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I changed my reddit homepage from r/GameofThrones to r/freefolk because freefolk is much, much better in every way
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I just had a deep look through for spoilers - now I'm not so sure. Looks like HBO have done a pretty good job spreading misinformation with limited hangouts this time and there are some decent fake spoilers with some real events sprinkled in.
Means nothing is certain.
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You better be right bruv
Another thing I learned on my internet travels: hilariously, the GOT (particularly Benioff) guys might actually be genuine racists. I heard the controversy about there being a lack of black characters on GOT and brushed it off as what is called 'SJW' nonsense. But they did just go and wipe out an entire race of non-white characters in the show last episode, and they were portrayed as mindless savages with no specific characters, and we only have two tokens left who are also slaves. So far just a coincidence considering the source material.
Then you realize David Benioff wrote the 25th Hour, which people only remember because of the racist ranting scene. It's a good scene.
Then you realize they are trying to do a fantasy show where the South won the civil war and slavery still exists. Hmmm.
Then, and here's the part where I actually went 'what the fuck?'
They wanted to do a show called 'Dirty White Boys' which is a book that starts with a white supremacist prisoner heroically fending off rape from a black inmate. The reason that Benioff wanted to do a series on the book? Because he thought the first line in the book was the greatest opening line in history.
The line? "Three men at McAlester State Penitentiary had larger penises than Lamar Pye but all were black, and therefore by Lamar's own figuring, hardly human at all."
At the very least he's utterly obsessed with racism and racist violence in fiction, which means it doesn't add up that he just didn't think about these things in Game of Thrones. He knows what he is doing.
Looks like the 'SJWs' were on to something and didn't even realize it.
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Turns out Benioff's dad ran Goldman Sachs - yes, he was the Chairman - and was a top level foreign and economic policy advisor in the W. Bush government too. So a neocon.
Benioff's Daddy, Stephen Friedman:
Having your dad be the head of Goldman Sachs and a top-level neocon kind of makes his son's racial obsessions a bit less cheery and playful.
that would be brilliant
disinfo to counter the spys
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Good to hear that half the Dothraki and half the Unsullied survived and were apparently just taking a shit during the Battle of Winterfell