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The rage boiling within when I'm told "Only caring about your own rights is how you lose them" by people who only pretend to care about one minority (and sold them out anyway).

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Hello people in israel and Iran

Please do not die

Please stay safe

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Friendly reminder that you're not required to publicly take sides in any geopolitical conflict you don't understand.

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no like fr the way that a lot of people look at israelis -- there's no group of people on earth i look at that way. literally no group of people where i'd look at posters of hostages from that group and go "that's obviously genocide propaganda i'm tearing it down." certainly not any group of people where i'd watch a video of their house blowing up and hear a woman crying for her dog in the rubble and point and laugh.

i can't even imagine having that response honestly. i can imagine apathy sure but glee? over people suffering? looking at a whole nationality that way? there's no way

i think that has to corrode your soul. i mean how can't it?

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Hope it was worth it for all the people who sat out or protested the 2024 election!

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I haven't talked about this bullshit men were pulling before the election:

Some men acted like Harris was going to send them all off to war if elected, which was stupid by itself and even stupider given that Trump was the candidate far more likely to get the country into war. But why were they saying this about Harris and not Biden, and why were they mentioning Taylor Swift and Swifties? Yep, it's the misogyny again! "Evil bitch girlboss warmonger Kamala is going to send all of us to die in a war after those stupid sheeple bitch Swifties listen to that blonde c*nt and mindlessly vote for her."

Not only that, but I'll take it a step further. Men wanted to act like they were being oppressed by Harris on the basis of gender in the leadup to 2024. They felt so emasculated and threatened by her very candidacy, and the fact that women were very loud about supporting her and in their fury over abortion bans, that they cried victim like they always do whenever women do anything but make them dinner and suck them off. Women's actual oppression was a topic of conversation during the election with the abortion bans, and men couldn't handle that, so they wanted to act like they were being oppressed based on gender, too, so they chose one of the only examples in existence where men get the short end of the stick, and that's being sent to war (but given that men have started like, every war throughout history, men being sent to war still isn't misandry! It's men being shitty to other men! They could choose to stop doing that any time they want).

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all of this.

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Once, just once, I'd love for a goyische celebrity to use their platform to express solidarity with Jews. Just a "And hey, antisemitism is fucked up. Don't do that" would mean so much.

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Extreme leftists who constantly bleat about being against colonialism and imperialism while simultaneously sucking the dicks of literal fascist, genocidal dictatorships are so absurdly funny. Be so fucking serious. That I ever thought I had shared values with these lunatics.

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(Link to tweet)

I honestly, sincerely do not think there was a more obviously counterproductive, dog shit stupid political cohort than those who used every waking moment trying to get Biden, then Harris, to lose because they thought Trump would be better about the Middle East.

Well, let's be honest, they weren't really thinking about what would actually happen in the Middle East if Trump got elected; they were simply high on owning da libssssss

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I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"

TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE

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Happy pride month! 🔥

Posting from shelter btw.

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I counted at least 12 antisemitic dogwhistles in this bullshit and I'm sure I'm missing some. That's 2.4 dogwhistles per sentence

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A new initiative recently launched by Palestinian peace activists called the "Realign for Palestine" project. Please consider supporting them. The leader of this initiative, Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, has been doing amazing work in this space.

Professor Dajani is one of the members, and he's a personal hero of mine. He took the first ever group of Palestinian students to Auschwitz and then someone tried to assassinate him.

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What's your opinion on Dooku?

Why do you think he Fell?

Do you think Qui-Gon dying had something to do with it or was he too far gone already?

And, something I haven't seen addressed in the fandom- why do you think Dooku only met Obi-Wan long after QGJ'S death?

Sorry to bombard you so thoroughly with questions but it should keep you busy ✨

Oh no! Don't apologize! I love asks like this, it gives me an excuse to ramble lmao

So I personally have a lot of complicated ideas about Dooku's life, actions, and motivations---as I'll outline in the post below---but as for how I feel about the character himself in general?

I think he's a fairly interesting character, given what we've seen from him in Disney + Lucas canon, and I honestly like him more than I do Anakin---although, to be fair, part of that is simply because I haven't dealt with Dooku Stans™️ coming onto my pro-Jedi posts to whine about how their poor little meow meow isn't responsible for his actions and it's all the eeeeeevil Jedi's fault, the way I've dealt with Stanakins doing that. I'm 100% certain those kinds of Dooku stans exist, I just haven't really interacted with any so the character hasn't been ruined for me.*

So, in Lucas canon, the case seems to be that Dooku became a Sith long before Qui-Gon's death---no matter what Felony did with TotJ, which I don't consider canon and actively ignore when interpreting Dooku's character---so that's generally the interpretation I stick with when writing him.

This next part is pure speculation/headcanon on my part based on what we're told in TCW and the Prequels about Dooku, so take it with however many grains of salt you need, this is just my opinion on how things happened.

I think Dooku was 100% a good Jedi at one point.

In fact, I think Dooku was a good Jedi for most of his life.

