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From what I read, Ukraine had no way of actually using the nukes they had.

My copium is that to me it looks like it’s not the party’s cult, it’s Trump’s cult, and it will collapse without him at the helm.

I remember trying that to no avail, but I don’t have access to the problematic network right now.

Also, happy cake day!

I’m trying, I really am. My current issue is that Wi-Fi completely ignores IPV4 if I’m on a network with additional IPV6 support.

Unfortunately for you, israel and Trump all but guaranteed that Iran’s survival depends on them getting nukes.

They did, I’m using a sideloaded version with my own API key.

I still use reddit on Apollo without logging in, guess I’m not hardcore :P

Stage 9*

Are you allowed to tell people that you dislike your beer, as a representative of the brewery?

No notes this time. If I had the time, this would have been a binge from Episode 10 all the way through A New Hope.

From Navishare to Palmo Square, Ghorman will be free.

Definitely not directly inspired by current events, but damn does Episode 8 perfectly mirror what’s going on. I really hope that more people watch it and make the same connection.

Lonni is putting in so much thankless work, it took me a bit to realize that “Supervisor Jung” is him, and he put the mole in Bail’s cell and reported to Luthen that they were compromised. How long was she with them? Was she always meant to be a mole for the ISB, or for Luthen to keep tabs on other rebel cells?

I believe that both Syril and Kloris were so close to having a change of heart, but at this point, there isn’t time for second chances. Syril watched firsthand what he was really doing on Ghorman, and his entire view was warped. That is, until he saw Cassian. His reaction might be because he was aiming at Dedra, simple revenge for ruining his life, or because he actually found the outside rebels he was working to bait, and he was desperately trying to rationalize his involvement in the genocide.

“Who are you?” was such a brutal end, he finally realized that he was just a cog in the machine. Reminds me of Gorst’s death last week.

Dedra flinching in fear when confronted about what they’re actually doing, and hesitating to order the massacre without knowing that Syril is safe, or because she’s the one who has to pull the trigger, I still don’t think she’s going to turn. We’ve seen a lot of symbolism in the collars, and she tries and fails to open hers after the fact.

I was initially surprised when Mon flinched at every shot Cassian took, then I remembered that she hasn’t actually been on the front lines yet. But as sheltered as she was, she really did sacrifice everything at this point: Her family, her childhood friend, her life on Coruscant and in the Senate, all gone for the cause. I watched S3E18 of Rebels after, and her second speech on the Ghost doesn’t feel weak anymore, it feels like a continuation of the first speech at Palpatine and the Senate, this time to rally the rebels. She had a really long day, and still had to escape Pryce and Thrawn afterwards lol

Bix got a fate worse than death, where she feels forced to choose for Cassian, and she waits only for him to never return. I wonder if she gets to know what he did for the rebellion.

Wow I rambled on for a while, again please don’t remove this thread next week lol

I haven’t made it through the whole arc yet, will post my thoughts when I do.

I’m just here to ask, why are the discussion posts of the previous arcs being removed?

Luthen needs Cassian, and Cassian needs Bix. “You want my blood? You help me figure this out.”

The light was flashing when we last see Cassian and Bix before it happens, it’s a mission.

The only reason why I don’t think this is the case is that Cinta has no reason to hide it from Vel, since they saw each other right before she left with Tay. “Maybe I’ll tell you someday” implies to me that it’s a different incident.

I 100% thought it would be Vel that dies on Ghorman instead of Cinta, with Mon telling Luthen that she’s worried about her cousin, and her running off after the driver. I wonder if we’ll find out what her accident was.

Happy for Bix finally getting her revenge. Hopefully it did feel like forever before he died.

The bug extraction felt way more tense than the Ghorman heist, even though you can tell from early which one will go wrong and which one will be successful.

There are too many people left to kill off in the next two arcs, excited to see how it will happen. I’m assuming that, out of the main “good” guys, only Mon, Bail, Cassian and Saw (and his cell, potentially minus Wilmon) are guaranteed to make it out of the series alive.

Outsider opinion: There are two sides who haven’t voted for you, one side who says they’ll vote for you if you change, and another side who says they’ll never vote anything but red. There seems to be an obvious vote to go after.

I feel like they’re setting up to force one or both of them to make a choice between the rebellion or each other. Maybe also Cassian with Bix.

Took me until I took a look at the reddit discussion threads to realize that

I also really like how the end of this arc mirrors the end of the first arc of Season 1, with Cassian flying them out for a change.

You just wrote the same thing twice