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Don’t be Anakin. Be Samwise Gamgee.

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Ceran Mathis1 day ago

I’m fairly certain no one *wants* to be Anakin; Anakin didn’t want to be Anakin. Anakin was a perfect representation of the autistic savant, naturally gifted and treated like an oddity at best, like a threat at worst. The institutions that fostered him openly resented him and his abilities, yet still demanded he serve as a tool for their ends. His literal prophesied purpose was to destroy the Jedi and Sith, because both were corrupted heresies of the Force. If you don’t want the Anakins of our world becoming Darth Vader, the easiest way to do that is to stop being the Jedi Order that facilitated his fall.

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8trius17 hours ago

Hell yes be like Anakin.

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PhiloSynthetic22 hours ago

I don't think you understand what we are saying to you. Not every generation gets a happy ending.

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Jackie Chea ⚖️1 day ago

💯 Get ready for people to freak out. 🤣

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H3Bomb 💣 ✝️ 🇺🇲1 day ago

Yes.

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Aaron D. Schneider19 hours ago

They don't want to be Anakin. They are saying they are despite wanting to be Sam (having a job They want to be Sam, but for many of them you are telling them to be Sam in a Shire that's been ruined by Sharkey.

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Andrew Snyder18 hours ago

Are you suggesting that Sam did not experience difficulty?

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Apophis17 hours ago

@aaronogre He has a wife and a (for his knowledge) happy home to go home to.

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Washington's Middle Finger14 hours ago

@Andrewnsnyder @aaronogre He just... what, always had a wife and went home every day?

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Aaron D. Schneider14 hours ago

@apophis40k @Andrewnsnyder He had a culture and place that cared about him and wanted him to settle into a productive and fruitful life. Anakin had no place and s culture that exploited him. This is literally the whole point.

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Coherent Opinions14 hours ago

@Washingtonsbird @apophis40k @Andrewnsnyder When the goblins try to illegal enter the shire they drove them out.

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Aaron D. Schneider13 hours ago

@Washingtonsbird @apophis40k @Andrewnsnyder Yep, not insist they were just as much Shirelings as the hobbits.

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8trius17 hours ago

And be like Aragorn and take up that sword you keep making excuses to not take up.

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Genguin 🇩🇰20 hours ago

Our garden as already denied to us. The orcs invaded our shire. We cannot be samwise gamgee.

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UbiquitousLee23 hours ago

And if there's no Shire to return to?

TopGallant's profile picture
TopGallant1 day ago

This is the way

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Logan Ashley1 day ago

Samwise Gamgee and the other hobbits murdered foreign invaders in the Shire at the end of ROTK. These were not Orcs, but men and hobbit traitors. So going to have to agree with you mate.

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Inquisitor Bob19 hours ago

1. You let the Left butcher our heroes. 2. Anakin’s journey mirrors that of today’s young man more than Gamgee’s or other “based” characters. 3. If you watch Star Wars beyond the OG Trilogy, it’s apparent that the Rebels and Jedi were not as saintly as originally depicted and the Empire/Sith not as wicked either.

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John Doe16 hours ago

You all imported Orcs into the shire

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Chris Segroves (Sermon Statistics in Bio)1 day ago

I can’t carry the ring Mr Anikin, but I can carry you!

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Tristan Suaviña22 hours ago

Sam was one of the war heroes who protected the borders from invading orcs. He later married a white, blue-eyed woman, having ensured that his people would live in peace, with no black or brown orcs ever setting foot on their lands again. Yes. Be like Samwise Gamgee.

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K.R.1 day ago

@CitizenAmedia Zoomers didn’t have a shire, because boomers flooded it with immigrants. They can’t relate to Sam, but they can relate to Anakin.

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Snowyteller17 hours ago

The prospect of a wife and children at the end of a harrowing journey and a scourging of your homeland does sound quite a bit more attractive than becoming a cyborg. ... Cyborgs are cool mind you.

Mikon's profile picture
Mikon1 day ago

Already turned to the dark side on my current kotor run

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Defender of the Faith14 hours ago

No thanks. Sam and Frodo are clearly gay.

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TAS | Kheapathic1 day ago

The previous generation already sold The Shire and Gondor out to the forces of Mordor, while they tell you to be better.

Sebastian's profile picture
Sebastian15 hours ago

Be the Anakin at the end of episode VI.

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mike helstrom21 hours ago

THIS is what Tolkien would have wanted. not aragorn, frodo or elrond but Sam.a man not tied to destiny or birthright but a good man with a stout heart

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Dude1 day ago

Don’t be George Lucas and portray light as darkness and darkness as light. Anakin is his version of Christianity and conservatism.

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Pheven1 day ago

Sam was saving the shire. You already fucked the shire

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Wesley Bienstman1 day ago

Anakin saved an entire galaxy....not just Middle earth....

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DeltaPPe16 hours ago

Think I pick Aragorn.

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Kevin21 hours ago

They're not mutually exclusive. You're all taking the Anakin posting waaay too literally. To me it's about being held back and held down by a legacy system of aging virtue and a stagnated bureaucratic quagmire. All while knowing you're meant for and capable of more. And that dissent is the only way forward.

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DarkVentus35818 hours ago

As I've said, were going to rewrite it a bit.

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LINK-19451 day ago

Anakin Skywalker speaks to us more than Samwise could ever! Anakin Skywalker will always be than Samwise to Gen Z Men!

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MShiver17 hours ago

We want the people of the shire to remain as they are at the beginning and end of the movie. We’ll be Sam, indeed.

SpaceMike's profile picture
SpaceMike17 hours ago

A district court judge said we couldn’t do that. 🤷

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Bad Faith12 hours ago

Yeah right if my homie hops out of my girls whip like this I'm fucking beheading him

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Apophis18 hours ago

Nobody want to be Anakin they feel like they are Anakin. To be Samwise you would need a shire to to get home to.

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Brutally Depressed Spaniard13 hours ago

No i wont carry the corrupt system that has defaced me and my people and pointed us towards absolute chaos. There is no ring to throw in lava. There is only the ashes of a civilization your foolishness brought us. Democracy is over.

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