Star Wars fans when they realize the movies were based on the Vietnam war, and the empire was America.
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In the original Star Wars, the Empire was based on the American empire and the rebellion was based on the Vietcong according to George Lucas.
Man I can’t keep the narrative straight, are western countries supposed to be responsible for most of the rebellions in the world or are they supposed to be opposed to rebellions?
Being a liberal must be so confusing
According to them, Lando did nothing wrong.
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/26/1159580425/newspapers-have-dropped-the-dilbert-comic-strip-after-a-racist-rant-by-its-creat
dogbert is not a real leftist, he’s alt-right pretending to be a tankiewait, you saying @dogbert@lemmy.zip is this Scott Adams‽
no, i mean if he’s naming himself after Scott Adam’s comic, who’s a racist and alt-right-winger, then he’s definitely not the tankie he’s pretending to be….
but also just about all tankies are faking it and that’s why you only see them online.This is giving “the Nazis are socialist! It says so in the name!”. The liberal mind truly is an infantile and confused beast.
i hate liberals more than you do, nazi
Pretty sure @ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com is a comrade. Both of you calm down. I just think ozymandias needs lenses. Somehow rad misread your name as
dilbert
Yeah, some people on the internet like to oversimplify and I get how your impression arises that those people bend the narrative how they like it.
On the other hand, it’s pretty well-documented that
- western governments work with authoritarian leaders when they’re not hostile to western corporate interests (see, e.g. Saudi Arabia)
- western governments fund opposition groups no matter if they’re democratic or not as long as they can expect an outcome that’s better for their corporations’ interests (see, e.g. the guy that leads the current Syrian government; see also the royalist opposition in Iran [mostly in exile])
Also left-wing opposition inside western states is often demonized although we have similar aims as some highly-praised opposition movements in other countries.
The problem here is only blaming western governments, this is a problem of all governments and why we need to work towards a stateless system.
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needlessly oversimplifying to imply that all or only western governments work with authoritarian leaders
What else do you call it when a multi-trillion dollar corporate enterprise sells surveillance data to every racist sheriff’s office and royal secret police and aspiring military dictator from South Dakota to Siam?
I wish we were oversimplifying things.
What else do you call it when a multi-trillion dollar corporate enterprise sells surveillance data to every racist sheriff’s office and royal secret police and aspiring military dictator from South Dakota to Siam?
Capitalism.
WTF do western governments got to do with what private companies are doing?
Famously, there is no relationship between the chief executives of big business and the politicians in high office
ah yes, the most nuanced of political takes: the west is the devil and the cause of all evil.
how is this take any different than the u.s. propoganda that would say very similar shit about communism. it’s all the same team sports bullshit. politics is way more complicated than that. there is no great boogeyman that you can point a finger at as “the bad guy”.
every problem is more nuanced than side vs side. anyone that tells you otherwise is just being divisive and wants to push you to hate. not to support their ideas and solutions. you’ll notice that takes like this never offer a solution or a goal other than blame. it’s OK to just ignore the finger pointers. they never accomplish anything and are usually pushing hate.
so basically, bring anything other than hate and blame and I’ll listen. otherwise fuck off with your propoganda.
how is this take any different than the u.s. propoganda that would say very similar shit about communism.
It’s true, that’s how it’s different. There’s nothing “complicated” about how Britain installed the Shah in Iran or America helped Saddam wage a war with Iran that killed half a million people. Some things are just fucking evil.
there is no great boogeyman that you can point a finger at as “the bad guy”.
Well, there is no boogeyMAN but there is boogeyCLASS and they are the billionaire/trillionaire class
and even then the problem isn’t the individuals so much as the systems that allow them to accumulate wealth.
Kind of ironic that the Star Wars franchise became worse during the time the US became even more like the Empire.
Andor S2 was good though.
‘Westerners’
Kinda broad
