George Lucas literally compared the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars to the Viet Cong in an interview back in the day.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2026
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I know bigots will be bigots but it really annoys me that they blindly think being queer is political but need proof that war is political.
I dunno, I'm kinda tired hearing, "as long as they can justify why they're there it's fine".
Great, so happy to justify my existence. I'm assuming the straight male doesn't have that problem anywhere though right? They just belong everywhere right?
Everything is politics.
Wait you're telling me the gays aren't just doing gay to upset the illiterate bible thumpers?
People who don't want politics as part of a story have no business watching/reading sci-fi or fantasy.
Star Wars is not exactly subtle or full of nuance. It's pulp, and it wears that badge with unironic, cinematic pride.
It is the spiritual successor to the 1930s Saturday morning serials of bold archetypes, primary-colored morality, and breakneck pacing where the stakes are always "the fate of the galaxy" and the villains wear literal black masks. It doesn't ask you to deconstruct the socioeconomic subtext of a spice mine.
I think some of these commenters who want to stop media being political are bots. The elites want to suppress free thinking and freedom of expression.
(as i wrote last time this was posted here)
he followed up to simultaneously say he was joking while also doubling down 🤦
https://xcancel.com/theronster/status/1538239717032042497
also... blurring his name was really not necessary; he's so proud of this that a screenshot of his reddit comment about it is still his pinned tweet four years later.
and it's even his twitter bio now:
What an insufferable cunt. It’s because people like him why people hate nerds
Ah yes. The classic "lolololol I was just kidding and you fell for it lolololol" excuse.
Also, ironically, he means "I was being sarcastic", not "I was being ironic".
Got to love how this douche nozzle completely forgets that Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon fucking existed and what they were responsible for. (that's not even mentioning that fuckstick Henry Killmonger)
Oh yeah, there's no chance that Lucas could have been thinking of America as the evil empire back in 1975... 🙄😒
What a twat
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Wow. I had to go verify this and sure enough, I found a video from 7 years ago where Lucas said this and much more including comparing the American Empire to the Galactic Empire. Wow. I missed that reference as a child.
Ewoks were definitely a nod to the Viet Cong
I think George Lucas has a tendency to make shit up as time goes on and gets high on his own supply.
That said, the prequels started with a literal trade embargo and there are several genocides in the series.
Even if you missed that, you probably picked up that it is against war and imperialism.
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Almost understands. Everything is "political" especially anything claiming to be beyond "politics".
Oh boy
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