Coming back to X after some time away, just an average schmo living in the South-Central US. I like camping, fishing, cooking fancy dinners, and nerdy shiznit.
Listen guys...
I'm a pro-choice, pro-gun, Christian, Center-Left Libertarian.
I'm a fucking political pandora's box, and I'm at peace with this aspect of myself.
@Nerdrotics Listen I’m not down with the death threats at all, but you guys kind of brought this on yourselves. People’s personal lives need to stay personal.
It’s actually tragic how I’ve heard this show is actually really good but it’s just so hideously animated that nobody can stand to watch it after watching Clone Wars
I also think that Pre-Disney Star Wars was decidedly more.. "mature", than Disney Era.
Not because you got to see Aayla Secura's boobs, but because you got to see Aayla Secura's boobs.
In the expanded universe this problem is worked out because the Skywalker family are generational keepers of the balance. The dark side had a major hold and momentum on the galaxy by the start of Palpatine's chancellorship. Anakin destroys that momentum when he kills the emperor. So even when the emperor's clones come back the dark side grip is not what it once was. This is the kind of layered continuity the EU actually delivers. Anakin's sacrifice as the Chosen One didn't just end one Sith—it shattered the dark side's long-built dominance across the galaxy. Future threats like the cloned Emperor could rise, but they never regained the same stranglehold because that foundational momentum was already broken. The Skywalkers as balance keepers across generations gives the whole saga real weight and consequence instead of resetting the board every time a new villain shows up.
Remember when Bernie Sanders debated a libertarian and essentially admitted he couldn't answer the question directly because an honest answer would expose the contradiction in his own position?
Political tribalists spend so much time sorting people into ideological categories that they forget how to engage with ideas on their own merits. Every disagreement becomes "what team are you on?" instead of "is this argument true?"
For a man celebrated as an intellectual giant, he seemed remarkably uncomfortable defending his ideas without retreating into labels, abstractions, and political theater.