Good point and interpretation. Didn’t think of the language as a progression in time instead of a ranking.

Those are effectively outliers. The US makes up 4% of the world population and has 25% of the world’s prison population.

Likely posted from the country with the highest incarceration rate currently.

Literally the whole first trilogy is an allegory for the Vietnam war where the US is the empire

So Leia isn’t a great analog. Maybe a Vader / Palpatine election would be closer to reality

I misread that, hold up.

The United States of America spends more money on it’s military than the next 10 countries COMBINED.

The United States has ~800 military bases all around the world in foreign countries.

This doesn’t sound like an empire to you?

What do you think the United States is more like? A guerilla insurgency or a miltaristic empire imposing its will on the rest of society?

Did Leia keep claiming she wants the most lethal military in the galaxy too?

How does her policy differ from Biden, pray tell?

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We’ve been an evil empire for a while now. A long history of wars, coups, and foreign intervention. It’s a lot more visible in the internet age and the propoganda machine isnt working like it used to.

They’re both part of the owning class. The only difference is degrees

You should be mad at billionaires and landlords, not other working people.

There are not many things that make me irrationally angry… Fucking with my glasses is one of them.

Someone’s got a carbon monoxide leak.

And now only the state can do it. Thank you 13th amendment.

Fascism is truly a death cult

It seems you’ve come from a time line where we got rid of the food regulations and you’ve injested far too much lead.

How about, no rounds per target?

I love how you’re debate-lording me on the specifics of how civilians, children and their infrastructure get blown to bits. Even if you could justify it in that way, that shit is still a war crime for a reason.

Ah yes, because the current bombing campaign against civilians and civilian infrastructure has been very humanitarian. So glad Israel has been showing “restraint”. Never mind the white phosphorous too, very legal and very restrained.