• Solumbran@lemmy.world
    74·
    13 hours ago

    Poor nazi, he was only trying to do his job!

    It would be funny if it wasn’t the current reality.

    • einkorn@feddit.org
      8·
      12 hours ago

      Well, the story is about a young farmers boy getting radicalized by a religious cult into overthrowing the democratically elected government together with a bunch of criminals.

      I fail to see the real life analogy.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        48·
        12 hours ago

        overthrowing the democratically elected government

        The democratically elected™ government was already dissolved by the time Luke joined the Rebellion.

        • Glowstick@lemmy.worldEnglish
          28·
          12 hours ago

          Yeah OP needs to rewatch the movies if that’s how they remember it. The empire was Democratic in the same way that the DPRK of North Korea is democratic

          • einkorn@feddit.org
            1·
            10 hours ago

            IDK if we watched the same movies but Palpatine was a democratically elected senator who was then voted into the office of chancellor by a democratically elected senate and granted additional powers by said senate.

        • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
          6·
          12 hours ago

          Tarkin just found out about the disbanding of the senate at the beginning of Star Wars. People on the outer rim, on the outskirts of society likely wouldn’t have heard about it for weeks, and probably from passing smugglers and cargo runners/merchants.

          But he already hated the empire, and knew it was shitty. Although I’d wager anyone on the outer rim would agree whatever galactic government in power sucks due to said government basically ignoring the outer rim.

          • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
            1·
            2 hours ago

            Even if Luke didn’t know anything about the Senate, Storm Troopers killing his family and burning down his house might’ve clued him in about the Empire being a little bit fashy.

            Also he didn’t officially join the rebellion until he got to Yavin, after he met Princess Leia. Kinda feel like Leia would be in the loop about the Senate being dissolved.

          • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
            11·
            11 hours ago

            The thing of it is that having a senate dissolved isn’t a binary position. It doesn’t happen overnight. This is something that takes years to accomplish. So truthfully the Senate died as a legislative body the day the emperor came to power. To clarify, I don’t mean when he was elected the Chancellor but when he was declared the emperor. Democratic states do not have emperors. That was the definitive end of the Galactic democracy in the universe of Star Wars.

            So when Luke joined the rebellion at 16 or 18, I’m not sure which age he was, the senate had been a toothless body for as long as he had been alive and the final nail had been hammered into place at the beginning of that movie.

          • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            3·
            11 hours ago

            See, I considered that, but whereas he wouldn’t have known about it while helping Leia escape, the Rebellion probably would’ve gotten word by the time Luke is flying the mission to destroy the Death Star. And that’s probably a pretty big deal at the base.

            It’s never confirmed, of course, but I imagine information travels fast within the Rebellion if they were able to steal the Death Star plans. (Edit: Especially given Bail Organa is still alive when the Senate is dissolved.)

            At the point he’s actually in the Rebellion, he probably at least already knows that the Galactic Empire is done pretending it’s a democracy.

        • einkorn@feddit.org
          4·
          12 hours ago

          Dissolved? I beg your pardon. The Senate is still the most important cornerstone of our empire as it has always been. Being a senator grants a lot of privileges which this traitor Organa tried to exploit.

      • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
        10·
        12 hours ago

        I mean, sure, if you completely ignore everything that went on behind the scenes and accept the empire’s version of things.

        That space station was just for peace keeping reasons, and the emperor truly cares about the entire galaxy!