• raspirate@lemmy.world
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    My favorite example of this.

    Hint: George Lucas has stated in the most plain-English unambiguous terms that the empire does in fact represent US imperialism in A New Hope. It’s in a director chat interview thing with with James Cameron if you feel like searching it up.

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      Oh boy now I can add this to my “Americans being so far gone that they don’t realize a movie about US imperialism is a movie about US imperialism”. Almost like MAGA thinking Homelander is a celebration of Trump for 3 whole seasons before realizing it may actually he the opposite.

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      For people that say “don’t make x media political” I think that almost all media is inherently political, your making a statement about something that has real world connotations and people are going to form an opinion from it.