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  • Usual 'murican take. Do you use roads? Do you use clean water? I would ask about public transit, but you’re a 'murican, so I already know the answer to that is “no”.

    Everyone already pays for the State to exist. Civilized countries use that money to benefit all citizens through free higher education, free healthcare, free public transportation, etc. The US uses that money to kill children in the middle east and to bail out huge corporations.



  • Has your opinion of Isreal changed because of the last few months?

    It changed insofar as going from “they’re a pretty horrible fascist society” to “they’re straight up Nazis”.

    If so has that changed how you view their actions in the past against the Palestinian people?

    Not really.

    If the comparison of Russia in Ukraine to Isreal in Palestine was only made legitimate in the past few months […]

    You’re commiting a fallacy, I believe and hope unintentionally. Israel has always been the aggressor, I’ve never contradicted that. However, defending a population associated with a vile terrorist group at a time said group has just attacked is simply bad politics - you’ll not get many allies and now your detractors have a concrete event to point towards when dismissing your position. At present, Israel has effectively admitted to wanting a genocide and Hamas has waved the white flag multiple times, so it’s the perfect moment, politically, to defend the Palestine.















  • Mace windu was actually strong as fuck though. Like he genuinely bested sidious in saber combat. It wasn’t an act.

    The advantage of Vaapad, using Sidious own dark side powers against him.

    I read once that obi wan and anakin were so used to sparring together that the difference in power didn’t matter.

    It certainly did matter, as seen in their final (RotS) duel; Obi-Wan is on his back foot, running the entire time. It’s true that they had sparred so much, they could predict each other’s movements as if it was telepathy, though.