Star Wars fans when they realize the movies were based on the Vietnam war, and the empire was America.

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    ah yes, the most nuanced of political takes: the west is the devil and the cause of all evil.

    how is this take any different than the u.s. propoganda that would say very similar shit about communism. it’s all the same team sports bullshit. politics is way more complicated than that. there is no great boogeyman that you can point a finger at as “the bad guy”.

    every problem is more nuanced than side vs side. anyone that tells you otherwise is just being divisive and wants to push you to hate. not to support their ideas and solutions. you’ll notice that takes like this never offer a solution or a goal other than blame. it’s OK to just ignore the finger pointers. they never accomplish anything and are usually pushing hate.

    so basically, bring anything other than hate and blame and I’ll listen. otherwise fuck off with your propoganda.

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      how is this take any different than the u.s. propoganda that would say very similar shit about communism.

      It’s true, that’s how it’s different. There’s nothing “complicated” about how Britain installed the Shah in Iran or America helped Saddam wage a war with Iran that killed half a million people. Some things are just fucking evil.

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      18 hours ago

      there is no great boogeyman that you can point a finger at as “the bad guy”.

      Well, there is no boogeyMAN but there is boogeyCLASS and they are the billionaire/trillionaire class

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        15 hours ago

        and even then the problem isn’t the individuals so much as the systems that allow them to accumulate wealth.