Ok, if they went with Vader, that would be weird but Vader is at least kind of cool. I thought the universal consensus was that Anakin is both a child murderer and a whiny little bitch.
Faced with a potential blue wave in this week's midterm elections, the most internet-poisoned MAGA influencers have begin identifying with Anakin Skywalker, a genocidal archvillain from a space opera. And some of them actually seem to think it could turn the tide.
Ok, if they went with Vader, that would be weird but Vader is at least kind of cool. I thought the universal consensus was that Anakin is both a child murderer and a whiny little bitch.
I remember leads on a project talking about Darth Vader, and one senior lead matter-of-factly said that Vader wasn't evil in A New Hope, and that stuff was only added later. He described ANH Vader as a "loyal samurai of a dark lord."
And I was like, "He used a floaty torture ball on Leia, tho?"
November 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM
I remember leads on a project talking about Darth Vader, and one senior lead matter-of-factly said that Vader wasn't evil in A New Hope, and that stuff was only added later. He described ANH Vader as a "loyal samurai of a dark lord."
And I was like, "He used a floaty torture ball on Leia, tho?"
Really wild to be called a "bubble" by a site where influential voices were actually convinced they could Tiger Beat post about Darth Vader hard enough to shift national polling
November 4, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Really wild to be called a "bubble" by a site where influential voices were actually convinced they could Tiger Beat post about Darth Vader hard enough to shift national polling