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[+] 124 points 2 years ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago

    I thought it was more Sheev was trump and Darth Jar Jar was more like musk pulling the strings.

    Darth Jar Jar has more class than either of those two creatures.

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  • [–] 69 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    If only Democratic leadership had anything near the balls of Mace Windu. They’d pause the fight to pen an angry letter while Jedi, younglings, and the entire Republic get slaughtered.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago

    A Sith Lord in control of the senate you say? We must call the council at once and write a formal letter to Emperor Palpatine to tell him his actions are against the founding principles of this republic! And we'll make sure to comply with his every demand, but be strongly against the morality of this whole situation.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    They were absolutely as blind as the Jedi Council, and just like the Council they waited too long to act. The Garland DoJ could have prevented this, had they prioritized justice over cowering to the rich, the powerful, and the fictional consciences of republican voters.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Bullshit. The Jedi were fighting a war and still rushed over when they finally had proof. Acting before then would have literally just been their own coup. They had grown detached, for sure, but it also wasn't their job to do literally everything to hold the Republic together.

    Trump had his Order 66 leaked and the dumbass Dems still stuck their thumbs up their asses. And it IS literally their job to hold the Republic together. There's even a lot more of them than 10,000 per 10 trillion citizens.

    Why the fuck don't Star Wars fans understand Star Wars?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I think the Jedi council was very clearly myopic and hidebound, not to mention their precognitive abilities were blunted by the influence of the dark side, much like the sanewashing of Trump in the media.

    Why the fuck don’t Star Wars fans understand Star Wars?

    Indeed.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Bro, you just compared a space wizard blocking other space wizard psychic visions with better space magic to "sane washing Trump"

    Just to start with, Palpatine also controlled the media! The direct connection was already there!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Windu got done wrong but I hope we get cartoons that delve into these figures.

    Hard to tell in the movies that windu was hands down the best light saber duelist in the galaxy, that his defeat was a gigantic coup for palpatine.

    The OG clone wars cartoons shows windu to be the badass he is.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    This line dropped as the second George W Bush term was getting underway. It felt super relevant then, too (I actually viewed him and Cheney as worse than Trump until he actively worsened COVID). But this term's opening has been so bad so fast that the line really does hit different.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    This line from something else science fictiony in the same era also hits differently now.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    It's just a show. You should really just relax.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    History is a snake eating itself

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I do not say that he is right, but he is right

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Extra funny if you knew of the people who were "playing" Eve Online psychopaths, who had and still have the tendency of toying with the mental gymnastics of portraying the Sith as the good guys and the Jedi as the bad guys and decided over a decade now to get involved in propping up the Trump movement.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    No joke! Even what I didn't like with the Sequels was they felt too contemporary and on the nose to Trumpian MAGA politics.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Didn't mandalorian establish that the empire canonically improved every system they touched?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    By "improved" you mean in efficiency?

    Because only stupid people go improving efficiency above all else in any system. Even in simple for profit corporations.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Ehhh... Well, in computer processing it does play a huge role in heat transfer requirements which has often driven transistor density.

    But fair to say efficiency is often more likely to create induced demand rather than a net reduction in consumption

    Higher fuel economy -> more cars interplanetary frigates

    Cheaper logistics -> more goods transported between systems

    Faster internet -> more galactic utilization

    More railways -> lower profit for the car speeder industry, uhh... Wait! I meant more transit by rail demand?

    Edit: forgot which sub...

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I went looking for that but can't find it. Does someone need to create it

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  • [+] -10 points 2 years ago (5 children)
  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    OP likely used an electronic device you may call a "personal computer" that is capable of capturing still images that you may call a "screenshot" from a moving image video format you may call a "movie".

    Hope that helps.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Is that an actual scene? I thought the camera was from a different angle. Did someone strap a Go Pro to Darth sidious?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Did someone strap a Go Pro to Darth sidious?

    They did for the baking-themed porn parody Star Whores: Attack of the Scones 🤷

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