Nobody watched Andor LOL.
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Their right-wing mind does not understand metaphors to reality so they don't see it
They don't understand projection either. Makes it black and white.
They won't believe anything that does not match their world-view. If you say the guy is innocent, they just say Fox news told them he was in a gang, and they treat that as a fact.
There is no way to get to these people, unless the GOP inflicts personal pain on them, and even then...loyalty and "purity" is everything to them.
EDIT: I'm having an existential crisis. I'm not sure I'm so dumb when I look at these people.
They would be vehemently against it if any other concievable administration did it.
Right wing star wars fans probably love the empire and wish they were darth vader. Just because they like a piece of media doesn't mean that theyre interpreting it the way it was intended or the same way you are.
Which is why the Prequels were the worst thing ever. It made kids think Anakin Skywalker was a good guy and it's the Jedi Council's fault they didn't give him the respect he deserved because he was strong and powerful. Dude was a creepy weirdo when talking to Padme, told her fascism was cool, massacred a village, but because he's so powerful and awesome, Padme (a Senator) instantly becomes a trad wife.
Then came a bunch of cartoons showing how awesome this guy is (biggest Mary Sue ever) while making it seem like being a storm trooper would be a cool and honourable thing. And now we've got a bunch of video games that showcase how awesome and bad ass Darth Vader is.
It's not like a pro-fascist interpretation of the Prequels comes out of nowhere. An adult watching those movies sees these things and dsimiss it as George Lucas phoning it in while making those movies because he only cared about toy sales. But it's easy to see how a kid watching these movies would identify with Anakin Skywalker and be influenced towards having fascist tendencies.
Also The Last Jedi is the most misogynistic movie in the franchise if you ignore the marketing and think about how a child would interpret it. But that's a story for another time.
It’s also why they love the old Disney shit so much. Because in many of the old movies it’s the aristocracy who are being portrait as the good guys and who defend the peace from turning into anarchy.
Maybe we're not thinking of the same movies, but when I think of old Disney I don't see that pattern:
- Snow White: an orphan girl, bullied by her step mom, flees into the woods to live with dwarfs, then becomes a princess because she's pretty.
- Pinocchio: wooden puppet is given life by a fairy to reward its craftsman for being a good person.
- Fantasia: artistic vignettes
- Bambi: life of a deer.
- Cinderella: an orphan girl, bullied by her stepmom, becomes a princess because she's pretty, with the help of a fairy who rewards her for being a good person.
To me it seems like the good guys are mostly attractive youths with a strong work ethic and no parents.
Most of them succed in life by marrying royalty though.
They love the Punisher, but perverted the purpose of the fictional hero
Alex Jones does exactly this. He’ll start talking about Star Wars, but it almost always turns into him doing a Vader voice saying he’s going to kill all the “globalists”. It’s a sight to behold, lemme tell ya.
It is like when Trump talks about Hannibal Lecter as his friend and a great guy.
Tell me Donald, does your face only look like a Cheeto, or does it also tastes like one? Let's find out, shall we?
Probably tastes like sweat, and tanning solution
Yeah no shit. Everyone's friggin asleep. Nobody realizes what they see is not some master plan or 4d chess. It's consolidation of power for something very different than a democracy. A battle with the tech billionares afraid of death and a morally rotten to the core chewy center authoritarian up your heiney.
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