• Comrade Ben
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    Sucks that hamill is rooting for the empire that inspired the empire in Star Wars

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      Luke Skywaker voice: “Like my father before me”

      We are in the wierd timeline where not only history repeats as farce, but farce repeats as yet another farce:

      Biden would be Palpatine in this metaphor lol.

      Also, Happy Marie Antoinette day, Comrade

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      He’s only the Joker to me.

      I have never watched and will never watch a Star Wars film so I only associate him with the Joker from the 90s cartoon and the Rocksteady games.

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    You know what I love about this type of thing. When Trump first got into office, liberal anti-communist scum like T. Snyder would shout about not allowing fascist (aka in this instance Trump) symbology to take over public spaces because they claimed that was necessary for normalizing it and so on and so forth.

    Now you have people posting, enjoying, or ignoring and dismissing literal WW2 era fascist symbols and post-war fascist symbols and absolute silence about normalizing fascism. Yeah, yeah liberals are hypocrites, we all know and every anti-communist is a fascist at heart.

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    This just solidifies my beliefs that Mark Hamill is dumb as shit and that you could give him a tour of a concentration camp and he wouldn’t be able to tell if it was wrong or not as long as the media didn’t inform him about it.

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      I want to add that being misinformed is not a crime. I probably wouldn’t always be able to spot Nazi flag or stuff as well.

      However, if you are confronted with their formation that you just spoke to actual Nazis and you still defend them, that’s on you.

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        Imo regular people make bad judgments all the time, we are only human. But Mark has elevated Ukranians to martyr status. I know Ben Afleck said Zelensky was his personal hero, I suspect Mark thinks the same but I don’t keep up with celeb drama.

        This type of idolization is disgusting, to us of course because we see the hypocrisy.

        Beyond that it’s mostly a dignity issue for me. These people base a large chunk of their self worth in the value they bring to others. It is very much a worshiper and diety situation, cult of personality. The only value of the worshiper is the social credibility they bring to the diety, a parasitic, one way relationship. Mark is feeding his credibility to Zelensky, in part so he can feel morally good.

        Perhaps there is more to unpack, but I always get a very bad feeling when I see idolization. There’s something wrong with viewing oneself as inferior to another just as it is wrong to view oneself as superior to another.

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          Are you talking about Hamill putting Ukraine on a pedestal or the general public worshipping entertainers when you say idolisation?

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            Not entertainers specifically, but they are probably the biggest offenders. Hamil just happens to be a convenient example.

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          They always pick as their heroes certain people “resisting”. Weird how it’s never anyone like let’s say Arafat (critique aside) or Palestinians or the Houthis or leftist rebels in Latin America, etc who the odds against are much more insurmountable as they aren’t supplied by literally the most wealthiest nations on earth.

          I think there is something much more sinister than ignorance at play here, not to discount the ignorance part.

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    So fucking embarrassing. I hAd No IdEa WhAt ThAt FlAg SiGnIfIeS, good god girl get a grip. How stupid can you be?

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    To be fair, Luke was the ‘chosen one’ of a cultish religious sect. So is it really surprising?

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        Yeah he was also… but then he turned to the dark side. Luke fulfilled the same role in the plot.

        At least we don’t see Hayden Christensen acting like Mark Hamill on twitter (I hope?)

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    Someone is paying Mark Hamill a lot of money to be the public face of Ukrainian nazis

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      I don’t think he’s getting paid. He’s just a righteous liberal so he will likely do this kind of shit for free.

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      Mark Hamill © @MarkHamill • Apr 15 It was a pleasure meeting with the brave Ukrainian drone operators. We talked about the challenges they face on a daily basis, but they also wanted to talk about Wookiees & farm boys & droids, oh my! Show your support here: u24.gov.ua #SlavaUkraini ) U24 © @U24_gov a • Apr 14 Children of the Ukrainian military adore #StarWars. So, they asked @MarkHamill what his favorite film is from the saga. Listen to Mark’s answer to the Ukrainian defenders during their meeting. u24.gov.ua/dronation §EbRONES EPISODE I- FARMBOY THAT • 2.623 17 3.757 ( 24.5K 6M Adam & DT • I @askeeve • Apr 17 Hey Mark, I’m a big fan of yours and it’s really terrifying to see you not acknowledging the very obvious flag in this video. I understand if you didn’t recognize it, I know lots of people mignt not have, but it’s been pointed out to you a lot and your silence is really painful. • 42 17 138 4,347 1. Mark Hamill © @MarkHamill I have no idea what that flag signifies. My support is simply for Ukraine over the Russian invasion. PERIOD. 1:35 AM • Apr 17, 2023 - 1.4M Views

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