• Cognitive_Dissident@lemm.ee
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    Except that the rebels didn’t create the empire that they had to destroy, and the empire wasn’t some tiny little swath of land with an oppressed people living on it being bombed out of existence by the rebels.

    The Israeli government and military are committing war crimes on a daily basis and that’s all there is to that. Also Hamas is a terrorist organization and is also committing war crimes, likely on a daily basis, and that’s all there is to that. They both need to be punished for all the evil they’ve done.

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    You forgot the before part, where he spent decades trying to genocide the empire and take over their bases because they were special places.

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      You forgot the before part, where he spent decades trying to genocide the empire and take over their bases because they were special places.

      You mean the decades where the empire tried to Genocide the native population and colonized their land?

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    Yeah, cause it’s fiction idiot. You know, the thing where we can have clear cut situations that are entirely black and white. Where one side is entirely evil and the entire one pure good. Reality fucking sucks

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    I’m really not sure I understand what point he’s trying to make. First of all he’s equating fiction to reality which is ridiculous at the very least.

    But secondly, he took revenge on the people who actually killed his family. As opposed to taking revenge on people that just happened to be in the approximate vicinity of people who killed his family. The Death Star was a military base.

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      Both Death Stars were literally weapons of mass destruction. You could not choose a more appropriate military target to blow up

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      I’m really not sure I understand what point he’s trying to make.

      The point is that there exists a fundamental dissonance between events as they transpire in fiction and for which the audience is emotionally invested and those same kinds of events as they happen in real life and the audience’s perception of them as they happen in real life.

      Star Wars was originally inspired by Lucas’s perspective on the Vietnam War. The Storm Troopers are, in that sense, comparable to American forces killing unarmed Vietnamese farmers. Most Americans who saw Star Wars never made that connection because this is in conflict with the audience’s internalized notion of “America good” and “America’s enemies bad.” As such, in watching and enjoying the story of Star Wars, you are ironically investing yourself into a narrative that inverts your normative ideological position. You can extrapolate this onto the current conflict in Ghaza without much effort.

      First of all he’s equating fiction to reality which is ridiculous at the very least.

      They are not being “equated” - they are being compared. He’s making an implied comparison between fictional events and real world current events in order to highlight similarities between the two. Specifically, he’s doing a form of comparison called “juxtaposition.” Being able to do this is a very basic element of media literacy.

      he took revenge on the people who actually killed his family

      Well, no, the specific individuals who killed his family were probably the stormtroopers stationed on Tatooine, whom he never actually interacted with. The specific people onboard the Death Star that were not part of the Empire’s military high command had virtually nothing at all to do with his family’s death.

      As opposed to taking revenge on people that just happened to be in the approximate vicinity of people who killed his family. The Death Star was a military base.

      The individual in the image literally says that he “immediately joined the armed resistance and literally blew up the enemy base.” Not sure what your point is here, unless you’re implying that you believe that the Palestinians who are fighting against Israel are only attacking indiscriminate civilian targets and not military ones.

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          You’re right. Israel was always there and then the Palestinians just showed up randomly one day and attacked them out of nowhere. There is no decades long history of apartheid and outright oppression of the Palestinian people by the state of Israel and this conflict has no roots in colonialism or ethnostate politics. /s

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            Both Israelis and Palestinians are native to the same place. Both have faced persecution and intolerance under the various empires that have controlled the land. From the Romans to the Ottomans to the British, even now the American empire is tipping the scales for their own benefit. The conflict cannot be solved by exiling or eliminating one side or the other, true peace and cooperation is the only way forward.

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            It works both ways depending on the timescale you apply. You could compare the murder of lukes parents to october 7th. It fits the “bad thing where people die happens, response kills far more” that applies to palestine too. And the public perception, especially of people supporting israel, seems to think the conflict started there.

            I saw it that way, but still as a post critical of israel saying “it’s easy to see an atrocity and want revenge at all costs, but that doesn’t make it right”. The “yea” at the end implies to me that what we thought with the fiction was maybe mistaken.

            Of course, the death star was a weapon of mass destruction seconds from destroying a planet, so there really isn’t much moral ambiguity there, but not mentioning that is likely deliberate in order to make the comparison work.

