And How Imperialism Is Bad And Cannot Be Justified - Tumblr Posts

asocial-skye

2 years ago

this came in response to seeing some blog post on my dash about the jedi and republic. i'm usually cool with the jedi, but this post set me off because of the way it defended the Republic.

i understand being jedi positive and jedi critical. i will side eye you immensely and run screaming if you are empire positive beyond the whole 'cool aesthetic and badass villains' and empire crits should and are the norm. i even get being new republic positive-while they suck, they are way better than the neo-nazis.

what i don't understand is, especially in the context of the prequels, is being republic-positive. like, the republic is not this holy paragon symbiotic relationship with the jedi that flourished harmoniously without the evil Sith. like, it's canon that the republic has been failing and a problem since like, before baby palpatine existed. the jedi behold themselves to the republic out of tradition, not for the republic itself. the republic is george lucas's hamfisted take on fucking american imperialism. are you seriously trying to defend this? you really want to look at me and tell me that everything was fine with Bush Era Politics? really?

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star wars starwars the old republic jedi the jedi order jedi council anti old republic s/w sw prequels prequel trilogy sw fandom star wars prequels sw meta star wars meta jedi order george lucas may not be the best at explaining shit but maybe the fact that the republic was failing long before palpatine existed was kind of the point about democracies' deaths are slow and thus no one notices until it's too late to do anything about it and how imperialism is bad and cannot be justified the separatists are worse but that doesn't excuse the republic it never did

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