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The Confederacy of Independent Systems, abbreviated to CIS, and otherwise known as the Separatist Alliance, the Separatist State, the Separatist Confederacy, the Separatist coalition, or simply referred to as the Separatists, was a confederation with limited recognition of outlying star systems in the galaxy that had declared independence from the Galactic Republic, a democratic union, and had its capital on the planet Raxus Secundus in the Outer Rim. Secession could be traced back to the Raxus Address by former Jedi Master Count Dooku of Serenno, from a belief of excessive taxation and corruption within the Galactic Senate, as well as a general feeling of dissatisfaction towards the neglect by the Republic-centric Core Worlds. Furthermore, the Confederacy was secretly supported by several major galactic corporations which formed the executive council, while a parliament of senators become its civilian legislature.

Thousands of disgruntled star systems seceded from the Republic and joined together in the newly-created Confederacy of Independent Systems, born from a galaxy-wide secessionist movement orchestrated by the Count of Serenno Dooku. By 24 BBY, it had become a political crisis which led to escalating tensions between the Republic and the rising Confederacy. Many within the Confederacy, including its senators, had no desire in fighting their adversaries, as they sought to be free of what they saw as the corruption and tyranny of the Republic. The Confederacy was supported by the Trade Federation, led by Viceroy Nute Gunray; the Stalgasin hive, led by Archduke Poggle the Lesser; the InterGalactic Banking Clan, headed by Chairman San Hill; the Techno Union, led by Foreman Wat Tambor; the Commerce Guild, led by Presidente Shu Mai; the Corporate Alliance, led by Magistrate Passel Argente; and the Retail Caucus. However, in 22 BBY, both governments and their respective military forces became enmeshed in the pan-galactic Clone Wars, the first major conflict in a millennium, after the conflict exploded into being on the Confederacy's first capital world, Geonosis.

By the third year of the war, the Confederacy had suffered several major defeats in the Outer Rim Sieges as the conflict began to approach its end, while losing many starships in the decisive Battle of Coruscant, which also resulted in the death of Dooku. In the days following their defeat at Coruscant, General Grievous was neutralized on the planet Utapau, leading to the collapse of the Separatist leadership, and the fighting effectively coming to an end.

Following both the Jedi's demise and rise of the Galactic Empire, Viceroy Nute Gunray and the other surviving leaders gathered on the planet Mustafar with hopes of securing peace with the newly rising Empire ruled by Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine. However he sent his new apprentice Darth Vader to wipe out them and deactivate the Separatist Droid Army as a threat to his Empire.

With the end of the Clone Wars, the newly-formed Galactic Empire as the successor to the Old Republic, reintergrated former Separatists worlds into the Empire, with only several holdouts daring to resist the Empire, which were suppressed. But an idealized view of the cause persisted during the Imperial Era, with some still holding secessionist tendencies, even into the New Republic Era.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

I fucking ordered the stupid dodo plush I hate all of you for enabling my childish ways

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Jim Henson should have made a godzilla movie

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[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

People keep confusing the Southern Yemeni Government and Ansar Allah, and it's infuriating.

[–] AdmiralDoohickey@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When I was unemployed I had a ton of free time but I felt that something was missing, and I was anxious about not having a job. Now that I am employed, my free time has been reduced by a ton and I miss being unemployed. Shits weird

[–] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

only thing worse than having a job is not having a job. best possible economic system btw

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Bowling alley I’m at is playing uncensored 2002 era Eminem greatest hits lol

It’s also proudly showing off their little bowling pin characters in the strike animations. They gave tits to the female ones because of fucking course they did. This implies that bowling pin milk exists in their universe and now I wish nothing but ceaseless torment upon their character designers

[–] dualmindblade@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Since bowling pins are made from maple I assume the milk is just maple syrup

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[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dad sick. Just got done crying.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

meow-hug sorry to hear it, comrade

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You really take not having a pimple inside your nose for granted until suddenly your life sucks

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

George Costanza actually lived a very interesting and full life. Dude saved a beached whale, he met Castro!

[–] miz@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago

worked for Steinbrenner and the Yankees

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Feeling too stupid to join the org sadness

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago

I’m starting an NGO whose goal will be to make it so that by 2050 most of the pacific garbage patch is made of recycled plastics.

