This will be another reason for the traitors to piss and moan.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2025
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I first noticed this a few years back when I started to see “The Empire Did Nothing Wrong” on bumper stickers. Sure it seemed like a joke at the time but I was confused that so many people thought this was a statement worth putting on their vehicle. I mean, pretty early on in the OT, Darth Vader uses the Death Star to murder an entire planet so surely no one was serious, right?
Whoooo boy have I learned a lot about my neighbors’ values since then.
Yeah, being able to plan and do more than just react is apparently a shockingly low percentage of our population.
They have a couple "truths" they tell themselves and hope everything else just falls into like or will complain to someone else to do something about it so that it does. Listen to the hymns in a church some time and listen to how people talk about God. Its very lazy
When I found out about the 501st Legion, I was absolutely baffled. George Lucas dressed the bad guys to look like Nazis, and now fans were dressing up as the bad guys because they love the movies so much? What the fuck is wrong with these people?
Then Captain America came out and people started dressing as Hydra agents, and I was like, "Oh, they're just straight-up okay with Nazis. Got it."
I had the impression the 501st was a different beast from "The Empire Did Nothing Wrong" types. I thought the point of them being stormtroopers was so everyone else had someone to heroically oppose? Their charity events seem to focus on things like kids shooting them with dart guns.
I'm not saying they haven't been co-opted since I learned about them several years ago; but last I knew, they were happy playing bad guys to let other people be good guys.
"We can learn a lot about people's intentions just by how they interact with fictional media." A statement I would have ridiculed people for a few years ago. But it's true and it's sad that we even have to now.