I'll always feel that the Clone Wars cartoons were a mistake for humanizing Anakin and making so many of you think he's some kind of misunderstood hero.
So much so that you have to come up with fan theories as to how he didn't actually do the awful thing
Μεχρι στιγμης το 2026:
- Αλβανος δολοφονησε τη συντροφο του στη Ν. Σμυρνη
- Αλβανος δολοφονησε γυναικα στη Ροδοπη
- Αλβανος δολοφονησε γυναικα στην Ηγουμενιτσα
- Αφγανος δολοφονησε γυναικα στην Κυψελη
- Αφρικανος δολοφονησε γυναικα στον Αγιο Παντελεημονα
- Σκοπιανος δολοφονησε γυναικα στα Χανια Κρητης
Αλλα μην ξεχνατε οτι το προβλημα ειναι οι Ελληνες...
Και φυσικα στις καταγραφες των "γυναικοκτονιων" φετος καταγραφηκαν:
- Νεκρη γυναικα που βρεθηκε στον Γλαροκαβο Χαλκιδικης διχως ΚΑΝ να εχει εντοπιστει ο δραστης. Δεν γνωριζουμε καν αν ηταν ανδρας δηλαδη. Πως απεδωσαν "εμφυλο" προσημο στον φονο της;;;
- Νεκρη γυναικα στον Κολωνο που κατηγορηθηκε αδικα ο συντροφος της. Στις 5 Μαρτιου αποσυρθηκαν οι κατηγοριες εναντιον του, καθως η ιατροδικαστικη εξεταση εδειξε αλκοολισμο και κιρρωση του υπατος. Κι ομως παραμενει καταγεγραμμενη η υποθεση στις "γυναικοκτονιες"
- Οι δυο νεκρες ηλικιωμενες γυναικες στη Ζωγραφου που ενω δεν εφεραν κακωσεις, καταγραφηκαν ως γυναικοκτονιες. Ο 54χρονος ειχε παραδεχτει οτι εκρυβε τα πτωματα προκειμενου να μη χασει το σπιτι. ΔΕΝ εχει αποδειχθει φονος!
- Η 19χρονη Μυρτω που επελεξε να κανει ναρκωτικα και πεθανε. Κι ομως καταγραφηκε ως "γυναικοκτονια"
- Το διπλο φονικο στο Λογγο Αιγιου. Μητερα δολοφονησε τον γιο της και απεβιωσε απ τα τραυματα της. Κατηγορηθηκε ΑΔΙΚΑ ο Ιταλος συντροφος της. ΑΠΟΔΕΙΧΘΗΚΕ απο τις εξετασεις DNA οτι δεν ειχε καμια αναμειξη. Κι ομως αυτο καταγραφηκε ως "γυναικοκτονια"
Δηλαδη, στις 16 "γυναικοκτονιες":
- Οι 6 διαπραχθηκαν απο αλλοδαπους και δεν σχετιζονται με την ελληνικη κουλτουρα που τοσο εμμονικα λιθοβολουν ορισμενοι
- Οι 5 υποθεσεις δεν πληρουν καν τις ιδιες τις προυποθεσεις του νεολογισμου "γυναικοκτονια"!
Οταν, λοιπον, σε ενα ολοκληρο ετος εμφανιζονται 4-5 δολοφονιες γυναικων με θυτη Ελληνα ανδρα (και αναγνωριζεται η καθε υποθεση ως εγκλημα παθους) ειναι τοσο απειροελαχιστες οι υποθεσεις που ειναι ΑΔΥΝΑΤΟΝ και ΠΑΡΑΛΟΓΟ να μιλαμε για κουλτουρα δολοφονιας γυναικων που δηθεν πηγαζει απ την "προβληματικη" ελληνικη παιδεια.
Παρατηρηστε ομως πως -ενω μια χαρα καταγραφονται και οι δολοφονιες γυναικων απο αλλοδαπους- ουδεποτε θα ακουσετε τη λεξη "γυναικοκτονια" σε αυτες τις περιπτωσεις.
Χτες ανακοινωθηκε απ τις Αρχες οτι εξιχνιαστηκε η δολοφονια της 24χρονης απο 20χρονο Αφρικανο. Μουγκα το φεμινιστικο κοντρολ... Κανενα hashtag, δεν τρενταρε τιποτα πουθενα. Απλα καταγραφουν +1 θυμα, ετσι ωστε οταν οντως δολοφονος ειναι Ελληνας ανδρας να φωναζουν "η 16η για φετος!!"
So what are kids expected to be literally perfect? Is that the deal now? You have to get literally perfect grades and take the max amount of AP classes? Be perfect or don't even bother trying?
They're not trying to push you into peasantry, they're aiming for quiet mass depopulation. They simply want you gone. There's a reason there's virtually zero mainstream discussion about cratering birthrates.
You people spent how long bitching about Malfoid, attacked artists like Yuanyu for it, and are now trying to latch onto it, despite hating Harry Potter and Rowling?
Filthy mudbloods all of you
Women seem to assess female attractiveness through a lens of social consensus.
