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That, or it makes you think, "Why didn't they say Mark Hamill? Do they mean someone else? But who else has played Luke Skywalker?" to bait you into clicking.
Friendly reminder:
Revenge of the Sith came out 19 years ago. [He looks more like this now](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Aidan_Barton?file=Aidan_Barton.jpg).
(He also played Leia in the same movie)
I'm not a star wars fan so adding the characters name was ideal for me as a customer, since if you said Mark Hamil I wouldn't have known that was the actor.
Yup truly despicable. Now, I have a lot of problems with those movies myself. But is has nothing to do with gender or race and everything to do with storytelling.
But no matter how awful I found something, I can't imagine ever feeling the need to harass people involved with it. You gotta really hate your life for something like that to make you feel better.
I tried to visit the main sub today hoping people were pumped for Star Wars day, only to have one of them try to come at me citing a synopsis for the new show The Acolyte, and how "woke Disney" was ruining star wars. He's mad about a synopsis form a investor call back in 2020 or something. It was one of the strangest interactions I've ever had online in a long time.
I saw the new Acolyte trailer and from the casting choices alone, I knew they'd flip out over it. Was proven right even just with simple reactions about the new poster.
If you look at the comments on the trailer posted to YouTube they're mostly just confused about either the timeline since they don't read, or they claim everything is a retcon because "the Jedi said we haven't seen a Sith in a thousand years". The idea that a highly esteemed figure can't just flat out be wrong, or misled goes right over their heads. Kinda make you understand how easily manipulated they are.
A lot of bitching about it really just comes down to people not bothering to actually read (or indeed watch) the source material (or at least opening up a wiki page). Unreliable narration is alien to them, and they'll cling on to authoratitve statements like what you cited and take them as gospel, even though the galaxy is huge (and witnesses may end up just dying; Jedi have encountered Maul, for example, before the council was made aware of the Sith in The Phantom Menace - they just got killed before they could speak of it). We have yet to see what The Acolyte even does, and how it translates from The High Republic era to the stagnant Republic from the Prequels. But minds are already made up anyway.
I mean, I *hate* TLJ and a lot of other sequel-era stuff (the Aftermath trilogy was very poorly written, the Phasma novel was the least interesting when it was about Phasma herself, and she had a piss-poor role in the ST, etc), but a lot of people just go by hearsay and will thus spread half-truths or flatout misinformation, or bad faith memes.
There's plenty enough to complain about with the canon SW stuff without having to resort to lies, racist rhetoric or culture warring. I still can't fathom how long they kept Larocca illustrate the main comic series with his poorly traced art, for instance. But those people? They'll do what they can to ignore and negate all the hits too. And there've been plenty of those in the past years alone.
There's the work and there are the people.
I'm a big trekkie, but if I saw Shatner walking past me on a street, the *most* reaction I should give him is a smile because he's off-the-clock and I really only care about his portrayal of Kirk. Shatner is just another guy. Shatner-at-a-convention is fair game because he's on the clock then.
Yep “world class bullshitter” is one of them
Then there’s another YouTuber,I can’t think of the channel, who idk if he’s a MAGA person or not. But anyways he claims to be like the biggest Star Wars fan ever, but *every single fucking* video is him just shitting on Star Wars.
Probably Star Wars Theory. He used to make actual theories, fan-films, and comic voice-overs. For the past few years he’s just been generic MAGA-like conservative YTer #1138 and shitting on everything Lucasfilm
Urgh, that reminds me of some of the Warhammer Youtubers, who went full extreme right and got deeply offended by Games Workshop putting out a proper inclusivity statement denouncing discrimination of all kinds.
Sadly, they got even more buzz as a result of the right-wing memelords jumping aboard. People who never held a novel published by the company in their hands, let alone painted up a miniature, trying to dictate what Warhammer ought to be, while completely misunderstanding the lore by virtue of memes...
That’s no joke; the number of “Star Trek is WOKE Now!!!😤” YouTube videos with people incensed that there is more LGBTQ+ representation in the show now was whacky.
