Normally I would call bullshit, but I just played first dnd session of my life few days ago and already met 2 hardcore zionists there (one of which apparently makes pro-israel tiktoks as a side-hobby)
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.
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.
Let them know that if they’re the kind of person who thinks it’s justified to deliberately kill children because terrorists are using them as shields, then they should be consistent and also believe that if a murderer is holding a baby up to shield them from the police it is also justified to shoot through the baby to kill the murderer.
I’ve fallen out with my supposedly radlib parents since the time a few years back when I brought up Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine and they got weirdly quiet and non-conversational. It wasn’t just because of that, but that was absolutely a major contributing red flag. I’m sure they’re against Israel today, now that it’s politically popular to be so.
Normally I would call bullshit, but I just played first dnd session of my life few days ago and already met 2 hardcore zionists there (one of which apparently makes pro-israel tiktoks as a side-hobby)
It’s always the Paladin
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/23
I bet the Monsters Manual was written by a paladin.
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.
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.
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.
I’d also normally call BS but recently learned a very liberal family member of mine “isn’t sure which side to take” on the matter.
I’ve let them know, but they sort of dismissed me.
So I can only imagine what someone all-on on Israel would do.
Let them know that if they’re the kind of person who thinks it’s justified to deliberately kill children because terrorists are using them as shields, then they should be consistent and also believe that if a murderer is holding a baby up to shield them from the police it is also justified to shoot through the baby to kill the murderer.
I’ve fallen out with my supposedly radlib parents since the time a few years back when I brought up Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine and they got weirdly quiet and non-conversational. It wasn’t just because of that, but that was absolutely a major contributing red flag. I’m sure they’re against Israel today, now that it’s politically popular to be so.