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submitted 1 day ago by Nickelalloy@lemmy.world to c/starwarsmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 66 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

uggghhhh, tell me you have no media literacy without telling me you have no media literacy.

For the last time, Grievous was a fascist trying to dismantle a neoliberal democracy that was already decaying from the inside. Leia was a liberal trying to work inside the fascist regime to reinstall a neoliberal democracy.

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[–] CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 21 points 16 hours ago

Neoliberal isn't a useful term here, but if you were going to use it you should call Grievous a technofeudalist.

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[–] FundMECFS@piefed.zip 9 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

Grevious yes, but there is a point to be made that some rebels against the republic were fighting against an overstepping republic for independence without grasping their movement was being co-opted by the Sith.

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[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The intended parallel was the decay of democracy by the united effort of corporate interests. The Banking Clan, the Techno Union, the Commerce Guild, the Trade Federation, they all controlled a tremendous economic chunk of the Republic. The entire Separatist movement was orchestrated by the Sith, from the death of Master Syfo-Dias to the Hyperspace War that started the trade route taxes.

The entire thing was built by the Sith from day one to turn the Republic into the Empire.

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