What they will actually do is have them win but then the First Order will happen anyway unrelatedly, rendering both this and the OT entirely pointless as stories because the Empire just comes back again off screen every time.
The really funny thing is they technically have to explain in this film and Ashoka S2 how the Empire is back (for all intents and purposes) by TFA with an even bigger super weapon as a result of JJ making this same mistake. But they can’t because it would mean Ashoka and the gang have to lose hard.
Rumsfeld: fails at post-war planning
Hegseth: *hold my beer* (literally)
Fails to plan for actual war
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Deeply Trump-like reaction too. Similar to how he describes random people and organizations as having "ratings" as if they were TV shows
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trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
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Like it actually was this because the candidate on one side was just imposed at the last minute because it was the only option and Kang was worse. bsky.app/profile/cmon...
It’s like everyone forgot that this wasn’t a normal process at all and it’s the same debate as “Bernie would have won” when the situation is fundamentally different.
I have trouble understanding how the lack of primaries in 2024 is something both sides don’t see as central to this pointless debate. You can’t concretely say either “the Dems are just the same as the GOP” or “this wouldn’t be happening under the Democrats” because nobody got to see that debate.
Really interesting. My sense even then was, in addition to its immediate goals, PV represented a kind emotional catharsis especially if you sat out the initial campaign. But it also formed a more confident liberal identity in the U.K. you still see now across Green and Lib Dem voters especially.
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Maybe we can recreate it?
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Basically a Liberal deep cover op at this point
Should have been this
This Hornet: hey buddy, what you doing there? Grilling?
One of those purely "defensive" sorties no doubt
I mean, has anyone checked there isn't actually just a big pile of ships stacked on top of each other
Making it sound like they did it on the spur of the moment like the DC sandwich guy
Honestly in Kwarteng’s case he probably just needed a job, and I don’t imagine the offers from legitimate firms were exactly piling in. He didn’t start Stack he’s just the front man.
Ironically the exchanges like Binance that did/do allow that are the more sustainable ones. There’s a non-gambling demand for the service underpinned by real economic activity.
There’s of course no guarantee this would have worked, but what a dumb thing to hand-wave away if you were planning on an Iran confrontation
The attraction is there are billions of dollars to be made if you can get someone else to buy it. That is all it’s been for the last decade.
And all they have actually bought, and likely ever will, is Bitcoin. Treasuries are just a proxy for the BTC price but designed to make it “easier” to hold - i.e. by less sophisticated investors you can take advantage of for liquidity.
And if/when these companies start to fail, which they will just like the FTX-style exchanges and dividend-earning stable coins did, you need someone in political power to make sure any crimes you committed go away. Hence Farage’s involvement.
The broader thing going on here is BTC holders trying to get actual $ out of crypto without crashing the price. Bitcoin treasuries are a way to do that by “democratising” access to “digital assets”. This really means leaving small investors holding the bag. It’s both corrupt and a greater-fool scam.
There are only two reasons this would happen; 1) it’s standard crypto hype, and this will fall again unless Bitcoin recovers; 2) and I think more likely here, this is a way to pay Nigel Farage on the basis of expected future political power. It’s exactly what Trump did with World Liberty Financial.
This is even worse than it looks. Stack is a bitcoin treasury, which means its has no real business other than holding BTC and hoping the price goes up. Hilariously Kwarteng joined just as bitcoin stated to crater, along with (naturally) the stock price. But look at it now. 1/
