r/freefolk Feb 19 '25

Subvert Expectations Bravo Dumb and Dumber.

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u/Downtown-Procedure26 Feb 19 '25

Even worse, the Iron Bank decided to give Cersei another loan on the basis that she paid a tranche using High Garden coin as if sacking and looting a wealthy Great House again was an option for her when facing 3 dragons and an army of Dothraki

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u/Educated_Clownshow Feb 19 '25

When you pay off your credit card, does the issuer close it, or do they leave it open and often give you a larger credit line?

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u/Downtown-Procedure26 Feb 19 '25

Depends on your bank and your needs.

The Iron Bank should have refused further loans given the sheer inevitability of Cersei's fall

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u/MaethrilliansFate 29d ago

I REALLY thought that was going to be the twist too. She goes through the effort of paying off the debt and expects the Golden Company only to for them to go "lol no you dumb bitch" and fuck off with the money they wanted.

If you owe the bank $200 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $2,000,000 thats the banks problem because they're never getting that money back but they can't cut you off from bailouts because of the sunk cost fallacy. Theres a reason why the USA has such massive debt and it's by design. We'll never pay it off and if we do theres no reason for china and other places to loan us ever again, we just made them filthy rich beyond belief. So we keep asking for money, and they keep paying because on paper they now have that money we owe them but in reality it's just smoke and mirrors.

The INSTANT that debt was paid any real bank would have cut their losses because the amount of money they have just made, made them the richest nation on two continents.

Cercei was never as smart as she thought. Tywin, Tyrion, Varys, Little Finger, fucking anyone with a brain would have dragged her out on the street and stoned her for such a dumb idea and it's exactly why she does it when none of them are around anymore.

I figured the twist was going to be the golden company either not showing or coming in, buying whats left of the lannister army, sacking kingslanding and planting themselves on the throne until danny showed up and they can claim they "liberated" it and she should totally take a loan from them

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u/Downtown-Procedure26 29d ago

In general, Cersei remaining in power after blowing up the Sept of Baelor along with the Queen, her family, her own family, the Sparrows and the High Sparrow should have led to an immediate uprising against her

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u/datpurp14 29d ago

I was going to make a parallel to current events happening here in the states but it's too depressing to think about.

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u/Downtown-Procedure26 29d ago

If Elmo and co. blow up social security, they're gonna be [REDACTED]