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  • Yeah, I think I’ve read that sugar is more addictive than cocaine. Put simply, we’re all addicted to things. I don’t know if anyone in this world can truly say they aren’t an addict. Some addiction are just more socially acceptable, but that just brings to light that addiction isn’t the issue, it’s the behavior. You should be allowed to be addicted to what you want as long as it doesn’t harm others.








  • Cethin@lemmy.ziptoNews@lemmy.worldAndor Has a Message for the Left: Act Now
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    17 days ago

    I agree with the other comment, it is the best in general. I’m not as old as the other person, but Star Wars has been a part of my life always. I wouldn’t even say any other video media holds a light to it. Obviously the original trilogy have had more influence, but Andor does a much better job of telling a story of rebellion.

    Honestly, the jedi aren’t relatable, and that’s why everything else falls flat. They’re spectacle and almost no substance. Andor is entertaining while telling essentially true stories of rebellion that have actually happened. We can see ourselves in the characters, and it’s so much more impactful because of it. They’re also not afraid to show the horrors of war, while the original series mostly handwaves it away. They show a planet blowing up, but they don’t show people suffering. They show battles, but they don’t show civilians or what happens to their loved ones. They’re just rebelling because they were written to, but they’re never actually given a reason.


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    It’s great because it hardly resembles Star Wars. There’s no chosen one (OK, season 2 sort of makes Andor into someone chosen by The Force, but it’s vague enough that maybe it’s just saying it’s around him because of what he’s done/become), no lighsabers, barely any of The Force, there’s mass murder of civilians on screen, and I’m pretty sure they even included an anologue for Walt Disney himself as a master of propoganda assisting The Empire, just like the real Walt and Fascists.

    It’s good because they have a passionate team, and they seem to have been given almost complete freedom. Disney isn’t breathing down their necks telling them what to or not to include. They just want to tell a story about rebellion in our world, but use the Star Wars backdrop to trick people into watching it and agreeing with it when they maybe wouldn’t initially if it were using imagery from our world.



  • Cethin@lemmy.ziptoNews@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    20 days ago

    My understanding is that it potentially isn’t illegal, because you weren’t being paid to vote explicitly, and weren’t being paid to vote for a specific candidate for sure, but you were (supposed to be) paid to sign an agreement that you would vote, and I think it also said you support a certain candidate but I’m not totally sure on that.

    Basically, he was paying for people to say they’d vote (maybe for a certain candidate) but legally that wasn’t actually required, so possibly barely skirts the law if a judge is being very generous to him.