There’s just some things you don’t talk about at work.

Imagine trying to shit on someone’s faith, then the person calls down Jesus himself to put your fingers in their nail wounds and then he makes his dad hurt you for good measure.
Point is how’d that guy not believe in the force before that? No “parlor trick” is that good…
- I took it that they disagreed on the usefulness of his power. Vader said nothing compares to the force and the guy disagreed. I don’t think he was swayed into thinking the force would crush the rebellion because he, an individual, got choked.
  
  I could see it, but even in the original trilogy, Vader was not demonstrated to ever be particularly restrained in his use of the force. He would have at least known that Vader had a habit of casually force choking to death anyone that pissed him off a little with zero repurcussions. Even if he thought that wasn't powerful enough he would have kept his mouth shut.
- I know. The prequels maybe weren't well thought out. That shit talker would have served among the Jedi and during the purge.
  
  Jedi are supposed to be incredibly rare, about 10,000 in a galaxy of quadrillions. It's perfectly reasonable to be skeptical of them (Other than the ten thousand years of historical proof of space wizards doing cool shit with physical records).
  However, Lucas hates math, so, like, a couple million clones can fight this war, right? Now this one cog actually probably did meet a Jedi because the only universe worse at reconciling feasible reality with background details is 40k.
  The EU actually did a really good job of explaining this attitude with an Imperial propaganda campaign that painted the Jedi as frauds running the Republic from the shadows, justifying both the skepticism and the purge to the citizens. RIP.
  
  I don't think he wasn't believing in the force, he just wasn't buying the mysticism surrounding it and didn't think it's such a big deal. He knew Vader is a powerful force user, but the Death Star is literally one shotting entire planets, so the force didn't feel that significant to him in the grand scheme of things.
- Maybe he just wanted to be chocked. He was definitely asking for it.
  
  Poor guy was drowning in debt and terminally ill, and this was the best way to secure his kids education.
  Now they talk of him as a fool.

Darth Vader doesn't call HR
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRjb5yrr9MVniw7UiKdJZnOMzuBGYLcUj
  Which is a good thing because Imperial HR doesn't mess around.

"Gee whiz, Eddie, if you needed money so bad, why didn't you come to me?"
- Almost the exact same head position and everything!

Well, okay. But Vader was going to kill him right then and there in front of everyone. Tarkin saved his life, and only because he was annoyed by the display.

The thing that really makes him a G is that Jedis in his fictional world can actually use the force while a religious figure in the western parts of our world can't do much besides using the force of social conformity which is not that threatening at all if you think about it.

Everyone seems to underestimate how much effort the empire had been putting in to hunt down remaining Jedi. Even saying the word Jedi was enough to be thrown into an interrogation cell and be subjected to who knows what kind of torture. When there's that much fear around something it can fade into memory within a single generation.

You reminded me I made this edit: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPREp6XM2/
- Fediversers gots the TikTok allergy (mirrored for 48hr)
  
  I don't blame them.