that quote from the Iranian cleric after the US assassinated one of their leaders, about how it would be a struggle to hit back in-kind, because the US has only fictional heroes.
"Think about it. Are we supposed to take out Spider-Man and SpongeBob? They don't have any heroes. We have a country in front of us with a large population and a large landmass, but it doesn't have any heroes. All of their heroes are cartoon characters — they're all fictional."
i think about that a lot.
like a fucking laser beam. every pro-military special forces bozo ends up being a dead-eyed psycho that can't even be stage managed to appear normal to fans for a 30 second spot with infinity re-takes, re-shoots and do-overs. not to mention, it becomes clear within a few months that they are focused on the cash grab of the spotlight when they cut ties with some "brother who saved my life 3 times" because they won't share the money. the attack dogs of america burn under the scrutiny, the flag officers that oversee them are bureacratic careerists and money launderers for industry.
the working class heroes of civic infrastructure, the nurses, the teachers, the firefighter, the 36 hour shift week ER residents, none of those people can be trusted with a heroes platform because they'll probably say, "the game is rigged" in a fit of unscripted frustration at whatever sinecure-holding asshole just cut the budget again to pay for a 2 week trustee/executive board training confab in Antigua.
so of course, the earnest and authentic american hero has to literally be a completely fictional character.
Yeah, I honestly can't come up with anyone
All the 'celebrities' here are athletes, actors, rich ghouls...David West is pretty cool iirc, but he's barely relevant to anything and he'd be hated if his politics were broadly known, and damn near everyone else is a shitlib like Hamill at best
america has heroes, it's just that americans tend to fucking hate them. look at john brown. look at malcolm x. the list is long.
those people are dead, they were hated in their time, and they stood against the established order. they were killed by the established order.
they are not "heroes" in the sense of what an outside enemy looking to strike at the American social order would target, which is what the quote is about.
they should kill billionares and bomb corporate headquarters. Like how you show a dog that doesn't get it how to pee in the yard.
"Truth be told, I would have vaporized Alderaan too. They should have peacefully protested the Empire instead of harboring terrorists."
This is so pathetic for a country to do. It's like something a mayor would pull with a movie that features their city in hopes of increasing tourism, but in this case it's just because their constituents are 60-year-old children.
We don’t really even deserve to be a country.
Oh god, please tell me he hasn't said anything about Israel.
Unfortunately he has, none of it good
He's said a lot, all of its rabidly pro israel
Oh dear. This makes me sadder than i expected
"Carrie wherever you are - this is for you... This is our most desperate hour. Help us, Netanya-hu Kenobi. You're our only hope."
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so frustrating to see the dnc use a gay black immigrant woman to peddle their genocide
really makes you feel like you're part of history
It’s really not frustrating when you just accept that some people will do whatever so long as there are enough zeros.
Adjacently related, that sort of thing always makes me think of Black Cop by KRS-One
Black cop, black cop, black cop. You don't even get paid a whole lot.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Not all skin folk are kin folk. Brothers in high places won’t save us. Malcolm Xtalked about these people. They’ll sell their soul for a chance at some power just like any other comprador/class traitor.
Same type of rotten trash as russian/chinese/iranian/cuban/etc "dissidents" and gusanos
Ah, the alternate universe where Luke Skywalker stayed home to vaporate moisture and just wrote angry letters to his Emperor
wrote angry letters to his Emperor
We are dismayed by your cavalier attitude. Furthermore...
he wanted to join the empire lol
he wanted to get away from tattooine, he's a join the military for college archetype.
No heroes except SpongeBob and Spider-Man.
I have never seen Mark Hamill looking worse than in this pic.
and that's including when he was getting weird blue milk out of an alien creature.
that must be Jake Hamil
If you don't vote for Darth Vader, Darth Sidious will destroy democracy!
I may not agree with all of his policies, but Chancellor Palpatine is still our best option against Emperor Palpatine.
He's a big shitlib
Use The Force … of lethal aid to do genocide
Blark Blamill
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I honestly can't believe that freak is personally funding Ukraine. How do you get to that point?
Terminal Cold War brain. He's more Joker than Skywalker now.
Not even, he's worse than the Joker:
You see what happens when you don't vote tankies?? They took away Mark Hamill's eyesight!
This guy…
spoiler
Remember, this guy was sadder about the death of the 80-year-old man he had known for one day than he was about the destruction of his twin sister’s home planet.
uh he'd known old ben for more than a day, and that's without bringing books into it.
Kenobi is a coward for not executing Anakin
I mean fuck that planet though. alderaan thought it was soooo great with allll its WATER, well you'll come to tattooine and like it, refugees!
Hamill looking like he’s getting Weekend At Bernie’d here
Mark "banderites are freedom fighters" hamill
, turn the moon into a non-sabotaged death star, I'm ready to goDamn, Firelord Ozai has bad politics?
The lawyer from the fall of the house of Usher was just a case of self portrayal.
