But we do talk about the mess that is the prequels?

If you’re someone that loves the prequels because you watched them as a kid, how do think it’ll be in a decade when kids that watched Rise of Skywalker start posting to web forums?

As someone who watched both the PT and ST as an adult, the ST was way more interesting and better made than the PT.

Obviously they both suck compared to the Star Wars movies I watched as a kid LOL.

Is that Lauren Chen, the Russian agent?

Good faith negotiations simply weren’t going to happen after Trump cancelled the deal that was in place an assassinated Iran’s top general in his first term. This war was pretty much inevitable at that point.

Maybe if Harris were President and Trump were in jail trust could’ve been rebuilt and the war could’ve been avoided. Oops… I forgot I was on the “both sides are the same” website, nevermind LOL

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Uh… they tried that already?

Do you think the Ayatollah was installed by the US?

For sure. It seems the thinking is the Iranian people might rise up and overthrow the regime. But that’s just throwing a dice and hoping for the best. A month ago that could have happened, but the regime has already machine gunned down so many people and executed so many more, that is that going to happen now? A lot of things would have to line up for that kind of thing to work and it’s impossible to make a movement among a population work like a military operation.

Something that seems to have gotten lost in this is the fact that Iran was enriching uranium. The Uranium Iran gets from Russia is already enriched by Russia to the level suitable to be used in their nuclear reactor. People seem to discount the Uranium enrichment as propaganda (because of the lies of W Bush) but this is science. They were enriching Uranium to 60%, if they continued you’d be in a situation where a country that calls the US “the Great Satan” and has officially said they want to “wipe Israel off the map” could have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.

All things considered, it would have been best to have continued the agreement Obama made with Iran. The reports from IAEA indicated they were abiding by that agreement. But Trump cancelled that in his first term, which made this war all but inevitable. There is truth to the statement that we can’t have a fundamentalist regime whose goal is to be an existential threat to other counties be in the possession of nuclear weapons. What Trump doesn’t say is he cancelled the agreement that was preventing that before. Iran was unlikely to sign onto a new agreement (at least not in good faith) after Trump cancelled the old one and assassinated their top general. Trump did all of the acts of war in his first term, and only now is having the actual war.

Given the mess Trump created in hist first term, he painted himself into a corner and this war was the most likely outcome. So now there’s nothing to do but wait and see what happens next. I hope for the best for the Iranian people even though it would be a big political win for Trump if it does work out.

We should also remember the many many many innocents killed by the monster that now lays dead.

Khamenei was a monster. It doesn’t matter how or why he’s dead. Good riddance, may he burn in hell for an eternity.

It doesn’t matter whether a monster is killed by someone with noble intentions or a monster is killed by another monster. Either way there’s one less monster in the world.

Yeah I get they’re trying to do something to connect these stories that take place in completely different time periods and locations. But does anyone really care about that?

There’s some lore about Assassins and Templars in the storyline. I didn’t care about that either (I just want to be a pirate) but maybe some people like that, and it’s enough to connect the various time periods together. But ocassionally warping people into the present day sometimes? It’s just just dumb. I just want to be a pirate!

Only Assassin’s Creed game I ever played. The worst part was the parts where you’re in the present day and had to do some boring computer shit for some reason? During the whole time in those parts I was just angry and thinking “just let me be a pirate again FFS!”

People tend to use a lot of jargon when they’re trying to convince others they know what they’re doing.

Ok… so why are we in “Late stage capitalism” now, and we weren’t in the 1930s? Things were way worse in the 1930s than now.

Perhaps there were some changes in economic policy that fixed the problems then? What reason do we have to believe the solutions that didn’t work in the past (ie. communism) will work now, and the solutions that actually did work in the past won’t work now?

If Cuba were a democracy then sure. But it’s not. So it’s authoritarian vs. authoritarian. No matter what you do, you’re helping an authoritarian asshole.

“Late stage capitalism” is not a call to action, it’s a call to apathy. It’s used by monetized “socialist” influencers to give a permission structure for people to continue buying from their merch stores.

