#chance chancellor

[rosehathawhey]

[recentlyheardcom]

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[itsjinkibitch]

Josh Griffith lucky as hell he's given me Summer and Chance because I'd be taking my annual break right about now

[fisheito]

squints suspiciously at the next event's silhouettes devs, if that really is yakumo... DON't make me tap the sign.....😒..........

[peachysuffolk]

Beach Episode!~

[hislittleraincloud]

'Moira' Laslow, Rowan's mother, 2022

[a-reality-dream]

Tool at Tauron Arena Kraków 11.06.2024

📷 Robert Wilk via interia.pl

[crassinova]

Writing this just in case, the mysterious stranger you see in my account is an oc. Since the stranger in canon has Just eeny weeny atom sized story i decided to put my whole ass and blood to making some story that it just turned into an oc.

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

After that horrible week, it at least ended on a good note.

At some point in the near future, German is going to have elections (much sooner than September, most likely March). And Habeck announced today that he is running for Chancellor. With a truly perfect video.

The Greens and Habeck will most likely not succeed (get the first place). And God help us all if AFD or Merz are winning. Or SPD / Olaf. (While AFD would be, without a question, be the worst. Merz and Olaf are only barely better.)

But hey, I, at least, have hope for Germany now. Habeck is the guy we need. Not only for Europe and Ukraine but also for Germany.

And who knows, maybe a miracle happens, and we see Chancellor Habeck next year. 🫶💚

[brokenonyxestate]

THE DARK DAYS ARE (NOT) OVER (YET)

Rakel's POV

Just a few pictures from my day with the stallions. Chance has reached two years of age, I was doing some jumping with Rico and the stallions fell asleep in the rain (I did too after awhile o Rico's back) xD

[rosehathawhey]

[str8upspam]

EXACTLY

He is a bitch and I do love that for him I won't lie

[david-talks-sw]

Dooku didn't leave because of the Jedi.

At least, if you're going by George Lucas' word.

In deleted scenes of Attack of the Clones, when we learn about Dooku's departure and his values, there's no mention of the Jedi or "the Jedi Order as an institution".

And every time Lucas refers to Dooku's disenchantment and reason for falling, he doesn't mention the Jedi.

"When you realize that Dooku is Darth Tyranus, it explains what Darth Sidious did after Darth Maul was killed: he seduced a Jedi who had become disenchanted with the Republic. He preyed on that disenchantment and converted him to the dark side, which is also a setup for what happens with Anakin." - Mythmaking: Behind the Scenes of Attack of the Clones, 2002

"[Dooku is] one of the few Jedi who became disenchanted with the Republic and left the order and he is leading a separatist movement." - Vanity Fair, 2002

"I wanted a more sophisticated kind of villain. Dooku’s disenchantment with the corruption in the Empire is actually valid. It’s all valid.  So, Chris plays it as, 'Is he really a villain or is he just someone who is disenchanted and trying to make things right?'" - Starlog Magazine #300, 2002

He probably meant the Republic/Senate in that last one, but you get the point. And you're seeing the pattern, right?

Dooku's problem isn't the Jedi, it's the Republic.

He's become disenchanted with a system that - according to Lucas' prologue in the 2004 book Shatterpoint - worked for 1,000 years...

"For a thousand years, the Old Republic prospered and grew under the wise rule of the Senate and the protection of the venerable Jedi Knights."

... but has been rendered ineffective because of 1) senators becoming corrupt and 2) corporations gaining political power.

"But as often happens when wealth and power grow beyond all reasonable proportion, an evil fueled by greed arose. The massive organs of commerce mushroomed in power, the Senate became corrupt, and an ambitious named Palpatine was voted Supreme Chancellor."

That's the message Dooku runs on, when he rallies the systems to form the Separatist Alliance.

"By promising an alternative to the corruption and greed that was rotting the Republic from within, Dooku was able to persuade thousands of star systems to secede from the Republic."

The Jedi aren't really a factor in his decision to leave.

Why would they be? Their political status isn't very high, they're virtually powerless, as illustrated by the film's narrative and stated repeatedly by Lucas.

On the contrary, as we already established in this post, Lucas full-on confirmed that Dooku actually carries the sympathies of most of the Jedi. Again:

Most Jedi agree with Dooku, ideologically.

