I always thought the whole Empire Did Nothing Wrong meme started out as an ironic attempt to deconstruct real world apologia by applying the same style of rhetoric to a case where the subject is inescapably evil because it’s a fiction where that evil can simply be asserted. It’s a testament to the propagandization of the West that even satire as blatant as ‘Luke Skywalker was a terrorist who killed thousands of innocent stormtroopers stationed on the Freedom Star’ is treated as a bridge towards decreasingly ironic expressions of support for cartoon fascism rather than criticism of the fascistic tendencies in America.

Then again I also thought for a while that the attack helicopter meme was supposed to be in support of the trans community and based on frustration at the otherkin phenomenon for appropriating and trivializing the language, experience and struggles of trans people.