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Star Wars Memes

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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

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IMPORTANT

Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.

The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:

  1. This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!

  4. Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.

  5. Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).

  6. Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.

  7. Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well that really kinda screws the whole skywalker saga doesn’t it? Man that’s some lazy and bad writing.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Anakin's problem wasn't that he loved Padme, it was that he thought he knew better than the Jedi council. He saw their flaws, and, because of an outside influence, condemned the entire system, and helped to give power to a populist autocrat. I think it's actually a pretty believable story...

[–] athairmor 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you suggesting that people unsatisfied with a system that works mainly in the interest of a small group of elites will give power to some narcissistic, sadistic creep just to feel some vicarious sense of that power? It’s not like that could happen in real life, certainly not more than once in modern history. I mean, come on!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For all its flaws the prequels overarching story is pretty great

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Honestly, they're fairly good movies. If Jar-Jar wasn't part of them, I'd probably say they're better than the originals. They at least have more to say than the originals.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

For me it's Hayden's god awful acting in the second movie that kills it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The originals have a lot to say when you know the Rebels are the Vietnamese fighting America and it's actually a pretty solid trope reversal on the Westerns, samurai films, and WW2 movies that influenced it but in a way that will let Lucas make a bajillion dollars.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It doesn't really say much though. It's inspired by the Vietnam War, but it's surface level. The prequels have a lot more substance, although it's still not that much.

[–] finitebanjo 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The part that goes past suspension of disbelief is the child murder scene.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How? It's what his religion demanded. That's classic humanity

[–] finitebanjo -1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

A religion he had for what like 2 years, directly opposed to the one he had since childhood, his career, and his own status as a father to be.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like every Born Again Christian I've ever met

[–] finitebanjo -1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Every born again christrian you've ever met murders 8 grade schoolers?

[–] njm1314 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly a lot of them do tend to be obsessed with the idea.

[–] finitebanjo -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Correlation and causation and all that. Catholics have an above average science literacy and perhaps enjoy children far too much.

You could just as easily draw a line connecting school shooters to 4-chan, drug use, and/or flat earth theorists. Not every 4-chan user is a mass murderer, not every crack addict wants to ressurect the third reich.

Fuck Evangelicals in particular, tho.

Anakin randomly murdering the children was silly.

[–] Crashumbc 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yes? If not directly, they support other born agains that do...

[–] SkunkWorkz 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Weren’t some of the ISIS Jihadi converts? Not that unbelievable that a recent convert influenced by an evil religious leader would commit atrocities in the name of religion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

People that convert are actually usually more devout than lifelong believers

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice 2 points 2 weeks ago

The guy who brought a rifle to shoot Trump on the golf course voted for him in 2016 according to his social media posts. It would be reasonable to believe he was a conservative his whole life up until a couple years before he believed shooting killing him was the answer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's not that believable. Far too many people stood against it to be realistic it seems.

[–] Dasus 14 points 2 weeks ago

Not really. Emotional attachment is forbidden, not marriage.

Marriage didn't used to be about feelings, but about political convenience basically.