Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 10 hours agoWhat has she done to stop the genocide on Alderaan?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up1597arrow-down129
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minus-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·3 hours agoWhat do you think the United States is more like? A guerilla insurgency or a miltaristic empire imposing its will on the rest of society?
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 hour agoWell you’re wrong
minus-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agoLiterally the whole first trilogy is an allegory for the Vietnam war where the US is the empire
minus-squareCryophilia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·24 minutes agoI think he was saying that the US began as am insurgency.
minus-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-23 hours 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?
What do you think the United States is more like? A guerilla insurgency or a miltaristic empire imposing its will on the rest of society?
First one, then the other.
Well you’re wrong
Literally the whole first trilogy is an allegory for the Vietnam war where the US is the empire
I think he was saying that the US began as am insurgency.
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?