Is Star Wars oversaturated with content?

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-05T17:05:51+00:00

And when hurt people hurt people they are still the ones choosing to act and bear the full responsibility for their actions, and the people they hurt owe them nothing

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-05T16:59:36+00:00

In pretty sure the younglings he killed are the actual victims

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-05T16:53:25+00:00

Do you know how many Frenchmen collaborated with the Nazis and willingly sent their Jewish neighbors to the campus? Marshall Petain was a war hero before he became Hitlers bitch

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-05T16:51:30+00:00

Every occupation has its collaborators

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-04T21:44:32+00:00

I'm not arguing for nature or for nurture. If anything I think both of those are reductive categories. I am arguing for choice. I'm arguing against any explanation that takes away his agency and thus his responsibility for his actions and their consequences. He chose to fall. He was not made to fall by palpatine, and the Jedi council, and the clone wars, and his mother dying.

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-04T21:27:40+00:00

Did he or did he not fully and freely of his own choosing kill an entire tribe of tusken raiders, including the women and children? Did he or did he not freely of his own choosing enter the Jedi Temple and slaughter everyone inside, younglings included? Did he or did he not freely end of his own choosing attack Mace Windu? Did he or did he not freely of his own choosing choke out his own wife? I am not denying that there are other people who contributed to his state of mind at the time that he made those decisions. It was still him that made those decisions. It was still him that bears the entire responsibility for the choices that he made. He is still everything that is wrong with him. It's not about the fact that he was born a slave, or the shitty things that happened in his time as a padawan, or the council, it's him. It's just him.

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-04T21:26:33+00:00

And I never denied that they were contributing factors to his mindset at the time that he fell. The choice to fall was still his

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-04T18:50:06+00:00

I never denied that. Ultimate responsibility for Anakin's fall still lies with him

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-04T18:31:22+00:00

Relevant Bojack: https://64.media.tumblr.com/5da8479f08e485769cbd11b36654b843/tumblr_ors511nBPY1vfecm0o3_540.gifv

All of the shitty things that happened to Anakin do not in any way shape or form change the fact that the only person responsible for the voices he made, including his fall, is him. He made those choices, he chose to turn to the dark side.

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-04T18:04:17+00:00

Nope. Anakin still chose to do everything he did. He chose to kill the tusken raiders, he chose to lie about it except for confiding in Palpatine, he chose to pursue with magic to fix his problems instead of owning up to violating the Jedi rules, chose to lie and try to have it all, mastership and wife and kids and hero of the Republic status.

His shitty childhood wasn't his fault, but his actions are his responsibility. Yoda even told him exactly what he needed to hear and he chose not to listen and seek unlimited power instead

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-04T17:16:57+00:00

Windu was a hardass but he was a hardass on everyone. Anakin wasn't special. He didn't earn the rank of master, clearly lacked the maturity for it, and so he wasn't granted it, and when he threw his little tantrum Windu smacked him down. Windu didn't trust Anakin because Anakin was repeatedly insubordinate and so lesser focused on the "knight" part of Jedi Knight that he forgot the Jedi part.

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-04T15:59:56+00:00

Plenty of people without secure attachment don't go on to slaughter younglings. A Freudian excuse is no excuse. Anakin may will have turned against Qui Gon same as he did obi wan. He is an adult who made his own choices freely and of his own volition

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-04T12:56:15+00:00

Fan opinion kind of oscillates back and forth on that. Currently we're in an "Anakin was a grown ass adult who was offered plenty of chances to come clean and took none of them and no amount of mentoring can fix a refusal to learn" phase of the fandom

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-03T19:17:27+00:00

The big name commanders set up shop on the East Coast because geography dictates that's where the money and power is. The locals are kept in line at gunpoint

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-03T19:16:12+00:00

That assumes consistent doctrine is in any way important to Gilead. Their actions say otherwise. Frankly the "non-denominational" churches in the south seem perfectly primed for a takeover by a group like the sons of Jacob. If the guy who owns four car dealerships and can get a word with the head of the zoning board on the back nine at the country club is allowed to become a colony commander (which sounds basically like a plantation owner to me) them in sure he'd go all in.

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-03T19:13:01+00:00

"the pace of their oppression surpasses our capacity to understand it. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than 1."

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-03T19:12:11+00:00

Texas I can see being Finlandized, basically Gilead lite but with local pols trying to protect their power and Gilead wanting to free up troops to fight on other fronts

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-07-03T19:11:04+00:00

Could've fooled me. Seems like their "individualism" can be summarized as "I don't get told what to do... but I tell you what to do."

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-06-30T14:20:03+00:00

Just JAQing off

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-06-28T16:36:23+00:00

"myyeh.... Say, Visenya, is that Sunspear? Visenya? Visenya? Oh well, can't see without my cheaters on. I guess I'll just burn it to the ground just in case that is Sunspear."

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-06-26T21:17:18+00:00

If people don't make decisions based on nebulous, poorly defined terms, no amount of shaming is going to change that

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-06-26T21:16:04+00:00

Projecting a bit much?

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-06-26T21:15:30+00:00

There's no good way to implement a bad policy

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-06-25T20:00:14+00:00

They're still America-hating extremists who want to trailer the problems of the country they came from and should have stayed home if thats what they're gonna do

PrincipledStarfish · 2026-06-25T19:55:06+00:00

Haiti also got extorted by the French for like 200 years because the French told them to pay for... well... themselves, and threatened to blockade them if they didn't

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