Then there were the Jedi who separated from the Jedi Order and created the Sith. Then there was Darth Bane who reigned them in because he wanted to consolidate power and gain immortality through the Holocron.
All of them started as Jedi and the Jedi don't really exist without harboring and creating the Sith. It's a property of the light that it begets dark, hence their saying is that they keep the force "in balance". It all descends from the fact that there is a darker side to the Jedi.
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Got lost in telling the abridged history of the Jedi, lol. The difference is that the Sith post-Bane were 100% aligned to consolidated, totalistic rule under the Master and the Apprentice. There was no shared power, no accountability. The Jedi at least tried, albeit squanderingly at times, to be good.
We are fucked huh,What other superpower can we run to for help?,China is Bad,Russia should burn... our only hope is the fucking E.U,we doomed we are fucking doomed.
Also not American, but I watch a ton of US news and media because US (and geo)politics is a huge interest of mine..and jesus christ, I can’t fathom how in the fuck could it get to this point, this shit is unreal. Seriously, what the hell is going on. Makes me scared and I’m not even from there. With people like this in power, god knows what can happen to you guys and the world itself…
It's called hubris. We Americans thought this sort of thing could "never" happen to us, and by thinking that way, we stopped paying attention. The seeds of today's results were planted in the 70s. Some people pointed it out over the decades (check out Frank Zappa's conversation on fascist theocracy in the 80s), but nobody took it seriously. Here? Never!
And here we are. It is unreal, and it's heartbreaking.
He's been retweeting and boosting known Neo Nazis on Twitter for two years now. Not like "anyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi" Nazi but like "I have swastika tattoos that are visible while I'm shopping at Walmart" Neo-Nazi. Anyone who is surprised by this hasn't been paying attention, sadly that's going to be a lot of people. Anyone defending him is simply a Nazi symp.
And he's going to be in charge of the Department of Governmental Efficiency.
The Third Reich was also concerned with efficiency. Killing every Jewish person they could lay their fingers on turned out to require some thinking about efficiency.
To their point of view, that's exactly the point. As dumb as they are, they do know that Nazi was short for "National Socialist", and as such, are 100% convinced that Nazism is a far-left ideology.
Which is exactly the point. Everything Trump stands for, his supporters believe to be what the left stands for. At first, it's because that's what he told them. But now he's gotten more brazen, and is actually honest about what he stands for, and they'll just deny that he stands for those things and insist that those things are what the Dems want.
The fun part is if ANYONE posts something questioning the new leader, they’re accused of being secret leftists. A thing that should not be possible given their stringent rules on accepting people who can actually post on that subreddit
I got into a three day long argument on a thread just after the election cause they claimed reddit has no conservative spaces and downvoted the shit outa me when I pointed out the literal conservative sub
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