If men claim attraction to someone who deviates from the perceived consensus (in this case, one built through mass exposure to make-up caked "influencers"), it comes across as some kind of trick.
After some recent trends, I finally decide to read the Harry Potter books.
And I came away with something I didn't expect.
I came away with an understanding of what makes a generationally beloved classic.
It isn't authorial skill. Rowling is certainly talented, but, at least at the time, she was also relatively unpolished, and the series has plenty of rough patches. Uneven pacing, awkward plots, exposition dumps, two-dimensional secondary characters. I could write quite a few lines about what might be fixed. And I probably will at some point.
But none of that matters.
Because a generationally beloved classic is almost never the best book of a generation. A generationally beloved classic is the book that most perfectly captures what that generation yearns for.
Hogwart's School of Wizardry did that for millennials, just as the quest to destroy the One Ring did so for the boomers.
Boomers grew up hearing tales of recent history, and the heroism of previous generations, who got us through the great depression, and the great war. Their father, or grandfathers, or both, were heroes. But they were left growing up in the 1950s, a near-ideal time of growth, happiness, and prosperity.
Near-ideal isn't ideal. Humans need goals. The boomers were left with no great struggles to fight, no great tasks to do, nothing that could make them feel like they measured up.
So they invented something. A new struggle. A moral struggle. They decided that, because the great depression, and the great war, had happened when the institutions of Western Civilization existed, therefore those institutions were responsible. That those institutions needed to be torn down, gutted, and rebuilt in the new Boomer Morality.
This was their great quest, what allowed them to imagine themselves heroes. As an added bonus, it allowed them to imagine that the men who fought WW2 were not. They were, after all, adherents of the old creed.
When the hippies took to the streets, chanting "fascist scum, your time has come", they meant the very same people who had fought the Nazis.
Lord of the Rings dovetailed perfectly into this narrative. Its central struggle, its great quest, is not a martial struggle or a political struggle, but a moral struggle... the quest not to seize an object of power, but to destroy one.
Frodo was not some great warrior, or wise wizard. He was an innnocent, whose virtue was moral worth. The young, unaccomplished, and very small man had to resist the temptations of power, and to destroy it, because it was wicked.
Is it any wonder that the boomers decided to tear down and hollow out the institutions of society, rather than inherit and incrementally improve them?
Even to this day, any younger person who seeks power, wanting to improve the world, is subjected to any number of brain-dead aphorisms about Boromir and the Ring.
Never mind that Tolkien never intended any of this. Never mind that the Ring wasn't a symbol of anything. It was a ring. It was evil not because it represented power... it was simply evil because it was made by evil for evil purposes, and possessed a malign will of its own.
LOTR, the way the boomers read it, fit perfectly into their worldview, and they imagine themselves perpetual revolutionaries, always fighting the evils of power, even now when they are 70 years old and own everything.
Which brings us to millennials. They grew up in the world that the gutting of Western institutions left us. They went to government schools run by characters straight out of a Franz Kafka novel, sent there by parents who inexplicably hated them from the time they were old enough to talk.
When they yearned, they didn't yearn for a great moral struggle, or to tear anything down, or to be revolutionaries.
They yearned for a society that cared about them, for parents who loved them, for a civilization that saw them as the future, and invested in them accordingly.
They wanted to go to Hogwart's. They wanted get a letter by owl, telling them that the reason they didn't quite fit wasn't because they were inadequate, but because they were special.
They wanted to be the special ones, the chosen ones, the boys and girls who lived. And that last sentence may sound a bit conceited... until you realized that when they wanted to be special, they wanted to be special in precisely the way that Harry Potter was special, the way that every child in a healthy family is naturally special... not because he is talented or great, but because his mother loved him.
This is what saved Harry Potter in the inciting incident of his young life. This is what millennials wanted for themselves. Not to be astronauts and war heroes and rock stars, but to fit into a place like Hogwarts. To be mentored by wise and caring elders like Dumbledore. To be part of a community. To have mothers who loved them.
To write a story like this isn't necessarily to understand a generation, because it never seems to happen except by accident.
It is, rather, to help a generation understand itself.
That's why fan fiction, with visions like this picture, matters. Not because it has so large a footprint as to change the world, perhaps, but because it represents the spirit of an age.
It tells us what people want. And if we look carefully, it tells us why.
America was always an insane experiment doomed to fail. Or at least it has been post-1960s.
Pretending these two humans are equal is comical. It’s like calling a tiger and rat equal. The girl on the left is beautiful, she’s objectively more valuable. 99% of men from 99% of human history would agree.
500 years from now, America will be remembered as the nation who made orcs men. And not fondly.
I remember reading somewhere that China banned all forms of media that had a story where a normal middle to lower class woman was discovered by some rich guy and taken out of her life into his of luxury.
They’re probably onto something tbh.
I’m willing to bet that - after this comes out - there are going to be a lot of late millennials/early zoomers who will realize why Lucas made the special editions in the first place.
I had that epiphany when I first watched it through an unused, 1995 VHS release in 2011-2012.