It's like...It gets to a point where all this social commentary and pointing out that fascism is indeed bad is irrelevant because the guy running the show is a fucking dark wizard. Trump, Netanyahu, Modi, whoever else you're mad at, they don't have force lightning and magic powers to keep them in charge. The metaphor can only go so far.
That, and they don't have the 100% public support rating that Palpatine does.
Half the world wants Trump's head on a stick. Three quarters of the world wouldn't care if Netanyahu and Israel get glassed by Iranian nukes tomorrow. Modi only has support in India. Palpatine's the kind of fucker who commits atrocities, then you have both human and alien senators calling his men heroes during the evening news broadcasts, denouncing his victims as savages and praising his men as martyrs.
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but i love calling out the hypocrisy of woke shit.
It's fascinating that disney would green light andor, a very obvious direct jab at all those people who think the empire is cool and sexy. "hey you chuds! The empire is heckin facists and evil and you can't just like them because they look cool". We know leftists have had a problem with people liking the empire for at least 10 years, and there's 0 chance disney weren't aware of that dynamic when making this shit given. Online culture war garbage has dictated basically every decision they've ever made with this franchise.
Then meanwhile they fill their parks with this shit.
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Kind of feels like they're glorifying something that represents heckin facism just because it looks cool and iconic? They don't have death eaters from harry potter running around do they?
Also why do they let people get assigned to play as facists in their battlefront vidya? I half expect extra credits to pop up and say "You didn't ask for this!!"
It really is just another reminder that leftists will trust a corporation or government entity with things they would never trust a normal citizen with.
That's what I thought, too. The episode went to the lengths to show how evil the Empire is, but Disney still markets the Empire merch like it's no tomorrow. Last night in a store, I saw a whole line of Stormtrooper figures and Darth Vader figures. It'd be funny if, aside from the obvious adult collectors, little Timmy picks up these figures, starts pretending to be a Stormtrooper or Darth Vader, then his parents watch Andor and see the Stormies gun down Space Frenchmen by the dozens after a false-flag attack on one of their own. Then they see little Timmy pretending to be a Stormtrooper gunning down rebels. Imagine the talk they'll have afterwards, especially if the parents are liberals who can't separate fact from fiction.
I celebrated the recent Andor episodes by playing Battlefront levels on cities like Naboo and Bespin, roleplaying as a Stormtrooper gunning down rioters. But I can imagine that half the woke brigade would react to that like I'm a psycho. They really suck at separating fact from fiction. They get mad at things like right-wing fans saying the Imperiun in 40K is right. Recently, all the woke reviewers were praising Andor for showing how bad the Empire is. Just imagine them going off on someone making a joke about how the Empire defended themselves against crazy rioters in Ghorman.
it's not the fascists' fault that they get all the cool art designers
That's always the fucking case. All the "good guys" are just plebs in camo fatigues or army uniforms that look mundane, to make them relatable to the average pleb or make them look like the underdog, while all the bad guys go into battle with cool drip that makes them walking pieces of art and paragons of strength.
I think the only mainstream Disney show outside of Marvel capeshit that goes against this rule is the Mandalorian, but they made it so that the cool drip comes with them following stupid fucking rules. Meanwhile, the Empire has no rules when their man Space Gustavo shows up in a brand-new Dark Trooper suit dripping with style. The bad guys have no problems wearing beskar armor without having stupid rules on top.
As a kid, I always sympathized with the side that had the better drip. The Empire from Star Wars. The Protoss from Starcraft. The Zeon from Gundam. The guys whom the authors want you to see as flawed, dogmatic, or bad, they give 'em all sorts of cool uniforms and gadgets. Goku from DBZ wears a mundane and unassuming gi. Vegeta shows up wearing cool-looking battle armor and a scouter that acts as both a communication device and a Star Trek tricorder. The Terrans from Starcraft look like half their stuff are used vehicles, whereas the Protoss who burn entire planets when they spot a single fucking Zergling on it are armored with golden power armor and gold-colored warships and machines of war.
And of course, when I first saw the original SW movies, it kicked into high gear. While Ben Kenobi shows up looking like a cross between a Franciscan friar and a hobo, Darth Vader walks in with an imposing mask/helmet, and sleek-looking body armor. The rebels either have mundane uniforms or camo fatigues, while the Stormtroopers look like a mix between medieval knights and skull-soldiers. Seeing their large warships and their Death Star only amplified the effect. I was enamored by them immediately, and that got me to be curious about factions that oozed drip like them, such as the Zeon from Gundam, the Covenant from Halo, or the Protoss from Starcraft.
Half the reason I immediately sided with Star Wars over Star Trek as a kid was because the Imperial armors and uniforms, even for the officers, were far more iconic than the onesies that the Trek Federation officers often wore. The Federation officers look like they're wearing track suits to go to a marathon. Whereas the Imperial armors are sleek and imposing, and the uniforms for the officers make them look like the kind of guys who'd make you face the wall and have a firing squad unload on you.
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