Four high-profile Games Workshop employees’ posts about Charlie Kirk have sparked more controversy. Should Warhammer and politics mix?
Updated on September 18th, 2025, with the latest alleged comments by Games Workshop employees.
When the conversation in the hobby should be about dice rolls, plastic glue, and painting techniques, it tends to take a sharp turn when any GW employee decides to publicly wade into politics.
Recent social media posts regarding Charlie Kirk have set off a storm, pulling Warhammer back into headlines for all the wrong reasons. For a company that prides itself on crafting universes where Space Marines and Orks duke it out, dragging real-world politics into the mix feels like a critical misstep.
Let’s break down why this latest controversy has hobbyists concerned and why mixing Warhammer with political hot takes never ends well.
What Was Said By GW Employees:
From GW employee Mike Brandt, per a verified submitted screenshot:
“The right is actively doing things that will cause more death in various parts of the world. Canceling USAID, vaccine mandates, access to Healthcare. This is tantamount to murder, and I don’t like murder. So it’s hypocrisy to celebrate the thing we say we don’t like. His passing may make the world a better place. The nature of his passing assuredly doesn’t.”
That is a lot of heat from a company leader’s personal social media, which readers may then associate with the Warhammer brand.
Apologies and clarifications also came in the same thread before he ultimately removed the post. It’s even possible that admitting the need to “clarify” and removing the post seems to indicate that the line was crossed already.
Shortly after these comments were made, Twitter highlighted another set of comments addressing not only Charlie Kirk, but also supposedly jokes about 9/11 and more, allegedly by three other Games Workshop employees.
Games Workshop, producer of warhammer, a hobby primarily aimed at teenage boys, employs Tom Mendelsohn, a man who in recent days CELEBRATED the September 11th attacks and cheered the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Through Black Library, they employ Mike Brooks, who encouraged further political division in the United States which could potentially lead to further violence.
They employ Paul Scott Canavan, who just last year himself advocated for violence not just against his political opponents, but against their loved ones, suggesting that their wives and mothers be murdered.
These were then picked up by YouTube creators who elaborated more on the details. We were unable to verify these statements, as the LinkedIn, Twitter accounts, or individual posts cited seem to have been deleted.
Charlie Kirk Firings: Why This May Apply to GW Right Now
According to Axios, there have been dozens of high-profile firings, from an MSNBC analyst to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.
So what do these waves of firings and disciplinary actions tell us here? Well, it’s a Clear pattern.
When public figures post hot political takes about Charlie Kirk, their employers tend to act fast.
If these alleged Games Workshop employee comments tread into that same territory, the risk falls on the Warhammer brand. The smart move for GW seems to be to keep politics off brand-adjacent feeds, restate the inclusion stance, tighten corporate social media policy for senior staff, and let the conversation snap back to models, missions, and good sportsmanship.
Warhammer is for everyone, but it only works when leaders avoid partisan takes and let the game be a safe meetup spot for anyone who just wants to roll D6s.
The Brand Lesson: Corporate Social Media Policy 101
Public leaders represent more than themselves. That is true for a news analyst or a talk show host on air. That is true for a high-profile (or otherwise) employee at a billion-dollar company.
Once a post crosses into value judgments about a person’s death, readers may attach that tone to the organization. A better policy from Games Workshop would keep that line clear before anyone hits publish on any platform.
The Ironic Sidebar: Remember The Arch Warhammer Era
The irony is hard to miss. The current argument tracks with earlier flare-ups tied to the creator once known as Arch Warhammer. That cycle pulled the community into culture-war trenches and away from toy soldiers.
No one wants a rerun, and GW would benefit from the focus being on models and games, not partisan loyalty tests.
Final Thoughts From Us: GW Employees’ Political Comments
We’re not here to push any political angle. If you work for a billion-dollar company like Games Workshop, posting political takes that might be tied to the Warhammer brand is probably a bad idea. GW has made it clear that Warhammer is for everyone, and when staff step outside that line, they risk damaging the community.
That can lead to internal action ranging from a warning to outright dismissal.
This is a Games Workshop controversy that did not need to exist. Mixing Warhammer and politics only burns hobby goodwill.
Everyone wins when the loudest message in this space is still the same: roll dice, have fun, and let Warhammer be for everyone.
Paul and especially Tom said some really over the line stuff. The other two don’t seem as bad.
