German warship blasts Darth Vader anthem in heart of London. 'No deeper message,' navy says.
apnews.com
Germany’s navy says there was "no deeper message” in the choice to blast the famed Imperial March — Darth Vader’s theme song in the “Star Wars” films — from one of its warships as it cruised down the River Thames through London.
  • ErasmusEnglish
    72•4 months ago

    ‘The warship’s commander “is a big ‘Star Wars’ fan’

    Lmao the commander is a top tier troll. I mean who wouldn’t love to float a giant grey warship down the Thames blasting the Imperial March??

      • @EntropywinsEnglish
        7•4 months ago

        What’s the point of getting out of bed if everything is space nazis and bad optics?

      • @mriormroEnglish
        1•4 months ago

        It’s cause you’re not using space lasers.

  • @[email protected]English
    36•4 months ago

    ‘No deeper message,’ navy says

    I was just watching a video from Drachinifel on the Royal Navy’s extensive history of trolling other navies and responding to trolling. They are going to do something wacky.

    • FuglyDuckEnglish
      25•4 months ago

      no deeper message

      I don’t believe them. there’s a message there and it’s funny as hell.

  • @Ep1cFac3pa1mEnglish
    19•4 months ago

    Wasn’t the Death Star pretty much full of people with a British accent 🤷‍♂️

  • @paddirnEnglish
    7•4 months ago

    I misread that as “German worship blasts Darth Vader anthem in heart of London,” then realized how similarly spelled warship and worship are.

  • @[email protected]English
    -9•4 months ago

    weird how 70 years later german military is glorifying the empire in star wars, which borrowed a lot from nazis but then became its own cultural thing

    • @[email protected]English
      5•4 months ago

      Borrowed? Heh. Nicked whole-cloth, more like: General Hux, addressing troops arranged in the “Nuremberg” pattern; the battle of Mimban = WWI Western front, in space; stormtroopers in Stirnpanzer; Soontir Fel = Red Baron — to say nothing of Baron Valen Rudor, and Vault Skerris; etc.

      Hell, if you’d like a fun rabbit hole, look into the Twi’leks’ Ryloth liberation as French Revolution, OG Sith as ancient Egypt/Aztec civs, Empire expansionism as HRE/Spain/US, etc. 🤓

      The man’s not known for ingenuity. Then again, neither is GRRM. 🤷🏽‍♂️