Pharaoh Homelander?
AmarkuntheGatherer
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GDPR's first form was actually decent for what it was meant for, but that spooked tech giants, and with their lobbying (or whatever europeans call it) they poked so many holes in it that it's basically a colander with the botton cut out.
It was so fast that for a moment there I thought they were acknowledging that zionism was antisemitic.
None, it's the aggregate. The image is probably grabbed from 538.
To all the settlers suffering from survivor's guilt, I come bearing good news. There's a cure for your guilt.
KOTOR isn't in the new canon anyway, so I feel it makes sense to pick and choose what from the current canon applies to KOTOR and vice versa. I don't think anyone outright suggested the force being sentient per se. I personally think of its influence more like gravity, both in the sense that it's a fact of existence and that the work in applies (in the physics sense, not labour) isn't absolute. This is reflected in the game mechanics, the force rewards the PC for "picking a side”, at neutral the player can't get prestige classes and max light/dark side points gives bonus attributes.
Even if we don't get into the light vs dark notion, the force is definitely pushing people in anti-human directions. In the prequels, every time Anakin asks for advice, he receives some pseudo-buddhist inhuman horseshit, and I don't think the point was that the jedi leadership were all imbeciles. Hell, even in the OT, it's clearly said that Luke cannot kill Vader, since he'd fall to the dark side if he indulged his anger in that way. The force is literally telling us killing space hitler bad. The balance (as described by Lucas, not that he was perfectly consistent) is supposed to be all light and no dark, but if human tendencies give rise to the dark side so easily, this balance isn't a real equilibrium. You can see this in almost all the post-ROTJ stories, the dark side rises back somehow.
I like Kreia's animosity towards the force for a very meta reason. All of the idealist idiocy in any of the SW stories, all the individuals that changed the fate of the galaxy had the power to move worlds, can be explained by the Force forcing an idealist reality on the SW galaxy, and that destroying the Force would restore materialism as a fact to the universe, and as a bonus will break the cycle of galaxy-wide conflict.
If it weren't merely fucking with the numbers, it could be explained by massive inflation in 2022 and stabilising peices in 2023. As much as this is partially true, western governments really pushed the calculations to not get double digits in 2022, then to get optimistic numbers, healing and all that shit in 2023.
Except of course, she's right. Her goal of destroying the force is one of the noblest in the entire franchise. The force takes away people's free will on an individual level and hurls the galaxy into conflicts that cost billions of lives in a seemingly infinite loop.
That isn'tto say her ideas are particularly applicable to us. Chosen ones and those individuals worth billions can't exist in our reality, but do in star wars. We've got people who were positioned in critical junctions and could achieve what many others couldn't, yet Kissinger (rip bozo) wasn't Nihilus.
If it really were ”our Jewish brothers and sisters” there may have been a point, not that I suggest listening to a damn westerner concern policing people fighting for freedom from foreign occupation. Except even the premise is false. The people getting irritated or whatever by the slogan are the people who know on a fumdamental level that they're settlers and occupiers, and that the reckoning is long due. These poeple don't have a problem with antisemitism, so much as any reminder that they live on stolen land and the rightful owners are held in an open air prison.
She's got half a ring.
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Hey guys, what's that little birdie by the stub of the bayonet? It couldn't possibly be a nazi symbol, right?
Anti-history youtuber's fans happen to be fascists, someone bring out the pikachu meme.