To clarify this isn’t a third party, they still vote with Dems.

They were also down to 6k members until Bernie’s 2016 run.

Anyone that presents them as a third option rather than a path to reforming the Dem party is ignorant of not only why it was formed decades ago, but what caused it’s recent resurgence.

The main point has always been getting a progressive thru the Dem primary and into the general, regardless of what specific election is happening.

A lot of them were let in here; they shouldn’t have been let in,” Trump said, referring to the perpetrators of a spate of recent attacks, including two men who brought explosives to a far-right protest outside New York City’s mayoral mansion earlier this month.

Reminder they gave a known terrorist a VISA just so they could immediately stick a CI with him, and then have the CI entrap the terrorist in a bullshit assassination plot.

So yeah, trump let a lot in that shouldn’t, so he could get this self fulfilling prophecy.

Just think of how crazy that is, and that it’s unlikely to be their only such gamble.

They want a domestic attack to happen, they’re just not going to be as slick about it as Cheney was.

To be honest, waving a hand is a pretty natural thing to do while talking…

Like, I’m all about Jar Jar as a powerful force user, I just think like Anakin, he had comparatively little training, if any. And likely didn’t know he was using the force, just lucky.

That also explains how he grew up and lived on a single planet with just his own people. If he was an actual Sith, how did he get trained? Also, it can explain how his people eventually figured it out.

When Jar Jar was around he always came out on top, and even tho he didn’t make any sense, if you talked to him you ended up agreeing with him, then after he left it’d wear off and they’d realize it was a stupid sounding idea, but the stupid idea always seemed to work out.

If they were afraid of him, they’d have treated him better, instead he was treated as a freak that above all else, his own people that knew him best just wanted to avoid him, even if he was incredibly useful.

Like an old timey witch. They didn’t like him because he was so strange, but they still saw his value and understood they may need him. When all else failed, they could always fall back on a Jar Jar plan, so stupid that it just worked.

I feel like that type of begrudginged acceptance explains the interactions more than everyone being scared of him.

But it’s been a long time since I watched the prequels.

Even worse.

Their toy soldiers are real people. Most people know someone somehow that’s in the military

Ironically it doesn’t matter what the form looks like, there’s a 50/50 shot everytime life develops if it’s right (us) of left (not us) biochemistry.

It literally doesn’t matter which happens, functionally the life could be 100% same except a mirror image.

Anytime two actually separate lines of life encounter each other, there’s a fight on the bacterial level of the ecosystem, and the “new” one will win 100% of the time due to stuff that would make this comment too long to read.

waves hand

Nah bro, it’s total normal for a planet ruling monarch to immediately throw her life plan away for a monk she met once when he was 8 years old and his religious order had just started suppressing his emotions…

To be clear tho, this is one of those head cannon post fact rationalition things. I’m not saying George wrote it intentionally like this. But we have what we have to go on.

With that and logic, Anakin was likely doing it to everyone. He was an emotionally stunted 8 year old in a teenagers body deep in puberty with an incomparable amount of power he didnt know how to use. He was always doing what an 8 year old would think is cool, and mind tricking people into thinking it’s awesome. That’s why kids loved those movies. Anakin did what kids would want to do and his magic bacteria just made every other character play along like it wasn’t insane.

Like the theory Jar-Jar was actually really powerful, but for him instead of flashy showboating, he just stumbles thru insane situations, looking like a complete idiot but still getting the same result.

Same thing, just manifesting differently due to their own perception of themselves. And Palps used both as tools, like a lion taking the antelope that strays from the herd.

Which is why the Jedi mindwashing was so important for a unified organization. If force manifests based on how the user sees themselves, then you’d want your army of force users to all have the same self opinion.

If Darth Vader didn’t force roofie his childhood crush, at the bare minimum he was a manipulative asshole and was just saying/doing whatever shed like, just so she’s like him.

Considering how often Jedis use mind tricks, and how Anakin gets corrupted by the dark side, it really doesn’t seem like he’d hold back from doing that.

From what I know of the force, it might not even be controllable?

Like, if you had the highest magic bacteria count as an angry teenager who wasn’t conditioned to suppress every emotional or idea of a romantic life, it might take literal effort not to have the Force influence it.

