:liberalism: My politics may have gotten a bit extreme for your taste

  • Fishroot [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    so basically the series is going to tilt into how the partisans are extremists that need to be dealt with so the moderate faction with Mothma is the right answer because the alliance is based on hope and having the moral high ground

    • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Theyre still working with the partisans in rogue one, albeit saw goes wildly insane with some sort of desert mind squid situation

      • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I mean Saw is calling everyone not part of his faction out in andor as feds, libs, splitters, and wreckers. Not that he's wrong though.

        • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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          2 years ago

          This is actually the most correct he's ever been shown to be. He didn't want to throw in with Kreegyr because Kreegyr was an idiot who was going to get his people killed, and he was exactly right about that. Hell, he talked shit about people who wanted to restore the Republic and he's ultimately shown to be right about that too, given the Sequels

          • SerLava [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Restore the Republic

            An interesting angle is that Andor says in the movie that he's been fighting the empire since he was 6, and the Andor show runners decided to portray him as a child on a planet devastated by imperial extraction... Except the imperial extraction was long before the Old Republic became the Galactic Empire.

            I think they're not going to forget that he's ideologically aligned against the liberal Old Republic almost as much as the Empire.

            • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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              2 years ago

              That's true. Hell, when Maarva takes him, she outright says that the Republic is on its way and they'll kill everyone there.

              I'm mostly excited for what this could do for the portrayal of Mon Mothma, given that we know she's ideologically committed to restoring the Republic, and eventually does

              • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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                2 years ago

                And when Clem (andors dad) gets executed for rabble rousing protest policing, is it stormtroopers or clone troopers who do the deed? Does Syril’s childhood bedroom have stormtrooper or clone trooper action figures? The Republic was a type of Empire

                • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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                  2 years ago

                  Also, Karn's childhood room has a bunch of clone trooper action figures. It's such an interesting detail to specifically say that that little fascist shit grew up idolizing the Republic

                • EvenHasAWatermark [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  It's Clone Troopers but right after Order 66 aka the establishing of the empire. The very early days basically.

                  • Vncredleader
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                    2 years ago

                    This. In fact the rally is pro=Republic. You hear one of the guys who gets shot yell "long live the Republic"

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        Yeah taking into account R1 and the OT it seems like Mothma gets dragged along through the revolution by the more radical wing of her faction, pretty sure she isn't relevant at all in the grand scheme until after the Empire is defeated and she becomes a politician in the New Republic (and fails to stop the First Order from rising lmao).

        • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          The New Republic getting wrecked by the fascist breakaway they neglected to deal with is a lovely, unintentional piece of commentary on Liberalism in general.

          :chefs-kiss:

          • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            all that's missing is space operation paperclip, although the oldschool rebellion was hoovering up defectors left and right so maybe that's where wookiee von braun shows up, idk.

      • Fishroot [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        the big mouse really wants to portrait the people actually doing something for the rebellion as insane people.

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          The very existence of the OT will always undermine this however, since we know that the "insane" people were right and they won in the end. And the prequels will always be about how the "sane" people failed, and even the sequel trilogy wouldn't have happened had the "sane" people not failed again off-screen.

      • Fishroot [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        He mentioned a book by Simon Sebag Montefiore called Young Stalin, chronicling the life of the soon-to-be tyrant leader of Russia. In the first few pages, the author writes about Stalin using a team of 15 to rob the State Bank in Tiflis, Georgia. This was in 1907, in the midst of the Russian Revolution.

        Yeah i read the book and lol Stalin is not portrayed in a “good” way

          • Fishroot [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            one of the chapter:

            "The milkman" : was Stalin a Tsarist agent?

            it's a decent book, most of the book has a footnote about a person who knew stalin and how some years later they got purged when he was in power