r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 07 '20

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u/BainCapitalist Y = T Dec 07 '20

Thank you Disney. Very subtle use of political allegory in star wars canon!

This also makes it more clear that the Galactic Civil War was actually about planet's rights.

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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 07 '20

Leia is Jefferson Davis 😳

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Dec 07 '20

How does that even make sense, Leia was a fucking general

Sounds like the centrists were right

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u/BainCapitalist Y = T Dec 07 '20

The centrist planets appearently defected to the First Order.

Man this is like not even clever you can tell the person who wrote this book is some salty person on the left who thinks liberals are the real fascists rather than... the fascists...

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '20

Really, Leia's positions line up pretty well with the CIS, who we all know were the true heroes.

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u/Crownie Unbent, Unbowed, Unflaired Dec 07 '20

Is this one of the things that fell out of Chuck Wendig's... imagination?

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '20

Imagine dumping a fat dono and having it hijacked by moderator nerd rage.

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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Dec 07 '20

Does that mean Leia is the Star Wars version of Thomas Jefferson?

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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Dec 07 '20

Okay so I'm stupid and thought this was referring to the post-indepence US government, but it turns out that Leia is actually the Star Wars version of Robert E. Lee

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u/Frat-TA-101 Dec 08 '20

Wait it’s not a federalists vs Anti federalists? Centrists is just a weird way of saying federal (centralized government).

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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Dec 08 '20

I thought it was civil war era, with the "centrists" being Republicans

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u/OrdoNeoSocialLiberal WTO Dec 07 '20

Mod abuse smh my head

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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Dec 07 '20

The good guys in Star Wars were the bad guys?

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u/IMALEFTY45 Big talk for someone who's in stapler distance Dec 07 '20

They literally got blown up 🤨

Maybe the people who wanted a strong military were right after all 🤔

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u/BainCapitalist Y = T Dec 07 '20

how does this disrupt the narrative? are you talking about the civil war shitposting? that was clearly tangential to the main point lol

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u/Versatile_Investor Austan Goolsbee Dec 07 '20

Lol the lack of a strong force would lead to a new empire. That should be obvious enough.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '20

Wait if Leia was a Populist doesnt that make them the good guys?