This is so fucking embarrassing. I’m just waiting here for people to finally open their eyes and see this war for what it is, but with beloved actors like Hamill committing to this shit as hard as they can I feel it’s almost futile to have hope. But I’m still trudging on.
Amidala was the face of peak colonizer regime: completely sanitized (implied high hostility) relations with gungans (i bet it’s slavery as usual), ruling aristocratic regime, clean pretty “golden age” propaganda, Dalai Lama vibes, Roman von Unger-Sternberg looming in the background, sending native foederati to fight their wars, getting incredibly butthurt by few weeks of something Cuba and DPRK had to endure for 60/70 years, all the fake peace diplomacy which usually resulted in a republican coup or invasion wherever she went in the clone war, ignoring her boyfriend doing genocide and not to mention the sexual tension between 14 yo girl and 10 yo boy dammit George that was entirely unnecessary.
Who was Roman Von Unger-Sternberg?
An Baltic-German aristocrat serving as officer in Russian Empire army. After October Revolution he became infamous as one of the most brutal whiteguard commanders who by his actions in Mongolia and nearby earned monikers like “Bloody Baron” or “Mad Baron”.
Of course he’s now popular among anticommunists, getting increasing amounts of fanfiction.
Saved for future reference. Excellent breakdown
Elaborating about the Ungern-Sternberg part because it’s seriously peculiar: i read multiple time how libs especially want to point out and brag about Amidala wacky headdress choice, that it is based on the last queen of Mongolia, a wife of Bogd Khan, and the Bogd Khan regime was propped up by the Bloody Baron Roman himself.
And while the actual choice by movie crew might be based solely on striking aesthetics, but the lib journos waste no opportunity to bash the commies, especially that anticommunism is weird in SW universe, where there is no communism.
Therefore the face of Naboo govt is this one:
I believe in legends there was a prospering collectivist planet, later destroyed by yuuzhan-vongs
Ithor i think? Highly democratic and collectivist environmentalists though they also had at least one huge monopolistic corporation and held a republic near monopoly for advanced terraforming techniques and were the best experts in nature reclamation techniques.
Not even space fantasy is allowed to not have conglomerates and corporations
Yeah because Force forbid people can have any other way of social organisation. Considering Ithorian culture this one would probably be a co-op, though it’s not specified anywhere.
I was thinking about Tynna
Oh them. They weren’t destroyed, though i guess Yuuzhans did their eco devastation and genocide there as usual.
Also they weren’t communist, but nordic succdem at best. They were part of Corporate Sector, the most scummy genocidal capitalist blight on the galaxy, their good lifestyle was build on imperialism and exploitation of others.
Oh, I thought they were prosperous thanks to the important trading route.
Yeah, but that route was overflowing with blood money.
Doesn’t it push individualism as the go-to ideology, as most western fiction does?
Yes, the center-left radical liberalism. With the real neoliberalism clearly visible behind it, some materials even straight point that out, unfortunately the conclusion is always “we need to fix the system by putting good people there” and “more liberalism”.
So what if (to expand on that)… the Jedi leadership knew that Anakin, as a former slave and son of the people, was destined to lead the Jedi back to their real roots in some sort of mass anti-imperialist movement (think religion + anti-imperialism + planned economy, sort of like modern Iran). To keep that from happening, they got him involved with Amidala, who in addition to being a borderline predator like most libs, also preached “democracy” to him night and day. Amidala then, for her own political ends, maneuvered Anakin into a close relationship with her protege Palpatine, whom she had gotten elected chancellor. Of course Palpatine had his own agenda, and when the time was right, he got rid of both Padme and the Jedi, and installed a fascist government. Of course Padme, being a lib, had the nerve to act surprised and shocked at the situation she had helped create – “what’s this? Fascism again? Why does this keep happening? Oh the horror!” – and couldn’t understand why Anakin suddenly had it out for her. (In “Anakin, all I want is your love” we see the willingness of liberals to cozy up to “former” Nazis and other genocidal maniacs).
… And I just tried to make some kind of logical sense of the prequels. Man, that hurt my brain.
Lmao, you might be on something here.
Which genocide Anakin did before 66 and she ignored?
Murdered entire Tusken village.
The one that killed his mom?
Yes, they probably kidnapped her for ransom or something but it clearly didn’t went as planned.
I checked it, apparently she was beaten to near death and died later when he came to rescue her, but there is a theory that Palpatine sent them to further push Anakin to dark side.
No idea, but the entire thing do seems fishy - Tusken are nomad constantly riding the sharp edge of scarcity, so they usually don’t kidnap people (except babies in some circumstances). So either it was indeed it or/and Cliegg Lars had some serious hostility with them.