Didn’t see anything bad in the bit from tom. Being rude to hecklers is fine, and an offcolor joke about something unrelated is a nothingburger. The other parts of his and the 2 mikes were just honest, factual takes rather than kowtowing to the right, and that makes the cultists throw a tantrum.
Paul was way outta line tho, he sounded like CK, just without all the hedging.
I don’t know how much to read into it, but this is what I got in reply to my calm email to GW Events in regards to this situation:
Dear Tim,
Thank you for taking the time to bring this to our attention. We’re sorry that any of our employees have behaved in this manner. While we respect everyone’s right to a personal opinion, we’d like to be clear that we do not support these actions.
We are taking this very seriously.
We are undertaking investigations into their behaviour and will take appropriate action in line with our internal policies and legal duties. We’re sure you’ll appreciate that any investigations of this nature are confidential and we are therefore legally unable to disclose any further information. And while we appreciate this can ring hollow, please know that we are working to ensure any outcome is proportionate to the impact of their actions.
We greatly value the passion and commitment you have for the Warhammer hobby. The trust and confidence of our community are extremely important to us, and we will continue working to ensure Warhammer remains a space defined by creativity, inclusivity, and respect.
Thank you again for taking the time to contact us.
Sincerely,
Games Workshop Customer Support
The email came from another address that seems like they have a dedicated email account for handling what’s transpired.
I would love to see that email reply if you wouldnt mind forwarding it. I will not reveal your email address to anyone. rob@spikeybits.com
Absolutely not shocked that a company whose main game system is a satirical caricature of fascist colonialism and religious zealotry would have employees who think CK was in fact a horrible human being. Good for them for exorcising their free speech. I’m so sick of people being afraid to speak their beliefs because some big faceless Corp is afraid of a 1% loss in profits. Warhammer is for all, but they also (rightly) discourage hate speech and discrimination in their community. The comments were not on their corporate accounts, and the average player has no idea who actually works at GW anyway. We should not be afraid to express happiness and relief when horrible people pass, especially given the irony of CK’s beliefs and the circumstances of his passing. CK was like Lorgar, inciting open rebellion against the “corpse emperor” AKA the constitution, progress, and any ideology that didn’t align with his own.
Do you know who mirrors Slaanesh well in our real-world? The embodiment of pain, sexual degeneracy, hedonism, the mutilation of people’s genitals, transvestites and et cetera? You will not like the answer and you already know what it is.
And there it is. The open anti-lgbtq bigotry. I expected the masks to come off sooner, to be honest.
Such an ignorant take. CK didn’t spread hate speech nor argue against the constitution, try sourcing your claim. Then find a way to justify glorifying 9/11 as Tom Mendelsohn did or the support for attacking families of people who have a different opinion than you.
The pendulum is swinging back and the horrific assassination of a man who was willing to talk to the other side has sparked that. GW has no place for hate as they firmly told us in the past. These hateful people will not be missed.
I’m so tired of hearing this nonsense take from CK supporters, telling people to “source their claims.” There are literally dozens of examples of that man talking about his position on queer and Black Americans, his contempt for diversity and equity, and his belief in what fundamentally amounts to Christian nationalism. When presented with any evidence, CK stans just shout “muh context,” making it our responsibility to do all the intellectual heavy lifting for you.
Nah, man. Nah. Anyone who hides behind religion as a justification for othering and belittling their fellow human beings is not praiseworthy.
In the context of these employees, I could see disciplinary action being appropriate for a couple of them, but Mike did absolutely nothing wrong by sharing the truth.
Bullshit
Detaining citizens and non-citizens without probable cause is a violation of constitutional rights that he supported. Taking voting rights from minorities, LGBTQ, and women also violates constitution and he supported. on and on. you clearly never listened to his show or ever read the us constitution. maybe both. Claiming minorities are unqualified because of DEI is racist and hateful. He never had conversations with anyone he just had talking points for likes. He never wanted to meet anyone in the middle he just belittled everyone who disagreed with him.
I love how you think I’m the problem when all I’m doing is disagreeing with you. I thought free speech was important. I have in no way expressed that his violent passing was justified or that violence is ever an appropriate response. Neither has anyone else important in the world but even if they did that is their right to speak their beliefs. Why is free speech only valuable when it is an ultra-conservative voice? Why are you mad that people are celebrating his passing, but you rejoice in people you hate losing their jobs, being deported, dying in police custody, or being bombed into oblivion. I have no obligation to tolerate the intolerant. I’m glad the GW team is refusing to tolerate an intolerant viewpoint and to say anything otherwise would betray the “Warhammer is for Everyone” stance of GW.
