Star Wars started as a metaphor for the Vietnam war (with the US as the bad guys). In The Force has always been a lot of philosophy. Just because you didn’t get it as a kid, doesn’t mean it was silly.

And I say that as a trekkie who never really liked Star Wars but I see why people do and can appreciate it

You make it sound so arbitrary.

Everything that comes in the first third of your life/fandom is normal, how things should be, how they always were.
The second third is new and exciting.
The third third is the downfall of the franchise, not worthy of the name.

The length of these “thirds” can vary but that’s the gist of it.

But at what cost…

Took me a moment to process if the picture is turned 90° or not. I figured it’s not.

My guess is he changed so much that he will be the guy who kills the real dictator but who am I to predict the future

We will see

As a prison abolitionist, I am very sceptical about things like this. Sure, for this Hilter guy it worked and I’m glad it did, still on a whole, more people get radicalized than de-radicalized in prison.

Most prisoners are there for property crimes and the “bad guys” who really hurt people, aren’t helped or bettered either. We aren’t free until all of us are free. Don’t let positive examples like this one cloud your judgment on an overall bad institution like the prison complex. Transformative justice is a much better solution, also for people like this.

Patriarchy is for sure a cause many people die from, so maybe it’s time to fight and die for ending it

Just make sure you don’t develop an allergic reaction. Could happen with too much exposure

I first read it as “dying for a cause”. I guess cigarettes make you more revolutionary or something

Some h*bits die hard

As so often, you steal from the capitalist, not the workers

That’s b*llshit

Don’t take away that the market didn’t work right and needs fixing. It works as expected, serves first and foremost the ultra rich, and need to be destroyed. Markets only monitors demand, we need a necessity based economy

My favorite order is to watch Star Trek instead

We are waiting for Chess 2.0 since literal centuries

There is a Words For Granted podcast episode about that. Don’t remember much tho. Have fun!

That’s the next core idea: power structures attract the wrong people. Take Stalin who was worse than Lenin. Lenin had benevolent ideas but got corrupted, Stalin took that position with bad intentions from the start.

Fatalism only serves the status quo.

Putting the right guy in power never worked historically since power corrupts. The power structure is the problem. That’s one of the core ideas of anarchism

If you want to educate yourself on the topic, I recommend the book “Why I’m no longer Talking to White People about Race”. It’s very insightful and not too long.