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[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago

For my own sanity, I refuse to believe this is not a bit.

[-] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago

It’s a bit. Checked the guy's posting history. Here’s another banger:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IRstudies/s/fIT5ovLwYu

[-] tripartitegraph@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your through provoking response. I have not considered the existence Air People (Aetherocracies ). I will continue not to.

incredible

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

Anyway, while I was explaining my point she rudely hits me with the Thalassocratic stare (Sea person stare)

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

when someone says something so inlander that you just gotta hit them with that Thalassocratic stare

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[-] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Apparently geopolitics follows the plot of the 3rd gen pokemon games.

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[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago
[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

I was desperately trying to find a way to view deleted reddit posts, but couldn't figure out a way to make it work. I must know what the idea was.

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Change the domain from "www.reddit" to "reveddit" -- note that you have to remove the www. subdomain while you're at it. That will work if the post/comment was indexed before being removed, and only if it was removed by a mod or admin. Self-deleted stuff is gone forever.

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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/jedi/comments/17g5gzu/update_joe_biden_jedi/

I (32M) am a researcher in international development, and made a post last week about Joe Biden being a Jedi, and unfortunately I dont think a lot of people agreed. However this is okay. Academic disagreement is really important to having a lively debate about Global (Galactic) Politics.

I also have a change of heart. Much like Ben Kenobi, I have a mentor. Professor Ballard and I had a lively discussion on this topic. Continuing with the aid (force) debate, I think that we can look at it like lightside (aid to Israel from the Global Elite (Jedi Council)) and darkside (aid to Hamas from the Dark forces(Witches of Dathomir)). This analytical framework has a lot of explanatory power, and really aids in constructing a foundation for understanding Regional Politics.

Even though Joe Biden is a "Catholic", I know he supports Judaism (Jediism) in the Middle East (Tatooine). When Air Force One (Warp Speed) landed in Tel Aviv (Alderaan), I really thought there was a new hope for a different ending for Israel than there was for Alderaan. If we flip the theoretical framework around, we may see that the structural threats to Israel have similar plans for Alderaan as Abu Obaida of the Al-Qassam Brigade (Darth Vader and Stormtroopers), even though they are Muslims, unlike Vader who is a Sith.

What do you guys think? It is important to understand our world through the lenses of theory. In this case, Star Wars.

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

We've got a poster here folks che-smile

[-] Smeagolicious@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

aid to Hamas from the Dark forces(Witches of Dathomir)

michael-laugh i am fucking sent

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

Let him cook

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

oh man, I was worried this was real, but i feel safe knowing this is shitposting.

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

from the Dark forces

unbelieveable that dark forces isn't the star wars reference

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[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago
[-] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago
[-] Smeagolicious@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

aid (The Force)

This is 100% a bit. Not a great one but definitely a bit.

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hamas (Empire)

...

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood.

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

researcher in international development at florida state

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

Getting that degree in advanced gusano studies

[-] MarxGuns@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Wrong. The Luke Skywalker parallel is some old Vietnamese veteran who merced US soldiers during the war and was instrumental in bringing down some US base.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They do this with every media they like, but at least this is a bit

[-] NewDark@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Media literacy is dead

[-] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

remember when the US went to Vietnam to blow up the death star?

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

when your understanding of politics is based on vibes.

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

it would make far more sense to call Russia the empire.

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[-] Umechan@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When you're too busy to read another book so you watch a movie instead.

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[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

The best part is how he misrepresents what happens in the movie lol this guy's awesome

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

I didn't think we were going to need a media literacy gulag but it is clear we need a media literacy gulag

Especially since Lucas explicitly said that the Empire is the US and the rebellion are the Vietnamese communists.

[-] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Let's hope the zionist entity ends up the same way Alderaan does.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

More hoping for death star end tbh, alderaan isn't a good parallel

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