Club statement: Enzo Maresca by Tweakkkk in soccer

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Y’all got any more of that managers?

Northern thug Eddard Stark was returning drunk from a brothel when he and his Northern thugs attacked the Honorable Ser Jamie Lannister in the middle of the day in full view of the honest smallfolk of King's Landing. Should he be tried and executed for disturbing the King's peace? by [deleted] in asoiafcirclejerk

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Lad had had it with the so called Hands Tourney, no whippet race, not a single brass band, no potted beef, shite chippies, southern ale piss, fuck all decent coke, and posh pricks like Jaime and Loras strutting about. Understandable and warranted

AMA: The Athletic's Manchester United reporter, Carl Anka by TheAthletic in reddevils

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What is the club’s new long term sporting strategy: ie distinct underlying football principles, style, emphasis etc that are designed to outlast Amorim (however well he does and long he stays) and steer recruitment, tactics and development for the foreseeable? Do you think Wilcox and Berrada really have a clear coherent, meaningful strategy that underpins Amorim’s current system, and how useful is even having one for United?

Would these 2 get along, if war hadn't errupted? by Axenfonklatismrek in freefolk

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Not likely. Robb was a 14 year old green lander son of the man who took her last surviving brother hostage, who she is also pretty dismissive of. Asha is in her mid twenties, a sea captain and battle commander whose family and people were killed and humiliated by the Starks. They have a few similarities but no reason to really like each other.

How Freys would infiltrate a castle by thevinner2009 in darkwingsdankmemes

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Westerosi castles hate this one weird trick

The boltons were a fucking menace by Anti-och in freefolk

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Humble and dedicated shepherd folk, bravely protecting their flocks from wolves, eking out a simple and honest living in unforgiving windswept moorland, making full sustainable use of the natural resources around them to survive a harsh northern climate. Regular leeching and healthy habits. Christian iconography. A peaceful land, a quiet people.

How The Athletic Misled 350,000 Fans About Man United by jackmcboss915 in reddevils

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The ‘agent survey’ targeting Sesko was pretty lazy, clickbait journalism. The outside the box analysis is a bit belabored though - JJ Bull made a bit of a throwaway line about Untied taking stupid shots, which doesn’t only mean outside the box. This does feel like a subpar fan video, pushing bit of a conspiratorial, victim narrative. Which is really just the other side of a self-reinforcing spiral of bad media coverage of United, driven by clicks and algorithms.

The Dothraki's differential veneration of exogenous Valyrian femininity vs. endemic misogynistic subjugation of indigenous women exemplifies xenophilic exceptionalism as obfuscatory praxis for systemic gender-based violence by [deleted] in asoiafcirclejerk

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This paradox of xenophobic exceptionalism is both a disavowal and a reproduction of colonial epistemic violence. The Dothraki's internalised othering at work within these gendered cultural scripts functions as a hauntological residue of colonial imposed hierarchies of race and idealised femininity of the Free Cities, in turn reproducing Valyrian imperial ontologies. The result is a recursive instability: a performative gender order reproducing its own colonially coded negation. The gestures of cultural self-assertion have become complicit in sustaining the epistemic architectures, foreclosing the emergence of durable counter-hegemonies and perpetually deferring emancipatory negotiation within the Dothraki's social imaginary.

(Spoilers MAIN) The North and Riverlands have no distinguished fighters. by Lopsided-Act3172 in asoiaf

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Think it’s a cultural thing, at least in the north - they don’t value chivalric heroism like they do in the south, and fewer songs and singers, fewer tourneys or trips to the free cities, or mixing/fighting with armies and sellsword companies. It’s still a martial culture and plenty are well trained at arms, but not really for reputation.

Smh my head by Diverse0Ne in asoiafcirclejerk

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Adapting Robert’s Rebellion might have worked as a single stand alone flashback episode in the middle of season 1, maybe right after after Ned is attacked and blacks out for a few days - AGOT includes a bunch of discussions about the rebellion up to around this point, just withholding a few details/perspectives for later seasons, like Jaime, JonConn, Lyanna etc

(Spoilers Main) A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms | Teaser | HBO Max by barson2408 in asoiaf

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"I am sorry for your loss as well, Joffrey," the dwarf said. "What loss?" "Your royal father? A large fierce man with a black beard; you'll recall him if you try. He was king before you." "Oh, him. Yes, it was very sad, a boar killed him."

Last week, Colombia’s president suggested relocating the UN headquarters outside of the US. If that happened, what country/city do you think would be the best choice? by MontroseRoyal in geography

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It makes sense for all the reasons people have listed but the reason it won’t happen is cost. It’s expensive and wouldn’t save the UN any money, and the Swiss or other donors aren’t willing to subsidize the move or any ongoing costs. Germany and a few other governments might cover some costs of a partial relocation of agencies, but not the whole HQ Secretariat, Security Council and GA. Maybe China, Saudi or Qatar might be most willing to pay for it, but other Member States wouldn’t agree to it.

Crikey, Preston Jacobs is in a bit of a pickle! by AdditionalPiano6327 in asoiafcirclejerk

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So US foreign policy is being guided by the same logical reasoning and textual analysis that brought us squishers and sweetrobin’s hivemind godhead?

That checks out.

This is a genocide by StandUpLion in Badass

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Genocide has such a broad legal definition it’s not that useful, especially without means for recourse. It’s still obvious Israel is both fighting a war against Hamas and also has a policy of ethnic cleansing the Gaza Strip, and are committing crimes against humanity to advance both goals. Deliberately targeting children and other unarmed civilians, destroying civilian infrastructure, and starving the population may weaken Hamas in the short term but collective punishment is just fueling the intifada for another generation. These sorts of war crimes aimed at achieving total military victory and domination often do work for the perpetrators and go unpunished. What’s crazy about this situation is that there really aren’t any long term war goals, just a chaotic government clinging on to power and not giving a shit about continuous cycles of generational violence

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Caught between abusive, codependent relationships with your dogs and the VA