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The Confederacy of Independent Systems, abbreviated to CIS, and otherwise known as the Separatist Alliance, the Separatist State, the Separatist Confederacy, the Separatist coalition, or simply referred to as the Separatists, was a confederation with limited recognition of outlying star systems in the galaxy that had declared independence from the Galactic Republic, a democratic union, and had its capital on the planet Raxus Secundus in the Outer Rim. Secession could be traced back to the Raxus Address by former Jedi Master Count Dooku of Serenno, from a belief of excessive taxation and corruption within the Galactic Senate, as well as a general feeling of dissatisfaction towards the neglect by the Republic-centric Core Worlds. Furthermore, the Confederacy was secretly supported by several major galactic corporations which formed the executive council, while a parliament of senators become its civilian legislature.

Thousands of disgruntled star systems seceded from the Republic and joined together in the newly-created Confederacy of Independent Systems, born from a galaxy-wide secessionist movement orchestrated by the Count of Serenno Dooku. By 24 BBY, it had become a political crisis which led to escalating tensions between the Republic and the rising Confederacy. Many within the Confederacy, including its senators, had no desire in fighting their adversaries, as they sought to be free of what they saw as the corruption and tyranny of the Republic. The Confederacy was supported by the Trade Federation, led by Viceroy Nute Gunray; the Stalgasin hive, led by Archduke Poggle the Lesser; the InterGalactic Banking Clan, headed by Chairman San Hill; the Techno Union, led by Foreman Wat Tambor; the Commerce Guild, led by Presidente Shu Mai; the Corporate Alliance, led by Magistrate Passel Argente; and the Retail Caucus. However, in 22 BBY, both governments and their respective military forces became enmeshed in the pan-galactic Clone Wars, the first major conflict in a millennium, after the conflict exploded into being on the Confederacy's first capital world, Geonosis.

By the third year of the war, the Confederacy had suffered several major defeats in the Outer Rim Sieges as the conflict began to approach its end, while losing many starships in the decisive Battle of Coruscant, which also resulted in the death of Dooku. In the days following their defeat at Coruscant, General Grievous was neutralized on the planet Utapau, leading to the collapse of the Separatist leadership, and the fighting effectively coming to an end.

Following both the Jedi's demise and rise of the Galactic Empire, Viceroy Nute Gunray and the other surviving leaders gathered on the planet Mustafar with hopes of securing peace with the newly rising Empire ruled by Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine. However he sent his new apprentice Darth Vader to wipe out them and deactivate the Separatist Droid Army as a threat to his Empire.

With the end of the Clone Wars, the newly-formed Galactic Empire as the successor to the Old Republic, reintergrated former Separatists worlds into the Empire, with only several holdouts daring to resist the Empire, which were suppressed. But an idealized view of the cause persisted during the Imperial Era, with some still holding secessionist tendencies, even into the New Republic Era.

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[-] newacctidk@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I came across a documentary on the German spy ring the Red Orchestra with the synopsis being focused on how they are totally not communists

The Gestapo labeled them as communists and traitors for their efforts to put an end to Hitler’s reign -- a theory that was upheld by allied secret services until recently.

Historians now officially recognize the Red Orchestra as one of the largest and most efficient Nazi resistance groups, with members who held a variety of political and religious beliefs. Forty percent of the members were women.

First of all what the fuck do they mean "officially"? And who are said historians? Are all prior historians not official? But the more egregious thing is the implicit framing here of Communist and traitor being equal. Like this is treated as a proud rehabilitation like oh thank god this resistance was not communist so now we can feel bad they got murdered by Hitler, otherwise Hitler was in the right.

But also, the leadership was full of communists, had intense links to other communist parties, was particularly looked into by the Nazis because of their ties to the French Communist Party which the Nazis feared was being directly aided by the USSR

The Gestapo's purpose in running this particular funkspiel was to discover Soviet links to the French Communist Party, the French Resistance and the Red Three.

