Ricardo

Diplomatic Historian and Keynesian Liberal

[Alice 🇺🇸🇩🇪 @AliceClimbers]

Steve Harvey: Top 10 ANSWER ON THE BOARD, NAME ME A LEFTIST COUNTRY

*buzzzzzzzzzzz*

Saudi Arabia?

Steve Harvey so exasperated he's out of breath:

SAUDI ARABIA????

[Ricardo @Raccdo]

@UnitLowland I like it but it basically breaks every design convention the OT establishes for the Alliance. The biggest one is that Alliance troops should always show some humanity. The second major error with this design is that it lacks any form of webbing or backpack.

[Ian Gibney @igib215]

"General Kota, he's here!"
Kota's Militia from #StarWars The Force Unleashed

[Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪🇺🇦 @JakeLandauTO]

There's something magical about getting a real historian, as in a university lecturer with a PhD who regularly publishes, to write a detailed fake history book for a fictional universe in the same professionally researched style as their actual academic work.

[Mariam ☧ @Gaismair]

If you read this you start understanding Palpatine is inherently an nixonian figure that had zero interest in the day-to-day operations of state, delegating it all to his glup shittos so could focus on occultism & genocide beams

[Ricardo @Raccdo]

@CiarliniKoerner The project of one central state in the galaxy much like german unification had very little if any purchase until it began to happen. The galaxy at large seems much more inwardly focused on local issues such as the conflict between the gungans and Naboo.

[Ricardo @Raccdo]

@CiarliniKoerner You raise good points, but I think we overestimate how much the Republic or, for that matter, pre 20th century governments were involved in the day to day lived and economies of local provinces. Most people in Star Wars aren't leaving their local systems.

[Ricardo @Raccdo]

@CiarliniKoerner This leaves local governments and security forces such as Naboo or Corsec to deal with local issues. Crisis that require more than planetary forces + judicials + jedi were incredibly rare and a major event. Going back to the HRE, each planetary system was sovereign.

[Ricardo @Raccdo]

@CiarliniKoerner Both in legends and canon you have small scale wars happening across planets and systems but nothing that could threaten the entire Republic. We also don't see much nationalism towards the Republic untill the Clone War. Even then local identities seem to supercede Galactic ones.

[Ricardo @Raccdo]

@CiarliniKoerner For most of the Republic's history, it never faced an existential threat until one was manufactured by the Sith, which took decades of planning. The Republic could stand up a military force if it needed to, it just wasn't interested in direct control like the Empire was.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

They did, it was called America

[Ricardo @Raccdo]

Reinventing Panda Express and Slop bowls from first principles

[(• ˕ •マ.ᐟ ★ @Y40IFRQTTING]

What the western world is missing really is diners that prepare a large batch of the same food and sell it for cheap. Fast food is the opposite of this where tiny batches of food are prepared as fast as possible upon an order. That is a distinctly American form of inefficiency.

[🇮🇴WilliamTheBonqueror @BillTheKid1603]

Sleepwalkers is a book that every WW1 expert has an issue with when it touches their area of knowledge but few investigate if the whole book is like that. It is, it's so bad it can't just be a product of sloppy writing, translation errors and failure to cite sources

[Moonstruck❤️‍🔥 @godspeed_aflame]

sometimes I'll hear about an interesting sounding history book, and then I do some more research and learn that historians actually consider it the stupid book for morons that you should only read if you want to be wrong about everything

[Dr. Alexander S. Burns @KKriegeBlog]

The commencement speaker our morning ceremony: “Be a history maker, not a history writer.” (Repeated twice)

STEM people unironically want to kill every humanities program out there.

[Ricardo @Raccdo]

@SAMMYINOWAM I enjoy the Advisor and random clones you find around quite abit. I love how much sass the clones give to 38 and his one liners back.

[Ricardo @Raccdo]

@kino_loy @StarWarsExplain @MollieDamon Very fun reads. I'd also recommend the Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire by C.Kempshall since you mentioned liking Andor. It is an in universe historical text bringing all different parts of the canon into one narrative touching the same political themes as Andor.

[Ricardo @Raccdo]

@kino_loy @StarWarsExplain @MollieDamon Read Heir to the Empire and X:Wing Rogue Squadron!

[Ricardo @Raccdo]

@Kittycel66 Oh my bad, our righteous peacekeeper handing out aid vs their brutish warriors engaging in a protracted military campaign