These people don’t care. They live in their echo chambers and anything they hear that they don’t like is automatically hate speech according to them. But they are allowed to call for the murder of others, or make hit lists for their next target it seems. After Charlie death a lot of these leftist lunatics started creating hit list over who the next target should be and you can expect that the lunatic Tom Mendelsohn would be supportive of killing somebody like J.K Rowling because of her stance on the trans issue.
Everything the left claimed Charlie said is a lie.
“The stoning of gays” that they claimed charlie said was a lie and taken out of context for their political/ideological agenda. Even Stephen King had to apologize for telling that lie.
They play the victim card when they are held accountable for their actions, but would target anybody over something as trivial as simply offending them with minor words like “only two genders”.
In the uk we make a clear delineation between business and private acts, and we also vehemently (look it up) protect our freedom of speech, please stop connecting the two, if you do should Elon Musk be fired for his recent comments on the UK and in a far right rally and should we throw away any Tesla, so basically you are implying that Freedom of speech is only for the Rich…
The American’s will mix the two whenever it is in their interests to conflate. Spikey Bits are guaranteeing my custom goes elsewhere by trying to not only milk this but deflect with finger pointing.
And as this is awaiting approval, I know SP will read it to moderate. You should stay in your lane buddy. If GW staff should, then so should you. By the sword and all that.
glorifying 9/11 as Tom Mendelsohn did or the support for attacking families of people who have a different opinion than you is not freedom of speech.
It’s protected speech. Deal with it. It just happens to be speech that hurts your Fee Fees
… I don’t think you know what freedom of speech is then… You’re incredibly dense if you personally can choose whether on not something is freedom of speech or not just because it fits your narrative. Which is exactly what you’re doing “Enrico”.
Actual it is. At least in the USA it is. that why the KKK and Black Panthers both still exist. They their speech is protected, and the courts have affirmed that hundreds of times.
Biggest takeaway is Mike Brooks is based on top of writing some of the best in 40k
Wrong, he will and should be rightfully terminated from the company for this hopefully that is what happens youre a idiot if you think making a political comment on social media when you work for company is a smart thing. You guys woukd cabcek the right for “biggotry.” And whatever else enjoy when that same rule and tool is now used against you as a weapon have fun
It is complete abhorrent behavior and should not be tolerated in a civilized society. A company that allows this deserves none of my money.
Agreed anyone who made those stupid comments publically on social media shluld be terminated from their jobs post haste this isnt about a freedom of speech thing althoufht id anyone wants to argue that freedom of speech but not the freedom of consquence from what ocfurs from that freedom of speech. Enjoy losing your job mike!
Agreed!!!
Agreed!
Warhammer is for everyone isn’t apolitical, it’s against people like Kirk who preach hatred. GW should stand behind this employees right to free speech
Then Warhammer is NOT for EVERYONE. You just contradicted yourself — and not once, but twice. By justifying and celebrating and insulting Kirk’s death, you preach hate. It is by definition hatred, the very same thing you accuse him of doing. And if preaching hate is a justifiable reason to kill someone, then does that mean that if you were preaching hate… oh, I should probably not say the whole thing but I think you know what I mean.
Absolute nonsense, denouncing someone dead or alive for the vile opinions they held does not put you on an equal level with them.
Tom Mendelsohn was glorifying 9/11 and Paul Scott Canava advocated for violence not just against his political opponents and their loved ones. No one shouldstand behind such vile
Except he didn’t preach hatred. You clearly never listened to him. He tried to talk to the other side because he knew when we stopped talking, violence would start.
Be better.
He was a 30 year old man who made a living talking rhetorical circles around 18 year olds. He was not trying to engage the “other side” in good faith, he was dunking on kids as a way to get clicks and trick the youth into voting away their right to good wages, a working economy, and a livable planet. Even his “debates” with other social media personalities were done out of cynical self-interest.
No true servant of Christ would live in a 4+ million dollar mansion while so many people live their lives in want.
It would be hard to do worse than that.
Why do y’all lie so much about what he said?
Yes, It is free speech and that disgusting bastard has his rigth to say all the stupidities he wants.
