Always wondered how the Star Wars Emperor could start with a battle-hardened army and end up with an "entire legion of his best troops" being beaten to death by teddybears with sticks.
Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.
Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.
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https://angrystaffofficer.com/2025/02/12/diversity-the-u-s-militarys-not-so-secret-weapon/
But probably too on the nose for corporate America.
That investment must have trickled down to benefit the local community.
See Rumsfeld gleefully tearing apart Iraqi government and infrastructure, leaving the democracy bit just to happen
By the same token, Trump will let Netanayu tear apart Syria
For more recent examples, you only have to look at the aftermath of the second Iraq war to see how awfully it can be fucked up.
"Grab em by the balls, and their hearts and minds will soon follow" strategy
Regards,
A guy totally NOT working for The Empire, honest!
Why is this so hard for politicians to understand?
Then those imbeciles go right back to being fascists.
1) LOL that you didn't think I knew that already. Lucas was, as usual, subtle as a sledgehammer with that.
2) Don't get me started on how shit the Ewoks vs Empire stuff is as an actual metaphor for the Vietnam war.
A lad from the desert gets wrapped up in an ancient religion, fights the evil empire by blowing up its largest construction.
I’m not sure that’s a message that we need.
The Stormtroopers are objectively worse than the clones in every way other than the size and cost of the army
The prequels and The Clone Wars enhance and uplift all of the Star wars movies
Go watch season 7 of The Clone Wars and Revenge of the Sith in chronological order, then try to tell me it's not the best Star Wars content
Never has a kids series gone from "weeeeee look at anakin he so cool" to "wait are we doing war crimes now?" so fast and hard.
"Canon" doesn't exist.
It's a thought exercise people are taking WAY too seriously.
It's not reality or a world.
It was a movie, made in the 80s.
The only thing that affects it are the first two and the authors intent at the time.
What are you enjoying again? " I prefer this line of entertainment product better than the original", geez. It's like arguing over your favourite fast food meal deal.
People out there be comparing stories to one another. I didn't coin that one.
Literally everyone prefers some line of entertainment products over others? Or are you so enlightened that everything you've ever watched is exactly a C
they also had rocks
Here the future American one…
Good luck to invade the 20 countries that Trump want to collect…
Pansy traitor, not fit to run a hot dog cart much less a military.
This will discourage the ranks & repulse modern talent, leaving dumb, knuckle-dragging brutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8al5cSQNmME
So ... followed. Well played, sir. 🥂
“Step by step guide on restoring nations defense department”
To do list:
•Gather a bunch of concerned patriots
•Disguise as elderly teddy bears
•Jump Hegseth
•Bludgeon him with walking sticks
•Make sure he’s at least permanently disabled & traumatized
He and Kash, along with most all these cabinet appointees are despised as they ride this fascist wave of self destruction on their way to impotent demise.
GO HOME, HEGSETH!
YOU’RE DRUNK!
If we wait 25-30 years, freedom will be so far gone, we won't be able to win without Ewoks. Do we even know where they are now?
Yub nub.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trump-zelenskyy-visit-white-house-friday-sign-us-119214686
Perhaps he designed the storm trooper suits. You know the one you can't see shit out of, so they end up shooting at everything apart from the target
There was almost a diplomatic incident when it turned out Britain had been sending territorial forces (as we were overstretched) to military exercises with the US and regularly winning.
How could they lose? HOWWWWWWWWW.
But when ten thousand North Koreans airdrop into his remote US town he's the only one that stands between America and Communism.
MARINE. Coming to a theatre near you in 2025.
Stealth plane = black. Sky = blue.
Is it possible the USA encouraged these stories to give their allies a bit of a boost?
But a fair bit is confirmation bias.
Not to mention the Imperial Officer Corps is full of corruption and backstabbing.
Until the real world timeline features the US contemplating a 40% cut to defence spending over 5 years
Just to catch those up,
Emperor Palpatine has just re-organized democracy into the New Trump Empire.
Yes. That’s where we are. He’s in.
And he plans to stay until he dies, like a Pope,
or a King.
/s
It's a paramilitary security force rather than a serious millitary
Corrupt, arrogant and blind to their own vulnerabilities.
You have the same situation in Ireland, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, and Korea.
In the end an organized military with advanced weapons is no match for locals who work independently, know the area, and are willing to die. 1/3
That's what the SIS, and OSS did during WW2. But that only works against an organized group.
It's hard to kill and uproot a decentralized group which has individual factions like the Vietcong, IRA and Talibán. 2
W-O-K-E
I knew it!
Maybe better at occupying and pacifying the Galaxy?
A woke empire wouldn't have had a Death Star for starters
Still have planetary bombardments though!
Not yet lads. Soon though
It really required a flip away from what was actually a totally plausible scenario (as Leia herself admitted) to HAHA NO REALLY THE EMPIRE IS ALWAYS THE EEEEEEVILEST.
I know it was necessary to make everything tie together, but still.
Leia being Vader's "true" heir, not Thrawn, was something the Empire could never have planned for, and was enough.
But if he'd had the time/space, building out Leia as having to fully embrace the "Vader's Heir" thing. Because she needs to win over a planet the Empire rebuilt after a Rebel ship ecologically destroyed it...
Fascinating.
#BANANAAA
Fuck Pegsdeath he was a coward in the battlefield anyway.
A liability that I should have just popped a bullet into John 🤷♂️😡🖕🌟🙏
The Death Star has dozens of structural problems? Could be 'cause the people who made it hated the Empire and were forced into it.
The Empire took the pilot who pointed out the fatal flaw in the Imperial Walker design, busted him down to stormtrooper, and assigned him to Tatooine.
Evil acts that are propagated beyond reason. This become wicked, and wickedness creates lots of bad juju, then their bad juju brings them down. ( paraphrased from the Bible)
Now ... documentary - basis of a future West Point course!
We get even dumber John Fetterman drones.
The bright side is that with your current Commander in Chief who is probably going to instruct them to attack your historical allies, it’s probably not that bad a thing!
Although
as far as anything we the audience were shown, 'Imperial Stormtrooper' (or anything else including any of the Darths) is ::nothing like:: Sardaukar, I'm just sayin'.
I trust in Soldiers since July 20, 1944.