The pod race is genuinely a blast. As are some parts of the final battle. Jar Jar is mostly annoying and definitely a racial stereotype, but some of his lines got a chuckle out of me even today.

Oh shit dialectics

that I seriously believed that evil simply did not exist, and the closest thing to evil was just ignorance.

Yeah I believed essentially this for a long time. Like I'm pretty sure bullshit like "Hitler thought he was doing the right thing" came out of my mouth at some point.

I mean to some extent I still struggle with it. I have a hard time believing that "regular people" that I meet and can interact with can just be straight up evil. I still can only feel that way about historical figures and politicans and famous sex pests (and even then, only the worst ones) and such. I prefer to believe people are misguided in most cases. My mind tends to relate to why people think that way. And I mean, I am a stubborn rehabilitation and restoration guy when it comes to justice to this day, but now thats somewhat curtailed by the knowledge that some people cant be rehabilated, its just better to stick to it as a policy for a state.

That point about tear gas is good though.

I actually agree with you that Putin doesnt actually care about Palestine, but this isnt about sowing division, its geopolitical chess. And Russia's geopolitical position makes him capable of taking the right position.

Yeah I don't think so. His approval rating has always been low and Democrats are super energized by abortion (they were only being deflated because Biden old, some by Gaza obv but not enough to matter). He beat Hillary because Hillary sucks ass. As I said in another comment, "a particularly youthful looking broom with a wig on and a speech bubble attatched to it saying "abortion" could probably beat Trump".

I'm standing by the old narrative. Trump sucks ass and it took a particularly shitty candidate to lose to him (Hillary).

Also I would like to state for the court record that I find the moralizing of the hardcore anti-Reylo people way more annoying than Reylo shippers or Reylo itself could ever dream to be.

But haha royals getting owned funny.

What is your moral objection to fucking a sapient being capable of consenting to sex?

But also fuck Red Bull. Being back cranberry flavor it was the best drink I ever had.

Yeah im starting to gather that. Two of my maoist mutuals on twitter have reduced it to to just Sisonist and Gonzalite disagreement on the universality of PPW (and one said Sison has "rightist deviations" lol).

But my Phillipine Maoist friend spoke highly of Gonzalo for a long time so i didnt realize.

Yeah very true. (These things have crossover. UltraDavid famously uses an accessibility controller because his nerves in his hands are messed up or something like that).

Broadly speaking I agree with that I think. Especially rejecting the idea that Palestinians want the status quo or anything like that. I just think conflating a people with their government is always dangerous and I'm warry that it serves Israel's goals if you're not careful about it.

As an anarchist you should agree with "marriage is a patriarchal institution" since that take was pretty much invented by anarchists.