• xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    stormtrooper is also what they called troops of the SS under hitler so hmmm hmmm hmmmmmmm

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        1 year ago

        There’s a genocide themed Maybeline ad parody about your username but I’m not quite finding it… Something something possibly it’s Linux

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      1 year ago

      And also called certain troops during WW1 (that’s where the name comes from afaik)

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      I like star wars, but people choosing to dress up as the Nazis always confuses me.

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          There’s a subset that are a little too fascinated with the image of the Empire. Same with the Zeon fans.

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            1 year ago

            Well, in the original trilogy they really didn’t outright do anything we can clearly point to as wrong (except for blowing up a planet). We get very little information on either the rebellion or the empire except they’re the good guys or bad guys.

            Star Wars in general has this problem where the good guys are squeaky clean and the bad guys are comic book villains without any background. That’s why Andor is the best thing to happen to Star Wars at least since Disney purchased them, if not ever. It actually fills out why the rebellion exists and what they have to do to survive. They aren’t these perfect good guys anymore and we get to see how boring the evil of the empire actually is, and how willing so many people are to follow along as long as it benefits them.

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            To be fair zeon is arguably just as evil as the earth federation so it’s either be a fan of the boys in derpy guntanks or of the men in zakus

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              I once walked into a full gundam panel and the panelists had gotten everyone to do the Zeon salute. You can be a fan of gundam, the characters and the robots without picking a side.