• @mylifeforaiur@lemmygrad.ml
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    132 years ago

    Indeed. Leia also kept trying to breathe life into a corrupt, capitalist republic that quickly fell back into fascism once she had “won.” Maybe Leia isn’t really that good.

    • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      In former EU they stopped even pretending during the Yuuzhan War and ultimately formed just a loose oligarchy kept together by military strenght by an imperial remnant warlord. Which did not stopped yet another civil war started by the oh so american freedom loving Corellians.

      That shit do happens in literally all western sci-fi because it have a tendence of just erasing any socialism from existence and thus even with right material conditions they always keep turning in the merry go round of capitalism (looking at Expanse most specifically).

  • Why do libs use Star Wars and Star Trek in their propaganda? Do they know what it represents?

    Like get your bloody hands off of them, go back at Harry Potter or some other lib shit you use to compare it to irl events and politics!!!

    • @TeezyZeezy@lemmygrad.ml
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      92 years ago

      Honestly though, I have always found it so interesting why liberals are so obsessed with using STORIES to compare with real issues.

      “Oh my god guys this is literally Handmaid’s Tale, Putler is so Voldemort lol, Zelenskyy Iron man!!!”

      Like, cool, there are parallels. We get it. There are real, material consequences for these things that are happening, though, so stop looking at it like a fucking movie or show.

      • @YouWillNeverBeAWoman
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        62 years ago

        My best guess is actually some form of Peter-Pan-syndrome.

        There‘s this certain sweet spot in ways of class/income (middle class), socialization (predominantly western) and age (mostly the generation born in the 00s). Those people experienced very little fundamental struggle growing up, but are now „adults“ who have to be responsible for themselves in seemingly dire times. Thus, in a lack of good ways of dealing with the current situation, the develop this unhealthy coping mechanism by obsessing over pop culture.

        Because the world in their movies/shows/games/anime/etc. is ordered, clearly black-vs-white and eventually the „good guys“ will remain victorious.

        • @chocoraisinboi@lemmygrad.ml
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          32 years ago

          yep, and that is why I think they feel this irresistible urge to point these things out. It’s a way to will things into existence for them

  • Comrade Ben
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    102 years ago

    That’s why she has almost the same as politics as her father /s