• AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 months ago

    George Lucas: “America is the empire and the rebels are the Vietcong. Anakin is George Bush. The leader of the evil corporation is named after Newt Gingrich. The evil corporation invades a small democracy for plasma (space oil)”

    Chuds: “I sleep”

    TLJ: “woman”

    Chuds: foaming “YOU MADE IT POLITICAL YOU DAMN LIBERALS!”

  • rsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    War, by its very nature is political. Probably war could be defined as “violent political disagreement”.

    • neptune@dmv.socialEnglish
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      10 months ago

      A lot of war movies don’t really show the personal or political motivations for both sides. Some sure do. But a lot of them are almost more of man VS god or man VS nature in their plots.

      In A New Hope, we watch a young man get radicalized. Han grapples with reasons to fight the whole trilogy. Etc