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Drag asked someone to cite a source the other day and they refused. They wanted drag to cite a source for saying there wasn't evidence. You can't prove a negative!

Standing here
I realise
You're just like me
Trying to make history

But who's to judge
The right from wrong
When our guard is down I think we'd both agree
That violence breeds violence
But in the end
It has to be this way

Raiden is 100% wrong about Armstrong approaching any of that situation in good faith. But it's a great song and Raiden became cooler when he accepted that he's allowed to do "bad" things to bad people.

"I told you that my sword is a tool of justice. Not to be used in anger. BUT THIS ISN'T MY SWORD."

Should they have known before the backlash started?

Drag doesn't like the random out of context quotes that interrupt the article with "spoilers". Drag is already watching, drag doesn't need to be convinced with a trailer! It's as bad as watching Columbo.

Everything is political. You just have an easier time noticing politics on Lemmy because it's more honest here.

Thank you very much

No, that's Palpatine's mentor, Darth Plagueis The Wise

What cryptid is this?

The Republic's democracy is not functioning. The senators are corrupt and only care about laws that benefit the 1%. We see the streets of Coruscant outside of the Senate and Temple, and it's a shithole. There's rampant poverty and drug use.

The Trade Federation are a symbol of bourgeois corruption in the minds of the people. The Trade Federation impose unreasonable tariffs and fines on the people, contributing to poverty. That's what they're doing to Naboo. The people sympathise with Naboo because Naboo is being oppressed the same way they are. And when Naboo stands up to the bullies, they get blockaded and subject to an illegal invasion.

The Republic does not have an army, a command structure, or a political mechanism for dealing with war. This is silly, but bear with drag. The Senate has to vote to go to war with the Trade Federation. But the Senators can't agree on how, and they'd much rather be voting on corrupt issues like giving themselves raises or giving tax breaks to trillionaires.

Palpatine offers to take over all the messy business of controlling the political wartime strategy. The Senators support this idea because they don't give a shit and just want the problem to go away. The people support this idea because they're tired of the Senators never getting anything important done, and the see Naboo as a symbol of their own problems. Palpatine promises to bring the Trade Federation down a few notches and make life easier for everyone.

Palpatine gains complete control over the Republic's military policy, and then proceeds to keep the Republic in a forever war that increases poverty and destruction, while promising everyone that the answer to the problem is to just give him more power. Like George Bush.

Drag doesn't. Drag's first person pronoun is drag. Drag's second and third person pronoun is also drag. And drag's pronoun isn't uppercase, so no need to capitalise it. Drag is glad you're willing to capitalise queer people's pronouns, though.

Drag doesn't like the dogfighting game.

Einstein said if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. And drag trusts Einstein, because he was an expert at understanding complicated things.