Yes the group was more informal, was cell based, and did have members of different political beliefs and religious backgrounds, but that was NEVER disputed by the older view. Here is a West German theologian who got a bunch of shit in germany for this statement

And no matter whether it suits us today or not, we shouldn't hide the fact that there was also such a thing as a 'Red Orchestra': communists who were also involved in this struggle and also fell as victims of Nazism. No matter what their ideological background was and what one might think of their particular motivations and actions: these people didn't want to be part of what the Nazis wanted; they wanted to set a limit to their depraved and ruinous regime, to put an end to it. [...] Had they succeeded, it might have rendered a large amount of further human as well as material sacrifices unnecessary. But they didn't succeed. And this was not just their own fault, but was also because so few in Germany were willing to join and help them with determination, before it became safe to do so, and that they received so little understanding or meaningful assistance from outside

A bunch of modern scholarship does "correct" the idea that they are a Soviet spy ring, something the Soviets and DDR never claimed. The reality is that the idea of a self conscious "Red Orchestra" organization that was centrally led was false, and them being a section of soviet intelligence is not true, but like......their network was almost entirely reliant on other communist parties in occupied countries, and cells did operations directly with the NKVD and red army. Like Hans Coppi who fucked up an exhibition mocking the soviets, and later met with NKVD who parachuted into Germany.

A BUNCH of leaders of those various cells were communists, and the infrastructure of the KPD was instrumental. Of the 400 members it is like a full quarter are Communists openly, more than any other group. Shit like this is why I dislike documentaries, they are narrative driven and sorta require a framing of "new evidence" or interpretation. They rarely add nuance

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I wish to drive a golf cart into a ditch, just keep doing this until I fill a ditch with golf karts and it's no longer a ditch.

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

real it just works hours my only problem with fedora so far was some strange freeze/lags but it seems to have gone after installing nvidia drivers.

if i can get mod organizer running through steam we might be playing skyrim in a couple days. really stoked

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[-] buh@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

the only thing I disliked about the new final destination movie is how the hottest character's death was also the most disturbing ohnoes but maybe his hotness was a contributing factor πŸ€”

[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Got back to watching better call saul, it's getting good again. Might finish it this weekend and start breaking bad next, got real hopes for the sequel waltuh

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[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

they got global mod configuration menus in skyrim SE??? i'm not going to have to spend an hour setting up the mods for a new savefile???

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is a post

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

installing mods fucking sucks, why isn't there just one big fucking SKSE download with all the goddamned scripts (i know why this is rhetorical). but unforced granularity like this for the best results is what made wabbajack happen, modders need to be more collectively minded

[-] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

they took away acrobatics in Skyrim and gave it to the horses.

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I was the first one in my village to listen to Chapo which explains my terrible political analysis, but then in 2020 I took the china pill, became third-worldist and denounced Bernie Sanders as Hitler from Vermont.

Haven't been wrong since.

[-] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

'socialism with american characteristics' where if a service employee messes up your order or makes you irritated or even if you just happen to be irritated while talking to one you can denounce them as a counter-revolutionary and they get sent to a reeducation camp

[-] Woly@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

"Socialism with American characteristics," where there's ample public transportation but all the buses are on lifted truck wheels with blinding headlights.

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[-] Woly@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

tromp

"Wishing Sleepy Joe the best of luck in his battle against terrible cancer! Here's one fight I hope he DOESN'T lose!!"

[-] wombat@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

it is may 18 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Maybe adding fuel to a fire on a now deleted post, but I get it. When you got something like ADHD (in my case) or OCD like some people I've known, it's annoying as hell for every other person to be like, "yeah, I have that too, I think. I took an online quiz".

Diagnosis shouldn't always be necessary, but it sucks when you struggle with something and to constantly have people diminish something that actually hampers your life in one way or another.

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

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my picksshedinja, treecko, mega latias, armaldo, marshstomp, mega salamence, wormadan plant, chikorita, mega sceptile

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[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago
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[-] wideopenarms@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

I love my girlfriend, she's really neat and I like making her laugh and cuddling before going to sleep, it's great stuff

[-] Barabas@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Watched Murderbot diaries with my partner and I surprised how much I empathise with Murderbot seeing as I do event jobs for an art collective that couldn’t manage their way out of a wet paper bag. I kind of passively witness all the interpersonal drama, they keep trying to get me to be more in touch with my spirit or whatever and I have to make sure they don’t hurt themselves as they build rickety ass contraptions with loose wiring and shit. I am also terrible at eye contact.

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

this blows i have to install windows because i couldn't figure out/hit the correct keys in time to make it boot from the usb instead, so i'm going to have to set it up just to restart with the "advanced startup" smdh

[-] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Damn, just learned that musician Ed Askew died back in January, RIP

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

This Nuggets-Thunder series has felt like an underdog doing a valiant job pulling out every stop to stay alive against a juggernaut, but it looks like they're finally being overwhelmed.

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[-] miz@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

are you a Tim-head or a Gregg-head?

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