If you get something you did not order you can legally keep that item even though the company made a mistake. It’s not your job to fix their mistakes.

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To the first point, Kendall and Roman proved that they were absolutely the right guys for the job. Because they really wanted to tank the deal, they fully convinced Matsson they were willing to walk away from the table, so he had to keep raising the numbers. Had the Old Guard sent Karl in there, he would have…

By displaying genuine emotion, he made Mattson realize that Roman and Kendall could actually walk away from the deal entirely. Mattson knows that he’s not great at dealing with emotional situations so Roman’s outburst represents a significant risk to him. And it works as a tactic because it’s not a tactic; Roman is…

After all of these machinations, Mattson just hands them umpteen billion dollars based on Shiv’s “nudge” comment... Really?? It’s certainly not un-entertaining, and definitely great acting, but it felt a bit unearned in a writing sense, based on the history of this show.

Except she said more money would give him the win, and he took her advice on the two women from Waystar to keep. He ultimately delivered on those things. Further she wasn’t actually drinking and she did not actually snort any coke. She was on fire and in control.

I got the same sense.

Him telling Shiv a story that would not only tank the deal, but potentially result in him having to leave his own company, has to be a long-term play. Coke, LSD, and high altitude be damned, he’s too smart to be that honest without it being a move.

I also thought that he knew that she was pregnant,…

Hey. I’m just now seeing this, so let me take your responses point by point and hopefully be a bit clearer in mine.

How is it then not a dogwhistle for the show to explicitly promote a historical revisionist conspiracy theory cooked up by right-wing black nationalists?

And I’ll readily admit that I’m not in favor of the particular line mentioned both within the docudrama, as well as the overt purposes of the director.

But, to be clear, the director isn’t American, she’s Iranian, and historically, the Persians did rule over what is now Egypt for nearly 300 years before the…

Probably not.

And like I said to someone else, for a person of that power and fame, and during a time period where a lot of shit was recorded about how they looked (such as Caesar balding or Nero having red hair), the utter lack of descriptions about Cleopatra’s skin color is telling. To me, it either means it wasn’t…

Rim shot.

You do realize that the country that borders Egypt...to the SOUTH...is Sudan? A nation and peoples that, for centuries prior to Cleopatra, had intermixed. Not saying that Cleopatra is secretly the descendant of the Kushite Empire, but your geography and understanding of Africa is piss-fucking-poor.

No-one is contending that ‘Amir’ knows more about Cleopatra because he’s Egyptian. But Gharavi is saying that he shouldn’t care if Cleopatra was Greek, because he isn’t genetically related to her either way. Read the Gharavi quote again.I’m saying that since he is Egyptian by nationality/upbringing, he thus has a…

Genes don’t spread the same as language and culture.

Genes don’t spread the same as language and culture.

People get what Gharavi’s argument is, but it’s his country. That’s what makes her comments so tone-deaf.

To be race-swapped, you have to know the person’s race. So I ask, what was Cleopatra’s race?

Macedonian is not a race. Greek is not a race. Egyptian is not a race. We don’t know what her race is. We have a good idea what her ethnicity was, and ethnicity really doesn’t give a damn about skin-color. Race is a modern…

The point isn’t whether or not he’s Egyptian. In Ghavari’s example, Amir brought up Cleopatra being Greek. If Amir presumably didn’t care that Cleopatra’s ethnicity has fuck-all to do with where she reigned, then presumably he wouldn’t care if she was depicted as dark-skinned.

If “Amir’s” issue is her depiction being…

Maybe because, I don’t know, Amir wants his country’s history accurately presented and doesn’t want to just pretend the period of ~300 years when they were ruled by a dynasty of Greeks didn’t happen.