Dooku was 83 when he died in RotS and we know that the war had been going on for 3 years by then, so he was about 80 when it started at the end of AotC. We also know that Dooku had already Fell by the time of TPM, so that shaves 10 years off as well due to the 10 year gap between TPM and AotC---so Dooku was 70 during that time. Let's just say, for the sake of the argument that it took 20-ish years for Dooku to both START and COMPLETE his Fall and become a Sith Lord, since we don't really have a timeline for that particular part of his life- (and we're going to assume that he officially left the Order sometime in that period).

That still leaves 50 YEARS where Dooku WAS a Jedi and believed in their teachings and loved their home and practices and people!

And we know that he had to be a good Jedi because, in AotC, it's made clear that Dooku was---and is still, at that time---well loved and very respected by everyone in the Order. They even made a bust of him to honor him and his choice to leave, they still believe that he is a good man, and literally nothing anyone says about him implies that there was any worrying actions or bad blood or anything like that that'd concern them.

I think what happened was that he got particularly disillusioned with the Senate---since we know, due to Sith influence, that the Senate was going downhill and becoming more and more corrupt---but since Dooku doesn't know about the Sith plot at this point in time, he just thinks that it's just a naturally occurring corruption. I think Palpatine then took advantage of that disillusionment and perhaps even any aggravation or discontent he felt with the Council/Order and, like we see with Anakin, slowly began leading Dooku to the Dark Side.

During that 20 year period of Palpatine's influence is when I think he left the Order, probably during the earlier period so Palpatine could separate him from his support systems, and then once Palpatine had a good enough grip on him THAT is when his official Sith training began. I think Dooku 100% was already a Sith or, at the very least, was definitely already Palpatine's apprentice when Qui-Gon died.

I don't think Qui-Gon was the catalyst---because Dooku was involved in the whole Sith plot during TPM---but I think, if you wanted to go that route, Qui-Gon was more of Dooku's last thread of the Light. Maybe Dooku was a bit more hesitant about the Sith plot- (but obviously still going along with it) -before Qui-Gon died, because he doesn't want to hurt his former padawan, but then after Qui-Gon's death then he just didn't care anymore. Although we do see, in TCW, that Dooku still cares about his master- (Yoda) -but he still chooses to hurt him anyway because his goals are ultimately more important to him than any connection he has to him, so you could go that way with Qui-Gon as well.

As for why Dooku never met Obi-Wan, I tend to ignore this in my fics and have them meet anyway, but canon-wise I think the intention might just be that Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon were busy with Jedi stuff and Dooku was busy becoming a Sith and so their paths just...never crossed.

Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon had a bit of a rocky start and then worked hard to get things smoothed out, we know they've been on quite a few missions and that Jedi are generally busy with stuff like that (10k Jedi v. a galaxy with over a billion planets, so it's a lot of work), and by the time Obi-Wan becomes Qui-Gon's padawan Dooku has likely already left the Order---assuming that Obi-Wan became a padawan at 13 (so he was Qui-Gon's padawan for 15 years) and Dooku left the Order 5 years (or earlier) after Palpatine started manipulating him.

I don't think it was intentional, I think it was just how things panned out due to their respective priorities and schedules.

I hope this answered your questions <3

(*Ironically, I actually liked Anakin as a character before I started interacting with his stans---I thought he was a tragic villain and saw him as someone well-meaning who was just blinded by his flaws and trauma, which Palpatine manipulated to make it easier for him to Fall. Now, though, my view of him has been soured to the point where I generally view him through a more critical lens and write him that way, unless I'm doing a modern!AU type thing (but even then, sometimes I'm inclined to make him an asshole there too.))

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Could y'all fucking IMAGINE if Leftists treated other groups the way they treat Jews?

If, because of what's happening in Syria with the Druze, they started harassing every Muslim they came across and chanting- "Muslims are shit" -and saying that they should all be killed for the actions of a government they have zero control over.

If, because of what's going on in the Congo, they started using KKK uniforms, symbols, chants, and slogans and then, when black people said- "hey, the KKK actually wants to kill all black people and is incredibly racist, you using these things is making us uncomfortable and it's normalizing racism, could you please stop?" -Leftists replied by calling them slurs, saying that they're wrong and that the KKK was just a "resistance group," and that black people are just using racism to excuse genocide.

If, because of China putting Uyghurs in internment camps, Leftists starting spreading conspiracy theories about how Chinese people actually started COVID-19 to kill everyone and spread it on purpose, said they eat dogs and cats, said they control the media/hollywood/politicians/etc. and then---when some actor says something racist about Chinese people and gets kicked off a show/film, or gets kicked off for something COMPLETELY UNRELATED to their racist views but they're known for expressing said racist views---they start talking about how those "dirty Chinese" are controlling the media and "silencing" people.

If Leftists took the word "transition" and changed the definition to mean "I support pedophilia" and then started saying- "90% of trans people want to transition! They want transitioning to be more easily accessed! See, what did I tell you? They're all a bunch of pedos! Kill them all!" -and when trans people tried to explain that that's actually NOT what transitioning means and give you the ACTUAL definition, Leftists proceeded to tell them that THEY actually know more about transness than actual trans people and that trans people are lying about the definition and that anyone that uses the word "transition" is clearly a pedophile who should be murdered.

Like...it's literally fucking insane.

None of this shit would ever fly if it happened to another community, but because it's happening to Jews it's condoned and even DEFENDED.