They did literally nothing wrong. Why did the Jedi and the Republic badger them?
>>217350855>starslopgrow up
Soros convinces Amazon to surround South Carolina and and coerce it into signing a ridiculous tax deal. Washington DC is paralyzed and unwilling to act, and the rest of the country starts to seriously entertain the idea of secession
>Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star sy- ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ *snore* ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
>>217350937But then Trump made America great again and everybody clapped. But some leftists start bombing federal law enforcement anyway.
>>217350937whos Palpatine in this situation
>>217350937It’s a free country. Soros can do whatever he wants.
>>217350937Can you prove the tax deal is ridiculous? Define “ridiculous”
>>217350855>They did literally nothing wrong. Why did the Jedi and the Republic badger them?Yellow Peril.
>>217351097In this scenario amazon pays no taxes despite their extensive use of infrastructure and south carolina has a new, naive governor who has proposed changing that.
>>217350968>Trump made everything great againeverything couldn't have been more worse than it is now
George predicted Trump's blockade of Venezuela. Truly the greatest visionary of our times.
>>217352004Grievous pmuch yeeted Palps in the Battle of Coruscant.
>>217352004Is not a blockade
>>217352044>As part of Operation Southern Spear, the United States enacted a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers traveling in and out of Venezuela on 17 December 2025, after placing additional sanctions affecting oil trade with the country. Sounds like a blockade to me?
>>217352064Calling the prevention of flow of one resource a blockade sounds pretty weird considering a blockade used to mean destroying every form of transportation near a country during the world wars
they're really just protesting unfair taxation. there's also the fact that the republic created this situation by lacking a deterrent of their own: the trade federation obviously saw that this option would lead to their demands being met regardless of palpatine's machinations as their fleet of battleships was obviously greater than whatever the republic could muster on short order.