Sadly for him, there is repecusions for actions, for example i can use my free speech rigth and accuse you of crimes, i would pay for miss use of my rigths. In that same line, GW doesn’t have any obligation to mantain laboral relation with sm1 they dont agree. His words were wrong and I hope GW terminate his contract. I will look for their statement or I’m out of the community.
Calls to violence and yes that is what the celebration of a murder is, is not free speech. I am quite sure this comment you left could be considered preaching hate. I don’t want to share a hobby with murderous individuals like you. Go celebrate death else you ghoul
These dullards have never listened to Charlie, they are either bots or brainwashed NPCs that regurgitate their megacorp news masters. Don’t waste your time Henry. These poor sods aren’t even 1/100th the man Charlie was.
No. Calls to violence are what CK made his fortune on. This is only a call for free speech. You’ve got to be one hell of a mental gymnast to make the jump to calling for violence.
And you’re the only one calling to exclude folks, based only on an imaginary call for violence. WH is for everyone tho, right?
Quote a specific and clear call for violence by CK. You can’t. You’re fighting an imaginary monster in your head.
‘gays should be stoned to death’
Eff off, n@zi.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-gay-people-stoned/
You cut off a whole lot. He didn’t say anything remotely
I bet professor Heiss isn’t 1:a professor or 2:German which tells you all you need to know.
Hey moron he never said that! Maybe check in on your boy Stephen King and that other lunatic Alistair Campbell that claimed it was true but had to apologize in the newspapers.
I’ve seen the clip. And plenty of others. Idgaf about the tools who bent the knee to avoid backlash.
Take your lies elsewhere, n4zi.
You saw the clip, but most likely lacked the braincells to see it in the proper context. Kinda how the left lied about his other quotes and twisted them to suit their narrative.
I can already see you lack braincells, hence the label throwing. Its the typical tactic of people that don’t have any actual point to make. We can already see you can be categorized into a future Tyler Robinson.
People keep saying Charlie Kirk preached violence but when asked they can never provide an example.
‘gays should be stoned to death’ were his words.
So Eff off, lying n@zi.
Of course not. They are fighting imaginary monsters in their head — when the real monsters are in the mirror.
Stochastic terrorism is a form of violence instigated by hostile public rhetoric directed at a group or an individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, stochastic terrorism is accomplished with indirect, vague or coded language, which grants the instigator plausible deniability for any associated violence.
CK blamed minorities, leftist, and women for every societal problem, broadcast it nationwide. and then let others get their hands dirty while he cashed the checks.
These are folks that believe CK was a nice guy. You may want to stick to words with fewer syllables in them, most won’t make it past your first sentance.
LMAO Yeah, you right. The trolls sucked me in again.
On the July 24th, 2023, episode of his podcast, Charlie Kirk said Joe Biden “should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty.”
Free-speech champion Charlie Kirk, everybody!
Yes and he said that in response of Biden handeling of the border. How many American citizens were murdered by illegals or sexually abuse or assaulted because of his policies?
He responded towards it over the fact that Biden let in an army of people and held nobody accountable for the possible actions.
Since Donald Trump has been in power you guys have been cheering for him to get murdered. Not to mention that there were already two attempts and i”m sure looney’s like you cheered that on.
Seeing as your next target seems to be J.K Rowling, Benshapiro and and other people that just said things you didn’t like because it triggered you in some way. Context still matter, but you people got nothing to see so you are cherrypicking words to sell a fake story.
Wow, you drank ALL the Kool-Aid, huh?
I’m more curious why people like you always come with this simpleton child like replies? Is it really that hard for people like you to write something worthwhile?
This is why you people always spread so many lies because context seem to complicated for you people and the only way you people can think is like four year olds. You aregumentation also reads like four years olds.
But do try to make an effort to write something worththile. Please tell me in my response on how many people got murdered under his policies of never ending open border and excusing criminal behaviour with his parties Woke judges that let of repeat offenders that killed for instance that Ukrainian girl and many more.
You can’t make an actual reply because you care little about the long term effect of Joe Biden policies. You care only about stroking your own ego while looking away at the harm the policies you support inflict. Hence why liberal left are excusing violence by their so called “special groups”.
You guys were so desperate you tried to frame Tyler Robinson as right wing. Even going as far as to fotoshop images of him, or even framing another man with the same name because that man was registered republican and lived in the same street.
