pretty funny that Andor’s sister was a total red herring that was never explored beyond the very first scene of the series.

Rogue One is next chronologically, but I wouldn’t say it shares much with Andor apart from the characters.

Jenny Nicholson pretty much mirrors all the thoughts I had when Rogue One came out, and this is coming from someone who really liked The Force Awakens

Lol @2:15 “Man, it’s starting to feel like all the interesting stuff in Rogue One happened before Rogue One, maybe we need a prequel to Rogue One? Just kidding.” Perfection.

Was Dedra actually the most competent ISB inspector, who was unfairly sidelined by the Empire’s self-defeating politics, or was she just as naive and vain as all the rest of them, and her obsession with axis did nothing to strengthen imperial security or stymie the growth of the rebellion?

not everyone on my block list is a wrecker.

yeah, I saw an r/196 post about Andor, and comments were mocking how bernie bros would’ve criticized and refused to vote for her because she didn’t have the right stance on Gaza (this is before her genocide speech, i guess they were too stupid to see what was being set up on Ghorman). it’s such a brainworm take that andor suggests for a moment that voting for more democrat Senators is a route to taking down Palpatine. Do most planets even elect senators by popular vote? They also forget all the times in Season 1 that Mothma says explicitly that her position as opposition senator is completely symbollic and only tolerated because all her initiatives are futile and inconsequential.

https://www.reddit.com/r/196/comments/1k9j6no/we_need_more_mon_mothmas_rule/

I think they’ve done a good job picking unique looking people. especially in the ISB boardroom or Narkina 5 where everyone is wearing the same uniform, it’s good to have people that are easy to remember.

also good to the see the empire again lead by a coterie of balding men plausibly old enough to be a senior rank like in the original trilogy, compared to the Sequels where the entire military leadership is represented by a 32 year old comic relief character “Hux”

seems like rewriting history to say H3 was never funny. tbf, I think there is something fundamentally wrong with anyone who ever thought the podcast was good, and towards the end of the channel, most of the videos were stinkers, but I think videos like “Pranks in the hood” still stand up today. He was doing react content that stood apart from insanely low standards for the time, and that also targetted extremely toxic trends. he also dipped into the SJW cringe racket frequently enough, which is totally unforgivable because 10 years ago liberal feminists where all acting completely normal and not doing a single thing that was funny or exaggerated.

it also shows that everything Luthen and the rebellion are doing to build an army is also completely unneccesary, since The Rise of Skywalker shows they just needed was to send one broadcast to the galaxy and a gigantic pro-democracy privateer army would materialize at their specific coordinates and fight coherently .

Orientalism is not just a set of stereotypes, but an institution for the production of knowledge. is is the creation, defining, and imagining of “The orient” which conditions knowledge of the orient with domination of the orient. this link between knowledge production and state projects was to authorize a kind of bird’s-eye view of the non-Western world, one that positioned the knowing observer as superior in every respect (more rational, logical, scientific, realistic, and objective) to the object of contemplation.

“Said also suggested that there was no simple way out of the orientalist’s discourse, that one could not simply substitute “true” representations of the Orient for “false” ones. This is so because representations are more than simply passive reflections of reality. Rather, they contribute to the production of the real. This has especially been the case in a situation where epistemological issues were conjoined with the physical power and resources at the command of imperial states. As the works of those who followed Said have shown, imperial projects constructed an Orient that mimicked orientalist representations, and these constructs were, in turn, recovered by later generations of Western scholars as proof of the timeless regularities of the East”

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You mean Russia, China, and the USA all have missile interceptor programs they’re pouring money into, and pretending they’re having successful interceptions of ICBM targets? And at the same time, Russia and China are developing new MIRVs and other systems to evade US missile defenses which don’t work?

I believe they’ve destroyed around 6 of around 40 launchers, and a couple radars. regardless, the Russia air force is still staying close to the border and lobbing glide bombs before immediately deploying countermeasures and afterburning back to friendly airspace.

China already has a mutual defense treaty with North Korea

Russia signed a mutual defense pact with North Korea in 2024, so perhaps Russia could be brought in already with a WWI style web of alliances.

True. so far, it looks like China is slightly increasing their stockpile, but increasing the sophistication of their delivery systems. I also think it could be possible that during the final year of escalation, Russia and China sign a mutual defense treaty.

I think it’s plausible the US would use it’s regional proxies to full effect and support Islamists overthrowing Pakistan and directing them to launch their nukes at China.

$25 billion can buy 50 new Patriot batteries (200 Launchers with Radars, command centers, etc) which would be a substantial defense for coastal infrastructure and facilities like Intel’s Arizona campus.

Gordon Chang, but he’s a white guy named Gao Chandler, and he predicts America will collapse every year.

This may be my Hitler shaking hands with Stalin moment, someone has to pay for airing the Arthur episode where DW breaks his model plane and Arthur gets in trouble anyway.

POC Putin.