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The Confederacy of Independent Systems, abbreviated to CIS, and otherwise known as the Separatist Alliance, the Separatist State, the Separatist Confederacy, the Separatist coalition, or simply referred to as the Separatists, was a confederation with limited recognition of outlying star systems in the galaxy that had declared independence from the Galactic Republic, a democratic union, and had its capital on the planet Raxus Secundus in the Outer Rim. Secession could be traced back to the Raxus Address by former Jedi Master Count Dooku of Serenno, from a belief of excessive taxation and corruption within the Galactic Senate, as well as a general feeling of dissatisfaction towards the neglect by the Republic-centric Core Worlds. Furthermore, the Confederacy was secretly supported by several major galactic corporations which formed the executive council, while a parliament of senators become its civilian legislature.

Thousands of disgruntled star systems seceded from the Republic and joined together in the newly-created Confederacy of Independent Systems, born from a galaxy-wide secessionist movement orchestrated by the Count of Serenno Dooku. By 24 BBY, it had become a political crisis which led to escalating tensions between the Republic and the rising Confederacy. Many within the Confederacy, including its senators, had no desire in fighting their adversaries, as they sought to be free of what they saw as the corruption and tyranny of the Republic. The Confederacy was supported by the Trade Federation, led by Viceroy Nute Gunray; the Stalgasin hive, led by Archduke Poggle the Lesser; the InterGalactic Banking Clan, headed by Chairman San Hill; the Techno Union, led by Foreman Wat Tambor; the Commerce Guild, led by Presidente Shu Mai; the Corporate Alliance, led by Magistrate Passel Argente; and the Retail Caucus. However, in 22 BBY, both governments and their respective military forces became enmeshed in the pan-galactic Clone Wars, the first major conflict in a millennium, after the conflict exploded into being on the Confederacy's first capital world, Geonosis.

By the third year of the war, the Confederacy had suffered several major defeats in the Outer Rim Sieges as the conflict began to approach its end, while losing many starships in the decisive Battle of Coruscant, which also resulted in the death of Dooku. In the days following their defeat at Coruscant, General Grievous was neutralized on the planet Utapau, leading to the collapse of the Separatist leadership, and the fighting effectively coming to an end.

Following both the Jedi's demise and rise of the Galactic Empire, Viceroy Nute Gunray and the other surviving leaders gathered on the planet Mustafar with hopes of securing peace with the newly rising Empire ruled by Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine. However he sent his new apprentice Darth Vader to wipe out them and deactivate the Separatist Droid Army as a threat to his Empire.

With the end of the Clone Wars, the newly-formed Galactic Empire as the successor to the Old Republic, reintergrated former Separatists worlds into the Empire, with only several holdouts daring to resist the Empire, which were suppressed. But an idealized view of the cause persisted during the Imperial Era, with some still holding secessionist tendencies, even into the New Republic Era.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder why google is wrong about this?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

State of political discourse in America

Your guy's wife is ugly

Your guy's wife is a sl*t

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Capitalism is dumb cause Guy That Takes Care of a Lot of Cats isn't a paying job. There's do many kitties out there that need a good life and if given a Cat Ranch I'd be the person for the job. I'd give Darby a lil cowboy hat and she'd either beat them all up or whip em into an army of unfathomable power. Tough call. Despite how tiny and cute she is, Darby does love beating up other cats.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

For real, I think owning a cat cafe would be dope. I'd have an apartment above the cafe and I'd own a cat who would go downstairs with me to hang out with all the adoptable cats.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

A law has been broken.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

Driver please stop the bus Pleasse STOP THE BUS I NEED TO GET OFF TO FART

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Can anyone find the last parts of "the Don Flows Home" as an audiobook? I've been looking everywhere for a not-AI read version. Just finished "And Quiet flows the Don" and want to listen to the rest

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

Friend randomly came to visit that I haven't seen in years and ended up having a total meltdown in the coffee shop bathroom on the last day because they were so completely disorganized and vague and not communicative about anything the entire time and idk what the hell happened but it was so fucking stressful for me, I've never been so stressed out hanging out with someone before. But like I also don't know if it was me just overreacting to everything and I feel like an asshole. I feel like I tried to frame it as an exercise for learning to be super flexible but it didnt work. I went to bed at like 9 last night and slept all day and still feel exhausted from the past few days.

