• @HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee
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    -203 days ago

    I must have missed the part of the movie where Leia devotes a significant amount of her planets resources to building the deathstar while her constituents screamed for her to stop

    • @pimento64@sopuli.xyz
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      413 days ago

      Evidently you did, because it’s mentioned that she was a member of the Imperial Senate right up till it was dissolved. She participated directly in the government that built a weapon of mass destruction and used it to commit a genocidal act of state terrorism. Thankfully, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, they never invented purity testing so people like you weren’t wrenching their spines in an effort to suck their own dicks about it.

      • Flying SquidOP
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        163 days ago

        She was still in the senate when her ship was captured by Vader at the beginning of Star Wars.

        Leia: I’m a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan.

        Vader: You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor.

        • banner80
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          303 days ago

          That sums it up well. Leia wasn’t unclear about her morals and goals. She was working in government with the intention of making things better, instead of sitting outside of government and bitching while doing nothing to help.

          The baddies were sick of her constant efforts to derail their plans, so once they had enough fascist power to start going after their political rivals, they went after her.

          Being in government does not make everyone automatically a willing participant of all of that government’s policies. You wouldn’t accuse Bernie or AOC of being cozy with GOP bullshit. But people around here are very happy to blame Harris for everything they perceive to be going wrong in the gov, while casually dismissing that Trump is 10X worse at the same topics.

          • @zephorah@lemm.ee
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            143 days ago

            Michelle Obama made a speech on this. Trump is not getting demands. She is.

            Mr Concept of a Plan after 8 years isn’t pushed at all. Meanwhile, we need more details on the articulated plans of Harris. It’s quite the mismatched standard.

            Also, Biden is her boss. She’s not the boss yet. New bosses do different things with the company when they take over.

            • @JaymesRS@literature.cafe
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              153 days ago

              And they don’t publicly undercut the old bosses while being second in charge especially in sensitive diplomatic situations.

              • Flying SquidOP
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                143 days ago

                Exactly. Maybe Harris is in lockstep with Biden on Israel or maybe it would just be a really bad idea to undercut him while she needs his support.

                Who knows? We won’t know until she’s actually in charge.

                I’m old enough to remember that Al Gore didn’t rock the Clinton boat either. I doubt he would have been another Bill Clinton.

                • OBJECTION!
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                  -63 days ago

                  Who knows? We won’t know until she’s actually in charge.

                  Trump Harris is just saying that to appease the Deep State Zionist voters, but once they’re in office, they’ll reveal that it was all an act and they’re actually going to do all the stuff we want. Trust the plan.

                  • Flying SquidOP
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                    42 days ago

                    Believe it or not, we might have an idea about the sort of things Trump might do if he’s president.

                    I’m sure you’ll figure out how that’s different from Harris if you think hard enough about it.

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            She was working in government with the intention of making things better

            She was literally working for an armed rebellion actively fighting a war with the aim of overthrowing the government.

      • OBJECTION!
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        -33 days ago

        Clearly, the solution is to vote in the Imperial Senate if you want to affect change.

        Unless you’re trying to say Kamala Harris is secretly working for Hamas or something?

      • @HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee
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        -83 days ago

        Well you would have to have a spine to know what thats like so I understand why the people bravely tonguing the asshole of the administration lying to us and circumventing Congress to continue arming their pet dictator’s ethnic cleansing wouldn’t get it

        • @pimento64@sopuli.xyz
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          33 days ago

          Maybe if you plugged away at it for a while you could come up with an even more flaccid and contrived rebuttal.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      233 days ago

      I see that you understand that, much like a vice president, that is something someone with the powers of a princess can do.