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Vader's redemption is very Christian in nature - it doesn't matter how many kids you killed, if you repent and see the light before your death you're saved.
You can criticize actual Christian doctrine for this but that's what the movie is going for

[Conrad Bastable @ConradBastable]

Pre-having a kid, Anakin vs. the younglings was an edgy “OMG he really went there!” scene that emphasized his turn to the dark side

Post-having a kid, I find the scene retroactively invalidates the Vader redemption arc at the end of Return of the Jedi

[Boxy @Boxy_FT]

Am I just to old to start a book about "teenage girl discovers she has powers in a dystopian world and joins the rebellion against the evil ruler"

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I don't fully understand the grip Brandon Sanderson has on fantasy. He seems like a nice guy but whenever I look at his books it just looks like the most standard YA stuff. Not really helping the allegations that fantasy juvenile

[Boxy @Boxy_FT]

For purely aesthetic purposes, Ireland should be red and Corsica should be green

[perpetual motion maker @thamoonman_]

This feels like a tight 12-nation Europe imo

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Random fact I learned today - the Hotung family, one of the major historical wealthy Hong Kong families, including the Macau casino king Stanley Ho, was founded by Dutch Jew Charles Henry Maurice Bosman, who moved to HK in 1859 and married a local woman

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@jewndahalfmen Any trip to your local supermarket will prove that pretty much any dude can get a girl lmao

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@shadi_barham @JacobL1994_ This recent round of fighting started as a reaction to Khamenei's death. Do Hezb just do to it for the love of the game (destroying southern Lebanon)?

[Boxy @Boxy_FT]

@exponent818 Obviously now, I'm more talking in the early decades, even in the 60s-70s there was secret correspondence

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Kind of interesting that the Jordanian regime has pretty much been the least hostile of Israel's neighbors (relatively speaking). Considering what shit geography they have you'd think they'd have the most interest in getting some Mediterranean ports and water

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@_kobim אוקיי אבל ישראלים באמת מפגרים בגלל הדרך שבה הם מבטאים את המילה "פופקורן"

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@Honos305 @AlanJeffries In ESB Luke learns his powers from a funny green muppet and every action scene with the Han gang has C3PO comic relief

[Boxy @Boxy_FT]

Harrison Ford the grumpy old man who hates all his movies is itself a tongue-in-cheek persona for interviews, this is fairly obvious I think

[beth 🫧🌟 @lukescarif]

if anyone actually watches and listens to old interviews for anh esb you notice that harrison is actually very good at speaking about star wars and knows what he is talking about

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@ariel_haivri Israelis are notorious for this, sometime with the justification that "if we invite enough guests it will pay for itself"

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@shwheals This is true from an Israeli perspective, but you see Brits on here offended at the very idea that AC could help them

[Boxy @Boxy_FT]

In Milan apparently something like 40% of apartments have AC, including the one I'm renting. So all this "Euros don't know what AC is" discourse has been a bit odd to me. Is it more a Yookay thing?

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@jewndahalfmen

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@mratkmiskeena מניח שירושלים

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It is kinda funny how when Lucas needed rebels but bad he literally called them Confederates

[Boxy @Boxy_FT]

Egyptian religion was also pretty chill. Again, you might imagine the culture with the god-kings and giant monuments to be into that kind of thing but no

[Boxy @Boxy_FT]

Despite the Canaanite/Phoenecian notoriety for human sacrifice, which probably does have a basis, it's noteworthy that in the big middle-eastern civilizations it really wasn't that prevelant. You'd think the crazy Assyrians would be like the Aztecs but they weren't in this regard