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> It's "classist" to kill stormtroopers since they're probably just "low-middle income people making ends meet?" https://www.theonion.com/death-star-to-open-da
by eesmith 6y ago
> It's "classist" to kill stormtroopers since they're probably just "low-middle income people making ends meet?"
https://www.theonion.com/death-star-to-open-day-care-center-1819563895 https://www.theonion.com/death-star-to-open-day-care-center-... gives a very different way to think of the destruction of the Death Star. :)
- true_religion 6y agoAs evil as the empire seems in the first triology, I like how the expanded universe, and the films that came afterwards went on to show that from their point of view they weren't all that bad. Even if they were headed by the fictional embodiment of cackling evil, the rank and file just wanted order, and freedom from the fear of being captured as slaves for the Outer Rim or murdered by interplanetary cartels, which the previous Republic had ignored for political reasons.
- HashingtheCode 6y ago> went on to show that from their point of view they weren't all that bad. Exactly, just like the Nazi soldiers weren't all that bad either but they were just following the orders of their superiors and believed in a united Germany. But really they were ok.
- HashingtheCode 6y agolow-middle income people making ends meet? just like storm troopers in Star Wars