One of the dumbest die for democrats users on lemmy, both can’t understand why people see the usa as an empire AND refuses to see that it was what George Lucas based the empire on in star wars
One of the dumbest die for democrats users on lemmy, both can’t understand why people see the usa as an empire AND refuses to see that it was what George Lucas based the empire on in star wars
They’re just so redscare-pilled that it genuinely stuns them when they discover the heroes in all of their shows about literal rebellion against empire are all based on communists.
They never stop to think about who the rebellious against empire are in the modern world. They never stop to realise they are the supporters of empire either.
The entire view of the world they have doesn’t match up to it so they fall into large amounts of cognitive dissonance. The ones with real intellectual curiosity actually investigate and learn when they experience this emotion whereas the ones without it lash out in anger and defensiveness.