• @Sterile_Technique
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    1171 day ago

    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.

    • @FollyDolly
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      141 day ago

      Oh great, we’re on the Darth Jar Jar timeline.

      • @Elkot
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        61 day ago

        We always were

    • TheEmpireStrikesDak
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      301 day 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.

  • Flying Squid
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    321 day ago

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

    • @pyre
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      “I’ve had it with these motherfucking snakes eating their motherfucking selves”

      —Mace Windu

  • TheObviousSolution
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    624 hours 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.

  • @positiveWHAT
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    523 hours 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    682 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 day ago

      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.

    • burgersc12
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      512 days 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.

  • @meeeeetch
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    522 days ago

    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.

    • @IndustryStandard
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      131 day ago

      Star Wars was heavily inspired by American politics. It was basically the Vietnam war in space.

    • @[email protected]
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      724 hours ago

      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.

      • @untorquer
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        223 hours ago

        If it’s not in the records it doesn’t exist.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 hours ago

      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.

    • @marcos
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      121 day ago

      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.

        • @marcos
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          71 day ago

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

          Or, in other words, yes, exactly!

      • @untorquer
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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…

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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      41 day ago

      The whole premise of Disney Star Wars is that the Empire was right and you shouldn’t fight fascism.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

      • Possibly linux
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        01 day ago

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

        • Cassa
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          171 day ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          121 day ago

          Did someone strap a Go Pro to Darth sidious?

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

          • @[email protected]
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            81 day ago

            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)