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#there's a really good framework for thinking of this in revolt and rebellions irl#i'm forgetting the name atm but it's something about hydras and lions i think?#i'm not gonna go searching for this i'm supposed to be doing actual work rn and not this#but it's a black anarchist text that basically identifies two points crucial to a good revolution#the dichotomy between spontaneity and organization#if things become too spontaneous they will fizzle out#bc you will have different aspects of the movement pulling in different directions and the revolution will be pulled apart#so there needs to be some organization but not too much bc if there is too much the movement will grow too rigid and stale#and it will collapse#I think this is the best way of thinking about the saw/mothma dichotomy#especially as the rebellion was in its first stages saw is good for spontaneity#and mon mothma creates and organizes the official rebellion#without people like saw the rebellion would've never gained traction#without people like mothma the rebellion would have never had the ability to stick around and do anything beyond some vague isolated events#now i think in later material saw's role gets taken over because he's#frankly#kinda crazy#and so efforts that get made by phoenix squadron#within a more rigid structure#which is needed for a larger rebellion than saw seemed willing to fight in#whatever he claimed to the contrary#but yeah. saw as the spontaneous force and mon mothma as the organizational force
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Me: I don't really believe in gatekeeping a field where anyone can learn with enough work. The training we get in academia isn't impossible to self-teach.
Also me: The number of people calling themselves "historians" or pretending to educate about history on social media when they're just reading Wiki or telling you fun facts is way too high. The job title has meaning. You wouldn't call yourself a mathematician for knowing how to make your graphing calculator make graphs.
#intended audience absolutely reached#here’s where I fall#gatekeeping knowledge is Bad#but a lot of knowledge does need to be taught to you#we don’t have entire intricate systems of education for shits#it takes WORK to learn how to research#it takes WORK to learn how to write a good essay#it’s the same kind of work it takes to learn how to do scientific lab skills#or same level at least#if you want to do something go for it#BUT GET A TEACHER#you cannot just wing subjects at a higher level#academics learn very specific skills to maintain and develop knowledge#you can’t just… read Wikipedia and declare yourself the expert#additionally#WE’RE WILLING TO TEACH YOU IF YOU ASK FOR HELP#But don’t confound a hobby with professional work
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"if voting worked they'd make it illegal"
meanwhile, in the real world:

#when I say it’s hard as hell to vote in Texas I mean that shit#I have to vote absentee every year because I’m on the other side of the country during Election Day#do you know how to get a vote absentee???#you have to fill out a form#MAIL IT#and then have it approved#and THEN they send you your ballot#you cannot vote absentee in the state of Texas more than three times PER YEAR (so god forbid we have any runoffs)#you cannot send in your request for a ballot ONLINE#Hell if you look at the instructions wrong you may end up sending a request for the REQUEST for the ballot which takes even longer#(I’ve made that mistake many times)#now I’m going to be in a different goddamn country with no access to mail during the election this year#so I have to vote before I leave the U.S.#AND I DONT KNOW IF THEY WILL SEND MY BALLOT TO ME#FOR TWO REASONS#1) IM NOT TOTALLY SURE I CAN VOTE ABSENTEE AT MY HOME ADDRESS WITHOUT A MEDICAL CONDITION KR BEING OVER 65#2) I DONT KNOW WHEN THEY WILL SEND ME MY DAMN BALLOT AND IF ILL HAVE TIME TO VOTE BEFORE I LEAVE#So uh yeah#and think about this folks I’m already registered#it was a bitch and a half to get registered in the first place#and now I have to go through the voting Olympics every year just to make sure my vote gets counted#fuck Texas I hate living here
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Wolffe: I've always been curious, what exactly do they teach you at the temples?
Shaak-Ti: Bantha-back riding
Mace Windu: Amateur Theatre
Plo Koon: Baking and Knitting
Qui-Gon: Weed
Obi-Wan: General Slutiness
Cody: Not like, fighting or strategy?
Anakin: I mean that too.
Yoda: Important it was not, before the war.
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Jedi as serial scammers though. Every mission includes a sidequest to sabacc table for extra cash. Padawans on their first outing be like ‘but I thought the senate was funding this mission’ yes little one but they will ride our arses for every cent so let’s go fleece some rich asshole. He won’t even notice. You know how cops were invented to protect private property? Well jedi are here to protect your everything except your private property. *force tricks an atm into printing free money* that, my very young padawan, is something we call a victimless crime.
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Look, I’m just some weird, curious girl that likes analyzing stuff.

