Yeah, maybe that’s for the best. The franchise has proved that it doesn’t deserve its audience members’ trust.
Tag: anon
tired… so tired…
Hoping you can get some rest!
He is not literally hittler, but he admires him and a brazilian colonel of the dictatorship who tortured pregnant women and raped them. He also use some of the same tatics, slogans, seems more like inspired by hittler
Holy shit, that is TERRIFYING.
I think that anon is seriously underestimating Rian’s disinterest in Finn, imho I don’t think there is anything JJ could have done that would have stopped Rian sidelining Finn. He could have confirmed him Luke’s son and I think that would have lead Rian to go in even harder on the “you don’t need to be a Skywalker to be a hero”. JJ wasn’t perfect in his treatment of Finn but he can’t be blamed for what Rian did.
What really ticks me off about that anon is that they’re giving cover to the people who say Finn was always meant to be a side character and unimportant, in direct contradiction to his actual story in TFA.
What is it with all these terrible, terrible people getting into the running for elections and then winning? Is this going to happen to every country until Armageddon commences and the world ends? It feels like we’re heading in a direction where when all the world’s leaders are swapped out, Trump will be the least crazy one by comparison, and that’s scary.
That’s how I felt in 2012 when Korea elected a military dictator’s daughter President and she was predictably terrible. In our case at least things worked out, she was impeached and now sits in jail from corruption convictions. Idk if it will similarly work out for everyone else and whether our victory will even mean anything in the larger scheme of things. I’m not optimistic about the future.
I’ve done some research and it SEEMS like Bolsonaro is pulling back… “authority not authoritarianism” were the words he used… I wouldn’t trust that, though, because he can’t take back all the things he already said. This is clearly a ploy to win the moderate vote. Based on everything he’s already said, he’ll go right back to his old self the moment he’s elected. And I must say, the “new” Bolsonaro still seems fairly Trumpian… Brazil, you’re screwed.
Remember how Trump was going on and on about how he was reformed and changed after the “pussy grab” video hit the fan… and how he has now nominated and put a credibly accused sexual predator on the Supreme Court? Yeah, it’s like that. Bolsonero is lying his ballsack off and hasn’t changed in the least. The only people who are falling for it are the ones who were looking for an excuse to vote for him.
How different do you think things would’ve been for Anakin had Qui-Gon lived?
I think he might have done better with Qui-Gon as his master than Obi-Wan, since as I understand it Obi-Wan didn’t want to take on a Padawan at all and only did so because Qui-Gon asked as his last wish. I love Obi and Ani’s relationship, but it’s also pretty evident that Obi wasn’t up to the job of curbing his Padawan’s worst impulses. Qui-Gon’s unorthodox approach to the Force might have worked better with Anakin.
The phrase “literally Hitler” is usually eyeroll-worthy, but I’m pretty sure Bolsonoro is literally literally Hitler. I don’t understand how he’s so popular when he stated in words that he wants a dictatorship. Even Trump’s not that extreme. But you can bet if Bolsonoro gets elected Trump will get chummy with him right away like he is with Putin and Kim. I just hope the Brazilian political system can keep Bolsonoro in check and stop him from turning its democracy into a fascist regime…
I mean he’s definitely a fascist authoritarian like Hitler. Personally I don’t like the way these Hitler analogies are used, not only because it’s trivializing but also because it sets Hitler up to be some kind of devil, like the Ultimate Worst Ever to be compared to, when he wasn’t even that special. He happened to be sitting on a confluence of situations that allowed him to have an unusually high body count, but he was building up on millennia of antisemitic rhetoric and hatred to commit genocide. Overemphasizing the horror of Hitler helps cover up the pogroms, purges, Inquisitions, slavery, and other myriad crimes that European Gentiles committed against Jewish people for millennia. It also gives people the false sense of security that the evil was defeated with him, particularly to Americans with their hero complex about WWII.
I think Bolobolo’s main body of supporters are making a very calculated and rational choice here. They know they’re not the people who will be worste hit by the kind of dictatorship he advocates, and that they’ll be put in a better position to exploit marginalized groups. Most German goyim were fine under Hitler, after all, prior to his wild incompetence with starting wars on two fronts and losing. It’s not mysterious that Bolerono gets so much support, it just means a whole lot of Brazilians are being evil uncaring assholes. Those fuckers know what they’re doing.
Brazilian situation is terrifying, I’m so scared for my gay and black friends, so scared of another dictatorship after only 30 years of another… And also was called names by a relative for saying that christians do not support torture… some of his voters are monsters like him, some are anti the other political part and blind by hate.
I’m so sorry. With any luck he won’t win the run-off, but even if he loses the terrible tide that’s risen won’t go away easily. The situation sounds frightening and awful.
I’m brazilian and we are scared. I’m from Northeast and there’s hate against us because northeast didn’t vote in Bolsonar*. There’s evangelicals and catholics pastors telling people to vote in this man
I’ve read a little about the NE region of Brazil and how it has been heavily marginalized. I’m guessing Bolo Man won’t be good for your region at all. I’m so sorry your own country’s political climate has become so frightening for you.