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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 hours ago

Trump did tweet that he was Sith.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Darth Maul is a tragic figure who was manipulated and used, while not necessarily good he had redemption by having a strong morality and ethics.

He watched his brother be manipulated and twisted in the same way and cast aside.

By the time he died. Obi Wan was the only friend Maul truly knew.

All this said he’d cut his own legs off, for a third time, if he knew he was being compared to musk.

Ray Park deserves better.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Only friend? He tried to kill him. Again. And died for the attempt.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

Yep.

Frenemies

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 hours ago

Fuck that, don't compliment these buffoons.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 46 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] middlemanSI@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world??

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 hours ago

Please, no. I can't stand hearing Trump's voice for one second more.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 36 points 13 hours ago

I can. Darth Sidious was horribly evil, yes. but he was also fairly competent in his mechanations. Trump is utterly incompetent.

[–] Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 28 points 14 hours ago

fElon is no way as cool as Darth Maul

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The Sith were competent and clever

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Weren't they beaten by teddy bears?

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Imperial forces lost a guerilla war on a planet they had no real need to be at. Yes.

The Sith however were not defeated on Endor.

The Sith are not often “defeated”, set backs and speed bumps? Yes.

But hey once they finally ditch old palps maybe they’ll have good leadership again.

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

Palps was the most successful Sith at gaining control over the galaxy in their history.

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

The Sith however were not defeated on Endor.

That's part of why I didn't carry on with Nu Star Wars after watching The Force Awakens.

  1. "Isn't this just... the same damned story as Star Wars?"
  2. "Doesn't this make everything in the original trilogy basically a waste of time?"

Although perhaps there's a lesson in that... as forces that seemed defeated in 1865 are back again... yet again.

[–] supernicepojo@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago

Dork Insipidous and his master Dork Melange

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 11 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I would love to hear about Darth Maul's side story where he is addicted to ketamine and also how he got into the dark side due to his father's lightsaber cristal mines or something.

I get irrationally angry that those people are not even cool, they are just junkie losers...

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I have to assume this is the plot of the upcoming Shadow Lord series.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 hours ago

But it's drama, Darth Maul turns to the dark side because his wife left him and his kids hate him.... That sounds very cool.

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

And how Donald Trump started his career as a senator in order to manipulate global politics and create a proxy war so that he could consolidate power.

Inversely, this picture could only be accurate if Sheev were a useful idiot put in place by Tarkin to facilitate keeping the Empire Party in power long enough for the banking klan to gain complete regulatory capture, with assistance from the owners of the holonet

[–] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 9 points 13 hours ago

That makes Elmo seem way too badass.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I always thought Musk was mocking the Kennedy painting: