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also from wikipedia:
On 1 April 1649, Winstanley and his followers took over vacant or common lands on St George’s Hill in Surrey. Other Digger colonies followed in Buckinghamshire, Kent, and Northamptonshire. Their action was to cultivate the land and distribute food without charge to any who would join them in the work. Local landowners took fright from the Diggers’ activities and in 1650 sent hired armed men to beat the Diggers and destroy their colony. Winstanley protested to the government, but to no avail, and eventually the colony was abandoned.
I don’t remember specifics, but I’ve heard pretty convincing cases that the Cuban expats and New Orleans mob was involved. Like you said though, they could have been a cog in the wheel. Also, in Matt’s Gladio history episode, he talks about how the CIA used organized crime in Europe to launder money through and get jobs done. So it would make sense that they had deep ties with the mob here too.
This is a clear answer. And to elaborate, the military industrial complex was too strong and too threatened to allow JFK to withdraw from their projects in Vietnam, the CIA generally, and Cuba. It makes you wonder though, could Obama have withdrawn troops from Afghanistan and Iraq completely?
I still use it when I’m on mobile, and when I have computer time to be doing this, I come here. Also, one nice thing about the discord is the format of steady conversations on each topic. I don’t have to find a link/meme thats interesting, then have a conversation about that. That was one thing I actually grew to really like about the discord. Megathreads are the closest thing to them, I suppose. Maybe each channel here needs full-time megathreads?
Which was 1-6? Its like ancient history to me now. Was that when Darya gives Denaerus the sex lesson? That was maybe my favorite part.
But I must admit, I liked the last season! For me, it was like all gravy. Do you ever see a movie and in the final battle, as soon as the monster is killed, they cut to credits and feel like you want a little more follow-up? I hate missing out on that stuff. So this season had a lot of that. After the whitewalker battle, there was a whole gravy episode. People sorting out who is going to hook up with who. Making toasts. I didn’t mind it. The final episode as well, where the lords suggest ways to structure their kingdom. Sam suggests a switching from monarchy to a republic, and they all laugh at him.
I replied to this, and somehow it got lost without posting! Damn, I’ll try to do it again. I think I hit enter, thought it posted, and moved on.
“Winter is Coming” was definitely over-played to the point of being cliche.
I don’t remember Harrenhal. Remind me when that was? I am so bad with names, seriously, at least twice an episode I would ask my wife who is that, when someone mentioned someone else by name.
I vaguely remember people talking about that scene before I saw the show, and didn’t recognize the names. And also knew that Hillary supporters were really upset by the ending. So I sort of knew what was coming. But I really didn’t think she would go that far overboard. I mean, she obviously could have just burned the castle, and let the soldiers do the rest. But the signs were there. We knew she wanted to burn the city because she said so a few times, and was told not to every time by Tyrian. But he was also wrong so many times, that she was fed up with taking his advice.
I guess her story was a classic tragedy. We grow to like her more and more in the beginning, then we watch her stumble a few times, but we cheer her on. But all along she was annoyingly arrogant and entitled, especially for a blonde white woman telling POC what to do. It hit me in the Qarth scene when all of her Dathraky tribe was killed while she was in a room meeting someone. I know it was sort of out of her control. But also, she fucked up. What kind of leader lets her whole tribe get killed? And I cringed every time she said something like “the iron throne was promised to me”. Even when she is killed at the end, I was half-expecting they work something out and she becomes good. Shows what a liberal I am, I guess. They kind of gave it away though with all the homage language of Bush’s Iraq war. “We are liberators, and we will liberate everyone, just like we did here.” That was more cringe, because nobody got liberated in King’s landing, unless “liberated” is some spiritual metaphor for death.
I was expecting her to kick some ass and win. But I didn’t anticipate that Jon Snow would have to take her down, because I assumed he then become king in that situation, but logistically, that couldn’t have worked, so I didn’t think about it much.
