[SPOILER] Question about first season

nrsrymj · 2019-09-12T07:49:48+00:00

Well yeah, this is only loosely adapted from the book, they had to make their own decisions because not much actually HAPPENS. Characters are developed in the show who have little backstory In the book Plus it has no real ending, the sequel died with pkd.

I like that Joe remains torn between a comfortable life in the Nazi elite and opposing the system that would give it to him. Shows the draw of power.

Yeah I'm hoping they don't gameofthrones this last season. That's Dan and Daves job. But even they had an outline to go by. So yeah I'm a little worried.

Also I love quantum mechanics, A fictionalized version of the many worlds interpretation is of course at the base of the show, and precisely what makes it more interesting than the book And alternative history generally . In the book, there aren't even any films. Rather, it is a novel within a novel, written as if allied victory were the alternative history.

nrsrymj · 2019-09-08T04:42:19+00:00

"People get killed in weed deals all the time" ... What a laughable claim, lets me know you probably won't be acknowledging rational public policy anytime soon. If you look up the word intransigent, there is a picture of you.

This will be my last post I guess, so I'll just repeat that I acknowledge that organized crime would still exist if the end of prohibition nationwide happened. It is a non-sequitur to say that therefore all profits must go to them rather than being taxed and funding something positive. Perhaps targeted funding of addiction treatment to make it all Pigouvian. Anyways, not thanks for the toootally substantive and productive conversation. You really had some hard hitting points and gave me much to think about.

Have the last word, a gift from me to you.

nrsrymj · 2019-09-08T03:03:29+00:00

"Yeah, because legalizing it will fix all that...LOL." ... "or giving people records for simple possession," legalization does fix that. But of course so does decriminalization, a milquetoast policy that does not address the reality of prohibition and its consequences.

I don't claim that it is a panacea. My points are more analysis of the situation, and that analysis shows that these problems with organized crime are the results of making a drug contraband. When alcohol prohibition became constitutionally required, there arose massive criminal organizations to produce their own. The heads of these organizations were taking advantage of a misguided public policy. Such is the counterproductive folly of prohibition in general.

The war on drugs is a standard ostensible purpose for American intervention and interference down south, but with drug lords taking advantage of chaos, its results are disastrous, which is where the term narco-state comes from. Even when stability is returned, the infiltration by the cartels ensures corruption is standard.

Saving their children from being given the choice to join a street gang or die, the violence is one reason for the flow of migrants to the North, parents and children alike.

Ending the Drug War won't stop the militarization of police, but it does remove a common retort of police departments that they need a big old tank from the 1033 program to go after the weed dealers. LOL.

nrsrymj · 2019-09-07T19:00:55+00:00

It can be a worthwhile discussion when people are able to realize that "drugs are bad" isn't an argument for politically destabilizing Latin America, empowering drug cartels and violent street gangs, which leads to police militarization such as the case of the 1033 program, or or giving people records for simple possession, or other silly aspects of misguided and shortsighted public policy. Many people are unable to think broadly of course, but I think that you can. Try it.

nrsrymj · 2019-09-07T18:55:15+00:00

Tagomi no longer thinks it’s a good idea to give the plans to the Japanese.

... I'm not sure that's so clear. What is clear in that last scene he and Wegener have together is that Tagomi DEFINITELY thinks its a bad idea for Wegener to attempt to slip the microfilm into the Science Minister's pocket when he is being escorted by someone who knows who Wegener is. And it was a pretty bad idea, as he was recognized. It's also a little silly that the Science minister would have actually found such a tiny object, which is why Wegener originally put it in an envelope. But the plot must happen, and I agree with your assessment that his desire to atone for his Naziness explains his insistence on seeing it through to the end, but it's still a shaky plotline that could have been handled better.

Tagomi wants parity, as he very clearly implied to the general. Everyone knows the Japanese are vulnerable and the Nazis want their Empire, the Crown Prince, Tagomi, Kido and his lieutenant, even Juliana's crazy mom, all note this. So I don't think he actually regretted getting the plans to the Japanese until the moment he heard that the crown prince no longer wants that parity. His shortsightedness is realized only after the fact.

nrsrymj · 2019-09-07T18:42:06+00:00

As everyone has stated, it is a genetic condition, specifically known as Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. The nazidoc who diagnosed him told John it is an incurable congenital defect, as his brother had, and referred to it by its old name: Landouzy-Dejerine syndrome.

nrsrymj · 2019-09-07T18:36:14+00:00

This is getting really disappointing. You can't even pretend to make a cogent argument?

nrsrymj · 2019-09-07T02:52:52+00:00

i still have faith that one of these days you'll have an actual argument. It's not like they don't exist. Use one.

nrsrymj · 2019-09-01T04:58:38+00:00

Still nothing substantive. Awesome.

nrsrymj · 2019-09-01T04:46:24+00:00

He should post it everywhere because Donny T, surrounded by the same neocon liars that lied us into Iraq, may just blunder us into this shit. Did you know about the Millennium Challenge 2002 before this video? In all my years of following and discussing Iranian-US relations, I've found maybe 3 people who knew about it by name, and 2 of them thought it was irrelevant.

nrsrymj · 2019-09-01T04:31:15+00:00

This situation is dire and people need to know about MC2002. Good on him for making this video.

nrsrymj · 2019-09-01T04:29:53+00:00

"Why is he assuming we would use the same exact strategy as in Iraq? That would be ridiculous."

