USA definitely gives off empire vibes.

But the Islamic republic is no ghorman. Didn’t they just kill thousands of their own people weeks ago?

“The US is the empire, but Iran is evil because they killed thousands of protesters! I know because the US said so.”

These people see the intense bombing Gaza went through while official death tolls were in the 30,000 range after a year of it, which was surely understated, and they also believe that the Iranian government managed to kill 30,000 protestors in the matter of a month without evidence of violence on a massive scale as Gaza.

Americans aren't even regular literate; why would you expect them to be media literate?

As someone who loves Andor so much, I can definitely say this is the case. All the libs flying the rebel flag and singing Bella Ciao are the very definition of shitlibs.

PS, for any actual leftists who are fans of Andor, I wish we could use this flag instead:

I made a mistake with an acquaintance who is a fan of the show. I thought I could connect from a lefty perspective and brought up how aggressive US foreign policy (incl NATO and the MIC) makes everyone less safe (including in the imperial core) and how it sucks that the Ukrainian working class had to take a meat grinder to the face because of it.

Learned my lesson when I got an earful about how actually Ukraine is actually cooking the aggressive Russian invaders right now and the world is more peaceful under US hegemony than it's ever been. That was like 2 years ago I think.

personally I hold it against the fans not the show

um ackhually you stupid teenager, Iran isn't Ghorm because Iran is bad.

Just like literally every other time the US attacks someone, it's just one bad guy attacking a smaller bad guy who would be just as bad or worse. In the show we saw Ghorm was good.

Ukraine has trained Latin American cartels and is killing civilians in Africa. Not exactly a small bean

With fiction people see what they want to see. Maybe that's in part a product of the destruction of media literacy both functionally and ideologically ("the curtains are blue!"), and it's partially the fact that writers are libs and even when they're writing something ostensibly anti-imperialist they can't help but code their fictional Empire with aspects of The Other as the real-world empire depicts them, but regardless of the reason the end result in our current moment is that satire and critique will never change anyone's mind about anything.

The best you can hope for is to already be on a journey towards anti-imperialism for other reasons, and to connect with a show about it because it makes those concepts seem a lot more clear.

It does have 1.4k up votes. The comments might suck, but obviously the majority agree with the post

After watching Mandalorian I got really disenchanted with the Star Wars franchise after being a life long fan. Is Andor worth watching?

Yeah you’re right and I was a huge s1 defender

Fiction is bad at teaching specifics.