The Republic's Self-Inflicted Downfall
For 25,000 years, the Galactic Republic stood as a beacon of democracy, but its eventual collapse wasn't just the work of the Sith—it was an inside job. In this episode of Acceptable Losses, DK, Kirioth, and PancreasNoWork join the table to break down how the Republic and the Jedi Order effectively orchestrated their own doom. We dive deep into the extreme disarmament of the Ruusan Reformations, how the Senate abandoned the Outer Rim to pirates, and how corporate entities literally bought their way into galactic politics. We also explore the Jedi's catastrophic fall from grace—transforming from mystical peacekeepers into corrupt political lackeys who rubber-stamped war crimes and directly created villains like General Grievous. By the time Order 66 was issued, the Republic had already become an oppressive war machine. Turns out, when it came to blindly enforcing the will of a corrupt Senate, the Jedi were just following orders.
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Every time I believe I understand it, I continue to be confused. Would someone mind informing me what the term boss baby means in reference to acceptable losses and Adeptus Ridiculous
The force awakens came out WHEN?!?
Hearing that pancreas is only slightly older than me, hurts
Great video to listen to whilst painting some more Republic clones for Star Wars Legion
Ah yes, Umbara, also known as space vietnam. They really did hit the clones with the "there in the trees" bit, especially with their vehicles like the centipede one.
What are the odds of Possum reading the 19 books about the Yuuzhan Vong and what they do to the New Republic and turning that into a couple scripts?
its wild that for a lot of planets, the change from republic to empire was no more than changing the name they write the check out to for the taxes they’ll never see the benefit of. the old republic really was a mess 😭
I just downloaded and saw the file name. This is going to be a good ep.
"Please dont hit too close to home, please dont hit to close to home.."
Anakin is 19. Padme is older than that by a bit. Anakin is shounen battle anime teenager a la Denji from Chainsaw Man or Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis. Padme is a college woman who likes civilizing the savages (except the Tuskans). They weren’t “in love” when they made Luke and Leia… That’s kind of the point.
@17:10 hey now! In America the rural parts get the wealth of the urban parts and then the bosses of the rural parts pockets all of it and doles out some to their loyal gang members. It’s better! Totally worth repeatedly wiping out the American Indians for! 🤮
Episode 7 is my favorite. The potential of it reinvigorated me in ways that are irreplaceable. It was the potential of Finn and Rey’s relationship as well as Finn and Poe’s relationship that made the movie for me. Those are the reasons I despise the idea that “it’s just a cut and paste of 4”, because Han, Luke, and Leia awkwardly bonding as they escape the Death Star that cast is not. It bothers me to no end that the rest of that trilogy is about the white man in hood who wields a burning cross. It bothers me because the people who complained about how bad the Prequels were for having politics (and for “making Anakin suck!”) are probably a lot of the same people who hated everything about the Sequels except Kylo REN. This is why the speed at which the Republic falls in the Prequels is believable…
Relax "kids* I was eleven when I saw Star Wars (ANH) in the theatre. 🤣
Episode 7 is my favorite movie, because it had such potential. Finn’s relationship with Rey was great setup. Finn’s relationship with Poe was great setup. Why are the sequels to 7 all about redeeming the white man in the hood who wields a burning cross?
You can hate disney Star Wars all day but the shows are awesome and The Acolyte was some major deep cut starwars lore that you had to have read ooold starwars books to know it was awesome! Oh also dont forget that Star Wars was HEAVILY inspired by Seven Samurai
I feel a #pancreasnowork disturbance in the force
I was 20 when force awakens came out
If there are two people who deserved to crash out, it was Dooku and Grievous
… y’know, I used to think isolationism and xenophobia were kinda cringe, but now that I’ve listened to this? I SINCERELY BELIEVE that the Star Wars galaxy would’ve objectively been better off if everyone stayed on their home planet/solar system
I don't like how Pancreas is younger than me. Granted it's probably by a few months but damn he sounds older than me. Sorry Pancreas. No hard feelings, you are my favorite.
I’m older than him and I think he complains too much about aging.
A New Hope 2 is fine, Last Jedi has problems but us ultimately a take it or leave it film, then even if it's easily the worst movie out of all 9, the Dark Empire remake is at least still better than Dark Empire.
Thank you for acknowledging that 9 is better than the old comics and pulp paperbacks. It’s not much (considering they caved worse to fans than George), but still. (I applaud the rest too.)
My sister frequently says: "The prequels were excellent ideas with terrible execution" and "The Sequels were excellent execution with terrible ideas"
The first one had good idea, but I’m giving credit to the three lead actors who don’t want to come back and make more Star Wars (or Moon Knight 😢) for that.
Dooku did nothing wrong.
Dooku did nothing wrong the same way Russian Times did “nothing wrong” until their coverage of the 2016 American Elections.
"Support the boys in white" is crazy
Have you ever heard of the tragedy of Darth Pancreas the wise.
The old Flood Legend?
I better hear a grievous monologue lmao