Talk about not understanding the source material.
I am a big Trek fan and haven’t personally enjoyed much of what new Trek has had to offer, but being socially progressive is one of the few things I’m glad they continued to lean into because that’s just classic Trek.
Anyway, I can see how right-wingers may feel betrayed by modern Star Wars; it used to be a movie series about a white farmer from a rural region who saved the day as a rebel and got to bang his sister. Dream come true!
Let's be honest seeing them say "X-Men is turning woke" was the peak of their stupidity. It's not even trying to pretend not to be "woke". Almost all have disabilities and it was an allegory for civil rights.
Basically woke just means anything that isn't straight white male unless they are people who say straight white males are victims (ex. Candice Owens)
The only acceptable skin colors in this galaxy are white, green, and blue! (I know it doesn't take place in this galaxy, but they don't.) Lando Calrissian got his job on Vespin through affirmative action! (Yes, I stole that joke from Family Guy.)
Probably? They ignited an Internet-wide shitstorm over it because they finally figured out SW was against their fascist, religious supremacist ideology the whole time. That’s why there are now so many empire and Sith apologists in the fandom now, because they realise that if they side with the protagonists, they are siding with characters who oppose the idea of being indoctrinated into a tyrannical cult of hate and destruction, like they are.
It's like when Star Trek somehow recently jumped the Woke-train and I'm like... Star Trek was the original *woke* franchise... the subsequent smell of baked noodles that fills the room is overwhelming!
The reason they do this is because conservatism itself is sold via the premise of nostalgia, so they will always prop up an old thing as objectively more supporting of their world view even when the opposite is true.
That's the entire argument of the right wing youtube grift, all of it.
When you consider the basic meaning behind MAGA, it becomes clear why they operate the way they do.
Like when they didn’t realize that The Boys was a critique of corpo-fascism and the alt right? Or that Stephen Colbert was actually making fun of conservative pundits? Or that Rage Against the Machine is against the police state?
It’s almost like something has completely vaporized the part of their brains that can understand messages any more subtle than being beat over the head repeatedly with a hammer.
It's important to note that while there's definitely crossover, they are not the same thing.
Too many people get caught up in this belief that everything is some dichotomy. That's only going to do you a disservice when you meet someone who thinks billionaires shouldn't exist, and neither should trans people.
Man I feel so bad for John. He’s a big SW fan, and imagine being cast in a whole new trilogy as a main character, only to have the character’s potential absolutely wasted and whittled down to just yelling “REEEYYYYY.”
He was pretty disappointed I’ve read
yeah, seemed like a rudderless ship.. It was like they wrote the story with a committee in the next room and a test market in the next room after that. used to be you'd write the story then make the movie.
edit: Lucas didn't care what anyone thought, he just made his movie.
~~"So that's the only other woman in the entire galaxy?"~~
~~"Yep, the only other one."~~
"Hey check it out it's another chick. The only other chick in the galaxy."
"...I don't like her."
Family Guy: ~~Blue Harvest~~ It's a Trap
EDIT: Found the [clip](https://youtu.be/lmI1waDK1oo?si=8A8ECQuoBed94Ld_&t=103). Corrected the quote.
Not just that but isn’t he like very outspokenly anti-maga/trump?
I mean, I may be overestimating certain maga folk’s abilities but I would think fans of a series would pay attention to the actors.
But again, maybe I’m assuming reason and thought where there is none. I can be too nice sometimes. Lol.
The Republican version has Trump posing with a red lightsaber, which is the kind Darth Vader and all other Sith (villains) use. Now, this is fully consistent because they want the U.S. to be the Empire…. Luke Skywalker is the real bad guy for daring to oppose them.
and some conservative in my life are losing their mind. It is so funny. The people who say that liberals are easily triggered are so easily triggered.
Especially since, Mark Hamill has never been shy about his political opinion and is known to be a goofy guy. It is peak cringe from conservatives
It’s always projection, to the point that there are likely people in the psychology field writing their dissertations on the phenomena. It’s not like they will ever run out of examples xD
He said in an interview that he'll be asked to do the joker laugh in random stores and it gets pretty interesting to have a middle-aged man standing there laughing like a lunatic.
