#the republic

[reality-detective]

Day 1 - No Time Wasted 🤔

[short-wooloo]

"The entire point of the (clone) war(s) was that the jedi should not have been participating"

No, no that's not it

The idea that the Jedi should have never been involved in the war is simplistic (and moralistic), it ignores several key realities

1. The Republic is under attack, the separatists are not merely trying to leave the Republic (because they are not a real secessionist movement), they are attacking itas they go, trying to conquer it, this is an existential threat to the Republic, and the Jedi are sworn to defend it

2. It's not just the Republic being threatened, it's repeatedly shown that the separatists don't respect neutrality and even worse, are slavers (the separatists are literally the confederate states of America IN SPACE, for fucks sake their official name is "Confederacy of Independent Systems", George Lucas was trying to make a very obvious allusion to a very specific evil), they want to conquer the galaxy and impose dictatorship, the Jedi cannot stand aside for that

3. All of the atrocities, the separatists have a staggering number of civilian bodies left in their wake, the Jedi definitely will not do nothing in the face of that

This is why the clone wars is such a perfect trap for the Jedi (the actual point of the war), it's just not something they can sit out, they would have participated and lead the charge even of they weren't specifically serving as Generals

4. Dooku, the separatist leader/dictator was one of the Jedi's own fallen to the dark side, not only is it their responsibility to bring their fallen brother to justice, but they may be the only ones who can (and that's before finding out Dooku isn't just a garden variety fallen Jedi/dark sider, but a sith lord)

5. Dooku and the separatists are out to kill the Jedi, all of them, the Jedi's own lives are in danger here, you can't stay out of a war when one side's stated goal is you being dead

"But what if Dooku wasn't fallen and the separatists weren't committing atrocities/attacking the Republic and neutrals/conquering the galaxy/taking slaves, just trying to leave the Republic"

Well the first problem there is that's not what the situation actually is, its an overly perfect what if scenario, second is that you're not describing the clone wars anymore, you're describing a wholly different war, political situation and background, and the third problem is that it's unrealistic

The entire reason the clone wars happened is the sith engineered it

The sith broke the Republic, causing a desire to leave it

The sith capitalized on those feelings, founding the separatists

The sith-aka the guys leading each side-made sure peaceful negotiations failed, leading to war

In order to have your no fallen Dooku, no atrocities, no attacking neutrals/the Republic, no conquering the galaxy, no slavery separatists scenario, you kinda need the sith to not be there, it's really the only way said scenario can happen

But if there's no sith, then peaceful negotiations are unlikely to fail, so war doesn't happen

No sith means the separatists won't be founded, not as what they are in SW canon (a tool) anyways, so the actual move to leave the Republic may not happen

But most importantly, no sith means the breaking of the Republic that created the want to leave it doesn't happen

You see the problem? In order for that perfect scenario to exist, the sith cannot be around, but the conditions to create that scenario (the want to leave the Republic, the Republic being broken and unable to fix itself, the failure of peaceful resolution) only exist because the sith made them, it's a paradox

[academic-vampire]

𝔠𝔩𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯

[arcanescribbler]

The Girl, The Beast, and the Civilized Man

A long time ago... In a galaxy far, far away... There was a girl with a leash A beast in her care And a civilized man.

The girl cried: "please, accept me!" And the civilized man said: "I would accept you, but that beast... Its claws are so long, I fear for my children. It could tear them apart! So long as the beast has claws I cannot accept you."

And so she took the beast's claws For surely it would not need them Because they would be safe forever Once they were accepted by the civilized man.

Again the girl cried: "please, accept me!" And the civilized man said: "I would accept you, but that beast... Its teeth are so sharp, I fear for my children. It could eat them in the night! So long as the beast has teeth I cannot accept you."

And so she took the beast's teeth Pried from its mouth, one by one For soon they would be safe forever Under the roof of the civilized man.

Again the girl cried: "please, accept me!" And the civilized man said: "I would accept you, but that beast... Its scales are so rough, I fear for my children. It could scrape their skin raw with a touch! So long as the beast has scales I cannot accept you."

And so she took the beast's scales And used them for her garden instead For soon they would be safe forever Under the roof of the civilized man.

Yet again the girl cried: "please, accept me!" And the civilized man said: "I would accept you, but that beast... Its voice is so loud, I fear for my children. It could howl terror into their hearts! So long as the beast has a voice I cannot accept you."

And so she took the beast's voice And spoke only the civilized way For soon they would be safe forever Under the roof of the civilized man.

Once more, surely, the girl cried: "please, accept me!" And the civilized man said: "I would accept you, but that beast... Its pack is so vast, I fear for my children. It could hunt them with its horde! So long as the beast has a pack I cannot accept you."

And so she took the beast from its pack And locked it up in her garden For soon they would be safe forever Under the roof of the civilized man.

A final time, the girl cried: "please, please, accept me!" And the civilized man said: "I would accept you, but that beast... Its food is so strange, I fear for my children. It could sicken them with disease! So long as the beast eats such strange food I cannot accept you."

And so she took the beast's food And ate only civilized meals For soon they would be safe forever Under the roof of the civilized man.

And the civilized man smiled. "At last, at last! It has no claws or teeth to hurt me. No tough scales to block my knife. And it is starved and weak. No voice to cry out against us. No pack to come to its aid. Finally, we can kill the beast!"

"But you said you'd accept me!" Cried the girl And the beast could not defend her And would not, For it hated her for all she'd taken.

"Foolish girl!" Laughed the civilized man. "Who would ever accept a beast?"

[b0ligrafo]

One thing that reading Plato exposes really well is how concepts like "the soul" are born out of class society, as the division of labour creates the need to justify the existence of «inferior» and «superior» men once intelectual and manual labor are divided. What many thinkers after will try to polish to make more palatable, the Ancient Greeks™ can say with their whole chest.

[aotanimegirlpjo]

Commander Fox should have killed Palpatine and become Chancellor

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Stonekettle Station

Jim Wright

Republicans control all three branches of the federal government. They could have made the cost of living affordable to the average American, they could have overhauled the immigration system, they could have given us universal healthcare, accessible higher education, a living wage, clean water, national parks, reliable infrastructure, public transportation, high speed internet, a fair tax system, and quiet competent government.

And they would have been reelected FOREVER.

Instead they chose Trump and the billionaire oligarch class over the people. They chose greed and power over The Republic. They chose arson over citizenship.

And last night, the election in Virginia showed them the results of their effort.

Let this be a lesson to those who come next.