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Re:Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of pres... by prox on Sunday August 02, 2020 @09:06AM (#24028464)
Polarization is exactly that, remove all gradients. Fascists like to make out everything is black-white. “Only siths deal in absolutes”
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Re:Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of pres... by wearsshoes on Sunday August 02, 2020 @10:51AM (#24029053)
I’ve always thought that quote itself was curiously absolute. ‘Only’, Yoda?
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Re:Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of pres... by monocasa on Sunday August 02, 2020 @01:02PM (#24029851)
That whole movie is about how the Jedi completely lost their way from millennia of stagnation to the point that they couldn't recognize the sith in their midsts anymore, and how their own well meaning influence contributed to their own downfall.
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Re:Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of pres... by nradov on Sunday August 02, 2020 @02:24PM (#24030417)
The Jedi were a death cult of religious fanatics who coerced child soldiers into fighting their wars of conquest.
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Re:Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of pres... by rhizome on Sunday August 02, 2020 @04:11PM (#24031304)
Time for a Star Wars supercut with The Jedi Theme and Imperial March flipped to the other sides.
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Re:Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of pres... by famouslastwords on Sunday August 02, 2020 @01:30PM (#24030041)
>I’ve always thought that quote itself was curiously absolute. ‘Only’, Yoda?

“Do. Or do not. There is no try.”

I always took it as Yoda unwittingly revealing himself as a Sith Lord. I mean, how much do we really know about this little fella's shady past? :D

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