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Honestly, the whole Darth Jar Jar thing becomes especially believable through the lens of current events.
A character who sows chaos at every turn to rapidly advance the largest-scale evil possible in a way that everyone who watches him repeatedly just dismisses his actions as accidents or dumb luck and fails to hold him responsible until it’s too late.
Sounds ridiculous, but that’s literally Trump.
Oh great, we’re on the Darth Jar Jar timeline.
We always were
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.
This line from something else science fictiony in the same era also hits differently now.
It’s just a show. You should really just relax.
But I need to know how he eats and breathes and other science facts!
(La la la)
It’s a mystery of science and theater…
3000…
The downvotes on this just tell me too many users here don’t know how good MST3K is.
I do not say that he is right, but he is right
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.
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.
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?
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.
History is a snake eating itself
“I’ve had it with these motherfucking snakes eating their motherfucking selves”
—Mace Windu
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.
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
Star Wars was heavily inspired by American politics. It was basically the Vietnam war in space.
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.
If it’s not in the records it doesn’t exist.
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.
No joke! Even what I didn’t like with the Sequels was they felt too contemporary and on the nose to Trumpian MAGA politics.
Didn’t mandalorian establish that the empire canonically improved every system they touched?
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.
Like Alderan?
Real ‘the romans make a desert and call it peace’ energy
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.
Empire made being human great again
Except if you are a farmer, or accused of some crime, or depended on honest work to survive…
Or, in other words, yes, exactly!
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
carsinterplanetary frigatesCheaper logistics -> more goods transported between systems
Faster internet -> more galactic utilization
More railways -> lower profit for the
carspeeder industry, uhh… Wait! I meant more transit by rail demand?Edit: forgot which sub…
c/theempiredidnothingwrong
I went looking for that but can’t find it. Does someone need to create it
I was also surprised that it didn’t already exist. Your instance would be a fine place for it.
!theempiredidnothingwrong@lemm.ee
!empiredidnothingwrong@lemm.ee
Be the change you want to see in the world?
The whole premise of Disney Star Wars is that the Empire was right and you shouldn’t fight fascism.
How was this made?
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.
Is that an actual scene? I thought the camera was from a different angle. Did someone strap a Go Pro to Darth sidious?
No, this is one of the shots in the movie, as part of the whole windu confronting scene
Did someone strap a Go Pro to Darth sidious?
They did for the baking-themed porn parody Star Whores: Attack of the Scones 🤷
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)
