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Historically speaking, fascists have used violence against fascists to justify fascism. When people spoke out against Hitler supporters, the Nazis complained about lawlessness and Hitler became “tougher on violence” (which was code for “going full totalitarian.”) So I would say don’t punch Nazis, not because of ethical concerns, but because it only helps their cause in a very real way.

The thing is, fascists don’t need real violence to back up claims of lawlessness. They just make shit up. Crime rates have been falling for years in the U.S. and immigrants are responsible for crimes at a lower rate, but politicians just make up stats about the U.S. being a hellhole of crime and immigrants being violent “animals,” and their followers will eat it up because it’s what they want to hear. Under these circumstances there’s no point in antifascists tying their own hands behind their backs in the hopes of appeasing the enemy–it won’t work.

I mean, Charlottesville basically happened when a bunch of Nazis came together and Antifa showed up to punch them in the face, and people died. I feel like both sides deserve a good punch in the face, really, but that kind of thinking started it in the first place. Political violence isn’t just terrorist bombings. It’s any violent politically motivated attack, and punching is violence. Of course we can’t make peace with Nazis, that’s stupid, but instigating violence solves nothing.

Antifa who punched Nazis are just as much to blame as Nazis who incited antisemitic and racist hatred and actually killed a woman? But you know, both sides, I guess.

Idk I think violence solves some problems. Richard Spencer was made a laughingstock on national television when he was punched in the face and otherwise threatened, and white nationalists recruiting efforts were much stymied as a result. Nazi ideology is inherently violent, so punching back–including literally–is not instigation. It is a response.

White liberals were against punching Nazis? I thought that was conservatives. I seem to remember white liberals being ready to punch anyone who looked even remotely like a racist. I’m conservative and I was even more conservative back then, so I can definitely say conservatives were concerned about the disappearance of civil discourse– and being misidentified as Nazis themselves, because there are people who think anyone who disagrees with them is a Nazi. Am I wrong? Did white liberals do this?

I think white liberals in that sense are more mainstream and centrist liberals as opposed to leftists, who are likelier to punch Nazis.

What if Rogue One was never released and Jyn, Cassian, Bodhi, Chirrut, Baze, and K-2SO were integrated into the Sequel Trilogy instead, providing a more diverse cast as well as paring BB-8 with his own C-3PO? In this odd timeline, what sort of relationships would Finn, Rey, Poe, and Rose form?

K2 as BB’s C-3PO is so hilarious I almost cried XD I wonder what kind of backgrounds these characters would have. Jyn as the daughter of a FO scientist who worked on Starkiller Base? Cassian as an anti-Republic partisan turned to fighting the FO? Chirrut and Baze as members of the Church of the Force who escape the carnage at Tuanul with Poe’s help and meet up with Rey? Bodhi as a defecting pilot who escapes with Finn?

Why was The Last Jedi a crossover? You don’t see Transformers trying to pretend like it takes place in Middle Earth, making a bunch of references to Lord of the Rings and having Gandalf show up for no reason. Like, we get it Rian, you like Star Wars, but if you wanted to make a Star Wars movie, get a deal with Lucasfilm and don’t ruin your movie with a cringe C-3PO or Yoda cameo. Heck, you even ripped off Luke Skywalker. Badly. Come on.

Hopefully Lucasfilm’s lawyers are on the case.

Regarding Canto Bight: a few things that bugged me: one was the way that the people in the casino were dressed, the women were all wearing white dresses, and most of the men were wearing literal tuxedos that came from a real life clothing store, this isn’t Doctor Who where aliens can ape on earth fashion for aesthetic (or as a sign of cultural osmosis depending on the time period), this is Star Wars where formal wear comes in the form of elegant and colorful robes. To be continued

My second issue is with the aliens; all of them were pretty
forgettable in fact the only ones I even remembered before looking up
images of the scenes on google were the tiny rat guy with big ears who
was trying to use BB-8 as a slot machine, and the one lady that looked
like an inflatable raft and screamed when the not-horses smashed through
the casino.
   

My third gripe is actually about something that you talked about
with a previous ask and that’s about how “white” the aliens were, like
there are other colors besides beige, the cantina scene, Jabba’s palace,
the pod race bleachers, the senate building, the Jedi temple, the
separatist meeting and Takodana from the past movie, not to mention the
Galactic Council, platform-1 and Akhaten from Doctor Who all blow Canto
Bight our of the water.

Yeah Canto Bight was pretty unimaginative and, in parts, unnecessarily gross. I kept doing double takes at my own screenshots because they all looked the same even though I had captured different parts of the scene. What a waste of opportunity. Maybe the disappointing visuals had something to do with the team being overstretched and working on too many things at once, but I suspect a lack of inspiration and imagination since the failure wasn’t just the bad execution of more original ideas, but rather just bad ideas.

Headcanon that Hux fathered an illegitimate son, remembered his own childhood… and promptly enrolled him in the stormtrooper corps and never thought about him again. Where that kid is now I don’t know, but maybe he was in the FN corps.

Headcanon canceled, he’s canonically an incel. Besides, if he did beget spawn he’d probably want to bring them up as a stuffy genocidal Mini-Me the way his horrible father did to him.