Spyke

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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lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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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lemmy.ml

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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midwest.social

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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lemmy.ml

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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midwest.social

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

It's almost like I was right the first time.

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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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lemmy.world

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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These concepts have played out in many different civilizations long before (and during) America. This is why studying history is important--and also why dictators try to erase it.

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Bush killed a million Iraqis in a war he fabricated to force feed the MIC and oil complexes $8 trillion dollars.

He was worse than Trump until Trump decided to dismantle democracy entirely

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lemmy.world

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

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lemm.ee

But I need to know how he eats and breathes and other science facts!

(La la la)

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"I've had it with these motherfucking snakes eating their motherfucking selves"

—Mace Windu

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lemm.ee

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

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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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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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lemmy.world

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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Except if you are a farmer, or accused of some crime, or depended on honest work to survive...

Or, in other words, yes, exactly!

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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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It was the Empire high command workers who said that as a justification for their actions, the guys recruited by the republic in Operation Paperclip style.

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lemmy.one

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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lemmy.zip

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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No, this is one of the shots in the movie, as part of the whole windu confronting scene

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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I know this is a joke, but uh, you're gonna need to deliver on this. I need to see it.

(Also need to see episode1: The Phantom Baguette, I had heard that Darth Roll with his dual lame weapon was worth it)

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