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new leg today. I AM TERMINATOR REBORN
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PALPATINE: "We'll sell favors through the Palpatine Foundation and use the money for the campaign."

VICEROY: "My lord.... is that.... legal?"

PALPATINE: "I will make it legal."
"For starters....."




I imagine Dinko here reads Conservapedia unironically
DARTH VADER: "Luke, the galaxy needs a healthy mix of socialism and capitalism."

LUKE: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"


VADER: "Search your feelings, Luke. You know that Donald Trump pays double the tax rate of Bernie Sanders."

LUKE: "That's not true. That's impossible!!!!!"
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I was daydreaming the other day how great the Mustafar fight would be if it were rewritten with current political lingo.

OBI WAN: "Anakin, Chancellor Palpatine is evil!"

ANAKIN: "From my point of view, you're value signalling."


OBI WAN: "It's over, Anakin. I have the moral high ground."

ANAKIN: "Did you just assume my gender?"
@mdk Exactly. Anything that you accept uncritically can become like religion.


You just gained like 50 arbitrary respect points. Kudos for intellectual consistency.
The kind of thinking that allows any act to be justified in the name of religion allows people to commit any act. It is even arguable that part of the problem with Stalinist Russia is that they make the State a religion. Religion contends that their are truths that should never be questioned. That sort of thinking can be dangerous.


If we apply that standard to environmentalism, an interesting thing occurs.....


Relevant, I believe.


rofl I have a tab up with that exact vid. I was waiting for the opportune moment but it never came.
No, and I'm not advocating that we should start eradicating the religious. I'm just contending that we might be much better off as a species if we could wave a secular wand and get rid of the whole sorry mess. It might be a bit easier for people to make rational decisions if they hadn't been brainwashed as children to think that God, or Allah or whomever wanted them to act a certain way.


meh. I think we come up with our own reasons for making irrational decisions, god or no god. We'll kill each other over an eight-ball of crank. Hell, last week a man strangled his wife over their wedding gifts. Going after religion is tribalism, pure and simple (no different from religious folks blaming everything on the damned atheists) -- which, I mean, is exactly what you'd expect to happen if I'm right, so it's not exactly evidence of that, but certainly consistent.

People are ignorant dicks.

People do a lot of great shit though -- and so does religion. And so does a lot of other stuff, which also sometimes goes crazy and shits all over the world, but that's life.
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