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What the actual fuck. This is not some independent ridiculous account, this is literally the official government account of the most powerful country on this planet. Utterly insane to think about
Not the most powerful country, he's the leader of the most increasingly trivial and memeable country on the planet. He is personally turning it to shit and that will be his legacy for all time. Donepezil Don can't possibly comprehend how shitty he is, much less basic plot points from Star Wars...
Nero playing his fiddle as rome burns level of malucious incompetency.
I would argue that currently the USA has the most economic influence and military power of any country. But given the current laughable leadership and it’s policies, this might change in the near future.
It bugs me that I've spent years building actual muscles and this fat, useless motherfucker just AI's them onto his picture.
on the other hand you have actual physical muscle to punch fascists with
Darth Depends.
Count Doodoo
Trump wouldn't have made it more than 30 seconds on Korriban. Say what you will about the Sith, but at least they don't tolerate incompetence.
Edit: Not that he would ever have hired fools in the first place, but can you imagine what Palps would have done to a PR team that couldn't even get the very basics of propaganda right? Their prolonged suffering would have passed legendary without even slowing down and headed straight for outright mythological.
Would be funny to see Disney sue him.
They probably prefer to not be deported.
He’s more like dark helmet on spaceballs
If Donald Trump is the Sith Lord evil Emeror then Ilon Musk is Darth Vader? Then who is his unknown child that will destroy them? Who is Obi Wan? Tarrifs are Death Star? Many unanswered questions :)
nah, see, you got
- self-aggrandizing unelected bureaucrat
- intentionally sabotaging government programs to make his own vanity project look better
- blind obsession with deeply-flawed and barely-functional technological monstrosity
- claims sole credit for his program's achievements despite, at best, hiring the guy that hired the guy that hired the guy to build the schematic that some other guy gave him
- definitely blackmailing his boss
- barely committed to his administration's political agenda beyond whatever inflates his own ego
- nazi cosplay
- not a real face
dude's not Vader, he's Tarkin. Vance is the moody teenager from bumfuck nowhere who suddenly started sucking the spiteful old warlock's dick despite years of going on about how much he hates his whole deal, likely screwing over his wife in the process, making him Vader. and I guess Obi-Wan is Pope Francis because Vance definitely killed him.
The empire did nothing wrong
The greatest form of government is benevolent dictatorship.
The Empire is the closest thing to that, since you have a strong central government headed by a level of wisdom that could only be achieved through the force.
The rebels want to destroy that central guidance which connects the entire galaxy, and replace it with the same system that lead to corruption, war and power abuse that necessitated the Empire to begin with.
Sure, Palpatine orchestrated the Clone Wars, but it was going to happen one way or another. At least under his oversight, all of the separatists could be identified and destroyed, and the Republic would actually ve prepared to fight them.
If it weren't for Palpatine, the separatists would have easily broken the republic and lead to corporate warlordism.
To take what Thrawn pretty much outright says, because you see the events through the Rebels point of view, on their heads they just believe the Empire is continually plotting to do harm to every innocent little guy in the galaxy.
As we clearly can see, that view of the Empire is far too dramatic.
The Empire is a effective form of government in that it kept billions of beings perfectly fed and clothed.
Day after day, year after year, on thousands of worlds, people live their lives under Imperial rule without seeing a stormtrooper or hearing a TIE fighter scream overhead.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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