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Legend
No. It was not.Alderaan was a military target.
No. It was not.Alderaan was a military target.
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If they’re terrorist, all rebels are terrorists, and the word becomes useful only to oppressors.An interesting take in a sort of terrorism against a oppressive totalitarian regime isn't terrorism way.
I sort of questioned them turning farmers into bloody skeletons to find plans a little…harsh. Not imprisoned and questioned, but roastedYou mean, aside from that time they dissolved the elected portion of their government and then blew up a planet?
Lol yeah it isn’t even a fresh take.Oh, so Desert Gled is a plagiarist as well. Good to know.
Ineffective I'll give you, though how much of that was deliberately engineered is another matter. But where are you getting "illegitimate"?It was established in the prequels that the senate was an illegitimate and ineffective form of government.
Okay, so you're saying the Empire is bigoted as well as totalitarian and oppressive.Alderaan was a military target. Literally every single on screen character shown from that planet is a militant terrorist.
And how many times is that? I'm having trouble recalling a time that an entire capital city and its population were destroyed, let alone a case where it was done by someone who wasn't oppressive.Tragic, yes, but no more oppressive or totalitarian than any other time one warring faction has destroyed the capital of their enemy.
Oh, so Desert Gled is a plagiarist as well.
And how many times is that? I'm having trouble recalling a time that an entire capital city and its population were destroyed, let alone a case where it was done by someone who wasn't oppressive.
You’re joking, right?There is zero on screen evidence in the original Star Wars trilogy that the Empire is an oppressive totalitarian regime.
The entire plot of prequel trilogy is based on the fact the Jedi and the Old Republic are a corrupt theocracy.
It was neither a military target, nor the capital of the “enemy”.It was established in the prequels that the senate was an illegitimate and ineffective form of government.
Alderaan was a military target. Literally every single on screen character shown from that planet is a militant terrorist. Tragic, yes, but no more oppressive or totalitarian than any other time one warring faction has destroyed the capital of their enemy.
Right, they literally exercise lethal force as a first option.I sort of questioned them turning farmers into bloody skeletons to find plans a little…harsh. Not imprisoned and questioned, but roasted![]()
It was neither a military target, nor the capital of the “enemy”.
It was blown up literally to show that the empire could destroy whole planets in a shot.