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from Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to starwarsmemes@lemmy.world on 15 Nov 05:25
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sunoc@sh.itjust.works on 15 Nov 05:30 next collapse

Too real

Archangel1313@lemmy.ca on 15 Nov 06:36 next collapse

Well, technically…Tatooine was not a member of the Republic.

whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Nov 07:56 next collapse

Illegal commies from the border planets are all hutt gangsters and wizard hermits hooked on spice trying to steal our precious imperial fluids

aeronmelon@lemmy.world on 15 Nov 11:04 next collapse

Imperial fluids

Donald, is that you?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world on 15 Nov 17:51 collapse

Luke, do you realize that in addition to blueidating milk, why, there are studies underway to blueidate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, water… ice cream. Ice cream, Luke, children’s ice cream. You know when blueidation first began? Eight Teen Bee Bee Why, Luke. How does that coincide with your post-war clonie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious imperial fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core clonie works.

s@piefed.world on 15 Nov 11:43 collapse

Yeah the metaphor doesn’t really work with Star Wars’ electoral system, the candidacies, or Owen Lars’s specific opinions/role. Maybe Nute Gunray saying “The war is over. Lord Sidious promised us peace” and then immediately getting killed is a more apt leopards-eating-face scenario.

MisterFrog@lemmy.world on 16 Nov 04:22 collapse

The fact that each planet elects their representatives in different ways definitely fits the US though

abfarid@startrek.website on 15 Nov 10:00 next collapse

I just realized he’s the guy who plays the main character in Dark Matter (2024)

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club on 15 Nov 17:19 next collapse

He was a slave (or just sold his kid/nephew into slavery?) way before Palpation rose to power, and wasn’t even in the same republic/empire.

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 17 Nov 02:36 collapse

You seem confused about Owen.

Owen is Anakin’s stepbrother. His father bought/freed/whatever’d Shmi after Owen’s mother died, and neither had anything to do with Anakin’s slavery.

Tatooine does get annexed back into the Republic/Empire shortly after the events of the movie iirc. In old canon it was always part of the Republic so people get confused on the status a lot. I think the current canon is that was part of the Old/High Republic and had slipped out into Hutt control at some point.

Now Owen was a slave holder, he owns several droids on his metaphor for a frontier farm in the middle of Manifest Destiny.

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club on 17 Nov 09:48 collapse

Thx for the info!
So Anakin lived with his mother, who wasn’t a slave, and neither was Owen - but Anakin was?

And yes, I just assumed the planet was always under Hutts, but the lore def got expanded, which is always nice.

Objection@lemmy.ml on 15 Nov 17:35 next collapse

Bit of a strained metaphor, seeing as Amidala was actually anti-war and not a fan of genocide. Libs in the Star Wars Universe would be calling Amidala a separatist droid.

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 17 Nov 02:13 collapse

But Owen was a slave owner…

In retrospect the Star Wars galaxy is pretty fucked when you think about it.

Same as a conservative, Owen’s just lying about his actual goals, the continuing 1000-year genocide of the Tuskens and protecting his slavery backed holdings.

Alenalda@lemmy.world on 15 Nov 18:08 next collapse

Obligatory Star War News because I love this move and the showdy.

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works on 15 Nov 20:04 collapse

This is brilliant. Thanks for sharing.

Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world on 16 Nov 21:01 next collapse

Pug?

Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip on 20 Nov 15:05 collapse

Why would a Tatooinian farmer be voting for a Naboonian senator?