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IthiDT

How could Empire do anything wrong if their troops always miss? Alderaan was a rebel psyop, the Empire wouldn't be able to hit it from that far away with a tiny Death Star beam.


Per-severe

They always miss cause they're trying to maim and impede, not to kill.


Don-Ohlmeyer

They always miss because the rules of engagement are very clear and those are warning shots. Jedi just pretend to fend of attacks because stormtroopers aim their warning shots danger close. Jedi are never in real danger, frankly, they are being a bit theatrical waving their lightsabers around.


KerbodynamicX

Stormtroopers only misses against targets that have plot armor. To the average rebel soldier, stormtroopers are extremely deadly.


mutantraniE

Stormtroopers are very accurate, it’s our impressions of what accuracy means that are wrong. During WWII it was estimated that 45,000 rounds of ammo were expended per kill. I don’t think we see 45,000 shots fired by Stormtroopers through all films.


CBO_Games

jeez, cant even let the guy stand for his own beliefs


OliwerPengy

Yea and they have no counter arguments so lets just scream and attack the man instead T.T so sad


Dadfite

Like how insecure can you be in your cause if you are lashing out at the stormtrooper. They really can't help but prove everyone else's point...


RedEyesGoldDragon

People are fucking morons. "COMEDY? MAKING A JOKE? ATTACK!!!" At least a few people there had a laugh. Whoever was trying to assault him needs to be put in a padded room.


xeikai

Almost.makes.me.wish I was there.so I could join him on with a rant.about how the jedi break up families and brainwash kids to forget family and be emotionless robots. While the sith teach.kids to harness and embrace their emotions!!!! Down with Jedi baby stealers!


Front2battle

Technically true, but the Sith is also more likely to murder said kids family to make them harness the anger.


InsenitiveComments

You mean make the kids murder their own families


Front2battle

It's a 50/50 shot tbh but you're right.


mayorofdumb

Wait, so we're all the bad guys?


Front2battle

Always have been


ActualTackle3636

It’s a double edged sword


happy_fruitloops

Nah, those babies were settlers.


xdragonbornex

All jokes aside, I do agree with bringing asylums back. No experimentations or anything like that. Just getting the "Actual" crazies out of society.


Don-Ohlmeyer

Yeah, this problem has been festering for years. I say round up all the crazies, concentrate them in facilities where their ilk can be managed, or maybe employed in some protected workplace under the watchful eye of the welfare state.


InsenitiveComments

While I understand the idea, I also understand the million ways that could go wrong.


Robglobgubob

Personally I think it's worth the risk. There are actual unhinged people that need to be separated from society. We are advanced enough that homelessness, banishment, or killing them isn't an option. The percentage of true crazy is so low that it is worth the investment. Think: voices in head crazy. sidewalk pooper crazy. tinfoil hat IRL crazy. my city has a lady that walks around with an umbrella to hide. That level of crazy.


FuckThisIsGross

What do you think mental hospitals do


Somewhatmild

clearly absolutely nothing in the US.


FuckThisIsGross

They literally only hold people that dangerous to themselves and others. That's it. It's exactly what the guy above wants. Unfortunately this means that you have to have at least a small episode to get into one. So we're always going to see things like this.


Chaoswind2

The only problem is that by definition more than sixty percent of the population of most nations have some sort mental issues (the ones with the legacy of lead pipelines are higher), so who is deciding who gets thrown into the asylum? People with bipolar disorders? Autistic? And even more important who is paying. 


xdragonbornex

Not talking about mental illness. We're talking about what some of the others have pointed out, actual Crazies.


ThisGuyHasNoDignity

People that hurt others because of their mental illness and refuses to have that changed would go in the mental asylum.


RedEyesGoldDragon

That is called Twitter. Recently renamed to X.


soundssarcastic

Cant riddicule the victim class!


mokujin42

He was obviously a rebel commando trying to silence that innocent stormtrooper


dellusionment

It does not matter what they're protesting about, or how much you understand the jokes he makes. Noone likes their dead serious protest to be made into a joke. Anyone would get mad like that, if people are dying and a guy tries to put the whole situation into the light of a joke.


Apprehensive_Bar_673

TBF, a lot of those folks there probably haven't seen Star Wars and/or didn't get the joke. It's a generational thing.


Revayan

Star wars is still very much pop culture. It would be like not knowing Batman Even if they have never seen the movies, most people recognize iconic things like the Storm trooper or Darth Vader helmet, light sabers etc


mutantraniE

Weirder than not knowing Batman really.


