Marowak is an unorthodox pull
Venusaur being dead weight at thirty is wild, you can shut down entire teams with that sucker.
Also he eventually gets murdered because he recruited a bunch of bodyguards whose ultimate loyalty was to somebody else.
He didn’t get betrayed, he actively sought out and relied on an obviously insane man. Pellaeon, the POV character, is saying “sir this seems like a bad idea” and Thrawn just barrels forwards
I don’t really see the similarities…
I agree, if you ran this sort of totalitarian society that also had total immigration controls you might be able to pull it off. Not sure if the mass murder would be worth it though.
True. I guess what I’m saying is that he doesn’t fit nicely into existing conspiracy theories, there’s a very obvious alternative reason for his behavior, and him being so repellent stigmatizes the sort of vague populist most inclined to push antisemitism without paving a path for them.
Does he have dual loyalty? No.
Is he particularly wealthy or hooked into existing power networks? No.
Is he brain-damaged? Yes.
Silver lining with all this Fetterman nonsense is that a large oaf being Israel’s strongest soldier in the senate really does push back on antisemitic conspiracy theories
I believe he didn’t like Andor because it’s basically the opposite of anything he’s ever had a hand in, but that doesn’t come with the idea that he was somehow opposed to it. I think Filoni’s smart enough to know not everything has to be to his taste, and vice versa.
Yes! This applies to Whedon as well, like the things that make them effective manipulators are the same things that make them effective storytellers.
Oh I hate TFA too. I justify it through the reception the rest of the sequel trilogy got, but it all got started with Disney absolutely pegging the public as a bunch of simpletons who would clap like seals for anything that reminded them of A New Hope.
They were thinking it would make a ton of money and get great reviews (it did)
Well, in the Zahn books, he wasn’t. Like it’s pretty clear he’s making a massive mistake trusting C’Baoth early on.
Because it is nearly impossible for non force-users to detect and control force-users. Like, is that guy using a Jedi mind trick? Or is he just extremely persuasive? Can you even draw that line?
Begone, Kreia!
The fact that life is innately entangled with the force.
No lol people were just making fun of her for having being obscenely rich and still having mold in her house.
Fact is, Rowling going transphobe is pretty unremarkable given her wealth and Britishness.
Most of this is just ex post facto uncharitable interpretations based on her personal repugnance. Like, the “woke” who thinks slavery is bad is very clearly the character Rowling personally identifies with.
This applies to Rowling too. Her books were very popular and well-written YA, something did in fact earn all that success.
No it’s not.
1. The claim isn’t unfalsifiable, one can easily imagine finding some Aramaic writing from the first century saying “this James fellow is a con artist, Jesus never existed”.
2. Russell’s teapot is explicitly about not believing things, not believing that they don’t exist!
If there is insufficient evidence of Jesus’s historicity for you, you have no obligation to believe the man ever existed.
But to believe affirmatively that he did NOT exist, you need to have evidence that meets that standard you’ve set.
No, it’s a well-known fallacy, the argument from ignorance, to believe something to be true or false because of lack of evidence to the contrary.
You have pointed out several examples in this thread of religious leaders who allegedly performed miracles but definitely existed. It seems rational to assume that the same thing happened here, rather than people making up a religious leader, something that I cannot remember a single instance of.
If you want to be agnostic on the historical Jesus because you have high standards for historicity, go ahead.
But affirmatively believing that no such person existed is irrational, it’s assuming that because something can’t be proven it’s not true.
“Doubting and demanding better evidence” (which is impossible but whatever) is actually very different from believing that this person is mythical.
That’s in living memory! James was running a church in Jerusalem, a place where much of the stuff in the Bible happened, hard to imagine he’d have many followers if people were like “LOL I was there, that guy never existed”.
And just…is there ANY example of a religious movement or cult inventing a guy who was supposed to have existed in living memory? Generally these movements form around a real, actually existing charismatic figure, assuming away Jesus makes Christianity far more surreal than accepting he existed.
It is kind of hard to imagine a few fishermen coming up with a new religious doctrine and attributing it to one of their brothers if said brother didn’t actually exist. Like, why wouldn’t James have taken the credit himself, rather than attributing it to a nonexistent brother?
Be extremely funny if he got off on speedy trial grounds
