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I personally think that the democratic party candidate should be xi jinping

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The Jedi were giving "anthropologists" this episode.

Maybe you, uh, don't need to "learn" everything about this culture and then decide whether they are acting right?

love what the acolyte does with “good intentions” because with all the discourse surrounding the Jedi taking children from their families, it’s seen as very black and white. This episode did a fantastic job showing how the Jedi are fundamentally good, but even good intentions can cause someone to lose their way. Sol genuinely believed he was doing what was right, but that was to a fault and those intentions blinded him and gave him severe tunnel vision. The Jedi had no business interfering with a culture without even trying to understand it. The Jedi and their sense of moral duty becomes this thick impenetrable wall, much to the detriment of others. Ultimately it got away from everyone and ended in chaos and tragedy.

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the character work with sol in this episode was SO good. the way the show has built him up to be this ideal jedi, and then this episode strips it away, showing his hubris, showing how quick to judgment he is. throughout the episode, he insisted on interfering, over and over, because he was so sure of himself, so sure that the twins were in danger, that he knew what was best for them; he killed mother aniseya because he assumed that whatever magic she was using - magic that presumably was meant to transport mae away and save her - was violent in nature. and then she tells him in her final moments that she was going to let osha go, and there's all that guilt, that crushing realization that his assumptions were wrong, and at the end of the episode he wants to purge it all by telling the council - but indara is the one who points it out as selfishness; by confessing, he would be assuaging his own guilt while also destroying osha's chance to fulfill her dream of being a jedi. and so he takes osha on as his padawan, and he carries that guilt with him, every single day of his life. "i've accepted my darkness; what have you done with yours?"

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All Your Favs Are Problematic: Star Wars Version

The Acolyte is GOOD. I will DIE on this hill. All of the plot concerns people complained about have been ADDRESSED by this flashback with a different framing, and all the other criticism is racist, homophobic, sexist, or some combination of the three.

What I love about this show and also what is so devastating about it is that I grew up ADORING the Jedi. I thought their moral code was the "right" moral code, aided by the fact that I had a rigid black and white sense of morality from a young age, related in many ways to my lifelong OCD. And as I got older I started to unpack their whole setup - by asking their members to suppress emotions and connection with others, they were depriving them of a fundamental human experience in a way that directly led to the fall of Anakin to the Dark Side. So even though I lionized the Jedi, they are not a good institution!!

And finally, as I am an adult and understand the flaws of the Jedi Order, we are getting to see Star Wars itself tackle the issue of the Order's rigidity (not to mention its propensity for kidnapping children) in a way that is nuanced.

Their institutional control of individual & community feelings has directly led to the point we are at in the The Acolyte. Indara & co do not feel comfortable sharing the truth of what happened at Brendok with their institution, and part of that has to do with the Jedi's insistence on maintaining a pristine image of being the "peacekeepers of the galaxy." The kind of fuckup that happened on Brendok would breed mistrust with the public - but their coverup of these events is going to breed even more distrust of the Jedi.

And I feel so fortunate that this mirrors my own process of dealing with some of the negative consequences of black and white thinking and learning to live in the gray - for my health. Osha and Mae are about the hear the side of the story that they were never told, and I hope that they do not "switch sides" but end in the gray. Not only Sith deal in absolutes - so do Jedi, and human beings deserve better than absolutes.

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Worth noting how fun it is that Star Wars has now given us two radically different flavors and of That One Coworker People Avoid Because He Tries Too Hard.

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The brain does not magically mature at 25. Actual neuroscientists note some 8-year-olds even have a greater "maturation index" than 25-year-olds. The myth misunderstands basic neuroscience but is still used for anti-trans policymaking like the Cass Report. https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html

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you cant fucking hurt me bitch im protected by the migratory bird act

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“(Kafka) began studying Hebrew in 1921. According to his teacher, Puah Ben-Tovim, ‘he already knew he was dying’ and seemed to regard their lessons ‘as a kind of miracle cure,’ preparing ‘long lists of words he wanted to know’; rendered speechless by coughing, he would implore his teacher ‘with those huge dark eyes of his to stay for one more word, and another, and yet another.’”

— Kafka’s Last Trial (via kafkamilktea)

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I firmly believe what ever you’re obsessed with at 11/12 years old becomes a core part of who you are, regardless if you lose interest in it or not. Maybe some of you were lucky and were obsessed with warrior cats or smth, and if you’re real unlucky it was probably twilight.

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Blink

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Click

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Basically for the past 100 years when a group of guys got together and started hanging out they would eventually form a band. This was when there was balance in the universe. Then at some point in the 2010s a powerful crystal cracked and a single shard was lost and then strife began… and now when a group of guys get together they form a podcast

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Solstice party with the girlies ☀️🌙

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you just hate the cis because of the things that they did

I hate the cis because it is led by the treacherous count dooku

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