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#I am so glad mace is in the lead#of all of them mace is the best father figure fr#I love Obi-wan but that man needs to sort out his own depression before he raises kids#I think he’d do a great job regardless but he just needs to focus on himself before he focuses on littles#qui-gon is best left as a fun uncle you see once or twice a year#and Anakin DEFINITELY shouldn’t be a father#even in an alternate universe where he doesn’t become Vader he REALLY needs to sort out his shit before he raises kids#no Anakin is an older brother or young uncle at best he’s not ready to be a father
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Choose the location that the school was in. (Any level of education, college/university included.)
#oh yeah lmao#my past three schools have all had shooter threats like once a year#every year since I was in 8th grade#oh and there was one at my elementary school once#I don’t remember that one cause I was like 6 but yeah
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This section was one of my favorites and one of the reasons I fell in love with this novel, because it's such a great example of walking the fine line the Republic was asking of the Jedi and how, through seemingly innocuous but constant requests for the Jedi to step just a little outside their purpose. They're there to help negotiate peaceful resolutions that the people of the galaxy have, whatever that situation might call for. There's unrest in a local strike that might turn dangers, okay, the Jedi can go help negotiate. Oh, no, we just want you to be security because the government is refusing to negotiate. That's not our job. Oh, no, we don't actually mean corporate security, just a quick visit would keep people from getting hurt. Maybe just stage a training mission there, you do that a lot, don't you? Then it's on to, well, you don't want to be rude and refuse this gift and help spread the good works of the Republic, right? You can see how it would help the galaxy to get the word out, yes? You see that it's a death of a thousand cuts situation where the Jedi are desperately trying to maintain their purpose but real lives and real work are being leveraged against them and they're asked again and again and again to do something that would flatten who they are, because those real people do need help. And they do refuse to endorse a product! They do refuse to actually wear the boots! But that's not going to be the end of the requests, this is just one drop in an ocean requests, which the Jedi can't just say, nah, we're going to separate ourselves from the Republic, because the people behind those requests genuinely need help. Maybe not the boots request, but the people of Chamble could certainly use the help. It's putting the Jedi under a tremendous strain--some of the requests are easy to say no to, but they still have to have a conversation about why not and it's like none of that penetrates the people making the requests, because they'll turn around and make the exact same one, please be our police force (we're not police), please be our corporate security (we're not corporate security), please represent our merch deal (we're not influencers). Every. Single. Day. They can't just walk away because then they're also walking away from the people who need them, the good we see them do in this very book, but also we see the constant attempts to chip away at who the Jedi are, despite how hard they work to maintain it and like. That's it, that's the story there! Good people who are still human, who can still be worn down when the galaxy fails to meet them in good faith about who they are and what they actually do.
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#this lowkey happened to me once#kinda not really#I had an assignment in high school where we had to submit a creative writing story with some structures in it or whatever#and I had too many assignments to do so I forgot until the last minute#I ended up submitting a chapter from the Ilvermorny fic I’ve been working on for like a decade now lmaooo#with names changed and stuff but the magic was still pretty clearly based off of Harry Potter#she got it back to me with#“this is so good you should be an professional writer#oh girl naw#that was an unedited chapter from a hp fanfic#I’m glad you liked it but honey#I let it slip to her that little tidbit#and she didn’t even bat an eyelash#she was like oh authors do that all the time! like carry on! you should do that!#never have I ever been more mortified#she was coming from a good place but I was just horrified that my IB English teacher who taught me how to write big girl essays#now not only knew that I wrote fanfic but encouraged the habit#sigh anyways
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Okay? I mean that’s possible I suppose. But another thing I forgot to mention is that the Order canonically only has permission to operate within the republic or for the republic outside of republic space. Hutt territory tends to be outside of Republic space. So sure a few Jedi could go do that (and did! See: tpm) but for what? It’s a great thing to do for those few slaves, but it doesn’t make much sense in the long run because you’ve done nothing to the actual structure of the Hutt empire. And why should the Jedi cherry-pick slaves? All of them deserve to be liberated. You can’t just “mess up” a slave trade by having three unauthorized agents smuggle some people out, especially when they can dedicate their time and talents to the other, equally as important tire fires going on in the galaxy at any given point.
