What Mogget said, plus a lot of them don’t actually know what socialism is. They just know it’s a word people perceive negatively, so they throw it at their enemies, shaking their fists at socialism while cashing disability checks and taking their parents to medical appointments paid for by Medicare.

Globalism! Soros! Bankers! 

They are all proxy-terms to hide the conspiracy theorist’s antisemitism. Listen to them blathering long enough, and the mask slips and you see that’s the root. Nothing new under the sun.

“NO WORDS CAN DETERMINE A PERSONS ACTUAL INTENT! THEYRE JUST WORDS!”

I remember STYX AND the Stones! I’m old.

See also: this article from The Onion circa 2009:

Still though, how much would you love to see Luke Skywalker in a wig banging away on the harpsichord like 18th century Elton John?

I know there are nice, laid back ones here and there, but I find diehard Star Wars fans en masse to be pretty unbearable. The fact that he’s been in the middle of that maelstrom for forty years and still comes across as friendly and affable is impressive. Look what it did to Ford or Guinness.

I dunno, that whole Q thing might be just a tiny bit worse.

There are few constants in the universe, and one of them is that fanboys will always take the opportunity to scream about how badly The Last Jedi performed by only making a billion dollars and therefore they are right to be mad about it.

I thought the CGI Tarkin was decent, but I thought they should have just cast Charles Dance.

Here’s your money, go see a Star War.

As someone who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, I have to say I found it less jarring, exactly, than a deflating “ugh...oh, right... yeah, I guess that tracks” kind of reminder. 

“Ah...so...ka”

Yeah, clearly a ton of commenters here aren’t even aware of what they’re talking about when they throw around terms like “Christ child.” You mean the son of a carpenter from a backwater village in northern Palestine, born in a stable? Humble beginnings are part and parcel of the literal Christ story, it’s a feature,…

i just downloaded the original battlefront 2, it’s so awesome i wish the new one was closer to it.

Also, I really loved Johnson’s point that The Force is not some aristocratic thing, but something even the humblest kid can manage if he really wants to.

In the fall of 2012, the Walt Disney Company dropped a four-billion-dollar bag of money on George Lucas’ desk

Yoda’s Force Ghost appearing to Luke in TLJ is the best scene in the entire sequel trilogy, and the worst thing about ROTJ is how it makes a mockery of that scene by making Rey save the Jedi texts.