This is just a weak cherry-picking. Firstly, freedom of speech is a protection from the state, not from social reprisal. It doesn’t protect you from criticism or, for example, a billion dollar corporation firing a person because they said something grossly inappropriate that harms the image of the company. And secondly, a random opinion from a private citizen asking that another person be investigated and charged with a crime (which would stipulate due process) is not illegal, inciteful language. If I were to say that Donald Trump should be arrested for his many crimes, put in prison, and charged with treason (treason can invoke the death penalty), I can reasonably assume you wouldn’t take issue and neither would the justice system. I’m not sure why Biden is a spotless figure to , in a roundabout way, defend in this instance either, Joe Biden has historically made comments that were very racist and homophobic. Only he was able to change his opinions (when it became politically expedient) when he grew older and more mature, something we cannot say Charlie Kirk will ever have the opportunity to do because he was murdered in broad daylight in front of everyone.
Kirk did not say that Biden should be investigated and charged with a crime. He said that Biden should be imprisoned or put to death.
He pushes nothing but violence and hate. It’s not cherry picking when all his BS is the same.
Cute. Warhammer is for everyone means the hobby stays fun without turning into someone’s political soapbox.
Senior GW staff represent the company 24/7, which is why he apologized, clarified, and pulled the post.
I’m glad you posted about this. I am politically right and sent a mail towards Games Worksshop asking if they stand behind these statements.
I’m so tired of left wing lunatics thinking they have the right to wish death on anybody they disagree with. at this point they are just glortifiying murder with the lunatics on Bluesky and Reddit making Kill lists after the Charlie Kirk assasination.
You can imagine this guy most likely has the same mindset that J.K Rowling should be next because of her opinion on the Trans issue. You just see kill lists of people that do nothing but hold debates or voice their opinion in a civil manner.
Charlie didn’t spread any hate, he just preached his believes and that seemed more than enough to trigger these adult babies. His hateful speech came down to people not agreeing with him so he had to die in their opinion.
If Games Workshop does nothing about this i will stop buying any more products from them.
I encourage you to reread the last part of the Warhammer is for Everyone statement. “If not, you will not be missed’ in reference to anyone who disagreed with the earlier sentiments where they expressed their intentions of continuing to promote representation of all peoples in their work.
Charlie Kirk did not believe in including everyone. He was in favor of excluding lgbt people from the public sphere. He was racist and misogynist. Charlie Kirk was one of the people GW was referring to when they said ‘you won’t be missed’.
You are fool if you think gw gives a shit about anything else than the profit of the company if people stop buying 40k and say “fire the moron who spoke aloud on social media.” Then you can be damn sure his ass is getting canned. Same with any other tninfs tney try to push if a controversial change is hated and mskes thrm lose money they back pedal or try to move things forward and pretend it doesnt exist.
That’s a lie. He welcomed members of the LGBT to the right and encouraged them to find christ and not mutilate children. Source a single. Video of him excluding them.
Were you high when you wrote this? Welcomed lgbt? He literally said gays should be stoned to death and lgbt folls removed from the public sphere.
Thank you for publishing this article. With the respect to the nature of the first part of his post, the majority of the man’s commentary, I think it was exercising his fair opinion and freedom of speech. There is only one statement included that is inciteful, celebratory, or condoning an act of violence. And that is where it was wrong, because if for example I were to hold an opinion similar to CK’s, a senior member of staff would be condoning my death and celebrating. That is dangerous rhetoric. If however, it is the case, he has since apologized, clarified, and retracted his statement? Then, I don’t see any need to further raise the alarm, after all the emotions running high right now are what got us here to begin with and now is certainly a time to be more forgiving and come together. I don’t engage in shadenfreude or witch hunts. People make mistakes and say things in the heat of the moment. It is not worth losing your livelihood over.
He’s right, tho? Because of the behavior of right wingers like kirk, ‘warhammer is for everyone’ is a political statement. As soon as you accept the vitriol and hate kirk pushed as being a legit political view, you’ve tossed ‘wh is for everyone’ out the window. Some of us still think that ‘everyone’ still includes folks CK thought should be ‘stoned to death’.
The forced deletion was far more political than the post itself, and its political message was that gw cares more about backlash from whiney snowflakes than about the ‘WH is for everyone’ policy
You might want to do a bit more research on what CK stood for and less parroting of the media.
