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US Politics 16w
Growing up is realizing that the empire was America (and America was the bad guy)
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Anonymous 16w

George Lucas himself literally said as much too😭 Like the rebels were LITERALLY the viet cong and the empire was the United States.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16w

But that’s “bringing muh outside politics and it’s for children and not that deep but the empire was based actually”

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16w

In fairness, the US wasn’t quite as cartoonishly evil as the empire. Though, as the imperial politics have been fleshed out more in other Disney properties through the years, and the US came closer and closer to its modern state, the differences have been most certainly closing…

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