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Joan Jett Rule (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Don't know about the Nazi analogy, but in the original Book (The adventures of Luke Skywalker) on which the original movies are based, the emperor is literally described as being Nixon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The book is a novelization of the screenplay for the first film.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter. Star Wars was political from the start.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Agreed, just pointing out that the book was not source material

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