this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2025
453 points (99.8% liked)
Sigh-Fi
659 readers
322 users here now
A generalist Sci-Fi meme community.
founded 1 month ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
"So anyway, I orchestrated that apprentice's death and built an empire fuelled by greed and corruption."
But the Republic was also fueled by greed and corruption ... so just new management?
(... not even that new actually?)
Didn't know we had a CIS apologist in the comments.
(It's super funny to me when I say something about the other side & immediately get folk arguing I'm simping for the side I didn't even mention. No sides are ever just good or bad, my friend. Not to mention it's fiction in this case.)
Hehe, you telling me you liked Palpatine before he was cool, when he was still Supreme Chancellor of the Republic?
The leader that Lucas said was inspired my Nixon?
(it's a joke my dude)
My allegiance is to the Republic; to democracy!
(Oh, I'm so sorry, forum life changed me, I assumed against my instincts! I actually love play-fighting on fictional shit & taking comically one-sided stances for the duration of the debate, whatever side is less represented atm.)
To democracy?
But we had the democratic senate (except the leader) for several months into our glorious Empire!
We ofc had to dismantle it bcs the floating podiums burned through too much electricity & we stand for efficiency.
Just look at our newest high efficiency orbital battle station (Death Star), it obliterated Alderans unemployment rate in seconds!
(We should built more tho, they have a super sensitive g-spot.)
The Empire was around for nearly twenty years before they abolished the Senate.
Oh, forgot about that - democracy!!
I don't know how you can run a functioning government if you build huge, wasteful battle stations so that you can blow up some of your wealthiest taxpaying planets.
They were just super wealthy, but offshored their profits & basically paid less in taxes than your average endorian ewok living on a tax exempt planet.
After the end of Alderaan other economies were freed from it's influence & prospered.
And the leaders were like super posh, like you wouldn't believe how annoying.
And the battle stations arent wasteful, at least not if terrorists wouldn't help blowing them up.
The Emperor could easily close those tax loopholes if he wanted to, but that might hurt his rich friends.
The Death Star was a huge waste, and the military knew it. You could tell by how Grand Admiral Thrawn dodged the question when a reporter asked him about it, and then had the reporter imprisoned. He knew full well those credits could have paid for at least 2 full Imperial Battle Fleets.
Were they not closed?
Thrawn has daddy issues & just likes to be choked, it's a known "secret", and it's kinda super weird.
Not to mention how he kept his position when the full blueprints were published on War Thunder forums.
(Some of the constriction crew literally used the forum blueprints to built it.)
That's because you're buying into the Imperial propaganda that the intended result is, in fact, a functioning government. The entire edifice is actually a scheme designed to maximize suffering, because that's what the crazy cult that the Emperor's secretly in charge of calls for. Rahm Kota's got a series of holovids talking all about it on the darknet!
That's extremist, terrorist propaganda!!
There is only one Vader boi & he can't personally chop that many not just the men, but the women and children too.
And the mad lad is just sent on hotspots as a deterrent basically.
And most of the time he fights groups that were established & hoarded their corrupted wealth under the Republic-sanctioned orders.
The Republic artificially maintained wealth classes, kept some planets poor just to solidify it's government's reign & power.
With resources to eradicate it all.