Who cares?

I do not forgive you, Canada.

I do not forgive you for cutting the tongues from the mouths of our children, and in turn their children, and their children. "Give me back my tongue you piece of shit!" I scream in a voice like yours, as thousands of others scream with me, "You stole it from me, give it back!"

But you mark a day on the calendar a holiday, as if that will fix anything you've done. Generations of abuse. Generations of silence.

I cannot speak the language that flows through my veins. The language of my ancestors. I and many others have been robbed of that, as well as our traditions, our ancestral lands.

I do not forgive you. Not because I am bitter at a pain long since passed, but because this country continues to perpetuate the harm of my people. Our reservations don't have clean water, our rights to our land is not respected. You pollute our streams and cut our trees for money and greed and yet ask for forgiveness and expect it to be dropped at your feet like everything else this earth has.

I refuse to forgive. I refuse to reconcile without truth. The truth that my people's suffering, that you caused, is just a big PR stunt to you.

You don't care. You never did. Not about us.

cat also doesn’t hate jon specifically because he’s a bastard in general. if she did, she’d show more ire towards mya stone at the vale; instead she’s wary and somewhat pitying. she doesn’t even hate jon because he’s evidence that ned cheated on her, although that doesn’t help. she really & truly hates what jon represents: ned’s willingness to risk their son’s succession for a secret woman he won’t even tell her about, one he seems to still value over cat herself.

we know jon would never rise up against robb, but cat’s fears & prejudice cloud her judgement. she’s also somewhat right: jon may never rise against robb, but what about his children? what if some lords don’t like that cat’s sons all look more tully than traditionally stark? her fears aren’t altogether unsubstantiated & ned never dissuades them. he is prioritizing lyanna’s dying wish over his wife’s emotional needs & fiscal concerns! perfect recipe for an interesting story!

but many fics instead banish cat to the evil stepmother role, citing her unconscionably cruel words to jon as proof that she’s always exactly that terrible to him. instead, it’s more accurate to say that she’s not a parental figure to him at all—jon even says it’s the first time he can remember her addressing him by name. i know i’m discussing semantics here bc jon still experiences her coldness as parental neglect. but grrm very deliberately tried to deconstruct the evil stepmom figure and did a great job! cat is multilayered! she’s not all good or all bad!

Endlessly amusing that losing his power and memories has somehow also led to Thor's Shakespearean mode of speaking getting replaced by a standard Norwegian accent.

Y'know, I guess the past several Thor issues have also involved a large amount of goring and bloodshed and what-have-you. But all it takes is changing the Old Gods out for some mortal skinheads for the same amount of violence to suddenly feel of a piece with a Miller or Ennis comic.

oxygen not included's dupes have no currency and no ruling class. rimworld lets you run an honest-to-Horax organ farm but the people running the organ farm work for the common good of the organ farm, the alternative is impossible. dwarf fortress, the granddaddy of them all, used to have capitalism but it caused infinite baby debt and fps death so now dwarves yet again work according to their ability and receive according to their need

- Boba Fett has replaced Jabba the Hutt as crime boss of tatooine (or whatever the official title is)

- Tatooine is a known slave empire. It was completely out of the Republic’s control, and Jabba was actually the one who sold Anakin’s mom to Watto. In Return of the Jedi Jabba keeps Leia as a slave so we know nothing changed in Tatooine up until Jabba’s death.

- Boba makes a few changes to Tatooine, it’s true, his biggest thing is that he’s tired of putting his life on the line for asshole rich guys who wouldn’t do it themselves. Tired of being a bounty hunter and having nothing to fight for. But! Slavery is not brought up at all.

- those two pig guards worked for Jabba and beg Boba for mercy and he decides to let them work for him. I doubt they got paid under Jabba, because Jabba only paid bounty hunters, and they worked for him exclusively. There is nothing that suggests Boba pays them either.

But honestly. Tatooine is a very big planet and as of three-something years ago there were slaves. Slavery cannot be undone overnight, so Boba DOES run a slave empire.

He also definitely knows this, bc he was a bounty hunter for Jabba the Hutt and the slavery was not a secret. He saw Leia as Jabba’s slave.

We see his first few weeks as leader and he never mentions slaves. Which means he runs a slave empire. He owns slaves, because he owns everything. And since the show was about him making progressive changes and people getting angry and trying to take power from him, the fact he does not try to free the slaves is not just something that we can assume happened off screen, but something Boba decided not to do.

HE HAS SUPER STRENGTH 

HE DOESNT NEED MUSCLES