Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 1 month agoWhat has she done to stop the genocide on Alderaan?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square194fedilinkarrow-up11.25K
arrow-up11.25KimageWhat has she done to stop the genocide on Alderaan?lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square194fedilink
minus-squareessell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 month agoShe was a leading figure in a paramilitary organisation, both before and after the death of the emperor. So, maybe?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 month agoYeah, you’d think that would be exactly what she wanted.
minus-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoWhat do you think the United States is more like? A guerilla insurgency or a miltaristic empire imposing its will on the rest of society?
minus-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoLiterally the whole first trilogy is an allegory for the Vietnam war where the US is the empire
minus-squareCryophilia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoI think he was saying that the US began as am insurgency.
minus-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoGood point and interpretation. Didn’t think of the language as a progression in time instead of a ranking.
minus-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 month agoSo Leia isn’t a great analog. Maybe a Vader / Palpatine election would be closer to reality I misread that, hold up. The United States of America spends more money on it’s military than the next 10 countries COMBINED. The United States has ~800 military bases all around the world in foreign countries. This doesn’t sound like an empire to you?
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 month agoLeia was leader of the imperial police? Y’all can’t distinguish between movies and reality.
She was a leading figure in a paramilitary organisation, both before and after the death of the emperor. So, maybe?
Yeah, you’d think that would be exactly what she wanted.
What do you think the United States is more like? A guerilla insurgency or a miltaristic empire imposing its will on the rest of society?
First one, then the other.
Literally the whole first trilogy is an allegory for the Vietnam war where the US is the empire
I think he was saying that the US began as am insurgency.
Good point and interpretation. Didn’t think of the language as a progression in time instead of a ranking.
So Leia isn’t a great analog. Maybe a Vader / Palpatine election would be closer to realityI misread that, hold up.
The United States of America spends more money on it’s military than the next 10 countries COMBINED.
The United States has ~800 military bases all around the world in foreign countries.
This doesn’t sound like an empire to you?
Well you’re wrong
Leia was leader of the imperial police?
Y’all can’t distinguish between movies and reality.
So the internet certainly tells me.