That there's a person who's only familiar with the movies, and flat out does not understand the point of Palpetine's slow rise to power.
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what could they possibly mean? all I see is a fire? Are the liberals at it again?
That is unironically evil.
They probably think it's the funniest shit ever, but it's just heartless behaviour. The kind of shit a cartoon villain would do.
They were banned nearly a month ago, and I've barely noticed a difference so I don't think there's a lot to worry about.
IMO removal of this sort of user just makes the instance healthier, because people are more likely to stick around when they're not subjected to a user's reactionary nonsense.
I don't see a need to remove it, but we could put some new moderators on it instead.
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https://lemmygrad.ml/post/526595
I was wrong on the "gore", but the context of the upset is still there. It's a picture of a Japanese soldier executing an American soldier with the text "United States is a Chinese Colony"
Their caption was "M8 wtf", but they failed to include any content warnings or context to the image. So, effectively, they posted sinophobia.
if you look in the modlog, you'll see why. I was the one who did the ban.
But to sum, they posted an image of a rotund master chief, as stated by someone else in the comments. Then tried to complain about "wokewashing" in gaming, a far-right dog whistle about how the "woke media" is ruining gaming because they... ya know... depict women as human beings, include people of colour, and have gay characters. Specifically, they were complaining about Concord. A game that was released and then instantly pulled from markets because the far-right complained about it.
While I was investigating this, I found that they had a habit of posting/commenting reactionary things without context or reasoning, and getting things removed from communities for it. Including the N-word, sinophobia and gore, etc. That kind of behaviour can't stand, and it had gone on for too long.
This reads like a man who is grasping for anything.
This reads like a man who is slowly losing his mind.
"woe is me, because we legally gave up our nuclear weapons as part of international treaties Russia is liberating ethnic Russians who we were bombing en-mass. why us? pls give us membership in NATO and turn this into a world war, I promise you'll benefit"
Everyone gets at least a little bit of nerves.
Try to remember that you're surrounded by people who will render help if something happens, and any injuries sustained will heal in time.
There's not really "good" advice to give, because everyone's different. Take some time to find something that works for you whether that's a pre-protest warmup, meditation before or after, breathing exercises, ideological or philosophical motivation, etc. Something is going to help you slow your heart rate and keep your head about you.
Atomic, Biological, Chemical.
Though I'm more familiar with that as NBC (N being nuclear), so it's possible that I'm misinterpreting what REEEEvolution meant.
All of this time they've been telling us that Russia, China, The DPRK, etc. are all "paranoid nations". Turns out, it's just projection, it's the west that's paranoid.
It's only been a handful of days, and the Western "left" has once again shown that the only thing they serve is NATO and Western imperialism.
On the first day of the conflict, I didn't see a single Western "leftist" talking about anything related to the conflict. One of the spaces I check was too busy comparing doggos to give a shit that Palestine was liberating itself.
Then I saw MSM decrying that Palestinians were terrorists, and using the terms "Savages" or "living beasts". To which I haven't seen the Western left even shutter at. MSM is using slurs and colonialist language, and these pasty preditors couldn't give less of a shit.
And now that I see that they're talking about it, they're either making "both sides bad" statements, coming into full support of Israel, or using "we'll wait to see" arguments to excuse withholding support.
The only thing the Western left does is disrupt actual leftist movements in their home countries, while amplifying imperialist projects abroad. You'd think after years of posting pro-Palestine things on their Twitter and their Instagrams that they'd have the consistency to actually support Palestine when it mattered. But, no, they're really just white people who wanted to feel more important than their Democratic-voting parents.
Socialism to the Western leftist isn't the liberation of the human race, it's a sticker to put onto their hydroflask and a $10 donation to UNICEF. It's selling shirts with hammers and sickles on them, then hating the ideology that the symbol originated with. It's voting for Hilary when Bernie pulled out, then demanding that anyone who didn't vote for Biden is the same as Trump. Just a bunch of performative liberal bullshit.
update; it took them a minute, but they've figured it out. It's ridiculous that it took them as long as it did to support anti-colonialism, but at least they've come to a consensus about it.
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The first time a tank was used to put down an uprising was in Glasgow, 1919, but they call US Tankies?
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to boot, it was imperialists putting down labour strike.
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-Palpatine's goal is to create the empire
-How do?
-Have a career as a Nabooian politician and a strong advocate for Galactic Republicanism
-Create a plot to assassinate the Queen of Naboo, when it fails unleash an attempted takeover of Naboo using the Trade Federation.
-When that fails, convince the Queen of Naboo to abdicate the throne and become a senator.
-Convince people associated with the events on Naboo to support your rise to Chancellor.
-By golly it worked.
-Need more power in government
-Get the dumbass Gungan to argue for emergency powers for the Chancellor after you start the clone wars (Galactic Civil War).
-Use the Galactic Civil War to keep prying more and more power into your position.
-Also Use the Galactic Civil War to keep the Jedi distracted, so other parts of the plan can go into effect
-When the Jedi realize you've been a sithlord the whole time, because you told the guy you groomed since he was a child, kill off the Jedi and the leadership of the CIS, and declare yourself as the sole leader of the Republic under even more special, even more emergency situations.
-Empire? Created. Jedi? Dead. Hotel? Trivago.
It's a story about the rise of Fascism.