Like I said before: Titty milk illustrates his connection to nature, and it’s the path of adventure and independence. That serves both the story being told, and consistent character traits. It’s the most Luke Skywalker thing he could have done.

I’m willing to entertain the idea of masturbation possibly highlighting his connection to nature, his sense of adventure and independence. But you gotta explain it, because I’m not getting it yet.

Depends if it served the story. Can you describe a scenario where masturbation fits the story as well as the milk does?

Luke has always done socially controversial things. He’s always been a rebel. On the farm, he rejected his parents’ expectations that he’d be a farmer, because he wanted to see the galaxy. He rejected the empire’s propaganda and joined the rebel cause. He rejected anti-Force norms pushed by Han to learn from crazy old Ben. He rejected Yoda’s pressure to stay and learn. And he rejected every norm of how people act in war, by choosing to give Darth Vader mercy.

Luke has always rejected the easy and safe path. He’s always chosen adventure and independence over comfort. The titty milk is consistent characterisation. He’s Luke Skywalker, he does whatever the fuck he wants and he doesn’t care all that much what others think about it.

Sorry, I need to come back to this one, I’m confused.

So you’re a titty milk drinker, and Luke is a titty milk drinker, and you don’t think there’s anything wrong with titty milk drinking. But you don’t like that Luke did it in the movie. Because… why?

Because it’s socially frowned upon? You don’t like that Luke defied social norms?

Yes, a pacifist would.

I get that the movie has flaws, but it also has more vision and philosophy than any other Star Wars movie, and I prefer a movie with vision. The Canto Bight stuff was weak. They did a terrible job with Finn. Rose is unlikable. But the Rey and Luke stuff is peak Star Wars.

Which would make sense if he considers lightsabers irrelevant to the new teachings of the Jedi, except he still uses that very lightsaber when going against Kylo

Nah, he views lightsabers as irrelevant, and he doesn’t use a lightsaber against Kylo. He uses an illusion of a lightsaber, and he doesn’t even attack with it. He just dodges and distracts. The lightsaber is nothing more than a symbol to distract Kylo. It’s serving the same function as a set of jangling keys.

And he had to have that pacifistic viewpoint, that anti-lightsaber viewpoint, because Abrams put him on an island during a war. The best answer RJ could come up with to that is that he’s become a pacifist.

A prosthetic memory sounds pretty good, since memorisation is boring and only important for what it gets us. But prosthetic reasoning? Do you value your ability to think and plan and make choices?

You say that like cow milk doesn’t come from a titty. Like you’ve been alienated from the source of your food. Luke isn’t alienated from nature, he’s connected to all the nature around him. He knows exactly where all his food comes from. He uses the force and his knowledge to survive.

Connecting with nature is an important part of spiritual enlightenment. The old Jedi lived up in a tower above a city. They were alienated from nature. Luke is practicing the way of the light side of the force every day. Remember, it’s an energy field that binds all life together.

You’re just like Rey: alienated from the land, afraid of titties. And that is not the way of the new Jedi. Luke may be disillusioned with the Jedi as heroes and peacekeepers, but he’s perfected his monk game in a way most Jedi never did.

The worst episode of TOS is the one with the planet of children where Kirk puts the rizz on a little tweenage girl. I think it’s called Miri. Skip that one.

7 put Luke on an island during a war, 8 was just doing the best it could with Abrams’ nonsense mystery boxes

8 is the best Star Wars movie

UBI is cool, but I recently watched some videos by Hazel Thayer that advocate for Universal Basic Services instead. Basically, if you give people UBI that covers the cost of rent, you’re putting money in landlords’ pockets. And I hate landlords! Guaranteeing free social housing for everyone would fix that problem. We should have basic housing, basic food, basic medicine, basic education, basic clothes, basic electricity.

UBI is cool because it’s easy to implement in policy overnight. It would take one single bill to do it. But UBS is a recipe for a better society, with less wealth going to capitalists.

Autism is a mental disability. Most autistic people can drive as well as neurotypicals.

But I agree that nobody should be driving a car, because cars are bad.

Literacy and critical thinking are being actively sabotaged by the conservatives. You can’t pretend that isn’t happening.

The fact that the average American reads at a children’s level is terrible, but it’s kinda not entirely their fault. I’m not really trying to bash them.

There are people who are politically educated, who have good values and knowledge of the world and the ability to think critically. But they have one flaw. And it is these people I intend to bash for their incompetence.

That one flaw is, that they think everyone else is as smart as them. They don’t understand that not everyone had the same opportunities as them. They don’t know how to talk down to an audience. Trump knows how to talk down to an audience, and the uneducated people love him for it! But these educated people expect everyone to have the same political literacy as them. And they’re alienating those masses.

When you expect someone to be smart, you can make them feel stupid. A lot of uneducated Republican voters hate us university-educated city folk, because we make them feel stupid. There’s a rising tide of anti-intellectualism in society because we can’t talk to the people who haven’t been given intellectual privilege. We’re alienating them.

And it’s not exactly helping that I can go to a commie community and see “read Lenin or GTFO”. That’s not how we build class consciousness with the educationally underprivileged.

Most people get their political news from Instagram reels and chatbots quoting Reddit. They’re depending on us educated people, who they would call “elites”, to tell them what’s happening. And it is the Trumps of the world who understand that, who make those Instagram reels. That is why we’re losing.

That’s what Modi did in India. It’s what Murdoch did with the press. It’s how fascists always grow their influence.

We gotta talk down to people.

Nice strawman

It’s almost like they think everyone is on the left.

I bet it’s cause they only ever argue with leftists, so that’s all they see. Conservatives aren’t real to them because they never talk to conservatives.

Yeah sure, I’ll give you the easy version. There’s more advanced techniques, but this first one is so simple anyone can do it:

Say “Fuck the GOP” when you criticise the dems.

There are three groups at play here

1. The average voter who has a fischer price baby brain
2. Novice politicians who know the facts, but not how to explain them to the fischer price baby brains
3. Experienced rhetoricians who say “also the Republicans are worse” because we know how to talk down to the fischer price baby brains

You fall into the second group. You’re a big kid, but you don’t know enough to look after the babies yet. You don’t even think it’s your responsibility to educate the babies.

And, this is crucial, I really need the non voters to listen to this:

We can all influence how popular a policy is

You’re right, you do have to always be careful about how you criticise the democrats. There’s a technique to do it without radicalising people to the right. I’ve done it heaps of times.

People are telling you to stop criticising the democrats because you haven’t mastered that technique yet.