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Yukaphile wrote: Sun Oct 14, 2018 8:43 pm They did deal in business. It was a flavor of organized crime, at least the way I saw it. Dealing in spice is easily akin to dealing in prohibited drugs. And there are criminal organizations out there that engage in human trafficking, so stuff like the slave trade is similar.
I fail to see why capitalism shoudl be ended.

Friggin Communis governments also do business.
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... where in Last Jedi do they say capitalism should be abolished? Much as I hate the film, I'm having a hard time seeing them do that since most Americans still have a negative view of Socialism and Communism.
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Yukaphile wrote: Sun Oct 14, 2018 8:51 pm ... where in Last Jedi do they say capitalism should be abolished? Much as I hate the film, I'm having a hard time seeing them do that since most Americans still have a negative view of Socialism and Communism.
They don't say it but Del Toro revleals that CLASS is a thing!!!!!
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And this is offensive... how?
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Christ, no wonder Russia thought it worth their time to stir this further if these topics were becoming points of contention.
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I don't get it?
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Yukaphile wrote: Sun Oct 14, 2018 9:05 pm And this is offensive... how?
It certainly breaks precedent for no good reason.
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Sounds more like it's poorly executed. Like everything else coming out of garbage Hollywood these days.
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Yukaphile wrote: Sun Oct 14, 2018 10:10 pm I don't get it?
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Yukaphile wrote: Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:14 am Sounds more like it's poorly executed. Like everything else coming out of garbage Hollywood these days.
Disagree even if i care little about Hollywood.

No suprise it's poorly executed. No need to saddle Star Wars with this divisivese partisan politics stuff.
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