Slavery can be a very complicated issue, especially if it’s been entrenched or passed down through generations like Huttese slavery seems to be. Here, we can turn somewhat to American slavery as a historical precedent (but not always, since it doesn’t seem like there was a “race” factor in Huttese slavery, but everything else appears to be there). Pretend the Republic is the British Empire for a minute and the Hutts are the Americans. See how unfeasible it would be for agents of the British Empire to swoop in and abolish American slavery? Not to mention that even when slavery was abolished in the British Empire, slave working conditions weren’t— oftentimes after 1807, slave ships were captured and “liberated” into working in factories across the British empire instead of just on plantations in Jamaica or something. Using slaves had an economic advantage in a capitalist system, likely the same way they very much could in the Republic or in the Hutts’ empire. Similarly, the Hutts could and probably do profit off of their slaves just as much as America profited off of theirs (and as much as Britain profited off of them too— American cotton was used in British factories for a loooong time). So the Republic has an interest, the Hutts have an interest, and the Jedi can’t do anything about it without Underground Railroading all the slaves out (a noble effort to be sure, but smuggling slaves tends to be a whole ass endeavor. Between all the other things the Jedi had to do, smuggling slaves would’ve been half assed and it would’ve been done wrong, and more slaves would’ve ended up recaptured than saved).
But say there’s a war and say the Jedi win. Hooray, now there’s a bunch of slaves who need infrastructure to be reinstituted into broader society and kept away from MORE slave traders. You’ve got to teach them how to read and write probably, get them proper documentation, get them therapy and probably medicine in some form or fashion so they can live again, find places for them to live, provide them a stipends probably, all on the government’s dime. And again, who’s to say that the Republic won’t just pull a British empire on them and turn them into little factory slave workers? Or an America on them and turn them into space sharecroppers if the Hutts aren’t properly taken care of? Then nothing has been solved.
Slavery doesn’t get abolished by a few heroes coming in with glowing swords and blazing eyes, it gets abolished by systematic effort within and without the government by the citizens of that state. The Jedi don’t do anything not because they don’t want to, but because they literally can’t. It is a disservice to pretend to free an entire population and then have them be reenslaved again. If there’s anything we know about the Jedi, it’s that they do things 100% wholeheartedly (to the best of their ability anyways). But this is not a problem that can be solved by anyone else but the Senate.
Okay thinking about Star Wars because its a day that ends in a y.
Why didnt the Jedi do shit about the Hutts?
They know the Hutts have an active slave trade, they’re behind most organized crime in the galaxy, they just generally spend their days being evil and the Jedi sit in their tower and do nothing?
The only in universe reason I can think of might be that the Hutts arent in the republic but honestly the idea that the Jedi have a defined jurisdiction doesnt make any sense.
God Lucas made the Jedi suck so much shit with the prequels
#I need yall to understand this#there’s a reason it took so long for slavery to go away#there were rebellions after rebellions after massacres after assassinations#done by the slaves themselves! or by other well meaning people trying to help#but you can’t just abolish slavery with the snap of your fingers#technically slavery still isn’t abolished in America (prisons)#after 400 years we’re still fighting#so again what exactly are the Jedi gonna do in this situation#I love them but it took three legions of clones and four Jedi to liberate the Togruta in the Kadavo arc#and that wasn’t even all the slaves on kadavo that they liberated#AND the togruta weren’t institutionalized into slavery! they still knew how to function outside of slavery#it took like#what#4000 people ish to liberate like 500?#it’s noble and amazing but it was tough as shit and they nearly didn’t succeed#so uh yeah that’s why the Jedi don’t do anything ab the Hutts
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It’s late and I’m tired so this response is not going to be long or with links. If you want more in depth answers, I highly recommend @gffa or @jedi-order-apologist who have already talked extensively about this topic
Tl;dr, the Jedi did not have the numbers to take down a slave empire or a criminal empire like the Hutts. We don’t know much about them other than that they were powerful and well-entrenched in at least three planets, likely more from the way they were talking about them. The Jedi had about a gajillion and a half tire fires they needed to put out at any given point, not including gangsters— the Hutts were too big for them to take on without the full weight of the Senate behind them. Even if all 10,000 Jedi (the quoted number Kanan gives us, which could either be Knights active or number of Jedi total, and the latter would drive down Knights active to like ~7,500 probably) were set on the task, there’s no guarantee that they could even liberate Tatooine, let alone Nal Hutta or deal with whatever was going on in Coruscant.
Beyond sheer numbers (and this is where we get into some speculation) there’s a real possibility that the Jedi were either self-restricting themselves or being restricted from operating too much in regards with the Hutts by the Senate. Much of the Clone Wars seems to imply that with the Hutt power structure gone (not just one Hutt but all of them and their empire) there’d be a real power vacuum and it’d throw those planets into even more disarray than if they’d just let the Hutts be. And say they could: what happens to those planets now? That’s millions or maybe tens of millions of slaves freed that the Jedi now are responsible for, plus the not so great workers that have now just scattered to the winds instead of being kept in one convenient place where the Jedi can find them. And who takes responsibility of the planets, the Republic? The Senate doesn’t give a shit, the road to becoming a Republic planet (assuming Nal Hutta or Tatooine can even organize long enough to get there) is long and twisty, and petitioning for the Senate even more so. No, getting rid of the Hutts would be a Big Ass Mess without a strategy in place to clean it up.