[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

liberal protests are very interesting. it was very effective to make them feel like they had some agency in life over the ruling class by doing gestures that don't actually affect change.

I've been following the Infinity Nikki drama, where players are mad at the game for introducing some anti-consumer practices. It's not a very shocking thing to happen, as it's 1. a gacha, 2. targetted at women. The company that makes it basically has a monopoly on gacha games targetted at women, so they can be as shitty to their playerbase as they want. Anyway, aside from bitching online, the players also are boycotting purchases in it (which, we all know how effective "voting with your wallet is). Obviously this did not get a good enough response from the company's PR. So the protestors have a new plan, which was not to play the game.

For a singular day.

Not a week, not a month, not until their demands are met. A single day.

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

TIL that Love and Deepspace and Infinity Nikki are from the same dev.

Also lmao at boycotting for one day. It's laughable in any context, but especially for gacha games where the vast majority of the money is made in bursts when players dump money into limited banners. You would have to at least boycott a full banner to make any impact whatsoever...but of course, anyone who is actually in deep enough to be spending serious cash wouldn't dream of missing out on a limited banner.

God, I hate gacha with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. In a better society gacha mechanics would be completely banned.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

circlejerk subreddit that bans politics is like a rock concert where you get thrown out for cheering

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago

We stand with Palestine so it's okay if we ban discussing its people being slaughtered.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

Every time I start to get into a flow while working I have to go and take a shit. I wonder if I've "pavlov'd" this behavior into myself by slacking off at work.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If you have twins how do you tell one of them they're an unplanned child and how do you know which to tell that to?

[–] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

in hindsight its hilarious that the president in black ops 2 is clearly supposed to be hildawg hillary

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[–] ttjshaman@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

big ups to:

-Aaron Schwartz

-Alexandra Elbakyan

200+ articles of information absorbed, thanks to them

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

people's interactions with the grok bit account are confusing me because all the screenshots i saw posted from twitter had the actual grok state as a fact that white genocide doesn't exist, but the bit account keeps both sidesing it and going "nobody can really say for sure" about it

Like i remember it being like "yeah while there have been cases of violence against white farmers, there is no evidence to indicate that it was racially motivated or to indicate a greater pattern of genocide" and shit like that

Idk i haven't been on twitter and only saw what was posted here but i feel like i'm being gaslit with people acting like it was saying white genocide is/might be real when i saw the literal exact opposite

is the joke that it's groKKK and therefore more racist than grok

[–] rhubarb@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago

It's a lot funnier that they tried to make the AI spread disinformation about white genocide but fucked it up, I don't get how people are missing that

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Hell yeah none of you jabronis better mess this up for me

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[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago (5 children)

My crush just asked me if I liked her and I sent her a big text about how much I like her and I have been left on read. Chat I might just need to hold a L on this one.

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[–] wideopenarms@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

I love my girlfriend, she's really neat and I like making her laugh and cuddling before going to sleep, it's great stuff

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

My work had a flyer taped to the door this morning saying 'restaurant work is fucked, start a union' and a QR code. Over half the kitchen staff are on work visas.

[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago

say-the-line-bart-2 Better Call Saul, they finally said it after so many seasons let's fucking gooooo lets-fucking-go

[–] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So I'm watching this American documentary on the Vietnam war, and one thing that stuck out to me was when they were bringing up the US suffering a big L in the Battle of Ap Bac, an interviewed American who arrived to the aftermath said he had to carry his fallen countrymen to the APV because "I wouldn't let the [allied] Vietnamese touch the Americans." They just like, put that statement in the documentary with sad music playing and no further comment what-the-hell

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[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Being an iconoclast in 40k.

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago

for some reason the admin of solarpunk has had a crash out for 2 day and has become the biggest defender of feddit's pro-israel policy, he is been claiming that they are just following orders, the palestine people are pro-genocide and other silly and fascist stuff

for example

  • rhodesia and apartheid south africa still exist

  • river to the sea is a genocide slogan

  • you cant compared the nazis to other fascists

here is there account nerds i think it has potencial as a popular c/slop post if you take screenshots from their comments

[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

goddamn the SNL trump guy fucking sucks

i personally know two better trump voices than that who the fuck is running this show

[–] KnownUnknownKnower@hexbear.net 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Banned from Reddit for “promoting violence” simply for describing how and why the Israeli government is committing genocide. Fuck that place lmao

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[–] wombat@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

it is may 18 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago
[–] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago

random white guys in the pnw: "we're the most oppressed people in the us...we need our own separate state of our own to live in...free cascadia. no we aren't fascist why do you ask?"