If everyone else has been suppressing emotions since infants, no one else would know to tell him to watch out for it happening. Maybe Yoda would remember cuz he’s old? I don’t know how long “no boning” was a rule.

Bro he was on Faux the other day talking about there has never been any conditions ever where the US should tolerate Iran possess missiles…

Like, my dude…

You literally got convicted of treason over moving blow to sell missiles to Iran.

He’s not a psychopath, he cares waaaay too much how people perceive him

Not every asshole has ASPD, and not everyone with ASPD is an asshole.

What?! You kids don’t know about the great patriot Ollie North?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFV1uT-ihDo

In fairness, that’s been the best way to explain it for like 20 years now, but it’s not the only way

No you don’t.

Anyone can look up anything they want on the internet.

We need to normalize the expectation that people educate themselves

I’m a big advocate for taking their money, being loud about what they wanted for it, and then just not doing it.

Bribes don’t come with binding contracts.

Take the money and tell them to fuck off.

Eventually they’ll stop trying to bribe everyone. If you turn it down, they’ve lost nothing

Vietnam took years because Nixon as a candidate colluded with the SVA and told them not to sign any treaties cuz if he won the election, then he’d get them a better one.

Johnson not being able to end the war, got Nixon the election…

Do people just honestly not know about this stuff?

This is like asking if you have faith in plumbers…

But no, I don’t have “faith” in anyone or anything.

That’s why I vote and advocate for others to do so, because lots of informed voters mitigates the threats from bad politicians.

AI is shit.

Facial recognition is shit.

But none of that was really the issue here:

Lipps spent nearly four months in a Tennessee jail without bail - classified as a fugitive, she had no hearing, no interview, nothing. North Dakota officers didn’t retrieve her until October 30, 108 days after the arrest. October 31 was her first court appearance and the first time police spoke to her, reports InForum.

Arrested and thrown in jail for 108 days before seeing any sort of judge is a constitutional violation.

We hear about this because it’s an obvious wrong case to an old innocent grandma…

But it’s not the only time it’s happening. And if this happened to her, it can happen to anyone.

A lazy/dumb cop or ICE agent can just declare you’re someone they’re looking for, and by the time it’s settled your life is destroyed.

We can’t keep kicking police reform down the road.

We can’t settle for moderate politicians who say they’ll try on a few issues.

We need politicians who understand that everything is fucked and desperately needs fixed across the board.

The worst thing about being Irish is the proximity to the British…

The worst thing about being British is proximity to the monarchy…

Like, people always forget that the real problem was the French aristocrats who took over Britain and didn’t have any loyalty or comradarie to the English people.

For like 300 years the royals and English government used French, they didn’t switch to English until fear of revolt made them want to build cohesion with the masses.

TLDR:

The first victims of the “British” royal family, were the fucking British. As the Empire grew, they changed their definitions of “us” but always only after finding a new “them” to distract the British populace from the fact that foreign invaders have been ruling their island for a literal thousand years.

It’s hard to shit on an occupied people because their occupiers never stopped occupying…

Have you seen RAM prices?

Obviously bird production will be slowed as well…

/s

It’s crazy how many idiots convinced themselves authoritarian governments weren’t a big deal…

Like, I don’t feel bad for anyone dumb enough to visit Dubai.

All I’m saying is:

Both ways may work short term, but I bet they’ll be more of the newest franchise.

When Luigo put a Koopa down, he stayed down.

In the analogy of billionaires who have caused such ridiculous amounts of human pain, suffering, and even death…

Some would argue that rehabilitation isn’t an ethical conscious risk considering the damage done to amount of people balanced against honestly less than what? 4-5 school buses full of oligarchs?

Sure, maybe Peter Thiel or Elon Musk’s hearts will grow a dozen sizes.

But do the risk/reward.

Basic utilitariansism

For the 7 billion so other people on the planet, and all the future generations. It’s worth playing it safe, even if that means we never got a sequel.

Fascist evil genocidera put down, and everyone goes back to Brooklyn to fix toilets, because when fascists show up, everyone fights regardless of what you were doing yesterday.

You just don’t see shit like that in kids movies these days.

But for literal millenia, that’s what our stories have been.

I just don’t think the change is organic, but I’m a cynic

Did someone get rocket boots and a freakin lazer cannon?

Or was he “defeated” and escaped to live another day with zero consequences?