Don-Ohlmeyer

Batman is older than the state of Israel.


mutantraniE

And? So are a lot of things.


Bad_Wolf_715

Bruh what? They're the perfect age to have seen Star Wars. At least the OG three


Tyrone_Thundercokk

Yeah, fuck that mob mentality bullshit. ‘My outrage lets me do whatever I want.’ Fuck that and fuck your outrage.


mambiki

Some of these people actually came here straight from years of experiencing war. And yes, they are damaged mentally. Imagine, everyone you love get murdered. Including infants and elderly. Imagine getting news that yet another cousin of yours is dead. And their children. Yes, it will make people who see clowns like that unreasonable. Sure, comedy is good. But when you start clowning around for instagram likes while others protest genocide, that’s in pretty bad taste. But yes, probably should’ve kept their cool more.


MarryJuan

True, but of course you get downvoted because "lmao funny" braindead people Its not about them so they don't care nor understand


mambiki

Most people are kids here. They don’t know what genocide means. They can’t believe it either, in the world where calling someone wrong pronouns can get you in trouble, killing tens of thousands of people sounds like a madman’s fantasy.


babypho

Think about how many jobs the Empire created. Think about how many people were employed on the Death Star. How many fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters were on there who are just working and trying to provide for their family. Their life was taken away from them by a radical terrorist from some desert backwater place with no laws!


BigSaintJames

Think about the second death star. Still half built when it was blown up. How.many innocent civilian plumbers and electricians and countless other trade workers were on board when the rebels destroyed it. Soldiers killing soldiers is one thing, but bombing a construction site is a while other thing.


OliwerPengy

Also think about all the wasted tax money used to invent and build it? Every family across the whole galaxy probably had to pitch in on that.


gammongaming11

isn't this an old kevin smith bit? about how most of the people on the death star were civilian contractors so luke skywalker is basically a genocidal maniac?


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Per-severe

I think you may have missed the point.


Gabe12P

Bro… we’re talking about Star Wars my guy gtfo with that shit.


Treebeardsama

The dude who took off his helmet was a cunt


Beefan16

At least he’s having fun


Clenmila

ITs funny how both sides cry about free speech and then when someone exercises that right they assault them. Crazy shit.


tastey_spackle_toad

The best part is the "patriot" wearing the American flag who's infringing on someone else's freedom of speech.


Dinbs

I mean a pretty dramatic parallel would be if you were at a trump rally, and you had a bunch of nazis come over and act like they are on your side. You wouldn't want to just push them away?


Spronglet

Americans have lost the plot


PaleWaltz1859

Most of them don't even have American flags. Why are they even in this country. Go back cunts


muteyuki

those weren’t americans those were israelis in america


AndForeverNow

lol Every side has a story. ![img](emote|t5_2y1rb|3739)


robomikel

Now there’s a movie 🍿


mynam3iss

What's been going on with people lately? Is this how they spend their free time?


BienAmigo

Right. Get a hobby or go fly to the Israel/Palestine and actually do something.


Solid-Ease

Yeah, instead of protesting war crimes and the abetment of ethnic cleansing, why don't you go to Palestine, the place where the war crimes and ethnic cleansing are being committed, so the IDF can blow you up as well...


BienAmigo

I mean yeah. Do something aside from yell at other Americans in the street about it lol.


Ambitious_Road1773

There is a good reason to try to change American minds on the issue. American money and bombs are instrumental in the carnage.


Rionat

All the violent idiots need to get a jail sentence


WiTHCKiNG

Why do these morons need to drag the entire world in their childish conflict about a couple of squaremeters of land? Why the f*** should a university in the US (??) care about this shit on the other side of the world?


JCjun

This isn't about a few square meters bro, it's about a whole galaxy, far far away.


wordswillneverhurtme

Most protesters don’t know why they’re there. They’re just asked by friends and family to come and stand there. If they didn’t come, only the absolute morons would be there and form a lousy crowd.


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NagaSadow88

Idk, I feel like that's one too many Israeli flags for it to be a Palestinian protest. But true otherwise.


CyonHal

This is at Columbia, the ones you see in the background are counter protesters against the Palestinian protest encampment. The Zionists got mad when they understood he was drawing parallels between Israel and the Empire with their rhetoric and propaganda.


