#Seperatists

[overlord-of-fantasy]

He hasn´t slept in days, has he?

Nute Gunray, under a lot of pressure to provide new weapons, running into the room: You fuckers don’t know about my knife stick. It’s a knife taped to a stick and it’s the ultimate weapon. Grievous, not even looking up from his lightsabers: Spear. Nute Gunray: BLOCKED.

[grayrazor]

Sources of Rebel Alliance Starships

Stolen or defected Imperial ships:

Recruited or salvaged Confederacy of Independent Systems ships:

Recruited or purchased Planetary Defense Forces ships:

[detdeldragons]

Galactic News Reports: A Retelling of Important Star Wars Moments (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/story/340666135-galactic-news-reports-a-retelling-of-important?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=drpedromd&wp_originator=Kz2%2FjsX8SV%2BqkNm2274eWL3qR8hWkeE048WLLc8H8dGaWU7PMpnSiF5zEybkR9YQNdTL9QEL2q3MFwoheEDx85rTNmGLZUvis9%2Br4odxqefvfpg5M%2FbM6qgkLNb49w4I Star Wars tells an epic story with incredible heroes battling legendary dark forces. While we get to experience those stories from inside an x-wing with our heroes, or alongside the Jedi on their many heroic missions, not everyone in the galaxy gets a first hand look at those greater Galactic events. That's where the Galactic Broadcasting Channel, GBC, comes in. Join Andira Gut'irez and Antonio Barconi as they attempt to cover the most important events in Star Wars history and try to keep the galaxy a little more informed. Can they discover the secrets of the Sith before the Jedi do? Can they uncover the mystery of the Clone Army's origins? Can they find out how Palpatine (somehow) returned? Do Ewoks really eat humans? And who are Rey's parents really? All of these questions, and more, will be answered on the Galactic Broadcasting Channel, the Galaxy's most trusted news network. This will read less like a typical short story and more like a script in order to capture the feeling of a news report. It's inspired by The Star Wars Show when it was hosted by Andi and Anthony, and I'm trying to capture that fun vibe. I hope you enjoy!

[bolithesenate]

Satine Kryze should not be a sympathetic character.

A complex and tragic one? Sure. Every day of the week.

But she did not 'have a point', neither in-universe, not outside of the sw framework. She isn't a hero, neither of her own story, nor of someone else's. There is no way she wasn't a tool. You should not look at her and think 'this woman has done nothing wrong and what ultimately happened to Mandalore was to no part her fault'.

Because guys. Friends. Strangers on the interwebs.

Pacifism doesn't work.

And it certainly wouldn't have worked in motherfucking Star Wars – the 'wars' is literally in the title – for a system or series of systems who wanted to stay neutral.

YOU DON'T STAY NEUTRAL FOR LONG BY JUST SAYING 'YEAH, NO THANKS <3' TO A LARGE-SCALE CONFLICT.

source: I am Swiss, we've looked at this in history class. Extensively.

Satine was a dreamer (thanks Obi-Wan) who was allowed to keep her delusions because they actively benefitted Palpatine's plans. And that's something you can quote me on. There is literally no other reason (apart from supremely bad writing but we'll leave that aside here) for her and her little friends' 'Alliance of Neutral Systems' or whatever to be allowed to exist.

Not that they were neutral in any way, shape or form, by the way.

So yeah sorry to the Satine stans, but you're idolizing a character that was written exclusively and specifically for Obi-Wan's manpain and who, in-universe, was a supremely bad politician. Because the level of mental dissonace needed to factually be a Republic System, have a seat in the fucking Republic Senate, rely upon their military for aid while actively proclaiming that All Violence Is Bad And Barbaric one sentence later AND THEN CLAIM TO BE NEUTRAL IN THE WHOLE CONFLICT – it's just mind-blowing. Even moreso that people actually look at this character and see something aspirational in her.

Again, I'll gladly dissect her character any day of the week. She is fascinating because of all the implications her existence as a head of state carries with it, as well as her deeply complicated family history and her relation to mandalorian culture.

But it just grates on me personally that that all gets ignored in favor of her being some sort of icon of white american saviorism (bc that's literally what she is) and her objectively bad political takes being treated like they are the only correct stance to be taken during the Clone Wars/Mandalorian Civil Wars.

If you think pacifism works and actually lets you stay neutral, I desperately urge you to open a history book. Because those two are mutually exclusive. Especially in the scenario that Star Wars paints.

[shadycomputerpolice]

If you are straight, how do you cope with a desire for relationships?

My seperatist beliefs aside, the idea that humans will all find romantic love as long as we are open to it is delusional fairytale thinking. Even if all men and all women were good people, time, location, language, physical attraction and compatibility would still be barriers to finding love.

Think about it, the number of people we meet physically and virtually is limited

Of those people we meet, how many of them will we have meaningful interactions with?

Of those we have meaningful interactions with, how many will we like?

Of those we like, how many will like us back?

Of those that like us back, how many will we love?

Of those we love, how many will love us back?

