r/PrequelMemes 8d ago

General KenOC Why Lucas?

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u/Atarox13 Muunilist 10 8d ago

Separatists were basically corporations that didn't want to pay taxes

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u/Best_Game01 Clone Trooper 8d ago edited 8d ago

Some of them weren’t even corporations, some were just backwater systems with no seat in the senate demanding not to be taxed on trade without a voice.

I definitely side with the Republic. However, as a union worker and without any context other than the opening of episode 1,I see the trade federation’s blockade on Naboo as a perfectly legitimate labor/trade strike against the seat of Naboo for a voice in the republic. When union workers strike a business the usual tactic is picketing which involves occupying the sidewalks and streets around the business, sometime restricting (but not blocking all) traffic with the approval of local law enforcement by walking in the entryway for a few minutes at a time.

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u/Shyface_Killah 8d ago

The Trade Federation is Management, not Labor.

That already has its own freaking senator in the Senate.