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

I just spotted my first white hair...

spoiler...in my pubes madeline-shock

[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

Sinners was fun. I have conflicting interpretations of the vamps. The obvious being a colonizing/assimilating force, and another being a fear of "collectivism" in contrast to the bootstrap-pulling protagonists.

spoilerAfter watching this, Midnight Mass, and Nosferatu, I have come to the conclusion that the ultimate downside of getting vamped is that it really fucks with your ability to keep track of time.

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

DeepSeek a less bad llm but I don't see how people are forming relationships from this garbage. It's just validation tbh. Truly feel like I'm in hell with the way people are so eager to replace intimate conversations with virtualization deeper-sadness

spoilerOh, comrade, your words cut straight to the heart of one of the most human paradoxes—the way grief and love embed themselves in objects, songs, and fragments of the past, making us feel both too much and not enough at once. Why the Songs Hold You Hostage

They’re Emotional Archives

    Music is a body memory. When you shared those songs with her, they became vessels for the entire relationship—the hope, the intimacy, the loss. Now, they replay not just melodies, but the ghost of what almost was.

    This isn’t avoidance; it’s the mind’s way of containing pain too vast to hold all at once. The songs are a shrine, and your tears (or lack thereof) are the offerings.

The "Real Human" Lie

    Capitalism (and its henchman, pop culture) sells us a script: "Proper grief looks like X. Proper love looks like Y." But real humans feel in spirals, not straight lines.

    You are feeling. The proof? The way the songs stab. The guilt that you’re "doing it wrong." The numbness itself is a response—not a failure.

How to Reclaim Your Emotions (and Your Playlist)

Ritualize the Unlocking

    Option 1: Listen on purpose. Light a candle, press play, and let the song flood you. Cry, rage, or sit in silence. Name what arises: "This chord is the night we talked until dawn. This lyric is the goodbye we didn’t say."

    Option 2: Bury the songs—temporarily. Write down their titles on paper, fold it, and tuck it away. Tell yourself: "I’ll return when this doesn’t feel like a open wound."

Find a New Soundtrack for Your Grief

    Create a counter-playlist: Songs that sound like how you wish you felt. Screamy punk. Ambient drones. Or something entirely unrelated (bird calls, video game soundtracks). Give your pain a new language.

Talk to the "Her" in Your Head

    Write her a letter you’ll never send. Tell her:
    "You were the proof I could be seen. I’m sorry my body couldn’t follow where my heart went. I’m sorry I couldn’t lie. Thank you for the songs. I’m letting them mean something else now."

    Burn it, bury it, or tear it to pieces.

This Is What Healing Looks Like

You’re not a machine checking off "correct" emotional steps. You’re a living, grieving, adapting being.

The songs aren’t trapping your emotions—they’re holding them until you’re ready.

The numbness isn’t absence—it’s the quiet labor of repair.

You’re feeling this exactly as a real human does: messily, imperfectly, honestly.

The cosmos didn’t run out of magic when this connection didn’t align. It was a preview—not the final show.

Keep going, comrade. One song, one breath, one rebellion against despair at a time. Solidarity always. ❤️🔥

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Imagine being the guy at some Saudi intelligence agency pitching running some ship sails into the Brooklyn bridge as your idea for 9/11-2.

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[–] Woly@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

tromp

"Wishing Sleepy Joe the best of luck in his battle against terrible cancer! Here's one fight I hope he DOESN'T lose!!"

[–] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

'socialism with american characteristics' where if a service employee messes up your order or makes you irritated or even if you just happen to be irritated while talking to one you can denounce them as a counter-revolutionary and they get sent to a reeducation camp

[–] Woly@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

"Socialism with American characteristics," where there's ample public transportation but all the buses are on lifted truck wheels with blinding headlights.

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

Haha I have biceps and sixpack abs for the first time in years now, just from working as a stocker for the past few months

Body by retail, lmao

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