Which is indeed why the Imperial officers all wore Hugo Boss nazi uniforms.

George Lucas did also say at one point that he based the red and green laser fire of the Imperial and Rebel forces on the tracers being fired by the US and Viet Cong, which was an iconic bit of imagery that was widely televised. Also:

However, when Lucas sat down with director James Cameron in 2018, he revealed how the Empire was also meant to resemble America — particularly the way it prosecuted the Vietnam War. Cameron pointed out how the Rebels are a small group using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized Empire. Today, Cameron added, the Rebels would be called terrorists. "When I did it," Lucas replied, "they were Viet Cong."

In other words, Lucas viewed the Vietnamese as the rebels and America as the invading villains. He further explained that Star Wars was a "vessel" in which to place his worldview that the United States had become an empire during the Vietnam War, doomed to fail like every empire before it. Cameron noted how those views carried over into the Star Wars prequel trilogy, especially in Padmé's line, "This is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause." Lucas replied, "We're in the middle of it right now," referring to the country's political state.

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Lol, he's literally doing the "I was just pretending" comic.

https://xcancel.com/theronster/status/1919491001296552311#m

He trebled down a year later. I think he is actually trying to be ironic in his bio. But he's still just an idiot.

Wow what a fuckin ass.

I actually thought he was being ironic. I thought, someone who was actually engaging with the allegory enough to acknowledge the correct answer and so quickly—this couldn't have been their first time thinking about it.

This second reply is very confusing if that's true, though.

Sure Aaron... You were being "Ironic"...

"Noooo, war in entertainment media should be good guys fighting bad guys!"

By other means

I'm waiting for someone to say that Babylon 5 never got "political"

Yeah who tf is still scrolling that shit unless they're thumbs can't unclick the dumbass X icon on their phone

I'm not denying that Finn and Poe had an interesting chemistry, I just think that Poe should have stayed dead.

The lingering question of what could have been would have been a way to deepen Finn's character.

And if you want to keep the actor, well. When Poe comes in to land after rescuing Finn and the group, his first words to Poe are "why are you wearing my brother's coat?"

And now you have another interesting character dynamic to explore.

"War is a mere continuation of politics by other means" -Carl von Clausewitz

We've made it so easy.

Which is why you should pirate Andor and ignore the rest of the franchise.

Also, Americans use the word "political" to mean ethical nowadays.

A certain segment of our population has been told to equate words like "political" and "woke" with "That person is saying or doing something that might influence someone about something I've been told to disagree with".

It's incredibly horrifying how quickly this same segment of the population has been conditioned to view the rest as "weak, sensitive, entitled weirdos who can't handle even the slightest criticism without seeing it as a existential threat" while simultaneously being conditioned to throw a tantrum when anyone takes an action to support something they've been told they should disagree with.

Woah there, that's leftist woke propaganda, talking about human wills and desires. I was brought up apolitical so I'm sensitive to these things - I can only vote for the Republicans because every other party is just too political.

/s

Literally. Politics is all about the power dynamics between people. If there are two or more people there will always be a power dynamic even if the two are on good terms and do not exert power over each other.

It’s like how you can always describe the color in any given painting, even when the painting is monochromatic.

One could make the argument that the Death Star is a stand-in for nuclear weapons, as literal weapon of mass destruction. There was notable political push to use nuclear weapons in the Vietnam war

This was not too long after there was notable political push to use nuclear weapons for heavy excavation and similar engineering purposes. Thankfully it was never actually performed since the results would obviously have been devastating

Did you know there is a vegan heavy metal artist that named one of his songs your username?

https://youtu.be/eovuIfeH2k4

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