOO You can't just invade germany in 1936, you're breaking the hecking gamerino !!!"

            "Haha, 40 width divisions go URAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

          • RandyLahey [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah the hoi games might be cursed, but my best g*ming moment was the desperate defense of the USSR against the fascist hordes in hoi2, where the 1941 disorganisation penalties were absolutely brutal. Just absolutely desperate fallback after fallback and delaying counterattacks to avoid overrun and encirclement, till finally winter hit when they were almost at the gates of Moscow. And then the beautiful cathartic pushback to sweep Europe clean of fashy filth and get the naval bases to build some carrier groups and go Red Dawn some fuckers.

      • makotech222 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        ten years ago would prob be hoi2 which was probably way worse with the nazis.

    • Torenico [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Man I'd rather be a guy living in the basement for 45 years than a fucking psycho mass murderer who probably couldn't keep an erection.

    • ShoutyMcSocialism [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Entire holocaust could have been averted if /pol/ was around in the 30's. They all would have stayed in the house posting "dank memes" and owning the German libs.

    • anthm17 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I remember when I was ~15 some girl was talking about how hitler had done all this great infrastructure work.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Himmler was a /pol/ guy before there was even a /pol/

    Obsessed with Arthurian lore, thought we should go back to feudalism, had a lot of weird magical thinking

    Total Chud, through and through

    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      You will never be a real Chad. You have no chin, you have no wrists, you have no sex. You are an incel twisted by steroids and improper lifting form into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection. All the “sex” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your recessed jaw behind closed doors. Chads are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed Chads to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even dweebs who “pass” look uncanny and unnatural to a Chad. Your bone structure is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a drunk girl home with you, she’ll turn tail and bolt the second she gets a whiff of your adolescent, stagnant axe body spray. You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight. Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a bench, pump some iron, not use a spotter, and drop the bar on your own throat. Your parents will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your Reddit posts, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a nerd is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton that is unmistakably weak. This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.

      :le-pol-face:

        • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I just remember rebro or someone on the sub demanding that a chud post pics of their wrists, apparently it's another one of those incel masculinity things

        • ToastGhost [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Of all the things they can bully eachother with, and cultivate a state of constantly feeling inferior and victimized that it requires to be a nazi, wrists are a pretty good one. You probably see your own forearms, wrists, and hands more than any other body part, and there is a direct connection to make between strong chad vs weak virgin and arm muscles. Its a perfect way to make white men feel like shit constantly and sell them nazism as the cure.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          Basically the origins of this copypasta was that the original one was a transphobic rant that a chud would keep spamming on here. So someone converted it to target the chud, and it made them really pissed. The chud started ranting about how they were a 6'4 chad that could bench 300lbs and all sorts of crazy shit.