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“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

hollywoodreporter.com‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Gives the Interview He Couldn’t During Its ReleaseWhile promoting his cautionary tale about fascism, Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from using the word. Nine months after it aired its finale, the 'Star Wars' series feels scarily prescient.

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Conservatism, of which fascism is an off-shoot, will always fail in the end, because it's based on fantasies and fantasies aren't real. Cons have been bashing their head against this particular wall since the Enlightenment and all it's given them is a string of bloody failures & a bad headache.

Such a qoute: “You get out your Fascism for Dummies book … and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. …How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used?” #Andorr seaon 2 was spot on.

"You get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used." 🤣😭😱

“So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used?”

“. They don’t really have a [Joseph] Goebbels or a Mike Deaver in there. They don’t have a presentation. They don’t have a Leni Riefenstahl in there. They do not have a way to get their message out in a narrative fashion. They’re terrible at that, and they’re never going to be good at it.”

I will TRY to read this. No promises. I am so tired of the “prescient” and “prophetic” framing. When my comic came out in 2021, based on my dissertation which I had completed 2 decades before, I created an order link that said: “Buy my book! White people say it’s timely!”

Seriously. The fucking mouse company was literally like "well, we don't want to offend the fascists. they represent large and growing portions of our key demographics."

The torment nexus strikes again…I’d never make it into politics but if I did, it would be high on my list of priorities to not do things that would get me associated with the Galactic Empire or any other space fascist goon squad.