Alright, cool. Help me out with his episode of Thought Crimes with Jack Posobiec where he lambasts a good-hearted person for “loving thy neighbor as thyself,” says she shouldn’t “lie” to LGBTQ+ people and “reaffirm their sin,” then quotes Liviticus:18 as “God’s perfect law” when it comes to the “crime” of a man laying with another man – saying they should be stoned to death.
I’d love to hear what he actually stood for, if not unadulterated Christian nationalism.
Be careful his lunacy is in full displays right now. This also shows what kinda people Tom mendhelson is associating with. He keeps copy pasting his comment so much he wants people to believe its true.
He stood for stoning gay people to death. And thats from him, not media. Corp media is all ignoring how horrific his stuff is for the sake of political expedience.
Not a fan of open discussion, I see.
Not a fan of reality, I see.
Not a fan of minding your own GD business, I see.
Maybe STFU when you don’t know the context.
Babes you need to do your research and re- read the company statement “Warhammer is for everyone” because it was actually quite a left leaning statement saying that they will not tolerate ignorance or hatred in a space of racism. Bad journalism.
Incorrect. You should watch his videos. He doesn’t hate, but I understand
The point of this article is simple. If your employer is a billion-dollar company with a clear policy that ‘Warhammer is for everyone,’ then as a senior employee, you don’t post anything to the contrary.
Doing so literally puts your job on the line. With so many people already fired at other companies over this same issue, you’d think the message would be clear.
GW has made it plain they want politics out of Warhammer, and that’s it.
Writes an implicitly political article to increase engagement through political turmoil and synergies with current headlines. while also essentially doxing regular peoples internet activity and likely taking food from someone’s mouth. You call it news, I call it pretty sad.
I think its sad people applaud death. It also has nothing to do with the hobby. unless your already up in arms about someone saying things they have every legal right to say and are then mad about them working at GW….
Rob you do great work normally but this clearly a depressing low in your journalistic career….
If you can’t cope with him reporting on the disgusting behaviour from the people working at Games Worksshop it shows that you yourself just approve this kinda behaviour. Any sane person wouldn’t mind being informed.
You say it has nothing to do with the hobby while it does. when losers behind the scenes push their politics even on top of the lore it shows that the people behind the scenes don’t care about the product and are more pre-occupied with pushing their message.
Mike Brooks for instance pushes people he hates as villians in his books because he can’t cope with people with a different opinion.
https://thatparkplace.com/games-workshop-villainizes-political-pundit-carl-benjamin-aka-sargon-of-akkad-in-warhammer-40k/
If you think this doesn’t belong in the hobby, maybe start telling those leftist lunatic activists to not incorporate their ideology into the stories they write.
And if you can’t cope with people reporting on the disgusting things CK said, maybe you should stfu.
The ‘cant cope with different opinions’ is hilariously hypocritical from folks tantruming about any negative opinions they see on an actual white supremacist.
Nice try coping with opinions that contradict yours. Hence why you need me to shut up. I notice you barely have anything worthwhile to report other then parrot what so many have said but turned out to be bull without context.
O look here comes a label again! “White supremacist” This time, what’s wrong didn’t wanna use Nazi again because i called out you guys on your bull of always ending every sentence with it?
Stop lying fake victims! All your doing is trying to play a victim while nobody is victimizing you, but i know that Charlie words hurt you because hence why you cheered for his death. Words are so hard to cope when you were treated with entitlements under left wing reign, but now its time to wake up. Now there isn’t an option to censor opposite voices from calling out your bullshit two-faced nature.
Wouldn’t let me post a fresh comment so trying this way (apologies)
I’m not asking for any doxxing purposes, but can you clarify any further as to the nature of the person’s role at GW? Is this an executive? A developer who writes the game rules?
If this is the accepted company view, I’d rather pack it in. Maybe Warlord will take my money with this new Konflikt kicking off. At least CGL, who has some wildly political staffers, has had the brains to not be saying garbage like that.
It was Mike Brandt
Do you really think it’s appropriate for you to impose a political speech-code on everyone connected to Warhammer?
I’d prefer for Spikey Bits to keep this kind of censorious language-policing out of our shared hobby. What happened to “Warhammer is for everyone”?
Clearly your man here didn’t get the memo about fascism in Warhammer being purely satirical..
Wild take. Wanting folks to chill and enjoy toy soldiers without being jerks isn’t politics, it’s just basic table manners. Warhammer’s still for everyone.
Except for Ukrainian speaking people in Ukraine.
