https://subium.com/profile/notalawyer.bsky.social/post/3kwgffrflne26

  • CommunistBear [he/him]
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    4 days ago

    Weren't Yoda's failures and blindness to what was happening around him part of the reason the empire came to be in the first place? He was too weak to stop Palpatine

    • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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      4 days ago

      This is literally the same analogy as that "Biden is like Hindenburg" lib from yesterday, who was seemingly unaware that Hindenburg was democratically elected and yet was unable to prevent Hitler from coming to power anyway...

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 days ago

      He was literally the worst jedi leader ever, not only his sat on the council so long he was even titled "grandmaster" (basically a time-based coup), and his overall blind dogmatist position and strings of particularly bad decisions are responsible for most of the order's decline and fall. Again, it was happening over centuries.

    • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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      4 days ago

      It was, which is why The Last Jedi had Luke trying to correct the faults of the Jedi, except the movie half-assed it just like every other cowardly decision made in that movie.