• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    7 hours ago

    i think the biggest red flag in the Republic, is that their elite cops are a selective secretive religious sect with child soldiers.

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      4 hours ago

      their elite cops are a selective secretive religious sect with child soldiers

      Outside of the conflict which Palpatine orchestrated, that wasn’t the Jedi’s normal job, right?

      “We’re keepers of the peace, not soldiers.”

      • tacosanonymous@mander.xyzEnglish
        7·
        4 hours ago

        Yeah, they were a little more like diplomats but investigated weird shit, mostly fighting as a side effect of running into bad situations.

      • Tiresia@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        What do you think a “peacekeeper” is? For reference, this is one of the first results I got when I searched the web for “UN peacekeeper”.

        George Lucas clearly intended the Jedi to be wrong. Side-stepping a debate about the morality of their texual actions, they are narratively put on the “wrong” role. The whole arc of the third (sixth) movie is how Luke proves Yoda wrong that love and attachment lead to a fall to the dark side, with the tension coming from the audience’s credence in Yoda’s statement. And the prophecy that Anakin brings balance to the Force is fulfilled when he reduces the number of Jedi to equal the number of Sith (2) and later the number of Sith to equal the number of Jedi (0), implying the Jedi temple as an institution was unbalanced and the best number of Jedi (and Sith) is zero.

  • pooberbee (they/she)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    6 hours ago

    I don’t really remember my wedding vows, but I’m 100% certain there was nothing in them about not killing children so… loophole?

  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dkEnglish
    451·
    8 hours ago

    “I mean, in his defense they were Tusken. Nobody cares about those, right?”