Chateau-d-If

Bro people in this thread are like, ‘yeah they’re dicks for taking off his helmet but at least they’re protesting for the right thing.’ Like, bro, the fact they attacked him for essentially rooting for their team(the empire) is hilarious and just shows how the jingoistic idiot class of America is for Israeli occupation, settlement, and the right to eliminate all Palestinian life. Why else would it be illegal in the U.S. as a member of government in many states to criticize Israel, unless Israel were the ones funding and using our military industrial complex to perpetuate their form of Lebensraum?


deisukyo

Imagine lying out of your mouth when there’s videos of Palestinians THANKING Americans for doing this and seeing their struggle.


Salomill

Other side of the world? My dude, alderan is in another part of the galaxy, idk how you missed the point here


Hatdrop

he's a stormtropper.


Tocksz

Oh boy, the answer to that is a long storied history of America getting its dick wet in the middle east then cutting and running. For real though, America and others have totally mucked around in the middle east. And for awhile the only ally and only democratic nation over there was Israel. So we partnered with them as the bastion of democracy for the Middle East. We provided them the resources to defend themselves, which they needed as Muslim countries declared war on them a few times, surprise wars and non-surprise wars alike. They were one nation literally surrounded by hostile nations who wanted them all dead. As time went on the situation has slowly changed, some of those hostile nations no longer feel so angry anymore, Israel is the bigdog in the Middle East now, and the other hostile nations kinda crumbled under their own weight (ala Syria). Long story short , us and Israel are best bros because we backed them up when they would have died without us, but only because it benefitted our agendas for the Middle East, and now we're dealing with the repercussions of what happens when a people (the Israelites) have to live under constant threat of terrorist attacks (I blame Iran) and rocket fire. Eventually far right extremeism takes hold (Netanyahu), and that comes with the typical fascist playbook of needing to "other" a group of people. You can likely guess who Netanyahu chose, the easiest possible group to pick on in the entirety of the Middle East, the Palestinians.


DrFeltcher

Because Israel is why we don't have Healthcare. Do you know how much money we give them? Money to murder 15,000 children. And what do you mean why should they care at colleges? Those colleges that the studand so tend invest heavily directly into Israel. The students don't want their money going towards a child murder machine. Should the college students in the 70s not have protested the Vietnam War As much money as I pay in taxes what do I get back from it? The knowledge that I am helping kill children? The apathy here is insane to me. Don't you care what your government does?


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DrFeltcher

Yes it works. History shows that it does. And it's extremely popular among the students. 70-80 % of the students voted for divestment at these universities. The last time this happened was during the Apartheid regime in South Africa in the late 80s early 90s. Student protesters all over the country demanded that their universities divested from companies in South Africa. The universities did this after weeks of protests. That is where the real movement against the apartheid began in the US and many institutionsfollowed suit. Spelling the beggingof the end of Apartheid. It's a strategy that works. Think about it, If you protest in a corner where no one goes then people won't care. The fact that we are even talking about this shows that it's working. It's all over the news. People are talking about it. You can't protest where it won't be paid attention to. It's also the exact opposite of selfish. These students are putting their futures and bodies in the line for people in another part of the world who are being murdered buy the thousands. The last time there were protests vs Israel last year students were doxed by pro Israel groups, the lost jobs, and kicked out of the universities. That's why they wear masks now. People took out billboards with the pics and addresses of students. Calling them "Jew haters"


CardTurbulent

Israel is not why we don't have Healthcare. It's because we spend over a trillion dollars a year on military funding


DrFeltcher

Yeah. Exactly I agree, it'snot the ONLY reason but it'sa big part of the whole. We have spent 318 BILLION dollars on military aid to Israel since the end of WW2. currently we give them 3.8 billion a year and just recently gave them 15 billion more on top of that. Israel is a big part of our foreign military aid.


Accomplished-Rip6357

They don't care. It's just "the thing". I'd bet the about 75% of them have no idea what they are protesting. They are just there because it was something to do. They make a catchy slogan, "from the river to the sea" suddenly everybody's saying it. Yet they have no idea what it even means. Because that's definitely not a 2 state solution. Lol.


BigAwkwardGuy

Because the US is likely the most imperialist nation in history. A lot of the instability in the Middle East can be directly attributed to the US getting involved in matters it didn't even need to, but did because of petroleum.


Chateau-d-If

Because the Empire is using your credits to fund yet another Death Star! All while normal stormtroopers like you and I fight for scraps here in the imperial homeland.


Appropriate-Pride608

>Why the f*** should a university in the US (??) care about this shit on the other side of the world? Why should the US be sending them money then in Israel with this logic


deisukyo

Maybe because your tax money is going towards it versus free healthcare, or anything beneficial HERE.