Everything is politic, and I think it’s a good thing when people and companies share their views. Like you just did with this article, asking people to send emails to Games Workshop because you didn’t like their opinion.
Bro Tom Mendelsohn was glorifying 9/11 and Paul Scott Canava advocated for violence not just against his political opponents and their loved ones. No one shouldstand behind such vile.
Not liking an ‘opinion’ is one thing, celebrating or justifying murder is quite another. People really need to step back and think how would they feel if another celebrated or justified the death of someone close to them. Would they feel that the world is a better place then. I doubt it.
No you don’t understand, Rob (like the sainted Charlie Kirk) is completely without political views of any sort and so may not be criticized for anything he says.
this isn’t about opinion or criticism of that opinion, this is about justifying murder.
what a nothingburger
I wonder if you would feel that way if it was someone close to you was murdered.
What is this, the TMZ of Tabletop?
Better than being the Hallmark Channel of tabletop.
MIKE BRANDT
Is Mike Brandt the one celebrating Charlie’s death?
We will publicise this
Wow, wild. His original post on his personal page stated “Murder is never okay”. The responses were incindierary, and his response to those was less than good. The overall intent was one speakout out against it, and certainly not celebrating any of it.
Oh that whole thread definelty got wild. The problem again, is, everything you say may refect on your employers. And when your employers have publicly made a stance saying one thing (warhammer is for everyone, etc..) that can become problematic or your employment status.
That’s why I don’t discuss politics or anything similar, because then I (as the brand) could be held responsible, and there’s already enough miscommunication about what we say or do here. We don’t need to give people actual reasons to talk about us in such a way.
Unfortunately, it’s a zero-sum game. The only way to win is not to play in the first place. (Wargames Movie Reference)
Also don’t worry about the looney’s that couldn’t cope with you calling out the vile behaviour by one of their own. Seeing as their whole goal is to politicize gaming entertainment as a whole.
If you were cheering on the death of Charlie Kirk they’d be embracing you and cheering you on. These people really have the cult like mentality. Their whole way of making arguments can be summed up real simple.
Criticize LGBTQ+ = Homophobia – Transphobia
Also its seems the Plus symbol means your a premium packaged gay
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JHkLEEiZnaM
Criticize women = Sexsist – Mysogynisty – Fatphobic
Criticize colored folks = Racist – Nazi – White supremacist
Basically they want you to worship them and never ever say anything bad about those groups or else all you get is the typical labels. even if the criticism is valid. But they are allowed to accuse you and throw their labels at you without any valid argument or fact.
These people can’t make an arguments, they just throw labels around.
Also charlie debated a colored person in the U.K and all he complained about is the fact that Charlie came with facts in a rude and direct manner and the person of color couldn’t cope with it.
Such a load of BS.
If theres a responsibility here, its to stand up for marginalized players, to ensure WH is for everyone.
You’ve taken a very clear political stance here, and you’ve done it to defend an absurdly bigoted political commentator.
You gonna delete this comment, like you have all the others that disagree and list quotes/evidence?
Its obvious your radically insane. You cry that he is bias on his stance because he dared to call out the lunacy of your type of people inside the Warhammer community. Maybe if lunatics like you wouldn’t praise the murder of a individual or make murder lists in your echo chambers on reddit and bluesky this would have never come up for debate. Also two platforms where you get censored for saying there are only two genders because that seems to much for people with your mental capacity to comprehend.
Your lunacy was already shown when you constantly copy pasted the same shit over and over again so you can pretend you made a point.
People like you seem to only have enough brainpower to think in black and white and anybody that doesn’t follow that delusion under that flag needs to be murdered or silence in case your feelings might get triggered.
Cries that Charlie Kirk was not a friend of the LGBTQ community but ignores that Charlie Kirk was friends with Dave Rubin who is gay by the way. Even Douglas Murray a prominent gay author said that the next generation needs to take over Charlie’s work. Funny how those gay people stand behind him yet you are selling lies to fit your narrative.
Studies already showed that the majority of people are tired of the LGBTQ community for the fact that it operates like a cult.
You can just notice how much people like you are off the deep end, when every comment has to come to an end with you nutjobs screaming Nazi at the other person. Who in their right mind even argues with the words Nazi in them over a disagreement?
Like it has been said, people like you don’t call others Nazi because they are, you call them that so you can justify targeting them and push violence upon them.
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It was Mike Brandt yes
Yes. It was