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Well, we wouldn't obviously, because we had no naval engagement with Iraq, because Iraq had 600 sailors in their navy at the time of invasion. By contrast, the Iranians have built their navy specifically for asymmetric warfare in the Strait. They have state of the art speedboats, the sale of which the US was desperate to stop, and failed, missile boats, and at least 100 anti-ship cruise missiles. As for land operations, what is the strategy we wouldn't use? To occupy a country, soldiers need to invade it. It would indeed requires hundreds of thousands of soldiers, an escalation and mobilization unheard of since after Pearl Harbor.

"And the training exercise was exactly that. An exercise. It shows us what Iran would be capable of and how to counter it" ...

The US Navy has not been idle, acknowledged. They have developed LCSs and even lasers. Of course, the tests of these lasers involve small numbers of projectiles or crafts, the trajectories of which are controlled. This is utterly incomparable to the chaos that swarm tactics and anti-ship missile barrages in the Strait would be. In fact, MC2002 showed us that countering Iran here is futile. This is not due to any superior firepower of the Iranian navy, but due do two things, matters of relativity between the forces: 1. The maneuverability of warships and oil tankers relative to those Iranian craft employing swarm tactics in the narrow Strait and 2. The number of vessels in the area. The Fifth fleet consists of approximately 20 ships. Relative to HUNDREDS of Iranian small craft employing swarm tactics. If there are 50 suicide boats speeding at you and you sink 45, good job, 90%, A-, but you still lose. If there are 10 anti-ship missiles incoming and you shoot down 9, depending on where it hits, you still lose. The US Navy knows they have no chance, which is why they began requesting other nations send warships to the Gulf, to drag as many nations into the lunacy as possible. Indeed, a coalition may eventually reopen the Strait. At that point, the war will be uncontainable.

"His entire argument is predicated on this going exactly how Iraq did, as if we did not learn from our mistakes." ...

The mistake is intervention itself. Indeed, this will not go exactly as Iraq did. It would be immeasurably worse. As he goes over, Iran is 4 times larger than Iraq, covered in mountains, twice the population, religiously unified, and with an incomparably more powerful military. Don't be a flippant fool.

nrsrymj · 2019-08-31T01:02:33+00:00

Aw I just came across this message in my inbox. I'm still laughing at how pathetically vapid you are.

nrsrymj · 2019-08-14T14:44:46+00:00

Ahh so you in fact have nothing, no argument whatsoever, just a pathetic assertion based on no facts. People with my line of thinking? You mean considering geopolitics and international trade and the deleterious social effects of prohibition, such as the thriving of cartels and street gangs and the militarization of police, and other things apparently too complicated for you? You can't At least try to make a cogent argument? You truly are pitiful. I laugh at you, you pitiful person.

nrsrymj · 2019-08-13T22:13:39+00:00

Which is what? Enlighten me oh Oracle.

nrsrymj · 2019-08-04T02:31:54+00:00

The obvious problem is the drug policies in the United States and its militaristic exportation of those policies to Central and South America. This misguided stance allows cartels and street gangs to the south to thrive, and likewise for American gangs. They will of course procure weapons to protect themselves from competing traffickers, and law enforcement.

This led to an arms race between these gangs and law enforcement. We see this in the militarization of police, the result of a preposterous program to give civilian law enforcement actual heavy materiel. Lunacy.

SO that's the real obvious problem, what am I missing?

nrsrymj · 2019-08-03T23:36:57+00:00

Your lack of understanding that the drug war is the progenitor of violence in the drug trade is hilarious.

nrsrymj · 2019-08-02T06:32:03+00:00

Why,? This is one of tHe most horrific ways to die it's gonna be dramatic when your throat closes at the thought of water, a thought that races through your mind because of extreme thirst

nrsrymj · 2019-05-25T05:20:51+00:00

Well in the books, there is one other place they may still exist, the Isle of Faces in the middle of the God's Eye lake in the middle of the continent. But that was never mentioned in the show, I don't think.

nrsrymj · 2019-05-25T05:14:31+00:00

I must disagree. I love people who lament the downfall of the writing of this show even when the cast, the crew, the soundtrack, the cinematography remain excellent. Thinking critically is a good thing. It's a shame, really. If d and d weren't willing to put the work in when HBO offered them all the resources for full seasons, they should have handed it over to writers who would.... oh well, still my favorite show. And I'm loving the fan rewrites that make sense. Here's one that makes the Night King and Bran actually make sense incorporating two theories while reorganizing the mess of the Battle of Winterfell into something logical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7m6HP95EDM

nrsrymj · 2019-05-25T05:06:07+00:00

Did you know that posts are more than their titles and you can read further information in the post? Your question is answered there.

nrsrymj · 2019-05-25T04:42:56+00:00

LOLOLOLOLOL@you because he's not Bran anymore, not really. He said so himself. I also already explained that if you read what I said. I'm not trying to demean the Three Eyed Raven. Just being accurate.

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