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While some are absolutely overly dramatic, there is the fact that knowing the US is winning the game of Civilization, we don't want to lose that position either. Winning is a constant battle, so any time it looks like we're going down the wrong path voices rise, often overly dramatically, trying to course correct

Americans will really live in such luxury and be like ‘the world is ending I live in the most oppressive country on earth 😔’

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Here's a legal PSA:

If you've committed a crime and a detective gathers everyone involved in the room, especially if he's not actually a detective and is instead a novelist, puzzle-setter, psychic, fake psychic, dog, chess grandmaster, etc. ...

YOU SHOULD NOT CONFESS.

Every year, hundreds of people are put away by non-traditional "detectives" who have either inserted themselves into the case or are working with the police in a dubiously legal capacity as advisor. In 99% of these cases, the murderer gives a full confession even though the evidence against them is circumstantial at best and often requires a long just-so story which can only guess at motive.

If this happens to you, stay quiet, do not attempt to defend yourself or talk your way out of it, only say "I want a lawyer".

Now if you find yourself being investigated by a boy genius, magician's assistant, anthropologist, classics scholar, or philosopher, it's likely that refusing to talk to the police (or investigator with no legal authority) is merely the end of the second act, and by the end of the third act they will have you dead to rights.

YOU SHOULD STILL NOT CONFESS.

Make them take it to court. Force the eccentric detective and his straight-laced police partner to take the stand and explain their methods to a jury of your peers. Have your lawyer look at the chain of custody on the evidence, especially if you believe it to have been handled by someone who has only bumbled into detective work through their natural charm and/or unique set of skills and outsider perspective that come in handy more often than they should.

Know your rights. Don't let eccentric detectives put you away.

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Barriss was

1: A healer who survived the Geonosian Arena and likely overheard Kenobi telling the other Jedi about the report of the Senate being under the control of a Dark Lord given how prominent her master was.

2: A Survivor of the arena who likely had some level of survivor's guilt given the horrible casualties amongst people she knew and many top Jedi

3: A Padawan who was repeatedly exposed to Palpatine due to her master's meetings to report to Palpatine, and possibly felt something was horribly wrong.

4: A medic who on the front lines would have seen hundreds of clones dying of wounds, and Jedi sending them to their deaths

5: A survivor of the Second Battle of Geonosis, and a survivor of the brain worms which led to her and the clones around her actively trying to kill one of her friends.

6: A Padawan to a Master who is aloof and very strict, leading to an atmosphere where seeking help or comfort is likely to lead to vague platitudes of trusting the Force rather than any real amount of mental support.

7: A Pilot over Umbara and that brutal campaign. As well as an observer of what happened with Pong Krell and how he had fallen so brutally to the Dark Side.

8: A young Jedi Knight who likely no one listened to when she started trying to raise awareness of the path the Jedi were on. Possibly having some level of Force sight into the future and seeing visions like Anakin of the approaching doom.

Should she have bombed the Temple? No.

But It's not hard to see why in desperation to try and wake up the Jedi to their doom, in a distressed and mentally compromised state, she may have done that.

Finally a personal theory. Barriss didn't kill Letta Trumond. Letta specifically asked for Ahsoka on Barriss's advice as if Barriss wanted her to convey a message to Ahsoka, and Barriss doesn't seem powerful enough to strangle someone through a TV.

But you know who is powerful enough to do that? A certain Sith lord who would have had Anti-Jedi protesters under surveillance, full access to the Republic Military and prison, and motivation to have Ahsoka arrested and as a hostage to leverage against Anakin Skywalker.

My arguments for Barriss

She never did anything wrong

It wasn't her fault

Girls are allowed to have hobbies too

Every single character in Star Wars has killed someone

If I had a laser sword at my disposal I'd make some morally questionable decisions too

She's literally babygirl

She's so small and innocent

It was literally me she did nothing wrong

She literally got redeemed in tote

Actually just lay off shes literally just a baby

Literally does that look like the face of a terrorist

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Wait those English bastards in Harry Potter were allowed to keep tawny owls as pets right??? AND BRING THEM INTO IRELAND??????????

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The problem with student loan forgiveness is that if you don't fix the system BEFORE forgiving loans, then you simply enable the colleges to keep ripping off kids and then the next wave of students will be begging for loan forgiveness in a couple years

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The problem is someone is going to get sick or something by eating a spoiled piece of fruit, and then try and sue the town.

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every single farmer i ever worked for knew exactly how they were being occupied and manipulated by huge agriculture corporations like monsanto. every line cook ive ever been coworkers with knew exactly how they were being taken advantage of. the working class doesnt need theory to understand their material world. they need the money that will let them organize and they need the space to organize. they need material support. not dialectical. stop telling everyone to read a fucking book. get them health insurance + dental then well talk.

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**For the guys asking I found the hoodie HERE with free shipping

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This is the exact sort of passive-aggressive Rich Old Man Grumpiness I can get behind

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stop putting touchscreens in cars and get to the features people actually want: oscillating vent fans, visors that move automatically to block the sun, and the ability to fire red koopa shells at people who change lanes without using their turn signal

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Tintin Meets The Detectives

Art by Adam Murphy