• @bamboo
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    1689 months ago

    “The Force is strong in my family”

    Proceeds to dress their child up as characters who represent the Nazis.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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    1389 months ago

    I wonder what they see when they watch Star Wars. What do they think the Rebellion is fighting for? Who do they identify with? What parts do they think are cool and for what reasons?

    It’s a bit like conservative Star Trek fans. I’m not going to gatekeep, but I really wonder what they see in it.

    • @webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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      1179 months ago

      This is what went trough my mind when Elon Musk called star trek the best tv show.

      I literally cant come up with a show that is more fundamentally woke.

      • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        559 months ago

        Yeah I think it’s really easy to brush aside how big of a statement the very existence of Uhura was. This was the 1960s and a black woman is being portrayed in a position of leadership on a space ship and it’s not a thing in the canon. Her gender, race, and country of origin are irrelevant to the star fleet, she’s an expert of communication, and so the enterprise is glad to have her. Then you’ve got Sulu who is canonically an Asian American played by a Japanese American who had been interred during the world war not all that long ago.

        In a time of political, racial, and gender unrest this series pointed to a future where those fights for equality and liberation not only were past and won, but so far so that it would be strange for any of the protagonists to imagine the other side. A world where anyone could become a starship captain like Kirk.

        Next apartheid Clyde is gonna say he’s been a lifetime fan of the twilight zone…

      • Flying SquidOP
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        389 months ago

        He also loves the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He doesn’t realize he’s most like Zaphod Beeblebrox or what that says about him.

        I wish Douglas Adams was still alive to tell him where to get off.

      • He also said the movie Parasite was his favorite film. I think he’s the kind of person that narrative and metaphor are lost on. Rather a vapid blank slate, that poorly regurgitates the last chalk image left on its edifice.

      • @x4740N@lemmy.world
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        159 months ago

        Either elon hasn’t seen star trek at all and doesn’t know what he’s talking about, thinks its a sci-fi space show or just has a really ficked up twisted mind that twists the show into what he percives it to be

        Star trek is meant to show Gene Rodenberry’s version of a better humanity that is primarily set in space

        Star wars is a space opera that includes exploring timeless issues, well atleast it was until disney took over and didn’t get the point to that at all and just replaced it with something else entirely

      • @misterundercoat@lemmy.world
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        139 months ago

        Sociopaths don’t really form their own opinions. They pretend to like whatever will ingratiate them with their target group of people. Elon wants to foster his techie pseudo-engineer image, so he picked a show that skews to that demographic.

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      429 months ago

      It’s a bit like conservative Star Trek fans.

      That one’s easy. It’s a show about a bunch of people who are absolutely certain about the superiority of their own ideology, assembled into a military hierarchy that goes completely unquestioned and where everybody’s happy to work without pay, traveling around the galaxy in a heavily-armed ship preaching that ideology to everyone they come across, who are nearly always portrayed as more primitive and limited than themselves.

    • Ech
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      69 months ago

      I mean, just look at the picture - the one kid is into Star Wars. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d never watched it themselves.

    • @SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
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      49 months ago

      If you think that’s fun, try walking a “Wolverines!” shouting Red Dawn fan through who the “Soviets” are when the US invades Iraq.

    • @lingh0e@lemmy.film
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      169 months ago

      He’s the crouton that they serve on a wedding reception salad, which are somehow soaked in offensively vinegar heavy dressing, yet are still too dry.

    • @Perfide@reddthat.com
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      179 months ago

      It’s even worse and more on the nose. It’s a First order Stormtrooper. Y’know, the remnants of the fascist empire that was attempting(and mostly successful, at first) to violently overthrow the New Republic and restore their fascist empire to the galaxy. Sound familiar?

    • @bamboo
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      169 months ago

      It’s implied in the Sequels that Finn is force sensitive, but they were also shit, so 🤷