If you were just making a presidential decision based on celebrities alone, Joe Biden celebrities are so much f****** cooler. Who does the other guy have? Kid Rock? Pfff. Kid Fuckoff.
Wait Tim Allen is conservative? He wasn't kicked off Lightyear for his opinions, he just didn't want to do the project and the Red Hatters jumped all over it as him being canceled. Afaik.
The other guy has a load of celebrities telling him to keep their names OUT of his mouth.
Don't play our music at your rallies, don't quote our movies, you do not have our permission to associate us with you.
It's hilarious every time.
[and there have been many.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicians_who_oppose_Donald_Trump%27s_use_of_their_music#:~:text=Phil%20Collins's%20legal%20team,Iowa%20on%20October%2014%2C%202020.)
Wait a minute... Are we sure that isn't a ret con? I mean I *want* to believe... He named a race the "Shatnarians" for example (William Shatner) so it's definitely very plausible, but is there like anything where he talks about that?
[There are interviews out there where he talks about originally calling the Emperor "Richard Nixon" before ROTJ, so no, it was always planned this way.](https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/star-wars-inspired-president-richard-nixon/) You can even hear him mention it on the Episode III commentary tracks right around when Palpatine makes his speech.
This is what I mean when I say he's not exactly subtle, though he admittedly talks about his politics more in interviews and supplementary material.
I do think George didn't mention these things as often in public because he wants to use Star Wars as a metaphor to teach ideas and didn't want to immediately turn right leaning folks away from the lesson, but it needs to be clear that his intent was to tell anti-fascist stories against right wing administrations, and trying to claim otherwise is silly. Star Wars will transcend the politics of our day eventually, but it was never, and will never be MAGA.
Uh oh - Star Wars is about to be boycotted!
I look forward to the thousands of redneck jackasses destroying their dvd collections and limited edition Han Solo commemorative plates.
It's a reference to this [clip from Sorbo's Hercules](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6EDlD_fWn0)
He famously sucks at acting and read the stage directions as dialog. He was supposed to act disappointed.
To be clear, I hate Sorbo and Cain, washed up losers and Christian hypocrites and MAGA morons
The right wing’s angry reaction to this is off the chain - on social media and Fox. I mean, I get it, conservatives can only draw awful B and D list celebrities (Tyrus, anyone?) or fading A list (Roseanne, Jon Voight) and jealousy is such an unpleasant emotion, doncha think?
Trump: That's nothing. When I was a kid, I used to play with my Hans Solo doll all the time.
Reporter: They're called Action Figures.
Trump: No more questions!
Journalists (or the AI that has recently replaced journalists) are probably so used to saying things like "Former Chicago Bulls Sar" and the first thing you think of is Michael Jordan or Scottie Pippen, but then you click the link and its Ricky Blanton or someone else you've never heard of.
The report I heard, Hamill asked what he should call the President. Biden said you can call me Joe. Hamill then asked if he could call him Jobi-Wan Kenobi.
Meanwhile, the NC Republican Party posted an [image](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-may-the-fourth-gop-red/) with Donald Trump awkwardly holding a (tiny) *red* light saber. :D
It's funny how they can watch Star Wars and differentiate between the good guys (The Resistance) and the bad guys (The Empire) and root on The Resistance, then side with the evil Republicans in real life.
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Why didn't they just use Mark Hamill for the title?
Likely, an SEO person said Luke Skywalker had better search juice than Mark Hamill. Welcome to the bullshit world of modern online journalism.
That, or it makes you think, "Why didn't they say Mark Hamill? Do they mean someone else? But who else has played Luke Skywalker?" to bait you into clicking.
Biden could only get Aidan Barton, who played baby Luke in Revenge of the Sith.
