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WNY Plinker
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Trapped behind enemy lines in NY.
Katılım Şubat 2022
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@DavidKemp_1983 @Authw8 The ISD is designed to fight other capital ships because in the previous war the enemy was able to pull ships like the Providence-class out of their ass.
It has a secondary role of policing pacified worlds or counter-insurgency with a small ground force.
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@WNY_Plinker @Authw8 Yes the Imperial II had more defense turrets added due to the rebels retrofitting civilian vessels into makeshift combat vessels. But the I and II still function as Amphibious Assualt ships. Their primary purpose is to transport ground forces and support aircraft into theater.
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the imperial star destroyer has always fascinated me. it's a gunship, but it's also an aircraft carrier, and also a troop transport.
that always seemed inefficient to me. but i think it tells us something about how the empire worked. the galaxy is a big, complicated place and imperial presence was surprisingly thin on the ground. my guess is that star destroyers are very logistically convenient.
it might also tell us something about imperial command culture. my guess is that splitting roles across ships didn't work very well because the authoritarian culture of the empire made cooperation difficult. having one ship with one guy in charge probably worked better.
i think it also suggests that the empire was focused more on internal politics than peer conflict. which makes sense because they had no peers. but was also why the rebellion tended to overperform.
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@DavidKemp_1983 @Authw8 Not carriers since they carry smaller space wings than their smaller predecessor the Venator.
Not assault ships since they aren't designed primarily to land forces on contested planets. That was the Acclamator's job and it could land more troops and walkers.
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@WardoftheStates Imagine being surprised that George Lucas, a man known for loving fast cars, put a race in yet another of his movies.
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Imagine waiting 16 years and sitting in the movie theater on opening weekend of The Phantom Menace and enduring 15 minutes of this bantha poodoo.
And Zoomers still think Red Letter Media is the reason why everyone hated the Prequels.
Admiral Autist@joemama1285
Everyone is talking about Ratts Tyerell, but people forget Mars Guo also dies a horrific death and does that “RAWRRRGH” at the end, pure cinema
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@BallerToy1327 Worf will accept Riker's word of honor he won't cheat.
Data can just be told not to do that and he won't.
Riker can just think about that thing he used to do with Troi's butt hole and she's powerless to read him.
Geordi only did that once, and only after the hand had ended.
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@WhiteyNorthcutt For me it would be NYPD's Stakeout Squad in the 70s. They'd be concealed in cash-heavy businesses just waiting for the bad guys. Basically just handed a license to kill armed robbers.
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@HariSel57511397 It's neatly demonstrated at the end of Rogue One. All the Rebels thought they were just up against a dictatorship. Nope, it's actually demonic space wizards. You can't espionage your way to victory against something like that.
They needed mythic heros to defeat a mythic evil
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It’s hilarious how dark they make the rebellion seem and all the ultimate, dirty sacrifices only for one moisture farmer to swoop in and do more damage to the empire in a week than they did in their entire lives.
J🇮🇪🇵🇸@ringframe
God if only this had some PASSION
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@Crime_Penguin Or just remake 'Days of Thunder' with podracers.
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Disney should do a whole series based around pod racing (like a loose parody of ‘Drive to Survive’ with funny muppet aliens) but instead they’ll probably light $200 million on fire with another uninspired Baby Yoda movie.
Criminal Penguin@Crime_Penguin
MOTION IS TRANQUILITY
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The antigunners never gave up on their dream to ban handguns, they just realized that dream was deeply unpopular and decided to focus on "assault weapons" and ancillary restrictions like fees, wait times, etc.
The Glock Switch moral panic gave Everytown and the other groups cover to demand that their allies in California and other blue states sue Glock. Now, they are getting them to ban Glock.
By banning Glock and its clones, they ban the most popular handgun platform in the country. And they won't stop there; they will find some pretext to declare other popular handgun models "too dangerous" and ban those too. Death by a thousand cuts.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has done nothing so far to stop about a dozen states from banning the most popular rifles in the country. Bruen is working out great....if you are in a pro-gun circuit. Antigun circuits like the Ninth, Second, First, etc. are treating it like a joke and have effectively re-imposed interest balancing, and are upholding pretty much all draconian gun control.
So of course antigun states are emboldened to put their toes into the handgun ban waters once again.
If the Court has any self-respect, if John Roberts cares about the legitimacy of his institution at all, they must take on a hardware case soon and make clear that bans on common firearms are unconstitutional.
And then, they must follow that up with frequent summary reversals of the inevitable antigun circuit court defiance of that ruling.
AWR Hawkins@AWRHawkins
Please note: When Democrat-led state governments start banning Glocks (as California, Connecticut, and Maryland have done) they are literally BANNING HANDGUNS. They have moved beyond the AR-15 and are now banning your pistols.
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Going down the list:
Gates dumped well over a million dollars into gun control programs in Washington State.
Warren Buffett was on the fuckin advisory board for Everytown.
Steve Balmer donated 7 million dollars to Everytown.
Bloomberg, is, well, himself lol. The amount of money he has spent pushing gun control is somewhere between "a large fraction of his net worth" and "all of it."
