Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 23 days agoWhat has she done to stop the genocide on Alderaan?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up11.19K
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minus-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-222 days 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-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·22 days agoLiterally the whole first trilogy is an allegory for the Vietnam war where the US is the empire
First one, then the other.
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?
Literally the whole first trilogy is an allegory for the Vietnam war where the US is the empire
Well you’re wrong