Yeah, but because the inflation makes him look bad.

Yeah. He’s more effective now.

I find it depends on how they get compensated.

The Last Jedi was a good movie, it just wasn’t a good Star Wars movie.

It wasn’t that FEMA was a conspiracy theory, but that it would be used to imprison millions of Americans on federal land.

There are a lot of problematic parts to the movie that kind of got swept under the rug.

And then it turned out that for the 2024 presidential election, we went back to the Mojo Dojo Casa House.

Buttigieg has been going around a lot in the press explaining why Trump’s policies are bad, including in conservative media. Trump is probably aware of this and is trying to undercut Buttigieg’s criticism.

This is unfortunately the tip of the iceberg. Trump campaigned on the idea that the federal government was bloated and incompetent, then started firing people en masse without understanding what these people do.

It would be easy to blame Buttigeig for this outage had Trump not immediately made the condition worse.

Every time the federal government fails at doing something, DOGE is going to be blamed.

Only because Lemmy is small enough to not need it.

It isn’t the worst, but I would evaluate why you need to retake two classes and how it might your life going forward.

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Not really. The creation of a lot of early monarchies were based on the military taking control of an area, then distributing portions of the area to key military members as a way to buy loyalty.

In contrast, fascism usually requires a corruption of a democracy and has different reasons for forming.

They should just make a fee for all cars and call it a day. They won’t, but they should.

The reason I’ve seen is that Lucas’s flaws were on display in the prequels since he had the kind of power to make decisions with little pushback, while production of the original trilogy shows that Lucas worked best with people around him to help refiine his vision.

Outside of Ian McDiarmid and Ewan McGregor, the acting is bland and sterile. Hayden Christensen had a far better idea that would lead to the fall of Skywalker without changing much of the films. Major sequences are far busier than anything which came before, making the sequences pretty but less resonant and hard to follow. The four separate storylines in the climax of I was too much, especially as most people were there for the best lightsaber duel ever. The camera work for talking scenes is shockingly basic for someone as talented as Lucas was with film.

I like the prequels well enough, but I can see why some don’t like them.

The prequels are bad because it highlights Lucas’s failures as a director and dialogue writer.

The prequels are memorable because they highlight Lucas’s talents as a producer and whatever equivalent to show runner that movie franchises have.

They would be if they were good.

Disney should have known to create an overall writer/producer for the sequels; they had done it Marvel and the thing that set Star Wars above other sci-fi was Lucas creating a deep universe for the stories to exist in.

Abrams was a shitty choice to control writing of VII; he basically made a Star Wars fan film and reset a lot of VI to keep the same kind of conflict as the original series. Johnson had some interesting ideas, but he broke a lot of previous world building for VIII, like the Resistance militia leaders keeping their plan a secret and the kamekaze ship. Then, somehow, Abrams returned.

It says something that, while the prequels aren’t seen as good as the original series, they still resonate in a way that the sequels haven’t. A lot of that can be attributed to why Lucas was a great producer.

Reagan was able to act as a respectable president. His administration did horrible things, but at least he could act as someone respectable.

There’s a difference between the three presidents.

Hoover was sadly trapped into an economic and political thinking that wasn’t suited for the Great Depression. He tried to help the country, but the help was largely ineffectual or harmful. FDR’s administration approached the Great Depression from a radically different point of view.

Buchanan was laughably incompetent, which was the style of the time for presidents before Lincoln. Buchanan didn’t respond to active rebellion because he didn’t think he could.

Trump is actively malicious. He is allowing for the gutting of civilian government under his watch while trying to shift taxation to a system he can control to bypass Congress. Not even Andrew Jackson was that brazen.

Probably half by then.

One thing that will help is separating between if a policy is effective in achieving a political goal and if achieving the political goal over other political goals is effective.