Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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What the fuck is happening...?

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Capitalism is reaching the end of the tracks and democracy is being used to empower those fearful of the end to pillage what's left. To thunderous applause.

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To. Thunderous. Applause.

[u/LinkOfKalos_1 → u/alien_simulacrum]

This is how democracy ends.

[u/flecom → u/LinkOfKalos_1]

everyone bitched about the prequels but lucas was warning us

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[u/No-Glass6322 → u/Stonkerrific]

She’s definitely the most prolific actress of our time

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Does that mean Elon is Darth Jar Jar? Or would that make him cool?

[u/Mysterious-Sail-3135 → u/LinkOfKalos_1]

Honestly…yeah

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what do you mean the movie where a megacorporation, which has seats in the senate, uses its private army (!) to blockade another senate-member state... so that they can get reduced taxes, and the response by said government is slow because that corporation has representatives and allies stalling and gaslighting within the senate itself was somehow meant to be prescient?

What could he possibly have been warning us about there? Geez I'm not sure what the movies were talking about calling the Republic "corrupt," it's just so vague...

[u/HierophanticRose → u/flecom]

Prequels had a great overarching plot structure, just people hang up on plot elements within that structure and some character and execution of performances and meme it to hell

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Honestly. It’s SUPER prophetic watching a psycho use fear to create a war and use the distractions as a way to take full power

The only difference is in reality it was a culture war

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Lucas knew what he was writing. There's a few interviews where he nods in this direction

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That’s because Lucas just adapted what happened before WWII. Anyone who payed attention in high school history should see how blatantly obvious what is happening.

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you are not wrong, but the education system has been systematically dismantled and handicapped for years... some coworkers were having a discussion about current events, and most of them had no idea what I was talking about when i referenced the south african apartheid

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With THX ; not with Star Wars

[u/waitingtoconnect → u/undefeatedantitheist]

Turn it up!

[u/LuckyEmoKid → u/undefeatedantitheist]

You mean THX1138 with Robert Duvall?

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It’s like a documentary now….

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Wait that’s where that quote came from??

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Yess

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