In regards to the Jedi sucking in the prequels, that was the point blah blah blah things people have already said before but also the Jedi were very much restricted by the world they found themselves in. As early as tpm we’re shown that the government is essentially nonfuctioning. AotC and tcw shows how much the Senate doesn’t listen to the Jedi and how much they’ve been limited by their government. Lucas made the Jedi suck to underscore what a non functioning government looks like. I would argue (and could argue with more concrete evidence than vibes but see: I’m too lazy rn) that many Jedi would love nothing more than to see the Hutt empire topple— Anakin Skywalker, sure, but Quinlan Vos, Aalya Secura, and Qui-Gon Jinn as well. But without the resources of the Senate, it is straight up not feasible.
Okay thinking about Star Wars because its a day that ends in a y.
Why didnt the Jedi do shit about the Hutts?
They know the Hutts have an active slave trade, they’re behind most organized crime in the galaxy, they just generally spend their days being evil and the Jedi sit in their tower and do nothing?
The only in universe reason I can think of might be that the Hutts arent in the republic but honestly the idea that the Jedi have a defined jurisdiction doesnt make any sense.
God Lucas made the Jedi suck so much shit with the prequels
#star wars#jedi#jedi order#anyways hope this answers your question#if you’d like that evidence lmk and I’ll go looking for it#but I’m Tired and tbh gffa taught me everything I know anyways#so you should just go to her first before asking me
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I call mine Black Beauty 😌
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you know i was thinking about it and since both the force and the inner workings of the human mind are arguably non-observable phenomena i think force-based academia should look a lot like psychology. current arguments and achievements of note include:
are the living and universal force actually different???
are the living and universal force actually connected at all???
those two factions of academics who hate each other's guts and theories and methodology (feat. pragmatists who figured out that the theories work together really effectively when practiced??? just saying)
FIGURING OUT WHY IT WORKS IS SECONDARY TO THE FACT THAT IT DOES WORK, JOCASTA
YOU CANNOT JUST DO THINGS WITH THIS METHOD WHEN YOU CAN'T ESTABLISH ITS SCIENTIFIC VALIDITY, YODA
that one researcher who accidentally won the space nobel prize in physics while trying to figure out how it is Physically Possible for the Jedi to do That One Thing
we have no empirical evidence that "the force" exists and therefore we can ONLY make conclusions based on observable events--- (loud angry yelling)
incredible amounts of popular misinformation and pseudoscience being distributed to the public still somehow
psychometric abilities: discrete or dimensional?
look. this experiment was completely unethical and we would never do anything like it today BUT---
this used to be true but then we told people about it and it changed as a result of that awareness. no we're not lying to you----
everything can be 100% traced back to a biomedical source
nothing can be 100% traced back to a biomedical source
force abilities are actually linked to overarching social factors like socioeconomic status of parents and--- *yelling from the back* OKAY BUT WHAT DO WE DO WITH THAT
look. listen. 60% applicability is golden in this field. you're a hard science researcher you wouldn't understand how hard it is to study an invisible energy field with a mind of its own
and, of course, the interdisciplinary argument staple
that isn't actually a real science :/
#yes to all of this#force abilities being linked to socioeconomic factors would be so interesting#imagine having a happy go lucky first two years of your life and that cements an incredible ability with plants#or having a terrible childhood and that resulting in being the empath to end all empathy#well happy go lucky and terrible aren’t academic lemme rephrase#non-traumatic and ACE childhoods#anyways as a social scientist myself I love this
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Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?
Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"
Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.
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ever since i was a small child i knew i wanted to have an unemployable skillset
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I love it when people try to claim representation in fiction is being taken “too far” to the point where it’s no believable. They’re like:
“What’s next, a mixed-race immigrant on the autism spectrum?” Hi, my name is Rachel, also known as Rachna, and I’m a mixed-race immigrant on the autism spectrum.
“What’s next, a transgender Latino man with chronic pain?” What, you mean my former colleague, Marco?
“What’s next, a Black Jewish lesbian?” Bitch, I know I three Black Jewish lesbians, WHAT’S YOUR FUCKING POINT?
#demisexual bisexual mixed girl from the south#imagine the heads that would roll if I was a tv character
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