New Star Wars lore.
Removed by modHonestly, it's not even an unreasonable conclusion to reach when politics is presented as it is in US electoral politics. There is such a small substantial difference between the parties that you can take any infinitesimal part of that difference and extrapolate it to mean ridiculous things like OOP did. Not only that, but take away knowledge of history and materialism, and you wouldn't distinguish between Republicans' opportunistic appeals to populism and anti-war rhetoric, versus their actual praxis of warmongering.
The good news is that it makes our job as socialists pretty easy when we can show those people that the symbols, cultural markers, and ideas they are being imposed are distinct from the political positions of bourgeois politicians who choose to associate with those superficialities. It's hard to get people to make that break, because the positive alternative doesn't actually exist yet.
I gotta say, New Star Wars did one thing right in establishing that the "resistance" is completely disinterested in dismantling the military industrial complex leftover from the empire. It's like poetry
Fortunately the books make it worse and dumber: Mon Mothma gets her political career ended because she insisted on not only dismantling the Empire's war machine but also all the armed forces of the rebellion so they are literally weaponless when the new bad guys show up
How else can Abrams' vision of resetting fucking everything work without an asspull to undo absolutely every positive change in society after Return of the Jedi?
It baffles me to this day that they spent hundreds of millions of dollars and Abrams and Terrio managed to choose the laziest, least creative way forward. I get the behind the scenes 'Abrams makes blockbusters and we want a blockbuster' logic but I'd have imagined that Disney would at least have given the instruction not to shoot the entire franchise in the foot plot-wise since they're planning to wring every penny from it for the foreseeable future
Around the time the first "Mystery Box" dropped, the one that killed the new Jedi Order before the movie even fucking started and blew up the New Republic and its not-Coruscant capitol with an asspull of a "Death Star, but bigger, the franchise was a toy juggernaut and raked in billions from that alone. By "Rise of Skywalker," Abrams cut that to a fraction of its previous take but he's such a failing-upwards failson that he's still getting work.
However the culture war spins it, there is always a character a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away that I stand with and heed the teachings of.
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The second amendment protects my right to a light saber with as many blades as I want!
MAGApede am I. Sexist and creepy will I be around women!! eh hehehehe
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Um actually bad things is when my political opponents and good thing is when i am the good guys
Jacobin wrote from a similar perspective almost a decade ago: https://jacobin.com/2015/12/star-wars-the-force-awakens-empire-joseph-campbell-george-lucas/
Libertarians claim to do. Unfortunately for them, they followed the hippies into the maw of fascism-adjacent conspiracy after they got bought out by billionaires, who offered them a competitive market price for their service
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