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

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    22 hours ago

    It’s still needlessly oversimplifying to imply that all or only western governments work with authoritarian leaders who are friendly to their interests, for example. There’s plenty of non-western countries happy to spread bloodshed and tyranny, and there’s plenty of western countries that oppose it.

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      22 hours ago

      needlessly oversimplifying to imply that all or only western governments work with authoritarian leaders

      What else do you call it when a multi-trillion dollar corporate enterprise sells surveillance data to every racist sheriff’s office and royal secret police and aspiring military dictator from South Dakota to Siam?

      I wish we were oversimplifying things.