Of those that love us, how many of them are we compatible with enough to develop a relationship with?

The above scenario would still apply in the heterosexual utopia that reformist hope to achieve.

Now in our current reality, we know most men are trash: if they are not rapist, porn watching scum, they make excuses for their rapist, porn watching scum brethen. As a heterosexual woman with basic self respect that people call "high standards", the number of potentially romantic partners is very low already, then add the natural elimination that happens even in the ideal situation then do the calculation.

As a straight seperatist, I "deal" with my desire for love and companionship by simply understanding that humans cannot control whether they find love. Before I accepted that men are a global menace and men are trash not just the ones I had the misfortune of interacting with, I had accepted that finding true love is about luck, pure dumb luck. The only thing you can do is to be a good person, live your life and have a robust social life to meet people who might like and hopefully they like you back and you both are compatible enough to form a loving relationship.

Romance should not be a life goal for anybody because you have no control over your ability to find love.

Listen as adults, we all need to understand and accept, there is a price to pay for the life we want. Living a life of freedom and self respect has a cost and living a life with "romance" has a cost. Whatever decision you make, you have to be willing to pay the price.

[junimoonyart]

B2 Appreciation Post (and some spiders)

[winterrens]

been reading a stupid amount of (modern) elucien fanfic which made me think about Lucien in a button up and Elain in a sundress which has led to this. Modern elucien ice cream date ? 🤔

[dykeout]

[mmelolabelle]

at some point, a few weeks or months into a galactic-wide conflict, after losing an arm and getting secretly married 19 year old anakin skywalker looked in the mirror and thought ‘you know what will help me get my life back on track? a side part’

[ausetkmt]

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Race and Class in America

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Race and Class in America

In her groundbreaking  bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg, co-author of The Problem of Democracy, takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash.   “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters that put Trump in the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds.   Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization.

These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity.   We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.

The New York Times Bestseller, with a new preface from the author “This estimable book rides into the summer doldrums like rural electrification. . . . It deals in the truths that matter.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.”—O, The Oprah Magazine “White Trash will change the way we think about our past and present.” —T. J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Custer’s Trials

[ice-to-orange-blossoms]

The fact that, while trans women were being scolded and harassed about tma/tme and talking about transmisogyny in general, perisex trans men and afab detransitioners are calling themselves "transfems" and "trans women" so clearly shows the discrepancy between tme and TMA people and what they are allowed to do in this community, and yet bringing attention to it gets people called baeddels and told that they're playing "Oppression Olympics" and inundated with sexually charged messages in the name of community and "trans unity."

It's absolutely sickening. What fucking community is there? Again and again it's clear that the LGBT mad even queer "community" lets trans women out to dry. Each. And. Every. Time.

[whippedcloudsofcream]

Truly sucks that Diana Lee Inosanto read the Thrawn books and committed herself so much to her role, but all her character ended up being was just another cautionary tale of how the Nightsisters and their thirst for power led to their ruin. Especially since she was such a big fan of Star Wars already.

[cannabisbutch]

If yall think staff only delete and harass trans women u need to start following and listening to trans men and mascs, bc its is 100000% happening, we are not exempt. Please widen ur scope away from JUST binary popular trans women, bc if u dont u will miss so many warning signs from silenced snd ignored transmascs

[pussyistheforbiddenfruit]

Even though im a female separatist I know that seperatism won't work out cause most women will never detach from males, feminists look up to the south Korean feminists so much, but you know damn well most of them got boyfriend/husbands that will never detach from.

I don't even know why women complain about the patriarch this is the system y'all choose to be in 🤷🏾‍♀️ might as well as just lay there and take it, the male isn't going to stop you know to solve this problem the only two options women have is either seperatism or matriarchy

Even though I don't agree with matriarchy at all, it will still be a better option then the patriarchy you will be in control however the male will always try to regain power no matter, just as past matriachies it will fail cause of the males you keep around.

Seperatism will be better option as the male isn't present and poses no threat to us, the only problem would be women's biases and the male trying to enter our society (this can be solved by simply killing the males who try to invade) but most women like being around males so this will never happen.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The group behind an insurgency taking over the United Conservative Party and working to get Danielle Smith elected is alarming many Albertans with their aggressive tactics, and raising questions about their political agenda – including from conservatives. Take Back Alberta grew out of last year’s convoy blockade in Coutts when hundreds of vehicles blocked the Canada-US border. The Coutts blockade later hardened into an organized movement made up of Christian nationalists, separatists, sovereigntists and other disgruntled rural Albertans bent on ousting Jason Kenney and taking control of the United Conservative Party.

Danielle Smith now enjoys the full support of the group which credits itself for bringing down Kenney during his 2022 leadership review and installing Smith as Premier of Alberta. Take Back Alberta has also taken over nine seats on the party’s board and a number of regional boards to get like-minded members in the nomination races.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[bobsayshallo]

Me reading about all the wild shit Northstar was up to in his past: I can't wait to figuer out what kind of mental illness you have <3