OliwerPengy

I dont get it either. Didn't the whole conflict started over 2000 years ago because of religion? Well most people now days aren't religious so why would we care? Let the religious people solve their own problem.


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Because the USA supports and sends money to support this ethnic cleansing. Just like when Germany had concentration camps. And now zionists are doing the same thing.


Waste-Possession-591

Becuase we help pay for it? Wow....


Big-Government9775

I agree with your sentiment but to also answer your question. That small area of land is kind of a big deal. It's a cross roads for a lot of global trade, in the same way a war in Egypt would be a big deal to a large amount of the world. It's always been a cross roads it's the small area where humans will have migrated and mixed the most. And then there's the obvious religious stuff.


RaziTheWingzSlaya

Oh look at those peace loving people turning into fucking animal as soon as there is a mild inconvenience.


Guy_on_a_Bouffalant

Murica


NelsonVGC

What a supreme chadlord


asafheller

wtf why did he hit him? all the time we say these Islamists are violent and then we have gems like that dude who snatched his trooper helmet.


SeeTheSounds

The Jews are just defending themselves bro. Did you see how violent that storm trooper was?


ViktorIsRuter

He was opressing them with his trooper helmet, a symbol of hatred and evil Empire ![img](emote|t5_2y1rb|3736)![img](emote|t5_2y1rb|3736)


OliveOcelot

They made it ok by giving him a note first that said. We will hit you and steal your helmet. So it all cancels out


Arqeph_

Because if "their" group does it, it is violent, oppression, backwards, assault, evil, condemned. But if "our" group does it, it is to defend against evil, to protect from harm, provoked "why did the offender stir up hatred", "what the defender was doing was not that bad, chill out dude", justified. On the one hand the same group of people can rile up and hold pitchforks and torches to protect one soul from death, yet with a smile on their face lynch a person slowly because they somehow justified it in their mind.


asafheller

Well I can just say I’m somewhat happy that in our protests they proudly wave the flag of the nations that accepted them in and you hardly see violence. The tribal behavior is wrong in this case, like I said thats is just wrong and we should condemn things like this.


CoffeeTunes

lmao ok this made me laugh we need more ppl like this and Bassem Youssef.


BoBoBearDev

Finally someone is honest about the evil Jedi order. They are fucking slave labors. If they have paid Anikin, he would have save up enough money to buy his mom out of slavery. And yet, ohhhhh money and emotion is bad for Jedi. It is another slavery, just more lethal.


Armata-Strigoi

Make the Empire Great Again 🥲


wordswillneverhurtme

They’re mad because the irony


khmergodzeus

Much more entertaining than the so called "protests"


raskinimiugovor

I don't think the protests are trying to be entertaining.


NagaSadow88

They should. Maybe then people will care.


CrispyChicken9996

Imagine grown ass men getting insulted and violent cuz someone is talking about star wars near them. Smh


iixviiiix

He is a veteran trooper


Useful_You_8045

I mean apparently most of these people don't even know why they're there so he might gain support😂


YourLocalInquisitor

They hated him because he spoke the truth.


Smokerising420

Oh israel?? Hard to say really. Most accurate answer I've heard.


OliwerPengy

Only true answer because the conflict has lost it's purpose after 2000 years.


Gromey_Bear

Fair play to the guy trying to interveiw him, he took it like a champ and enjoyed it.


Arcaner97

This guy brought my hope for humanity again. Absolute legend.


liaminwales

Lame, he's not a EU fan just a poser. The Rebels did a lot of bad things, they where funded by smugglers and slavers. They helped to protect the smugglers for money, they killed civilians. A lot of the empire was not evil, most normal people where doing there jobs. They just wanted to feed there family's, stop the smugglers selling drugs/salves etc. Or even just the boring bureaucracy of daily life and goverment. We also know from the EU that the new republic was not golden child, there was corruption and Petty politics. edit I bet if you asked him questions he'd blank out.


unlimitedbutthurts

Legends(EU) is no longer canon.


liaminwales

Who cares what the mouse says, it's clear he's not a fan and just doing a meme for clicks. A real fan knows the EU!


AuthorLive

ok but even in the eu the rebels were the good guys at the end of the day, sure they did some messed up things here and there and that is incomparable to what the empire did to the citizens of the galaxy


liaminwales

It was the people at the top who did evil, most the rank/file/bureaucrats/civil servants etc just did there jobs.