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    And if I remember correctly Luke was wanting to join the Imperial Academy but his uncle kept him on the hydro farm another year.

    Luke was just prior to that even a willing participant of the empire. He wanted to be a pilot, if only to get out of Tatooine.

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    it’s as if we are in an alternate timeline where Luke immediately went to emperor Palpatine and said your cock is the best I’ve ever seen! let me suck it, and let’s do a commercial together about how the empire will save the galaxy, and that you should donate to his reelection.

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    Fuck that post. It puts even more gasoline into the fire. Break out of the circle of hatred. Stop the war!

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      This comment is the essence of liberalism

      Vibes and aesthetics garbage instead of any real analysis. Sounding smart is more important than being one.

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        “A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now.”

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      The problem is it can be just as easily interpreted either way. It should seem to most of us to say, ‘destroying homes creates more martyrs,’ but I’m sure half the people will interpret it as, ‘unprovoked attack deserves indiscriminate retaliation.’ In that, it does a surprisingly good job of encapsulating how complicated the whole thing is…

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        I dont see how it is complicated. There were people living on a land. Another people came to steal it and started the violence. Since then it committed far more violence while being armed and supported by another imperial entity that wants those people to keep destabilizing their region to prevent the development of a stable regional power that could leverage its resources and strategic position appropriately.

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        That was kind of my issue. Reading this doesn’t make it clear who’s PoV we have here.

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      Two neighbors were fighting over a financial dispute. They couldn’t reach an agreement, so they took their case to the local rabbi. The rabbi heard the first litigant’s case, nodded his head and said, “You’re right.”

      The second litigant then stated his case. The rabbi heard him out, nodded again and said, “You’re also right.”

      The rabbi’s attendant, who had been standing by this whole time, was justifiably confused. “But, rebbe,” he asked, “how can they both be right?”

      The rav thought about this for a moment before responding, “You’re right, too!”

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      Yeah, I want to interpret it as someone posting not only in support of Palestine, but in warning to Israel that their actions are that of the star wars Empire, and that the rebels did eventually succeed in a massive counterattack

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        Yeah but in this story the “rebels” want to kill as many Jews as they can, as we saw on October 7.

        In this story if there is a successful counter attack, it will be many many more civilians dead.

        The rebels aren’t always the good guys, you know. I mean do you support the Rebels in the US Civil War? Sometimes the smaller power is just a group of assholes that want horrible things.

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      right? my first thought was pro-palestine, then i remembered my local closet trumper is obsessed with Star Wars and views himself as part of the Rebellion/Resistance and the other interpretation became clear. did we learn nothing from the obama-era liberal harry potter fetish?

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        I’ve always been more worried of the Empire did nothing wrong facet of the Fandom, but I guess there’s people who think they’re rebellion too. Despite the fact that the rebellion is the one with multiple races…

        Still, there is an odd commonality of right wing propaganda types using fictional movies, shows, and books as if they are reality.

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    No because, Luke blew up a war ship literally trying to kill him.

    The Rabbi’s folk are committing genocide on women and children…

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    But sir, just because we (Israel) killed thousands of women and children prior to the war isn’t relevant as to why they attacked us.

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      Yeah.

      member that time the Skywalkers evicted and displaced hundreds of sand people (that’s a bad irony) from their ancestral homes?

      Because God told them to?

      Definitely not relevant.

      Why didn’t we just give the Jewish people fucking Utah or something?

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        Why didn’t we give the Zionists* Utah.

        And it’s because we were antisemitic wanted the Jews out of our countries. They figured Israel could be used both as a way to jettison Jews from the world, and as a way to have a puppet government in the middle East.

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            If we’re talking about the state of Israel, Israel for sure. Their technology and military intelligence is fucking terrifying (thank you for teaching me that, Darknet Diaries pod)

            Like what the fuck, zero click iPhone jailbreak spy program how in the even shit

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        Well, if you had watched the News in the last decades or just simply check for the History of that places down there, you would understand that your post reads like you are 16 and have no fickn idea what you are talking about.

        Stick to you manga-memes, the racism you recently post doesnt fit you well.