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LastRights 1 point ago +1 / -0

Get used to being second class citizens in your own country.

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LastRights 2 points ago +2 / -0

A ferret would have lynched all three of them.

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LastRights 3 points ago +3 / -0

Imagine not knowing what you're getting into and actually booking a ticket on one of those boats, rofl.

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LastRights 1 point ago +1 / -0

If Ukraine was a creation of the Soviet Union and Putin seeks to reinvigorate and revive the Soviet Union, then why is he destroying a creation of the Soviet Union? Putin is betraying the legacy of the Soviet Union by attempting to destroy Ukraine, because of his ineffectual attempts to control and dominate Ukraine.

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LastRights -1 points ago +1 / -2

Many of Russia's claims are based on its Soviet legacy ("the collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest catastrophe of the 20th century") and in the same vein we're supposed to ignore Ukraine's history, because that was allegedly a creation of the Soviet Union.

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LastRights -3 points ago +2 / -5

Iran came after.

China was uncharacteristically on record that they didn't want to see Putin lose.

Putin tried for regime change and install a puppet government with his gambit. It failed, his secondary objective was to cut Ukraine in half and take most of the coastal line. They're still trying to get Odessa and reduce Ukraine to a rump state.

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LastRights -10 points ago +2 / -12

Putin isn't playing ball. Trump gave him the off-ramp but Putin has gotten it in his head that he can prevail and get Odessa. Putin is also getting pressured by China not to 'lose' the conflict.

Trump needs to serve Putin his own ass.

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LastRights 3 points ago +3 / -0

No one knows who 'burntfishie' is. Had to click on the link to find out it's about that trender and Stonetoss.

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LastRights 1 point ago +1 / -0

There was a random scene where a female dentist took out a big ex-SAS (or ex something) thug with a wooden statue of a giraffe, saving the main character. I'm hoping the dentist turns out to be a spy or something, because it looked ridiculous.

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LastRights 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yes, I have. They shoved a random transsexual into it and used the final episode (and scenes) to lecture the audience about this cross-dressing dude (prostitute) being normal. They also had to inject the 'eve' story line, making it a feminist homage. There was also a random immigrant couple in that small town, for whatever reason. No major part, though. I believe their kid was one of the victims.

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LastRights 5 points ago +5 / -0

Will undoubtedly be whining about colonialism and where all the wealth came from.

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LastRights 4 points ago +4 / -0

rofl, you're right, but I still think it was part of his HBO contract. He was probably getting tens of millions out of it. The franchise supposedly generated 2.2 billion dollars worth of profit, as of 2019.

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LastRights 8 points ago +8 / -0

He most likely had a contractual obligation to HBO that stipulated that he may not finish the GOT series until they're done with the series, but after the disastrous reception of the ending (based on his notes), he no longer wanted to finish the book to begin with. He was already working on several other projects.

We should also factor in the culture war, the Trump presidency and his proposed 'wall'. G.R.R. Martin is a left-progressive crazy (he even drags black female nobody writers to red carpet events to promote them) and probably didn't want his 'work of art' to feed the 'right fascist MAGA Nazis' in their culture war, just like Tolkien's work began to do (with the Sauron reports). (Perhaps this is also the reason why Amazon completely sodomized and vandalized the work of Tolkien.)

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