For my own sanity, I refuse to believe this is not a bit.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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It’s a bit. Checked the guy's posting history. Here’s another banger:
Thank you for your through provoking response. I have not considered the existence Air People (Aetherocracies ). I will continue not to.
incredible
Anyway, while I was explaining my point she rudely hits me with the Thalassocratic stare (Sea person stare)
when someone says something so inlander that you just gotta hit them with that Thalassocratic stare
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Apparently geopolitics follows the plot of the 3rd gen pokemon games.
Good to know.
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Ah yes, Luke Skywalker, the character who famously checks notes saved Alderaan from the Empire.
Do these people actually watch movies, or do they just leave them on in the background while scrolling on their phone?
edit: okay this is a bit. got me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/jedi/comments/17g5gzu/update_joe_biden_jedi/
I (32M) am a researcher in international development, and made a post last week about Joe Biden being a Jedi, and unfortunately I dont think a lot of people agreed. However this is okay. Academic disagreement is really important to having a lively debate about Global (Galactic) Politics.
I also have a change of heart. Much like Ben Kenobi, I have a mentor. Professor Ballard and I had a lively discussion on this topic. Continuing with the aid (force) debate, I think that we can look at it like lightside (aid to Israel from the Global Elite (Jedi Council)) and darkside (aid to Hamas from the Dark forces(Witches of Dathomir)). This analytical framework has a lot of explanatory power, and really aids in constructing a foundation for understanding Regional Politics.
Even though Joe Biden is a "Catholic", I know he supports Judaism (Jediism) in the Middle East (Tatooine). When Air Force One (Warp Speed) landed in Tel Aviv (Alderaan), I really thought there was a new hope for a different ending for Israel than there was for Alderaan. If we flip the theoretical framework around, we may see that the structural threats to Israel have similar plans for Alderaan as Abu Obaida of the Al-Qassam Brigade (Darth Vader and Stormtroopers), even though they are Muslims, unlike Vader who is a Sith.
What do you guys think? It is important to understand our world through the lenses of theory. In this case, Star Wars.
We've got a poster here folks 
aid to Hamas from the Dark forces(Witches of Dathomir)
i am fucking sent
Let him cook
oh man, I was worried this was real, but i feel safe knowing this is shitposting.
🤮
from the Dark forces
unbelieveable that dark forces isn't the star wars reference
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I was desperately trying to find a way to view deleted reddit posts, but couldn't figure out a way to make it work. I must know what the idea was.
Change the domain from "www.reddit" to "reveddit" -- note that you have to remove the www. subdomain while you're at it. That will work if the post/comment was indexed before being removed, and only if it was removed by a mod or admin. Self-deleted stuff is gone forever.
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This is a bit, right? 
Definitely
aid (The Force)
This is 100% a bit. Not a great one but definitely a bit.
you mean a new hope ??? 
Hamas (Empire)
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I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood.
"Balance to the Force" has multiple interpretations and most of them involve a reasonable amount of mass murder.
Fuck the magic cops.
That one always confused me. Like, there is no good amount of evil, right? But people all across popular media prattle on about evil being necessary as though it makes any sense.
Speaking of "there needs to be a balance of evil" enlightened centrist bullshit, every single self-described "Grey Jedi" I ever ran into in college, the kind that were Star Wars fans and most of their discussions were "who would win in a fight" fantasy football drafts regarding midi-chlorian count estimates, became some kind of chud afterward, such as working for a military-industrial corporation, a surveillance startup, or even joining the Air Force. 
I always hated that grey jedi shit. You cannot use your magic powers to hurt people for your own selfish goals just litte a, as a treat. The whole narrative around the force, at least in the better stories, is that the dark side is inherently corrupting - the more you use magic to hurt people to get what you want, the easier it gets to cross that ethical line.
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I think they had to retcon the dark side philosophically because of the whole balance thing. In the original trilogy it seemed more like the dark side was just fear and anger and hate. In the prequels they added stuff like passion and ambition, which are good emotions in moderation.
A generous reading of the prequels is that the jedi were wrong, and their fossilized view of the force is what made them blind to the Sith operating right in front of their faces.
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researcher in international development at florida state
Getting that degree in advanced gusano studies
Wrong. The Luke Skywalker parallel is some old Vietnamese veteran who merced US soldiers during the war and was instrumental in bringing down some US base.
They do this with every media they like, but at least this is a bit
Media literacy is dead
remember when the US went to Vietnam to blow up the death star?
when your understanding of politics is based on vibes.
The best part is how he misrepresents what happens in the movie lol this guy's awesome
When you're too busy to read another book so you watch a movie instead.
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Let's hope the zionist entity ends up the same way Alderaan does.
More hoping for death star end tbh, alderaan isn't a good parallel
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