The Empire State Building Disgustingly Paid Homage To A Genocidal Maniac That Killed Billions Of People
Reeeeeeeeal fucking nice, Empy!
Look, I've made my disdain for that overgrown tourist trap fraud in Midtown known over the years at Barstool, mostly because he constantly would literally give shine to some of the biggest rivals of the teams that play for the state he is literally named for.
In the end however, sports aren't a matter of life and death, unless you are an LA sports fan trying to murder a stranger at a game because they are wearing the opposing team's colors. What is a matter of life and death is what Darth Vader did a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Let's start with the day he received the name Darth Vader, which led to Order 66, and the slaughter of countless Jedi including the younglings by Darth himself!
Disgusting. That crime against humanity alone is worthy of a ban from any sort of homage. All Darth did to follow that up was kill his wife, kill (from a certain point of view) the Jedi named Anakin Skywalker, kill everyone that opposed him or his political beliefs, and kill AN ENTIRE PLANET WORTH OF INNOCENT PEOPLE WHEN HE BLEW UP ALDERAAN.
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My sincere apologies for showing that clip to anybody impacted by this tragedy. It's not like Alderaan was some desolate remote moon. It was a planet burgeoning with life, as Wikipedia breaks down here.
Out of the 2 billion inhabitants on Alderaan - with the modern-day populations of China and India having about 2.8 billion people combined - about 60,000 survived the destruction of the planet due to being outside of its star system at the time.
Can you imagine if a building honoring someone that wiped China and India off the map? Me either. But that's exactly what the Empire State Building did last night despite Darth Vader's death happening more than 30 years ago. Truly abhorrent stuff and proof once again that Empy is the biggest piece of shit on this planet and every other planet in the universe.
As for the man that voiced Darth Vader, I mourn his loss and hope he rests in peace because he was a legitimate legend that KenJac perfectly summed up here. The world is a worse place without James Earl Jones in it, but luckily he signed over his voice to be used by AI for future Star Wars projects to create new memories along with the incredible memories he produced in all his other roles (which when mashed together with Star Wars made another legitimate masterpiece).
P.S. Darth Vader may have been a gigantic piece of shit, but this scene makes it move every single time.