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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 do not say that he is right, but he is right
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…
History is a snake eating itself
“I’ve had it with these motherfucking snakes eating their motherfucking selves”
—Mace Windu
No joke! Even what I didn’t like with the Sequels was they felt too contemporary and on the nose to Trumpian MAGA politics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