Larry Ellison spent hordes of treasure basically creating the biometric "smart gun" industry and frequently lobbied for its requirement. Also went on with Oracle to help design digital infrastructure for what would have become a controllable registry for guns.
Bezos dumped millions of dollars into getting current NJ governor Mikie Sherrill elected.
Zuck's "Chan Zuckerberg Initiative" group was heavily involved in "gun violence research" shit that has been thoroughly documented to be full of Giffords goons whose only conclusion to any problem is to ban guns, and would twist any data to reach that. Never mind Facebook basically leading the charge in destroying online gun content in the late 2010's.
The Walton family has been funding candidates and political action/advocating for Universal Background Checks since 2019.
Jim Thom@rockymtnhighUT
@ArmedJ0y What groups are they donating to? How much?
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@DavidKemp_1983 @Authw8 An Imperial II has 8 octuple turbolaser turrets. It's an impressive gunship and not to mention fast (could chase down a CR-90).
Its fighter wing is more for screening from fighter attack.
No ISD captain worth his code cylinders is going to sit back from a fight unless ordered.
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@Authw8 Not really a gun ship. Has some self defense guns like a carrier but mostly tries to stay distant from a fight. It is a mobile orbital base used to transport aircraft and soldiers to a conflict specifically on a planet. As you said, they have no peer in space.
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For all the slow tankies defending this, let me hold your hand and explain it to you.
No this was not a card that gave you an allocated amount of food "which is more than most get in the US" it was a permission and a LIMIT to BUY those goods. And there were constant shortages.
Eastern Bloc Visuals@eastblocvisuals
A woman holding up food stamps, Warsaw, 1980s.
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@reddit_lies I remember seeing on the news when NASA detonated the worlds largest cluster bomb over Canaveral.
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"NASA rockets never do this"
It's crazy how Redditors are wrong about everything.
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@severalnitrogen @PennMaxxing How does he get it to the factory?
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They will take any gun they can take from you.
It’s not about assault weapons. It’s not about semi-autos. It’s not about pistols. It’s not about magazines. It’s not about 3D printed guns. It’s not about suppressors. It’s not about bump stocks.
It’s about guns. All guns.
AWR Hawkins@AWRHawkins
Please note: When Democrat-led state governments start banning Glocks (as California, Connecticut, and Maryland have done) they are literally BANNING HANDGUNS. They have moved beyond the AR-15 and are now banning your pistols.
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Behold, the nine-shot .22 revolver at the heart of DC v. Heller. If they wanted to ban you from having this POS, there’s nothing they won’t try to ban you from having
Jackson Harvey (banned from Facebook)@rficwizard
They will take any gun they can take from you. It’s not about assault weapons. It’s not about semi-autos. It’s not about pistols. It’s not about magazines. It’s not about 3D printed guns. It’s not about suppressors. It’s not about bump stocks. It’s about guns. All guns.
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@avypath @deletemyinfopls @DAKKADAKKA1 That's an organizational problem that can be fixed with the swipe of a pen rather than a technological limitation.
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@deletemyinfopls @DAKKADAKKA1 below a certain distance, it's still faster because you don't have to go through the airport/tsa/etc
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American High Speed rail is code word for “I want to embezzle billions from you.” In politician speak.
Pubity@pubity
2 U.S. Congressman have introduced the American High Speed Rail Act, seeking $205,000,000,000 in funding to build a nationwide high-speed rail system. They claim America is behind both Europe and Asia on rail travel and that we need to catch up.
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@aseitzwald He's more the Emperor's trouble shooter than the #2 man in the chain of command.
Darth is also a hands on job. If you die from one little dogfight you just make room for a more worthy Sith.
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Insane the Empire allowed Darth Vader to personally join a dogfight in which both sides were taking massive casualties. Oops, we (nearly) lost our galaxy-spanning empire’s #2, heir apparent and best fighter bc he wanted to a job otherwise performed by nameless expendable extras.
The Sting@TheStingisBack
The unaltered 1977 Star Wars returns to the big screen February 19, 2027, for a limited 50th anniversary run. For a taster, here’s the original 12-minute Battle of Yavin exactly as it played in ’77, for the true Star Wars diehards. Legendary cinema.
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@ArmoredNorman Disney has the Empire, an organization where one mistake can get you executed, running rape squads.
Meanwhile the Hutts, decadent and degenerate slugs, don't have sex slaves anymore.
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The biggest loss of soul from Lucas selling SW to Disney is the snuffing out of his horndog nose for strange out of the SW worldbuilding. Evil Fascist Empires, drug running, slavery of all kinds but nobody would ever sexually exploit hot alien babes as eyecandy.
slovborg@n00rdung
what I found most off in the new starslop movie: a hutt lair simply doesn't feel right without hot alien girls...
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OFFICIALLY SIGNED: New York just banned online sales of CNC machines, lathes, and 3D printers. Required surveillance software on every one.
And there's a bill in committee to require a background check to buy them at all. Look around you at who didn't fight, or who ONLY appeared to fight once they saw my video views pouring in. 🤔 Video soon!
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