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Good thing we live in such a reality.

Do you ever stop crying about shit that doesn't matter?

When does this happen?

Personal experience, I know someone who likes to preach "it's up to the creators" only to get upset if a creator doesn't pander to what he wanted.

So one person is "people." Not just "people," but he's singularly enough "people" to generalize that "people" do this. Ok.

Star Wars was political.

Yeah? Which part? The message of Star Wars was basically "don't be evil"

don't see why video games shouldn't, it's an artistic medium like anything else.

yeah the GOP considers that a negative political statement

Yeah? Which part? The message of Star Wars was basically "don't be evil"

lmao

According to whom, exactly?

Indeed Lucas is on record having said that the original Star Wars was in part a commentary on the Vietnam War:"

"It was really about the Vietnam War, and that was the period where Nixon was trying to run for a [second] term, which got me to thinking historically about how do democracies get turned into dictatorships?"

Apparently, he wrote a note in 1973 that said Star Wars was about: "A large technological empire going after a small group of freedom fighters.

Newt Gingrich is probably the person that is most famously attributed to it.

According to whom, exactly?

the GOP every time they endorse something evil?

The message of Star Wars was basically "don't be evil"

The choices it makes about who it depicts as evil are political ones.

I've never seen someone try harder to pull meaning out of a movie.

I mean, they're pretty clear-cut evil, and any comparison made to any modern nation (aside from maybe Nazi Germany, of course)

The Nazis are political, for one thing, but also you don't think there's any politics in making the heroes a small group of rebels taking on a technologically advanced empire in a movie that released in the United States in the 1970s?

Yeah? Which part? The message of Star Wars was basically "don't be evil"

Nien Numb, who blows up the second Death Star, is also modeled to look like a Vietnamese individual.'

The line in Episode III, "So this is how democracy dies.. with thunderous applause," is a direct reference to the Bush Administration.

Either way, Georgie-Boy is 100% anti-Republican.

BRUH do you have any idea how fucking offensive that sounds? Also, his name is Nien Nunb, not Numb.

She doesn't say "Democracy," she says "Liberty," for one. For two...in what way is that a 'direct' reference to the Bush Administration?

If George Lucas thought he was making a movie to criticize Republicans in particular, then he utterly failed. In catastrophic fashion. Because what he made was a space adventure series with famously black-and-white morality, where you're either good or evil, and it flips all-or-nothing like a binary switch.

It's a reference to the positive response the War on Terror received among Republicans.

George Lucas has done a lot of offensive things. He gave a helmeted space-dictator a virgin birth.

I never said he was a master craftsman. Or that I fully agreed with him.

That's entirely for the creator to decide.

Yeah no one ever said that Lucas' political theming was all that well done.

It is clear that theres a parallel between the Bush administration and the rise to power of the Empire, the Evil Empire, said Newsweek movie critic David Ansen in a Today show segment Monday morning.
Ansen is just one of several voices asserting similarities between the politics of Star Wars and those of the current White House.
Lucas dares, for the first time, to address how the hollow political conflict in his franchise correlates with the reality outside its panels, wrote Ed Gonzales, movie critic for Slant magazine, in his recent review.
The Today shows Michael Okwu summarized one of the new movies storylines as: a warmongering chancellor of an intergalactic republic asks the senate to give up their liberties and to give him more powerunder the guise of being under attack.
Ansen said, It appeared to be a reference to the Patriot Act and to our sort of giving up our civil liberties in the name of national security.
In the movie, Anakin Skywalker, played by Hayden Christensen, completes his descent to the Dark Side of the Force and transformation to Darth Vader. In doing so, Anakin tells his former friend and mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor), If youre not with me, then youre my enemy.
The Today show balanced that movie line with a clip of President Bush saying in November 2001, Youre either with us, or youre against us in the fight against terror.

It's a reference to the positive response the War on Terror received among Republicans.

I think celebrating America's loss in Vietnam is going a little too far with his politics

No, video games are escapism, not a lecture hall for partisan politics.

People need to stop saying "escape from real life" when they mean "escape from what I see as Western leftist political views".

Nobody wants to spend money to be preached at by somebody who thinks they're smarter than they really are, though.

Nobody wants to spend money to be preached at by somebody who thinks they're smarter than they really are, though.

When was the last time that happened to you?

No one is making you buy any game you don't want to.

It's been a while. I don't buy trash indie games anymore.

True, but it's hard to know if a game is going to be preachy until after you buy it.