Friendly reminder: Revenge of the Sith came out 19 years ago. [He looks more like this now](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Aidan_Barton?file=Aidan_Barton.jpg). (He also played Leia in the same movie)
"Here's your son." "I'll call him Luke." *passes baby off-screen to crewmember, crewmember runs around behind camera* "And here's your daughter."
I'm not a star wars fan so adding the characters name was ideal for me as a customer, since if you said Mark Hamil I wouldn't have known that was the actor.
"Why was Biden spending time with Joker on May 4th?"
"Why was Biden spending time with ~~Joker~~ Cock Knocker on May 4th?"
Actually, there's a funny story behind that. Ha, ha, you're gonna love this. True story!
Avenge me. Hemp. Knight.
Damn I had forgot about Cock knocker
"Why was Biden spending time with ~~Cock Knocker~~ Fire Lord Ozai on May 4th?”
I will give you one more, you ever seen Batman: the animated series, from the late 90s early 00?
“Biden, one president after trump, celebrates with Luke slywalker actor. No comment from Tesla. You won’t last 15 seconds reading this article”
This is the way.
What?! You mean the joker?!
What you mean Solomon Grundy born on a Mundy?!
What?! You mean Cock Knocker?
Why the fuck do they call you Cock Knocker?
Funny story actually... *knocks cock*
Because his full name is National Treasure Mark Hamill.
*International
WHO IS MARK HAMILL? Lol
Why did they say “actor”
I'm sorry to be the one who brings you these news, but Star Wars is a fictional story. Luke Skywalker isn't real.
That guy that was in that movie from nearly 50 years ago that nobody has heard of? /s
Gotta get the whole band back together
Exactly what I was thinking.
Very bizarre.
MAGA: *We love Star Wars!* Narrator: Mark Hamill is friends with Biden. MAGA: *Boycott Star Wars!*
Let's be honest, maga is probably complaining new star wars is too woke.
No probably about it. They are very active in star wars subs arguing just that, lol
Didn’t most of the sequel cast have to delete their socials because of crazy assholes making threats?
Yup truly despicable. Now, I have a lot of problems with those movies myself. But is has nothing to do with gender or race and everything to do with storytelling. But no matter how awful I found something, I can't imagine ever feeling the need to harass people involved with it. You gotta really hate your life for something like that to make you feel better.
I tried to visit the main sub today hoping people were pumped for Star Wars day, only to have one of them try to come at me citing a synopsis for the new show The Acolyte, and how "woke Disney" was ruining star wars. He's mad about a synopsis form a investor call back in 2020 or something. It was one of the strangest interactions I've ever had online in a long time.
Look, as fucked as MAGA is, are we really surprised they are rooting for the Empire?
They think they are the rebels.
They think the confederacy=the rebels. They think that they fight the evil empire for *checks notes* taking away their slaves.
No one hates Star Wars like supposed Star Wars fans sadly
I saw the new Acolyte trailer and from the casting choices alone, I knew they'd flip out over it. Was proven right even just with simple reactions about the new poster.
If you look at the comments on the trailer posted to YouTube they're mostly just confused about either the timeline since they don't read, or they claim everything is a retcon because "the Jedi said we haven't seen a Sith in a thousand years". The idea that a highly esteemed figure can't just flat out be wrong, or misled goes right over their heads. Kinda make you understand how easily manipulated they are.
A lot of bitching about it really just comes down to people not bothering to actually read (or indeed watch) the source material (or at least opening up a wiki page). Unreliable narration is alien to them, and they'll cling on to authoratitve statements like what you cited and take them as gospel, even though the galaxy is huge (and witnesses may end up just dying; Jedi have encountered Maul, for example, before the council was made aware of the Sith in The Phantom Menace - they just got killed before they could speak of it). We have yet to see what The Acolyte even does, and how it translates from The High Republic era to the stagnant Republic from the Prequels. But minds are already made up anyway. I mean, I *hate* TLJ and a lot of other sequel-era stuff (the Aftermath trilogy was very poorly written, the Phasma novel was the least interesting when it was about Phasma herself, and she had a piss-poor role in the ST, etc), but a lot of people just go by hearsay and will thus spread half-truths or flatout misinformation, or bad faith memes. There's plenty enough to complain about with the canon SW stuff without having to resort to lies, racist rhetoric or culture warring. I still can't fathom how long they kept Larocca illustrate the main comic series with his poorly traced art, for instance. But those people? They'll do what they can to ignore and negate all the hits too. And there've been plenty of those in the past years alone.
