Oh.
This retarded shit got even gayer?
Didn’t see that one coming!
“Attention. Air raid alert,” the voice says with a Jedi knight’s gravitas. “Proceed to the nearest shelter.”
It’s a surreal moment in an already surreal war: the grave but calming baritone of actor Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker of “Star Wars,” urging people to take cover whenever Russia unleashes another aerial bombardment on Ukraine.
The intrusion of Hollywood science-fiction fantasy into the grim daily realities of war in Ukraine is a consequence of Hamill’s decision to lend his famous voice to “Air Alert” — a downloadable app linked to Ukraine’s air defense system.
When air raid sirens start howling, the app also warns Ukrainians that Russian missiles, bombs and deadly exploding drones may be incoming.
“Don’t be careless,” Hamill’s voice advises. “Your overconfidence is your weakness.”
The actor says he’s admired — from afar, in California — how Ukraine has “shown such resilience … under such terrible circumstances.”
Its fight against the Russian invasion, now in its second year, reminds him of the “Star Wars” saga, he says — of plucky rebels battling and ultimately defeating a vast, murderous empire.
Voicing over the English-language version of the air-raid app and giving it his “Star Wars” touch was his way of helping out.
“A fairy tale about good versus evil is resonant with what’s going on in Ukraine,” Hamill said in an interview with The Associated Press. “The Ukrainian people rallying to the cause and responding so heroically … It’s impossible not to be inspired by how they’ve weathered this storm.”
When the dangers from the skies pass, Hamill announces via the app that “the air alert is over.”
He then signs off with an uplifting: “May the Force be with you.”
I just don’t even.
I don’t.
It’s.
Whatever.
I’ve said from the beginning that the entire framework of the marketing campaign for this war has been a consistent allusion to the MCU films.
NATO has now effectively admitted that these tropes are in writing as a part of their war propaganda.
— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) February 24, 2023
Hilariously, several relatively high profile op-eds were written about how it was a negative social development that redditors were framing the war into a MCU movie.
The redditors ate this shit up, but it was actually being marketed this way the whole time. pic.twitter.com/x7YM5JgJYT
— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) February 24, 2023