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I wonder what they see when they watch Star Wars. What do they think the Rebellion is fighting for? Who do they identify with? What parts do they think are cool and for what reasons?
It's a bit like conservative Star Trek fans. I'm not going to gatekeep, but I really wonder what they see in it.
That one's easy. It's a show about a bunch of people who are absolutely certain about the superiority of their own ideology, assembled into a military hierarchy that goes completely unquestioned and where everybody's happy to work without pay, traveling around the galaxy in a heavily-armed ship preaching that ideology to everyone they come across, who are nearly always portrayed as more primitive and limited than themselves.
I wonder how many of them saw the episode(s) where it explains why they're happy to work without pay lol
The usual assumption is that the Federation's money-less economy is due to advanced technologies like warp drive and replicators, and that those technologies in the future are the result of capitalism in the present.