As far as the Jedi are concerned, the politicians are effing up the Republic, and it sucks because the Jedi see this but aren't allowed to interfere in the political process. They have to resort to looking for loopholes in their mandates to actually get stuff done.

That's what that whole "she's a politician" scene is meant to hint at. In the commentary of Attack of the Clones, Lucas uses a similar turn of phrase as he does with Dooku.

"[This scene gives us] a chance to talk a little bit about politics and the Jedi’s disenchantment with the political process, due to the corruption and the ineffectiveness of the Senate." - Attack of the Clones, Director’s Commentary, 2002

Considering all this, it becomes clear that the intended narrative surrounding Dooku's decision to leave the Order is not:

"The Jedi are dogmatic and asleep at the wheel except for Dooku, who is ahead of the curb and sees the system is flawed, so he left."

It's actually:

"ALL Jedi see the system is flawed, Dooku's the only Jedi who decided to take it a step further and leave the Order so he can try to get into politics himself and change things."

That's why they hesitate to accuse him of murder.

That's why in an earlier draft of the Attack of the Clones script, by the end of the second act, Mace STILL has his doubts that Dooku would sign a treaty with the Trade Federation to attack the Republic.

As far as the Jedi are concerned, Dooku is out there fighting the good fight, making noise because whenever they try to protest it falls on deaf ears... until his betrayal on Geonosis.

After all, let's not get it twisted: the Dooku we're introduced to in the films and The Clone Wars, isn't really just Dooku anymore.

He's Darth Tyranus.

A point Lucas makes sure to highlight in his Shatterpoint prologue:

"Unbeknownst to most of his followers, Dooku was himself a Dark Lord of the Sith, acting in collusion with his master, Darth Sidious, who, over the years, had struck an unholy alliance with the greater forces of commerce and their private droid armies."

It's not about doing the selfless thing for Dooku, anymore. He's knowingly part of the problem.

He's all about ambition, now. His personal goals are things like overthrowing Sidious and becoming the most powerful Jedi.

"[Anakin's] ambition and his dialogue here is the same as Dooku’s. He says “I will become more powerful than every Jedi.” And you’ll hear later on Dooku will say “I have become more powerful than any Jedi.” [...] It is possible for a Jedi to want to become more powerful, and control things." - Attack of the Clones, Director’s Commentary, 2002

"If you put two Sith together, they try to get others to join them to get rid of the other Sith. [When revealing the truth to Obi-Wan], Dooku's ambition is really to get rid of Darth Sidious. He's trying to get Obi-Wan's assistance in that and help in that, so that he and Obi-Wan could overthrow Sidious and take over." - Attack of the Clones, Commentary Track 2, 2002

Y'know? Selfish things.

Dooku - like all other Sith, and like the very corporations and Senators he had sworn to destroy - is consumed by his own greed.

[peachysuffolk]

A lil redesign of my first fursona Chancellor!~

[hislittleraincloud]

Chancellor Laslow, Jericho 11/2022 🫴🏽🔥💕✨

[ayeforscotland]

It is worth saying that I do notice a tangible difference in engagement whenever I make a post criticising the UK Labour Party.

I totally understand that it makes a lot of people uncomfortable because it’s easier to reduce politics to ‘good/bad’.

I’d like to think I’ve also been open at recognising that for some people who’ve been holding out for the Tories being removed from power, they totally need a chance to celebrate that happening.

But I would also like to see a similar understanding from them that Labour deserve to be criticised for what they do and what they say and what policies they advocate for. Especially when it’s identical to what the Tories have been pushing for the last decade.

Over the past several years, Starmer’s Labour Party refused to support the Rail workers strike, their health Secretary has been open about NHS privatisation, their shadow chancellor was open about continuing austerity, they didn’t pledge to remove the two-child cap (and rape clause) and a lot of their election campaigning was on forcing disabled people back into work and bowing down to transphobia.

And that’s depressing. It really is, and I’m really sorry that Labour aren’t what everyone thinks they should be. But I absolutely refuse to gloss over it, or ignore it. If that really upsets you, please consider blocking me for now and consider unblocking me when you feel you can read about it.

To be clear, I’m totally open to Labour doing a 180 and start introducing good policy or reversing bad ones. But until they do, I’m not going to relax about it.