"General Organa, the First Order is creating a superweapon capable of destroying entire star systems!" "But what if the REAL star-system-destroying-superweapon........is capitalism?"
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Replying to @slatestarcodex
"If you think about it, wasn't Alderaan's environment already destroyed by heavy industry and consumerism?"
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Replying to @gwern @slatestarcodex
Wasn't Aldaraan a feudalist monarchy that supported religious Jedi terrorists in a war against a conquering technocratic imperialist civilization? And is not all civilization built around a functioning death star, a credible threat of absolute destruction that ends all civil war?
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