• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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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.

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

      —Mace Windu

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    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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      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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      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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    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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    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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      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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        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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          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)