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The Emperor could easily close those tax loopholes

Were they not closed?

You could tell by how Grand Admiral Thrawn

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 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.

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.

Oh, forgot about that - 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.)

(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?

Isn’t the new show just canon saying they forced them/the jedi had to bring them in bcs of the threat they would become sith?

Also nobody went & rescue Vaders parents, they just bought a child slave (if he would work for them that is), and neither the planetary royalty nor the galactic Jedi order didn’t have the funds to buy two parent slaves (or help the planet for that matter).

The Jedi council are unelected folk (from a religious sect) just doing things bcs they can. Like kidnapping all force-sensitive children.
They are like the Church in the middle ages with a private army, public funding, more powerful than most state officials, not subject to state laws, and not disclosing their affairs or motives publicly.

But the Republic was also fueled by greed and corruption … so just new management?

(… not even that new actually?)

Some propaganda:

Tho OPs pic’s point remains - SW is a space western & can’t give us the full picture of how the average world lived under either of systems, but going from widespread and generational corruption (not just the Jedi, but starting there) to a single point of power (dictatorship) initially lowers the corruption & dethrones (or recruits in diminished way) various mini-powers/leaders/mobsters bcs if nothing else they are simply a threat to the image.

At any rate, never be ok being governed by a 900 year old unelected frog that can’t spot a Sith Lord if they shared a urinal at his visit to the senate (and the frogs religious zealotism is centred around genociding said Siths).

imgur used to be really good, minimal ui, super fast.

But we can’t have nice things.
Unless it’s enshitification, we def can have really good enshitification, we are really good at it.

Omg, the og imgur, the basically Reddit image upload service with almost none and then minimal ui, so good.
(A member we flooded the front page with silly thighs of the day from time to time.)

But we can have nice things.

Yeah, need them hardware manufacturers too.
We would have plenty of Linux phones if drivers were open sauce or even just available closed sauce.

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