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Star Wars Memes

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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

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Other universes to visit:

!lotrmemes@midwest.social

!tenforward@lemmy.world

Separatist systems:

!prequelmemes@lemmy.world

Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):

!star_wars@lemmy.world

!starwars@lemmy.ml

!starwarstelevision@lemmy.world

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IMPORTANT

Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.

The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:

  1. This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!

  4. Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.

  5. Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).

  6. Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.

  7. Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 6 hours ago

There's a Marvel comic like that. It's the one where The Leader , one of Hulk's villains, gets a girlfriend. It might even be a Valentine's Day special.

[–] Folstar@lemmus.org 12 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Me too. That and just once could we get a movie where the female love interest is in doubt about her relationship because her fiancee is working all the time to buy them a dream house and financial foundation to start a family, but then goes home to find her childhood friend who she doesn't really know anymore has grown into the love of her life.

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

isn't that just every hallmark movie

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oh wait that was the joke

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 points 14 hours ago

Something something Keanu Reeves something

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 119 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

That's... just the default for most of cultural history. Odysseus gets back from war, slaughters like thirty dudes in the dining room, and his wife is just thrilled that hubby is back. The other way is the subversion of classical treatments of violence in fiction.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (13 children)

yep. also like... has this person been in a relationship?

my exes loved it when I was a raging asshole to other people. they hate it when I was nice to them. it was morally repulsive to me how 'hot' it made them. they loved impulse to anger and violence, and were 'turned off' it when i was reasonable and calm. because people calm and kind isn't 'strong' or 'manly'.

sadly a lot of people are driven by biological/cultural defaults, and one of those men must be violent and hostile to prove their ability to 'protect' the women/children. and they look down on more socially benevolent behaviors.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

Idk, I think you just have bad taste. I don't know any people like that, women or otherwise. Maybe you attract shitty people for some reason? Maybe it's your attitude and behaviors? Can't be sure, I don't know you. But it's worth consideration! I find being nice to people usually results in them being nice to me. It's almost like that should be some kind of special rule we teach toddlers, it could be so valuable. I'd go so far as to say that rule would be as valuable as gold...

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

You need to meet better people, wtf.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 14 points 13 hours ago

Have you considered that the way you generally behaved around people created a selection pressure in your dating pool? If you behave like an asshole in public you will only attract people who are turned on by or at least accepting of asshole-ish behavior.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Wow this post made me so grateful for the women in my life (for not being this way).

This is much more cultural than it is biological. Protection doesn't equate to violence outside of the extreme circumstances.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 29 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

🕵️‍♂️

This comment so perfectly encapsulates toxic masculinity that it should have its own exhibit in a museum.

[–] dkppunk@piefed.social 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That guy is one of the best example of toxic masculinity I’ve seen on lemmy. He’s swallowed the manosphere BS whole hog. It only takes a few minutes looking through his profile to understand why he’s single in his 40s.

I’ve run into him a few times before and he’s always like that. I gave him the below advice, he completely ignored me and continues to parrot that kind of misogynistic language.

I’ve noticed your complaints up and down this thread, I’ve also noticed them around the threadiverse for a while and I am beginning to see a pattern. You tend to be aggressively argumentative, denigrate women as a whole/complain about “woke”, refuse to see things from other people’s perspectives, and don’t listen to anyone’s advice. Have you ever heard the phrase “if everyone around you is an asshole, then maybe you’re the asshole”? Perhaps part of the issue is your behavior and attitude.

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The real shame is that their take is so well upvoted, relative to the fediverse that is.

[–] dkppunk@piefed.social 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, usually his misogynistic comments like that are downvoted, sad to see that one is so highly upvoted 👎

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago

I'm doing my part!

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[–] andxz@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 16 hours ago

A real human bean

[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 18 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

We're bringing christmas movies in here now?

[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 14 hours ago

Santa Claus 2?

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 5 points 16 hours ago

Not shocking at all, he's a cop

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Horrible example.

McClane is separated from his wife by the 3rd movie because all this crazy action movie shit keeps happening to him. And Holly thinks he's an asshole.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

She's not wrong.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 14 hours ago

So, Die Hard, Die Hard 2, but not 3. Got it.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

My first thought exactly.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 28 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

See also: Natural Born Killers

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 15 points 21 hours ago

True Romance

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[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

I get the joke/meme but the social stigmatization, personal traumatization and potential violence that comes with and at a female for even trying to leave a male love interest with a shocking capacity for violence is just too real.

With that said, I would love to play Padme in a story driven game like, say, Detroit: Become Human and cut Anakin's throat in the middle of the night instead of meeting him at... Was it Mustafar? 🔪😈

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 17 hours ago (9 children)

There's a societal component that harms men and women, and is perpetuated by both.

As a guy whose all about "love and peace," I've often been viewed as too docile and effeminate to be attractive or datable. So many hetero women treat me like I'm invisible and choose to give their attentions to the guys who display overt acts of aggression and domineering behavior.

Maybe the queer community has different standards, but lesbians aren't into me, and I'm not into guys. Bisexual women think any man that's attracted to them are fetishizing them for the unicorn potential. And straight women who are against toxic masculinity are more likely to just trash me for being a man rather than getting to know me and my soft side.

People say they appreciate when men show vulnerability, but whenever I show vulnerability people view it as a weakness to exploit and pile on me as an easy target. They do it for the clout if for nothing else.

Like, if we want to change men's behavior then as a society we should probably stop rewarding the worst kinds and punishing the rare exceptions for being different.

I'm aware that this makes me sound like a "nice guy," but honestly it's such a self-destructive and counter-productive trope that I've had to stop taking it seriously and just hope the rest of the world catches up at this point...

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[–] teft@piefed.social 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

You're going to try and cut the throat of one of the strongest precognitive force user ever? You do you but that sounds more suicide-y than going to Mustafar and talking to Vader.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 24 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, I mean she pretty much ditches Anakin once he fully reveals his fall to the dark side. Like, she was cool with the slaughter of sand people, sorta, but when he denounces the Jedi, she tries to get out and he force chokes her, which she does not think is hot at all, and does the whole "dies of a broken heart" trope (thanks George 🙄).

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago

It's kind of leopards eating face.

Anakin killed Sandpeople children but I never thought he'd kill white Jedi children.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 28 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Like, she was cool with the slaughter of sand people, sorta.

I mean, that's kinda enough... 😬

"I killed them all. They're dead. Every single one of them. And not just the men… but the women… and the children too." Followed immediately by "To be angry is to be human" and a few scenes later by "I truly… deeply love you… and before we die, I want you to know."

If the meme fits, wear it, Ms Padme...

[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Maybe she really hated sand "people"?

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 20 hours ago

Oh, 100% yikes at that point for sure, but once he goes full Sith, she's all, "You're going down a path I can't follow" and, "You're breaking my heart". Plus, if she was really into it, I'd think the force choking would be the hottest part 😜

[–] joyjoy@piefed.social 7 points 17 hours ago

They were like animals, so I slaughtered them like animals!

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