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      16 hours ago

      (Oh, I’m so sorry, forum life changed me, I assumed against my instincts! I actually love play-fighting on fictional shit & taking comically one-sided stances for the duration of the debate, whatever side is less represented atm.)

      To democracy?
      But we had the democratic senate (except the leader) for several months into our glorious Empire!

      We ofc had to dismantle it bcs the floating podiums burned through too much electricity & we stand for efficiency.

      Just look at our newest high efficiency orbital battle station (Death Star), it obliterated Alderans unemployment rate in seconds!

      (We should built more tho, they have a super sensitive g-spot.)

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        14 hours ago

        I don’t know how you can run a functioning government if you build huge, wasteful battle stations so that you can blow up some of your wealthiest taxpaying planets.

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          They were just super wealthy, but offshored their profits & basically paid less in taxes than your average endorian ewok living on a tax exempt planet.
          After the end of Alderaan other economies were freed from it’s influence & prospered.

          And the leaders were like super posh, like you wouldn’t believe how annoying.

          And the battle stations arent wasteful, at least not if terrorists wouldn’t help blowing them up.

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          That’s because you’re buying into the Imperial propaganda that the intended result is, in fact, a functioning government. The entire edifice is actually a scheme designed to maximize suffering, because that’s what the crazy cult that the Emperor’s secretly in charge of calls for. Rahm Kota’s got a series of holovids talking all about it on the darknet!

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            That’s extremist, terrorist propaganda!!

            There is only one Vader boi & he can’t personally chop that many not just the men, but the women and children too.
            And the mad lad is just sent on hotspots as a deterrent basically.

            And most of the time he fights groups that were established & hoarded their corrupted wealth under the Republic-sanctioned orders.

            The Republic artificially maintained wealth classes, kept some planets poor just to solidify it’s government’s reign & power.
            With resources to eradicate it all.