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ShamblesofMeh's avatar

This summary gave me chills. I saw many of the themes and parallels while watching Andor but you two summarise it so eloquently and insightfully. Love you both you wonderful warriors ❤️ ♥️

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Xplisset's avatar

I genuinely don’t know why Vaush gets his teeth clenched every time Andor comes up. Like it’s somehow unserious to use fiction when fiction is the only thing telling the truth out loud.

This piece right here? It used it as a diagnostic tool. You walked us through every angle: how fascism deforms everyone it touches (even the believers), how distraction keeps us obedient, how capitalism profits off our numbness, and how the “war on woke” is really just a war on memory and moral clarity.

The way you tied Dedra’s loyalty to the state with ICE detention centers, or the modern consumer loop back to pandemic revelations….not very many are stitching those lines with that kind of sharpness and emotional weight. And ending it with Mon Mothma’s defiance and the Rebellion Manifesto? That was truly truly a sermon.

This helped me. Not just because it was smart, but because it reminded me that the people making sense of this madness aren’t always on the front page. They’re in spaces like this.

So thank you. Every word pushed the line forward. And I’m gonna remember.

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jaromanny's avatar

Getting me to want to watch shows that my husband begs me to watch all the time is pretty impressive.

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Monte Hickmon's avatar

We are the Resistance, Elbows up! Don't give up the fight,protest peacefully, donate money or time, run for office, make calls/ knock on doors....

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Celeste's avatar

"Yes, Jewish and Arab populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome haplotypes, indicating a shared ancestry, particularly in the Middle East. Studies have shown that a significant portion of Y chromosomes in both Jewish and Palestinian Muslim Arab populations belong to the same genetic pool, despite historical separation and dispersal. " Arabs and Jews are both semites so how can protesting what is happening in gaza as anti-semetic?

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Randy G's avatar

Uh, spoiler alert……?

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Randy G's avatar

Hey guys! Oldtime Trekkie, Star Wars, Halo fan!

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