Being autistic fucking sucks. I want a do over

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

Imagine Nathan Fielder talking to Mr Rogers. That might split atoms

[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oh no, new guy at work mentioned Robert Evans in front of the hardline m-l coworker who seems to know everyone's cia ties.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Never understood how people treat β€œMommy Dearest” as a joke when I’ve seen many unhinged parents act like that and get scarily violent over the smallest things. A lot of them also had that oddly overly dramatic way of speaking and moving.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

the only thing I disliked about the new final destination movie is how the hottest character's death was also the most disturbing ohnoes but maybe his hotness was a contributing factor πŸ€”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

it'd be really cool if my friends could stop dying :(

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

EXCELLENT POST

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"Armed Forces Day" hats* in the MLB

Regular hat enjoying fans: liberty-weeping

Greedy merchandising company execs: capitalist-laugh

*latest fad

Major league blunder. kelly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

They look like shit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

Camo mlb hats look like shit, fuck the troops

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

real it just works hours my only problem with fedora so far was some strange freeze/lags but it seems to have gone after installing nvidia drivers.

if i can get mod organizer running through steam we might be playing skyrim in a couple days. really stoked

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Smile Netflix movie review:

spoiler"Go to therapy" the movie

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

How the fuck is erotic roleplay supposed to help my OCD?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

"Oh cool a video about the depressing state of society in South Korea, I'm sure this will shine a light on the country's sad history and its revolting exploitation as a puppet state of the imperial United States!" clueless

doesn't mention the war at all, doesn't discuss the role of the state in maintaining the current hegemony, solely blames shitty Korean corporations for their societal woes and says that it should serve as a warning to "the west" - the very entity which is to be blamed for its existence to begin with

surprised-pika

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

What no dialectical materialism does to a mf.

Tbh the whole online subculture of "RoK society is going to collapse" is really annoying to me. Nearly all of them are devoid of any class analysis and just serve to manufacture consent for a hot war against the DPRK.

The kuzyogurt (im not going to spell that right) video on South Korea's birthrate is probably the most subtle way I've seen of slowly preparing people to accept RoK's collapse into a fascist military state from a neoliberal capitalist one. Zero solutions presented just "hey we are going to die."

In other words: westerners should shut up about Korea.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

I wish to drive a golf cart into a ditch, just keep doing this until I fill a ditch with golf karts and it's no longer a ditch.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago

it is may 16 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago

I saw a guy driving down the road blasting a Dragon Ball Z anime review as if he was listening to music. Dudes rock.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

VTuber posting

find a Nimi clipping channel I hadn't seen before

"oh cool there's a clip about her talking about how it can be difficult to make sure what you're eating is vegan"

look at the comments

dead-dove-2 dead-dove-3

I won't bothering linking it. The clip itself is just her talking about how food can be sneakily non-vegan (e.g. "non-dairy" creamer having milk proteins and white sugar being made with bone char) and how she just tries her best; the comments are a greatest hits compilation of all the most baby-brained carnist takes: "if you can't completely eliminate animal suffering, there's no point in trying", "it's unnatural," "only privileged people can be vegan," "growing crops hurts the environment even more (???)," "muh B12 deficiency," et cetera. It's hard for me to understand the mindset of someone who considers themself a big fan of a creator and yet is incredibly condescending and dismissive towards a core part of their identity.

Even though there's already general hostility towards vegans, I think a big part of it here is plain ol' freeze-gamer misogyny and the connection (heavily reinforced by advertising) between eating meat and manliness. There's this vibe from a lot of the comments like, "Oh, you sweet little thing, look at you being a silly vegan because you think it'll help the cute widdle animals! You just need a big smart man like me to set you straight." There was at least one comment that more or less said that explicitly catgirl-disgust

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Using a coconut pistachio wax melt for the first time and oh my god it smells heavenly, I had no idea this was such a good combination meow-melt

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

My school used to sometimes play jazz-y O Canada or a cappella O Canada. The NHL should look into that, so much more fun than the vanilla anthem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriah_Magoffin

This guy was the governor of Kentucky at the start of the civil war. His brother was named Ebenezer ffs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

i want to join the psl but when i go to their website and they ask me for my email i feel like im signing up for a "please deport me to CECOT" list. wat do

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Is there a group in your area that you can connect to directly at a tabling event or something? I personally would feel way more comfortable being ableto talk to someone face to face and tell them your concerns about that.

If not you could also make a proton account and use a VPN, they would probably suggest you do that anyway

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