I’m still irritated at “most lethal military” she said repeatedly.

I’m saying, don’t hallucinate an alternate reality.

People didn’t turn out much more than they changed their vote.

The answer is the media.

Good point and interpretation. Didn’t think of the language as a progression in time instead of a ranking.

Those are effectively outliers. The US makes up 4% of the world population and has 25% of the world’s prison population.

Likely posted from the country with the highest incarceration rate currently.

Literally the whole first trilogy is an allegory for the Vietnam war where the US is the empire

So 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?

Did Leia keep claiming she wants the most lethal military in the galaxy too?

We’ve been an evil empire for a while now. A long history of wars, coups, and foreign intervention. It’s a lot more visible in the internet age and the propoganda machine isnt working like it used to.

You should be mad at billionaires and landlords, not other working people.

There are not many things that make me irrationally angry… Fucking with my glasses is one of them.

Fascism is truly a death cult

Wrong, when the fascist apartheid state is dismantled.

It’s almost like the bank wasn’t designed with you in mind, peasant.

In a vague sense kind of? It follows the mission progression but that’s mostly it.

Look, they’re terror rock attacks.

The UN guy made sure to be very clear about it about a year back

Beyond parody lmao

Google the history of the Nakba.

And don’t act like “Lil bean Israel was just minding it’s own business when all the savage Arabs attacked and they just had to steal more land”. It’s ahistorical at best and fucking racist at worst.