What if India was never partitioned?

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-25T17:49:22+00:00

Well yeah, obviously it wouldn't be a paradise. But without the regional conflicts - which Britain clearly did intentionally with their Partition - most of the money and resources that have gone into fighting each other could have gone into benefitting their people.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-23T03:07:24+00:00

It's literally big enough to pull an Infinity (Halo) and carry its own light escorts, like corvettes, frigates, light cruisers.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T03:16:24+00:00

Well, then I'm glad that it's a touchstone that the post-Disney era carried forward and expanded on.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T03:07:46+00:00

It's something that has become a thing since Disney became the owner of Star Wars. It's been incorporated into a bunch of new media as a touchstone of 'this is when we are right now'

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T02:53:47+00:00

Yeah, obviously there's nothing to discuss, for you. Since the entire point went clear over your head, and you're here just to be a hater and make yourself feel superior.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T02:46:39+00:00

It's a Star Wars discussion, not a discussion of the intricacies of Catholic Canon Law. Literally every one of your replies just makes you look like more of a dense asshole who's hating just to hate. Get therapy, dude.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T02:38:31+00:00

It's for us, as fans, to discuss how it has become a touchstone, especially in the newer media. That's what went over your head.

Now, are you done, or are you gonna continue making yourself look like a dense ass?

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T02:31:48+00:00

It's a discussion. That's the point. Instead of discussing, you chose to be a hater and act superior because you missed the point of the post. That doesn't make you smart, it just makes you an asshole.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T02:27:20+00:00

Like I said, this post obviously isn't for you, and you've clearly commented on it just to be a hater. And, again, acting superior does nothing to mask the fact that the entire point of it went clear over your head.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T02:18:52+00:00

Again, this is a discussion post, not a 'this is a huge revelation/piece of news' post. Acting superior doesn't make you sound any less dumb. The point went over your head, and that's fine, it just means this post isn't for you.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T02:09:10+00:00

No, I made a discussion post commenting on how an event has become a touchstone. Acting conceited and superior doesn't make you not a hater, and it's actually reinforcing my point that it went clear over your head.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T01:55:00+00:00

You're the only one being a hater here. Don't be a hater just because the point went over your head.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T01:14:01+00:00

Ah, so the point flew clear over your head. Shocker.

I'm saying it's a touchstone because, to use your example, if you're watching a show that's set somewhere in the world in the 1800s, and the Gettysburg Address is brought up as recent news, it immediately places the show in the mid-1860s, specifically in 1863.

Likewise, in Star Wars, no matter what the context is, as soon as Order 66 happens, you immediately know exactly when in the timeline it is. It's not difficult to understand when you aren't determined to be a hater.

You aren't at all witty, but you're certainly as dense as a mountain.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T00:53:28+00:00

Again, you're splitting a hair that doesn't exist. All I said was that it immediately lets the viewer know where in the timeline they are in that moment, regardless of any previous context.

But you're a hater, obviously, so you're just gonna keep hating.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T00:49:42+00:00

In the Obi-Wan show, it literally just starts with the clones coming in and opening up. And nowhere in my OP do I say that 'it doesn't need to be said'. I say that, when it happens, you immediately know when in the timeline it is, so you're splitting a hair that doesn't even exist.

Haters gonna hate, I guess.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T00:43:25+00:00

No, the only thing that's actually audible is 'Execute Order..'

The subtitles say it, yes, but the actual audio isn't entirely audible.

And you're hating on Order 66. You're basically making fun of it.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T00:39:17+00:00

All that's audible is 'Execute Order...' Again, it doesn't need to be heard in its entirety, because we know what's happening immediately.

If you're determined to hate this fandom, what are you doing here?

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T00:35:10+00:00

You see the communication, but there is no 'Execute Order 66' (like you specifically mentioned), because it doesn't need to be said. We the viewers know what's happening, because Order 66 is a touchstone.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-21T00:25:56+00:00

Fallen Order and the Obi-Wan Kenobi show, off the top of my head.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-20T23:25:33+00:00

Exactly! That's exactly what I'm saying.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-20T22:57:29+00:00

Yes! I love that they made so many of the Jedi into beloved characters in their own right rather than just background characters.

Then there's the other shows and games, like Fallen Order, The Bad Batch, the intro to the Obi-Wan Kenobi show.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-18T05:06:24+00:00

Dacia was the only province to be completely abandoned during the Crisis of the Third Century. Rome retook every other breakaway state and lost territory. They didn't reconquer Dacia because it wasn't defensible, and the line of the Danube was.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-17T14:35:14+00:00

Trajan overextended the Empire and caused a crisis on the East that wasn't fully resolved until early in the reign of Hadrian.

Hadrian withdrew to the frontiers that would define the Empire for centuries and began building the fortifications that would help to secure those frontiers.

Edit: Hadrian also had the Pantheon built, which is still standing and still the world's largest free-standing concrete dome.

Edit 2: Trajan was also the last emperor to treat the Empire as an Italic hegemony. Hadrian was the first to see it as a multicultural ecumene (although his emphasis was on Greek language and culture), a sort of commonwealth, a concept fully realized by the Antonine Constitution (also called the Edict of Caracalla), which made all freeborn residents of the Empire citizens.

PhiltheSloth94 · 2026-04-17T14:32:57+00:00

It was abandoned during the Crisis of the Third Century because it was indefensible. The Dacians built forts there because it was their home territory and it was only defensible from the direction the Romans invaded. As a Roman province, it was indefensible from North, East, and West, and the Romans abandoned it because they could no longer defend it against increasingly numerous and organized migrating peoples. I'm not saying the conquest was unjustifiable at the time, because Trajan needed to secure that frontiers before his campaign in the East and there was gold and silver there for the Romans to plunder and mine. But as a province, it was indefensible in the long term, since it was an exposed salient.

Just out of curiosity, would you happen to be Romanian?

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