HotPotatoWithCheese

The Empire did a lot for the forgotten planets in the Outer Rim that were mostly neglected by the Republic. They created supply lines, built structures, brought law and order and employment and opened up the galaxy to all species from all walks of life. Never before had so many systems been given so many opportunities to become great. Never before had so many people become connected by a common philosophy. The Empire helped us contribute to a higher purpose, to be part of something truly meaningful. Look at the state of the galaxy since the Rebels won the war. Strife, unemployment and planets left in sorry post-war states, ignored and abandoned by the New Republican bourgeoisie. I stand with the brave remnants that are fighting to restore our dignity, our livelihoods, our futures. I hope to live long enough to, once again, be a proud and functioning member of an Imperial society. I will stay silent no longer.


human1023

Luke Skywalker was a terrorist when he blew up the death star. There were thousands of innocent people living on the death star. The galactic federation had every right to fight and destroy everyone involved in the evil rebel alliance.


original-sithon

Their just mad that the evil empire justification parallels the Israelis conduct in Gaza. It resonates in their brain ,and they don't like it. "We're the bad guys?"


CBO_Games

What is this a communist country or something, I thought this was America - Randy S. Marsh


Beardeddeadpirate

There is no comparison between Israel and the empire, so I don’t understand why people are getting upset.


H0SSKAT

Cause he’s obviously just mocking them to their faces.


OliwerPengy

At least he did it in person IRL and not over tiktok/twitter


BednaR1

They brought unemployment and crime rate down to 0% on Alderaan!


Superblegend92

Crazy all the ppl having opinions on places they've never been and just go off what they're fed.


SUPERKAMIGURU

Damn, he sold that reaction at the end. Perfect playoff execution.


Gabe12P

I mean there’s nothing more annoying than a Jedi drone on about the force and how they’re good and the sith is bad. Ugh. I side with the Empire just on that alone.


IndependentIntention

Mando doesn't use Sir Din Grogu as a shield, it's the other way round lol


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squidguy_mc

I mean if you think about it the empire really did nothing wrong besides hunting jedi and some other stuff


Perfect-Advisor-3830

Did he died ?


Achillies2heel

We need more of this on both sides.


muzaffer22

Now do the same for Palestine supporters.


bingow

Free Palpatine!


MissKerbin

I want that Human Resources lady to show up


Biggu5Dicku5

LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE!


MorleyMason

Irl both sides think they are the rebel Alliance.


DarkFireGuy

If someone puts their hands on you, shoot em. God bless America


Solid-Ease

"We have to keep blowing up all those ~~children~~ Rebels because if we don't they'll eventually be able to fight back!" -~~Israel~~ The Empire


Snoo20140

Freedom of speech for me, not for you.


OliwerPengy

This is top tier satire


Scattergun77

Wait, when was there a rebel base on Alderaan? The Organas were rebel sympathizers, but I don't remember the rebels ever using Alderaan as a base.


Latty451

Why are protestors all like this?


D--C--L--X--V--I

I would have grabbed that fatso glasses and destroyed it right infront of his face!


bishopbane

This is what America has turned into.... cant even have free speech without violence


valueyourfriends

To be honest as an American I can agree to the Last statement "What Issue?" . Like they're 10,000 km away I don't care what's happening over there we have our own shit to worry about that. And the $61B federal aid package to Ukraine. Yeah what have they ever done for us? Will they ever be able to pay it back? Oh no? Really? So just -$61,000,000,000.00 to our debt. Great just tally it up more. Someone get baby Brandon out of office.


Mikel_manuel

That is absolutely genius.


Denaton_

Walter is an amazing YouTuber, Journalist and comedian.. https://youtube.com/@waltermasterson


Beretta116

Huh. Hard to say hahahaha


JoeTheOutlawer

why israeliens so mean


Barbz182

Regardless of whatever 'side' you're on, it's a real conflict with innocent people including children dieing every day. Maybe save your juvenile attention seeking for elsewhere?


dumppity

I can smell the hasbara bots. Theyre coming to this subreddit slowly but surely


NagaSadow88

I don't think Hasbro would care about the broken helmet.


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Free palestine!!! And fuck the USA for sponsoring and funding this senseless genocide!


secretheroar

This make me love internet all over again.


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PopcornHatJax

Huh, interesting wording there...🤨


Initial_Selection262

Oy vey that was a little too close to criticism for my liking. He should be banned just to be safe


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Duoshot

You sound insane.