I've never understood the critical reappraisal of this movie as some kind of subversive auteur masterpiece that flipped Star Wars on its head. To me, it barely stands out from J.J. Abrams' two features in the trilogy, which are soulless commodities that recycle iconography from the Original Trilogy to appeal to nostalgia—something The Last Jedi also does, from mimicking Hoth with Crait to the throne room sequence with Snoke, which is inspired by Return of the Jedi. The structure is…

I've seen this short being frequented as of late, no doubt because of Trump's second presidency and Elon's antics, which have caused American liberalism to panic, blaming the stupidity of other Americans for Trump's re-election as opposed to their own intelligence, and claiming that America is going to become like Nazi Germany, which it apparently wasn't before Trump. If America is going to turn fascist, will these liberals go to the mountains to fight against it like the communist partisans…