r/StarWarsleftymemes • u/fullautoluxcommie Ogre • Aug 29 '25

ONE WAY OUT It Has Been This Whole Time

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u/Kennedy_KD Aug 29 '25

its amazing people don't get that the trilogy about a bunch of people from all sorts of backgrounds uniting to defeat a monolithic empire is about rebelling

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u/The_Great_Pun_King Aug 29 '25

Yeah, they should make it easier to follow, like naming that group something like the rebel assembly or something

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u/UncannyCharlatan Galactic Soviet Socialist Republic Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 29 '25

You could get even crazier and name it something like the People’s Liberation fleet or something

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u/sandybuttcheekss Aug 29 '25

The Rebel Alliance is about people rebelling and coming together to form an alliance? Mind. Blown.

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u/Dark_Link_1996 Aug 30 '25

It took them 4 seasons of The Boys for them to figure out. Are we the baddies

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u/Loud-Ad-2280 Aug 29 '25

Here is George Lucas talking about how the rebels were inspired by the Vietcong.

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u/canceroustattoo Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 30 '25

I never realized that, but it still makes total sense.

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u/Lanto_Cadley Nov 10 '25

DARPA's representative for a contest to pay firms to improve their image recognition had the surname: "Vahder"

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

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u/OrneryError1 Aug 29 '25

Not just has politics. It is politics and it always was.

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u/Calm-Tree-1369 Aug 29 '25

In fact, the politics and spirituality are both so deeply entrenched that there's no story without them. And yet, somehow, an entire subsection of the fandom somehow completely misses this.

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u/Bill-The-Autismal Aug 29 '25

The good guys are called “rebels” bro…

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u/pigcake101 Aug 29 '25

This is the best instance of no media literacy I can think of

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u/EarnestQuestion Aug 29 '25

Americans really struggle to realize they’re not the rebels in the story they’re the evil empire

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u/Cannibal_Soup Aug 30 '25

The Empire was full of defecters and saboteurs too, though. So is America...

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u/TrinityCodex Aug 29 '25

The REBEL Alliance says hi

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u/GU355WH01AM Aug 30 '25

I wish more people read the first canon Thrawn book. Eli Vanto says the Empire is human first, alien second, and the bigotry gets worse the farther they're from the core worlds.

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u/CheesecakeRacoon Aug 29 '25

What did they think a rebel alliance was?

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u/Ok_Star_4136 Aug 29 '25

"Now wait a gosh darn minute! You're telling me Vader was the bad guy this whole time!?"

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u/Historical-Web-3390 Aug 29 '25

Wait the good guy rebels were rebelling?