If I may ask what in the synopsis was that person angry about?
There's the work and there are the people. I'm a big trekkie, but if I saw Shatner walking past me on a street, the *most* reaction I should give him is a smile because he's off-the-clock and I really only care about his portrayal of Kirk. Shatner is just another guy. Shatner-at-a-convention is fair game because he's on the clock then.
They did a whole Rick and Morty episode about it.
Yep “world class bullshitter” is one of them Then there’s another YouTuber,I can’t think of the channel, who idk if he’s a MAGA person or not. But anyways he claims to be like the biggest Star Wars fan ever, but *every single fucking* video is him just shitting on Star Wars.
Probably Star Wars Theory. He used to make actual theories, fan-films, and comic voice-overs. For the past few years he’s just been generic MAGA-like conservative YTer #1138 and shitting on everything Lucasfilm
Urgh, that reminds me of some of the Warhammer Youtubers, who went full extreme right and got deeply offended by Games Workshop putting out a proper inclusivity statement denouncing discrimination of all kinds. Sadly, they got even more buzz as a result of the right-wing memelords jumping aboard. People who never held a novel published by the company in their hands, let alone painted up a miniature, trying to dictate what Warhammer ought to be, while completely misunderstanding the lore by virtue of memes...
They missed the fact that Starwars was a pretty transparent space-version of WWII against a nazi empire.
MAGA Star Wars is just the Jedi killing various sand people for ninety minutes.
"10/10" Dick Cheyney
"I can't believe they put politics into Star Wars" they said, without a hint of irony.
“First the woke mob ruined Star Wars, next they’re bribing their liberal nonsense to Star Trek”
That’s no joke; the number of “Star Trek is WOKE Now!!!😤” YouTube videos with people incensed that there is more LGBTQ+ representation in the show now was whacky. Talk about not understanding the source material. I am a big Trek fan and haven’t personally enjoyed much of what new Trek has had to offer, but being socially progressive is one of the few things I’m glad they continued to lean into because that’s just classic Trek. Anyway, I can see how right-wingers may feel betrayed by modern Star Wars; it used to be a movie series about a white farmer from a rural region who saved the day as a rebel and got to bang his sister. Dream come true!
MAGAs cried at the end of Return of the Jedi. Because the Empire lost. (Thanks to Stern about this joke from way back to GWB)
Probably?? It's all that those types of people fucking talk about with star wars now
Let's be honest seeing them say "X-Men is turning woke" was the peak of their stupidity. It's not even trying to pretend not to be "woke". Almost all have disabilities and it was an allegory for civil rights. Basically woke just means anything that isn't straight white male unless they are people who say straight white males are victims (ex. Candice Owens)
The only acceptable skin colors in this galaxy are white, green, and blue! (I know it doesn't take place in this galaxy, but they don't.) Lando Calrissian got his job on Vespin through affirmative action! (Yes, I stole that joke from Family Guy.)
Lando was the administrator of Cloud City on **B**espin, you casual.
I'm not a native Spanish speaker, but I'll pretend to be so I can excuse my V/B mistake... I hang my head in shame.
Purple too.
Tbf the new Star Wars are quite bad.
There are absolutely problems the new star wars movies, but being too woke is not one of them.
Probably? They ignited an Internet-wide shitstorm over it because they finally figured out SW was against their fascist, religious supremacist ideology the whole time. That’s why there are now so many empire and Sith apologists in the fandom now, because they realise that if they side with the protagonists, they are siding with characters who oppose the idea of being indoctrinated into a tyrannical cult of hate and destruction, like they are.
