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the OTHER thing is that no filibuster defender has yet to articulate why it is that people who happen to live in low density states not only deserve additional representation but also deserve to exercise a veto *on top of that*

Total American cultural victory

the only time the filibuster has ever been used to protect a particular interest of a set of states is to kill anti-lynching and civil rights legislation. that's it.

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What brings Ben Solo back to the light side? The promise that the one (1) girl he knows might actually like him like him

If you see this, post one image from your device with no context.

Why a male ensign? I don’t want to be sued by David Weber

Also: "Operation Pedestal, but Star Wars" would kick ass

Him knowing Holdo's plan and disagreeing with either the plan's priorities or with his place in it would have made a lot more sense thematically, but you still run into the problem that the chase itself is just bizarre and undercuts itself constantly.

Mary Shelley’s book is not into science. It’s into theology. It wants to talk about God. It’s an atheism that wants to talk about God. This movie functions on the same order of values. Which is great.

i want to see the personal rivalry between a new republic officer and imperial officer as their ships hunt each other in the early years of the new republic, and it turns out the imperial officer is more virtuous and less obsessed than the new republic one

the movie is just cooked from the jump because the entire notion of those bombers is beyond suspension of disbelief

No but seriously, give me either Master and Commander or Horatio Hornblower but Star Wars as a prestige D+ series

We could also lean on another genre that contributed: RUN SILENT RUN DEEP but Star Wars DAS BOOT but Star Wars THE CRUEL SEA but Star Wars PT-109 but Star Wars GREYHOUND but Star Wars SINK THE BISMARCK! but Star Wars

Disgraced, embittered former Jedi drifter who survived Order 66 but is now just trying to disappear into anonymity but winds up gathering a found family around him in the process: THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES, but Star Wars.

"Star Destroyer commander wants to defect but is worried about the ISB having an agent onboard" is good stuff.

If you see this, reskeet with a Sentai team that is not Power Rangers or Super Sentai

I hope you have better luck than I did. But then I proposed Doris Day and Jerry Lewis flicks but Star Wars. Iger said they’d already tried the Jerry Lewis thing and Jar Jar didn’t test well.

In Japan, tourism to Portland, Oregon, is promoted by a grinning blue monster named Odnarodude. He’s at a Portland artisan event in Jiyugaoka De Aone this weekend.

It's considered uncouth to say this but the Republican Party is explicitly an ardently anti-Christian political movement wearing a crumbling mask of concern for Christian values, while actively working to destroy traditional Christian institutions and suppress religious leaders.

It'd be nice if there was a natl paper that had a local beat with tons of feds but Bezos's rag is doing Furlough Fun puff piece BS Anyway air traffic being snarled is a pain and SNAP is a travesty, but also not getting a paycheck for going on 6 weeks kinda sucks too, esp working for 4 of them

The answer was A) That’s very unethical B I work in radio

"Camera footage indicates it was a Jewish person who sprayed those Swastikas" I have some follow up questions.

Okay, a draw is fine I guess, nowhere near as good for discourse bait

My extremely hot take is that the best lightsaber fight scene in SW was the first one between old Ben Kenobi and Darth Vader

It drives me crazy because the revisionist defense of them relies on discussion of what they’re doing as stories and sidesteps the fact that they’re terrible to actually watch as movies.

A Bug’s Life did it better

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the person fulminating about how water is somehow destroyed by carrying heat away from a server rack never came back to defend the point. sad

In a fear-mongering hit piece, the Washington Post Editorial Board calls the newly elected NYC mayor “Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani”:

FTR I think the most likely resolutions at this point, in rough order, are: 1) Senate cracks on the filibuster 2) Johnson is forced to call House back into session, is toppled 3) Color revolution by Christmas

they think they're making a god, and to sell the government on it they've said it's a weapons technology on par with nuclear weapons

Not only is not a factor, she appears to fall more in love with him after he admits it. Like genocide for nabboians appears to be unacceptable only if the victims are human or children, but totally cool for gungans or tuskans.

Mace Windu, rubbing his temples: "is there literally anyone else we can send?" Yoda: "No; urgent assignments with the clone wars everyone else has." Windu: "Fine... Send for Master Clouseau."

its never really enough for them, though. they really just do want a secular equivalent of christian media, or the pure 'and what did we learn today, kids?' thing of vintage afterschool specials

I finally believe he actually got hit at that rally in PA because that thing clearly was grown in a lab

When you restrict your source material to within your established universe you make everything feel small and somewhat masturbatory

This was a shitpost, but a dynamic which was what made Star Ward (plus Marvel Comics in the 70s and 80s, and Indiana Jones, and a lot of other similar things) great is that the sources they were drawing from *wasn’t the franchise itself* Lucas and Spielberg drew from pulps and Flash Gordon

Having recently watched some Kurosawa movies, one of my takeaways is that there are usually some samurai wandering around who are absolutely pathetic losers and very bad at everything, and I think we should introduce that dynamic to the Jedi.

Ran (which is King Lear but Samurai) but it's Star Wars would be incredible to just shove in to the Sith Warlord Era

Hey Axios did you know the current President admitted to sexual assault into a hot mic like a decade ago

I am so ready for the hot takes from the football pundits if Sunderland beats Arsenal after they spent three weeks coronating Arteta