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Israel-palestine allegory gone wrong
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this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2026
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How does this happen. I would think nerdy stuff like dnd would be full of leftists and the exiles of society
Zionist propaganda is pervasive and subtle. I fell for it for decades and I'm a leftist.
The right are know to take over preexisting communities, I've seen that happen in a few warhammar Facebook groups.
Warhammer appeals to a lot of chuds who aren't in on the joke.
Yeah I got a pretty conservative math prof in community college who does Warhammer 40k
D&D empowers a small group of people to individually gain power and eventually exert outsized influence on intra- and international politics, even entreating with godlike entities.
D&D is just a power-fantasy. Where that fantasy leans (politically/ideologically) is just the GM's setting.
Power fantasy is one of the more common modes of a D&D game, but it's not the only one nor does the game structurally force it.
You don't believe that leveling up and increasing your attributes, core components of the game, are inherently reflectively of power fantasy?
That's a good point. I guess in a sense that means the game does structurally promote power fantasy play, but I still don't think it lends itself exclusively to that kind of play.
No, it doesn't exclude play not centered on its power fantasies.
But its structure (and the structure of the ubiquitous 'rags to riches'-style of heroes' story) does support it.
Remember this subthread is a response to someone expressing surprise that D&D isn't solely the domain of [liberal/leftist] nerds.
D&D is also popular in the military and overlaps with WH40K players. The Satanic Panic is a distant memory - it's a family activity in community centers.