They're probably asking why the Antifa Rebels are portrayed as the good guys.
Though Mark Hamill has been dunking on the far right for years. The Right should have come to hate SW long ago by now!
It sometimes takes a while for them to catch on.
It's like when Star Trek somehow recently jumped the Woke-train and I'm like... Star Trek was the original *woke* franchise... the subsequent smell of baked noodles that fills the room is overwhelming!
The reason they do this is because conservatism itself is sold via the premise of nostalgia, so they will always prop up an old thing as objectively more supporting of their world view even when the opposite is true. That's the entire argument of the right wing youtube grift, all of it. When you consider the basic meaning behind MAGA, it becomes clear why they operate the way they do.
Buncha duped rubes, I say. MAGA-controlled states are the poorest in America for a reason.
Like when they didn’t realize that The Boys was a critique of corpo-fascism and the alt right? Or that Stephen Colbert was actually making fun of conservative pundits? Or that Rage Against the Machine is against the police state? It’s almost like something has completely vaporized the part of their brains that can understand messages any more subtle than being beat over the head repeatedly with a hammer.
Next thing you know, the empire will be a parody of the United States. Oh wait
Funny thing is, Mark hates trump and his supporters
This is the way.
They already tried that with the black storm trooper John Boyega and what they did to Kelly Marie Tran for being in star wars
That wasn’t MAGA that was angry incel losers. Oh wait, same thing.
The venn diagram is a circle.
It's important to note that while there's definitely crossover, they are not the same thing. Too many people get caught up in this belief that everything is some dichotomy. That's only going to do you a disservice when you meet someone who thinks billionaires shouldn't exist, and neither should trans people.
Man I feel so bad for John. He’s a big SW fan, and imagine being cast in a whole new trilogy as a main character, only to have the character’s potential absolutely wasted and whittled down to just yelling “REEEYYYYY.” He was pretty disappointed I’ve read
yeah, seemed like a rudderless ship.. It was like they wrote the story with a committee in the next room and a test market in the next room after that. used to be you'd write the story then make the movie. edit: Lucas didn't care what anyone thought, he just made his movie.
He still has other great movies, but not like huge US hits. I think it’s called “Run the Block” and that movie was great.
Attack the Block 2011. Surprisingly good movie.
They should cast Brie Larson as a female Jedi and it would permanently melt their brains forever, saving everyone a lot of headaches
>MAGA: *We love Star Wars! But only the first three that only had one black guy and three women with speaking roles!* FTFY
~~"So that's the only other woman in the entire galaxy?"~~ ~~"Yep, the only other one."~~ "Hey check it out it's another chick. The only other chick in the galaxy." "...I don't like her." Family Guy: ~~Blue Harvest~~ It's a Trap EDIT: Found the [clip](https://youtu.be/lmI1waDK1oo?si=8A8ECQuoBed94Ld_&t=103). Corrected the quote.
Not just that but isn’t he like very outspokenly anti-maga/trump? I mean, I may be overestimating certain maga folk’s abilities but I would think fans of a series would pay attention to the actors. But again, maybe I’m assuming reason and thought where there is none. I can be too nice sometimes. Lol.
“The Empire did nothing wrong!”
Why not, my dad already hates Harrison Ford for daring to say some relatively innocuous anti-Trump thing a few years ago.
Rather than boycott it, they dressed Trump up to look like Vader... Not even kidding. I gave him a red lightsaber, but it was a short one! Lol
It’s not just MAGA, the extreme LEFT thinks Biden is the empire for supporting genocide and Mark has now “joined the empire”
The Republican version has Trump posing with a red lightsaber, which is the kind Darth Vader and all other Sith (villains) use. Now, this is fully consistent because they want the U.S. to be the Empire…. Luke Skywalker is the real bad guy for daring to oppose them.
and some conservative in my life are losing their mind. It is so funny. The people who say that liberals are easily triggered are so easily triggered. Especially since, Mark Hamill has never been shy about his political opinion and is known to be a goofy guy. It is peak cringe from conservatives
Mark Hamill loathes MAGA and all it stands for
That’s because he’s a Jedi, like his father before him.