The logic is the failure of capitalism is inevitable so you don’t need to do anything. So you may as well buy some swag to signal to others that “you get it”. It’s the slogan of those that want to fall in line with the “socialist” aesthetic, without thinking about how socialism is just another thing packaged and sold in a capitalist system.

Al Capone didn’t go to prison for murder, he went to prison for tax evasion. Do you think it was because Elliot Ness just didn’t care about murder?

The Democrats are the minority party. They have little power to do anything other than write strongly worded letters.

The constant attacks on the political opposition to fascism is something the fascists want.

Really how are the Democrats any different from the Liberal Party of Canada? They’re both equally lame, both have problems with corruption, both have sleazeballs in them. The Democrats are a political party, it’s weird people think they’re going to put on a bandolier and a beret and become guerilla resistance fighters or whatever they’re imagining things will be like.

But Americans are narcissists that believe themselves to be exceptional so they think the Democrats being kinda lame dorks is different from parties in other countries.

The problem is when Americans were given a choice between a fascist and a pretty normal political party, 2/3 of them either voted for the fascists or just didn’t bother to vote at all. The American people just didn’t care enough about democracy. It’s likely too late to be expecting the democrats to fix things because they can’t… not enough Americans voted for them.

Americans are narcissists and they’ll blame anyone other than themselves for everything. Which is why they attack the Democrats instead of doing the obvious thing and attack the GOP and organize resistance to them. But that might include voting for the political opposition which would mean voting democrat which might be admitting they were wrong for not voting for them in the last election. And a narcissist can never admit they’re wrong.

So the current state of things is Americans are blaming the party that’s not in power for not stopping the party that is in power because their narcissism prevents them from admitting they made a mistake. Will Americans get over their narcissism before the next election and vote for the opposition because their government sucks? That’s what would happen in a nromal country, but they’re obsessed with being exceptional. Will there even be an election? Or will they somehow find a way to blame democrats for Trump cancelling elections, ending any kind of opposition to his power and completing their journey to becoming a full ledged fascist country?

Yeah, it seems to me Americans are a bunch of selfish narcissists ruled over by a selfish narcissist. Even those that claim to be against Trump are too obsessed with their self image to even vote for the politcal opposition, let alone do anything more significant to resist fascism.

Everyday I go on here and see people attacking the politcal opposition to the fascists, people creating distrust in the free press, and pushing for violence.

If you had any kind of education in politics, you’d understand who it is that’s creating the kind of atmosphere fascism thrives in.

Ideology is bullshit. Politics is primarily tribal, ideology is just a rationalization about why your tribe is better than the other tribe.

There are issues to be sure, but if you talk with someone about politics for 15 minutes you’ll usually find all kinds of ways their ideology is inconsistent and hypocritical… unless you consider that they’re just repeating the talking points their tribal leaders told them to say. The only consistency about politics is “my tribe good, other tribe is bad.”

This comic exemplifies that. There’s no actual issue being discussed, it’s just green vs. orange. You’re expected to agree with green, and hate orange. And have even more disdain for anyone that seeks compromise. Which green issues does the character agree with and which orange issues they agree with, there’s no discussion on any kind of issue. Unquestioning loyalty to the tribe is consider good, considering any ideas from outside of the tribe is considered bad.

It’s obvious to anyone outside the tribe how counterproductive it is to attack anyone that might consider ideas outside of the tribe. You cannot build a broad coalition needed to accomplish anything in this way. It’s so painfully obvious. Even as the other tribe grows it’s numbers by not being so judgemental, even as your tribe shrinks and is manipulated into helping the other tribe you don’t notice because you’ve been conditioned by the tribe to never question tribe.

So what are you saying about being a loyal member of your tribe? You’re just saying you don’t actually want to think about the issues, you certainly don’t want to discuss issues, and you don’t want to be effective. You only want to prove your status to the other narcissistic people in your shrinking tribe.