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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.
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Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta
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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.
The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:
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This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.
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We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.
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As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!
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Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.
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Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).
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Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.
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Fascism is an ideology that emphasizes that bloodlines (ancestry and ethnicity) should determine a person's place in the world.
Star Wars is a story about defeating fascism.
The word Fascism literally comes from Mussolini referencing the Roman Empire, ie. referencing the empire of the ancestors of Italian people. Fascism relies on on creating a narrative that a it's supporters deserve to have the things their ancestors had, and they've been wronged because they no longer have the things their ancestors had. That it's destiny they should have the power their ancestors had.
Of course fascism is mostly about lying to people to gain power, there are many more facets to fascist narratives (misogyny, fear of minorities, a sense of humilation, etc). But RoS focusses on the relationship to the past element, because it's the final part of a Sequel Trilogy that's obviously going to be about the relationship to the past in general.
One of the myths about the JJ Abrams movies is that they don't go into politics like other Star Wars movies have. But the reality is his movies go into the emotional reasons for fascism more so than any of the other movies. Indoctrination, ancestry, traditionalism, these are tools that fascists use to manipulate people. There's a particular focus on relationships to the past, they are sequels picking up the story decades later after all. The ending says "remember the past, but the past doesn't define who you are." If you understand that, then you will be immune to a whole lot of fascist propaganda. Not allowing the past to define how things should be in the present kills fascism.
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