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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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Do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta
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Special days!
Friday and weekends: Caption contest. An image will be pinned, and we shall make captions for it and post them in the comments.
Wednesday: Theme day. We have Droids day, EU day, poem day, aliens day... Let the pinned post guide you. Memes with the theme are preferred.
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Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):
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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:
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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.
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We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.
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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!
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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.
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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).
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Yes, I thought that was obvious from the start. What part of "Luke shouldn't have hesitated" did you find unclear?
Let me give you an analogy. You see a huge guy, beside himself with rage, winding up to chop a baby using a machete. Do you think it's psychopathic to shoot him in the face to save the baby? That's the position Luke was in. He could see what Ben was going to do in the future just as clearly as you can see what the big angry guy is about to do. And if you hesitated and the baby ended up chopped in half, you'd probably feel a lot of regret and guilt, just like Luke.
The Jedi exist in a universe where the deity they worship is actually real and provides them with both a way of seeing far into the future as well as an objectively correct moral compass. This means the Jedi are ethically obligated to act in ways that might seems psychopathic to people who do not posses such clairvoyance. This is precisely why they're supposed to avoid emotional attachments, because those might compel them to act in ways that feel better in the moment but end up doing far more harm. The older I get, the more convinced I become that basically all of humanity's problems boil down to people doing what they feel like instead of what they know they should.
No, it isn't.
Literally all of this is wrong, it doesn't fit with either pre-Disney canon or current Disney canon. I have no idea how you took any of this away from any of the movies, but your lack of media literacy and borderline sociopathic views explain why you like TLJ so much. I wonder if everyone downvoting me and upvoting you early will come back and see the messed up stuff you're advocating for smh
Yes, it is. If you're not going to put any effort into actually arguing your position, then neither am I. The ball is in your court.
No, it isn't, and yes, it does. See above.
My first comment is 13 up and 9 down right now, yours is 10 up and 0 down. I don't think you have anything to complain about, so don't play victim.