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FenrirIII@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

German warship blasts Darth Vader anthem in heart of London. 'No deeper message,' navy says

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German warship blasts Darth Vader anthem in heart of London. 'No deeper message,' navy says.
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Germany’s navy says there was "no deeper message” in the choice to blast the famed Imperial March — Darth Vader’s theme song in the “Star Wars” films — from one of its warships as it cruised down the River Thames through London.
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    ‘The warship’s commander “is a big ‘Star Wars’ fan’

    Lmao the commander is a top tier troll. I mean who wouldn’t love to float a giant grey warship down the Thames blasting the Imperial March??

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        What’s the point of getting out of bed if everything is space nazis and bad optics?

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        It’s cause you’re not using space lasers.

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    ‘No deeper message,’ navy says

    I was just watching a video from Drachinifel on the Royal Navy’s extensive history of trolling other navies and responding to trolling. They are going to do something wacky.

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      no deeper message

      I don’t believe them. there’s a message there and it’s funny as hell.

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    Wasn’t the Death Star pretty much full of people with a British accent 🤷‍♂️

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      And also Nazis. Strange bedfellows and such.

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    Lmao. That’s funny on multiple levels.

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    I misread that as “German worship blasts Darth Vader anthem in heart of London,” then realized how similarly spelled warship and worship are.

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    Better blast an anthem than shells.

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    Whomst among us?

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    weird how 70 years later german military is glorifying the empire in star wars, which borrowed a lot from nazis but then became its own cultural thing

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      Borrowed? Heh. Nicked whole-cloth, more like: General Hux, addressing troops arranged in the “Nuremberg” pattern; the battle of Mimban = WWI Western front, in space; stormtroopers in Stirnpanzer; Soontir Fel = Red Baron — to say nothing of Baron Valen Rudor, and Vault Skerris; etc.

      Hell, if you’d like a fun rabbit hole, look into the Twi’leks’ Ryloth liberation as French Revolution, OG Sith as ancient Egypt/Aztec civs, Empire expansionism as HRE/Spain/US, etc. 🤓

      The man’s not known for ingenuity. Then again, neither is GRRM. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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        Nearly all those things you’ve listed are Disney not Lucas?

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