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The Online Right’s Closing Campaign Argument: Fascist Anakin Skywalker Memes
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The Online Right’s Closing Campaign Argument: Fascist Anakin Skywalker Memes

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If you quit checking X months ago (or left back when it was still Twitter) and have found yourself wondering how much of a right-wing echo chamber it’s become, just try making sense of the following posts.

An image of Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi wielding a lightsaber at the climax of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith , with a caption that reads: “It's over Anakin, some mail-in ballots came in over night while you were sleeping!”

A montage of Anakin Skywalker throughout the Star Wars prequels that chart his transformation into Darth Vader, with this comment: “George Lucas may have made, albeit unintentionally, the most prophetic and effective far right propaganda in existence. Anakin is the millennial and zoomerwaffen.…

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