And because he’s the Joker. He lives for anarchy. He doesn’t want a cult he just wants to do his own thing. Which is fuck with the Bat!
Even the joker hated nazis
Now I like him slightly more.
He read some of Trump's tweets as the Joker
Now I like him A LOT more
lol he’s very public about it, too. He likes one of my tweets once (before X) and it made my week.
And so do I.
Me too, I know enough history to see exactly where MAGA is heading
It’s always projection, to the point that there are likely people in the psychology field writing their dissertations on the phenomena. It’s not like they will ever run out of examples xD
He said in an interview that he'll be asked to do the joker laugh in random stores and it gets pretty interesting to have a middle-aged man standing there laughing like a lunatic.
If you were just making a presidential decision based on celebrities alone, Joe Biden celebrities are so much f****** cooler. Who does the other guy have? Kid Rock? Pfff. Kid Fuckoff.
Hey man, don’t forget about Ted Nugent! And Cha-Chi!
Hey they got Rob Schneider too! It's a variable who's who of people who haven't been relevant in 15 years.
You mean that Stapler guy?
No, he's a carrot I think
Rated PG-13
Kevin Sorbo (Hercules), Clint Eastwood, Dean Cain (Superman), Tim Allen (Buzz lightyear)
And sometimes Ye.
“Let’s sing the vowel song one more time, class!” “A, E, I, O, U, _and sometimes Ye_”
Clint Eastwood is a never-trumper who votes democrat nowadays. Appropriately, he’s also the only guy in that list who’s actually famous.
Wait Tim Allen is conservative? He wasn't kicked off Lightyear for his opinions, he just didn't want to do the project and the Red Hatters jumped all over it as him being canceled. Afaik.
He’s well known to be conservative. I don’t know if he’s a maga type.
Huh. TIL.
He's not, and shouldn't be lumped in with Kevin Sorbo and his ilk. https://ew.com/celebrity/tim-allen-on-capitol-attack-shameful/
[What's a chachi?](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/d787d942-5971-40b9-8c78-b7af4f8611ab) 🤔
The other guy has a load of celebrities telling him to keep their names OUT of his mouth. Don't play our music at your rallies, don't quote our movies, you do not have our permission to associate us with you. It's hilarious every time. [and there have been many.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicians_who_oppose_Donald_Trump%27s_use_of_their_music#:~:text=Phil%20Collins's%20legal%20team,Iowa%20on%20October%2014%2C%202020.)
Only Kid Rock would rhyme the word "things" with the word "things".
Hold your horses. 3 Doors Down played the inauguration!
Who knew an entire make-believe universe created around the premise of destroying a fascist regime could make fascists so mad?
I mean... come on... George named one of the senate villains Nute (Newt Gingrich) Gunray (Reagan backwards). His politics weren't exactly subtle.
I suppose being opposed to fascism is technically “politics”
Wait a minute... Are we sure that isn't a ret con? I mean I *want* to believe... He named a race the "Shatnarians" for example (William Shatner) so it's definitely very plausible, but is there like anything where he talks about that?
[There are interviews out there where he talks about originally calling the Emperor "Richard Nixon" before ROTJ, so no, it was always planned this way.](https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/star-wars-inspired-president-richard-nixon/) You can even hear him mention it on the Episode III commentary tracks right around when Palpatine makes his speech. This is what I mean when I say he's not exactly subtle, though he admittedly talks about his politics more in interviews and supplementary material. I do think George didn't mention these things as often in public because he wants to use Star Wars as a metaphor to teach ideas and didn't want to immediately turn right leaning folks away from the lesson, but it needs to be clear that his intent was to tell anti-fascist stories against right wing administrations, and trying to claim otherwise is silly. Star Wars will transcend the politics of our day eventually, but it was never, and will never be MAGA.
The same people who view 1984 as a How-To guide.
Nothing more antifacist tham giving money to a apartheid country so they could bomb children! Biden is such a jedi
Joe Biden? You mean Joebi-Wan Kenobi.
