Hunger Games is about revolutionary anti-imperial class struggle

George Lucas said the Empire is inspired by America and the Rebels by the Viet Minh

The Matrix was created by a trans woman and at least partly an allegory for being trans

Divergent is shitty lib fanfiction but very obviously anti-conservative

Alan Moore was a communist or anarchist

wow these movies are just like January 6th when we resisted communism by smearing our shit on the capitol walls!! so-true biaoqing-copium

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    The Ewoks get a lot of shit but they’re like very clearly a jungle militia á la the viet cong, albeit with George Lucas’ weird racism about them being some sort of tribal backwater.

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      Even with that, I see a lot of “noble savage” good guys in lib media too, the hero’s find some tribe of hippies who worship a tree or whatever and they help them fight the cartoonishly evil corporation run by a slug demon or something. Libs just see them as hippies who love nature and free love and CHUDs just see them as trad who are free from 5G towers and the idea the earth is round. There’s no actual anti-colonialism analysis there just vibes.

      Again I like Star Wars and think Lucas was trying to be progressive in his own 70s boomer way but it is mostly just a SciFi fairy tale with good guys and bad guys with some vague left v right coding, vague enough everyone can put their own spin on it.

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        I generally agree on your statement with the vagueness here, especially once you factor in stuff like the force and such, but I don’t think a chud is going to look at an Ewok and think “based, this is me”. They’re too cute coded for that

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          Probably not, but still if you asked a Chud Star Wars fan about the Ewoks they’d probably pull something like that out of their ass. They’ve probably never thought about it much till someone inquires them about it, then they manifest some sort of explanation for it.

          FYI, I’ve met a decent number of CHUDs who have a fetishized admiration for Native Americans. As stupid as that sounds they seem to be into the idea of society of trad men who hunt buffalo all day. Of course they think the US was totally justified in genociding them and that modern Native Americans are all lazy drunks but they think the aesthetics are cool cuz it lines up with their BS imagine if independent men living off the land or whatever.

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        the hero’s find some tribe of hippies who worship a tree or whatever and they help them fight the cartoonishly evil corporation run by a slug demon or something

        Based and Ferngully: The Last Rainforestpilled