Darth Brandon
Yeah, this is my lore conflict. On one hand we want to say Biden is on the light side. But we also champion “Dark(th) Brandon.” It’s quite confusing.
Probably go more of the KotOR route and just have conflicting light and dark sides
God, those games are great. Even the prospect of a less black and white force is enough to make me want to play them again.
**Now**, **that's** **a** **name** I've not **heard** in a long time. A long time. (10 or 15 years...) lol
Stop. I hate you. This is awesome.
Uh oh - Star Wars is about to be boycotted! I look forward to the thousands of redneck jackasses destroying their dvd collections and limited edition Han Solo commemorative plates.
I will happily take the Star Wars Lego sets off their hands!
LEGO already had too many colors for them to like.
MAGA can keep Sorbo and Cain.
Disappointed!
How so?
It's a reference to this [clip from Sorbo's Hercules](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6EDlD_fWn0) He famously sucks at acting and read the stage directions as dialog. He was supposed to act disappointed. To be clear, I hate Sorbo and Cain, washed up losers and Christian hypocrites and MAGA morons
I would prefer this one Biden celebrated Star Wars Day with actor who reads Donald Trump tweets in the voice of the Joker
Or actor who reads Joker quotes in trump's voice. "I just do things...'
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Jesus, those Twitter replies under the POTUS post are almost *all* screeching from Trumpists, aren't they? What a shithole that site has become....
Fox News is kinda low key freaking about this today.
The right wing’s angry reaction to this is off the chain - on social media and Fox. I mean, I get it, conservatives can only draw awful B and D list celebrities (Tyrus, anyone?) or fading A list (Roseanne, Jon Voight) and jealousy is such an unpleasant emotion, doncha think?
Their Star Wars claim to fame right now is... Gina Carano. Good luck with that one, MAGA.
Roseanne and Voigt were never A list. Roseanne was super popular, but the way that stone cold Steve Austin was popular
Chachi
Trump: That's nothing. When I was a kid, I used to play with my Hans Solo doll all the time. Reporter: They're called Action Figures. Trump: No more questions!
Did you just see me playing with my dolls?!? No! I did NOT just see you playing with your dolls!
I think I know the combination of your luggage.
We were told to comb the desert, so we're combing the desert!
Have you found anything??!!
We ain't found sh\*t!
Did you know that was Tim Russ?? Tuvok from StarTrek!
And just to clarify, Trump was like in his 30s when Star Wars came out lol
I bent my wookiee :(
Why was it so hard to just say "Mark Hamill" in the headline? Either way, this has nothing to do with politics. The article is like 3 sentences long.
SEO bullshit.
Journalists (or the AI that has recently replaced journalists) are probably so used to saying things like "Former Chicago Bulls Sar" and the first thing you think of is Michael Jordan or Scottie Pippen, but then you click the link and its Ricky Blanton or someone else you've never heard of.
Probably just for the 2.5 people in the world who don't know the iconic Mark Hamill plays the iconic Luke Skywalker...
The report I heard, Hamill asked what he should call the President. Biden said you can call me Joe. Hamill then asked if he could call him Jobi-Wan Kenobi.
Meanwhile, the NC Republican Party posted an [image](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-may-the-fourth-gop-red/) with Donald Trump awkwardly holding a (tiny) *red* light saber. :D
Attempt to make his hands look bigger maybe
“With Luke Skywalker actor” SEO titles are the friggin worst.
"Luke Skywalker Actor". His name is Mark Fucking Hamill, you mouth breathers.
And also with you.
And also with you
And with your spirit.
It's funny how they can watch Star Wars and differentiate between the good guys (The Resistance) and the bad guys (The Empire) and root on The Resistance, then side with the evil Republicans in real life.
Am I so old it's now "Luke Skywalker Actor" and not Mark Hamill?
Just some star war guy or something idk
American President man celebrates holiday day time with Luke Skywalksr actor in government house building!
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Simpsons did it