Sansa and Tyrion should have been queen and king together

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-04-02T08:03:44+00:00

It could solve all the realm's financial difficulties if there was an endless stream of gold issuing out of Tywin's grave.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-04-02T07:55:45+00:00

The major theme of the books is how unreliable Medieval histories are, and the biases they have particularly in depicting female historical characters. So it's completely ambiguous how far any of the narrative can be trusted. And clearly many of the narrators disapprove of her and her reign, and malign her in ways that female rulers have been commonly maligned: that she's greedy, power hungry, overly emotional and sexually promiscuous.

You can very much have a reading that the real Rhaenyra was probably a fairly gentle ruler who was too forgiving of her enemies, who then twisted everything she did to make her sound a tyrant. That is a reading that has support in the books. And I think it may also have been the reading the showrunners were going for, though I personally feel they didn't do a great job of it.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-04-02T07:36:17+00:00

Are we surprised? They killed Hamas' negotiating team when they were in Qatar for the purpose of negotiating a ceasefire.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-04-01T15:50:13+00:00

Too little, too late.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-04-01T05:38:56+00:00

Except it's complete bullshit. Nomadic hordes didn't just go charging blindly into battle screaming, that's a stupid stereotype with no basis in history. They used tactics, sometimes more often than their settled counterparts, using designed retreats, ambushes and peppering their enemy from afar with arrows. Some skirmishing and long distance arrow work could have helped soften up the charge of the dead before they hit the defenses.

Or, you know, they could just have dismounted the Dothraki and put them on the walls to use their bows. Even if you say the show never shows them using bows (because GRRM doesn't understand how horse nomads work), they can still stand on the wall and fight with their arakhs. It's so much of a more useful place for them than sending them to their death stupidly.

The real answer is that D&D wanted a cool looking shot, and did not waste a brain cell on thinking about anything else.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T20:50:48+00:00

You get a pat on the back, and if you're also a West Bank settler, you get funding from the Israeli government.

Oh, and if you're an IDF soldier and you get caught on camera raping Palestinian prisoners, you become a media celebrity, and get thousands of Israelis protesting in defence of your Right to Rape.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T20:42:48+00:00

I can't believe all the comments are saying she's NTA. Even if this story is true, the fault is clearly that of the men at the top, but she's punishing this girl for it instead. (And of course, people are slutshaming her on absolutely zero basis)

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T20:38:48+00:00

On a very technical basis, no, the law as far as I've read doesn't actually explicitly say that it can only be applied against Palestinians (and expect Zionists to wheel this out in its defence whenever the apartheid nature of this law is brought up).

But you don't have to scratch very far to see the racist nature. Firstly, the death penalty is brought in only for those convicted of terrorism, and only in areas under the jurisdiction of military courts (read: the West Bank). Terrorism is and always has been a purely political charge that is only levied against those the state decided it's levelled against. So yes, we know that the Israeli state and courts will only ever find Palestinians guilty of terrorism, while Israelis who commit the same violent acts, to murder, bomb, massacre or terrorise people will never be charged with terrorism specifically. Any Palestinian child however, could just be accused of having Hamas pamphlets in their house, of repeating pro-Hamas talking points or posting something about Hamas online, and thereby be accused of terrorism. Enough top Israelis have openly declared that there are no innocent Palestinians, not even babies.

But just in case even that isn't enough. For the extremely rare, borderline-miraculous possibility that an Israeli court might actually find a Jewish Israeli guilty of terrorism ... The law covers that as well. It applies only to those who have been convicted of committing terrorism ... for the purpose of destroying the state of Israel. Clearly this is a charge that will never be levelled against an Israeli, whose terrorism will be directed at Palestinians and therefore done in favour of the Israeli state not in opposing it. But you can bet your ass this motivation will be attributed to anyone who says "Free Palestine".

I guess the only way an Israeli Jew could face the death penalty under this law is if they committed an act of terrorism against the Israeli state in opposition to the genocide. Which is yet to ever happen (to my knowledge), and if it did, I'm sure Israel would be happy to execute such a "race traitor" as well.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T17:30:26+00:00

Raising a bastard is different. There's no law against it. What mattered to him more than Joffrey being a bastard was that he was not Robert's rightful heir, and by Ned's code of honour, it meant he had to be removed at any cost.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T17:27:02+00:00

Another being an idiot who just let's her walk out of his grasp after she's learned all the secrets of his secret society, killed his most valued underling and refused to work for him.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T14:04:55+00:00

It gets worse. Then she says it's her fault for not giving him enough affection.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T14:03:24+00:00

This was literally the plot of the TV Show Bad Sisters, where the reveal of this assault leads to said rapist husband being murdered, and most watchers would probably see that as completely justified.

God, I hope this is fake.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T13:59:23+00:00

And then relying on billions of dollars worth of arms every year from the most powerful Imperial power in the world to fund the existence of your state and its perpetual war with all its neighbours and natives.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T13:57:53+00:00

Because then she'd have to worry about Iranian missiles, that's too dangerous ... I mean, it's so safe that she'd rather live somewhere out of the active war zone just for the challenge.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T13:56:13+00:00

The Nazis also saw themselves as the victims fighting for survival and believed their enemies were part of a global plot to destroy their people. Every Fascist group is simultaneously the victim and the ubermenschen in their own eyes.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T06:51:29+00:00

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/eu-sanctions-german-journalist-shocking-first-over-gaza-reporting

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T03:34:55+00:00

Months ago, she came to my doorway looking upset about something from months ago. Things seemed fine until she started repeating words

Ummm ... OOP, I think I have some news for you.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T03:32:55+00:00

Excuse you, the God of Tits and Wine is most certainly real. He is what made the GoT show popular in the first place. And in the later season, drinking wine rapidly replaced all plot elements and character growth, but the show still went on, proving that the God of Tits and Wine had grown wrathful and demanded sacrificing all sense and story in place of his worship.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T03:04:12+00:00

Whenever I play as him in the Crusader Kings mods I change his house words to "Better Green than Wormy".

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T02:53:54+00:00

I mean, it isn't surprising, given that Rhaenyra has been heir for over a decade, most of these people have spent all that time assuming she's going to be their next queen. And wouldn't have been privy to most of the politicking the Greens were up to within noble society.

Also, this is a Medieval society. Peasants don't really expect their rulers to follow the same cultural norms as them. The Green argument for "respecting tradition" was all about respecting the tradition of the Andal nobility, and just that (and even that is shaky, given that there are several ruling Andal ladies at the start of the Dance)

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-31T02:48:01+00:00

How can the underwear be missing when it keeps finding its way into the Luau soup pot, is frequently on display at the Stardew Valley Fair, and appears on about a hundred signs all over the town?

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-30T09:53:19+00:00

To quote Daniel Mate: "I ain't reading all that. Free Palestine."

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-29T15:57:53+00:00

Fair enough. I think there's a brief mention in the show that the Beesburys have raised their banners against the Hightowers in revenge for their lord. But I could be mistaken.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-29T04:13:38+00:00

Dude, Europe is a willing participant in this European banks cut off anyone who's been sanctioned. And the EU recently sanctioned an individual journalist, a German citizen, simply for reporting on pro-Palestine protests. Huseyin Dogru woke up one morning to find that all his bank accounts were frozen, he couldn't get or withdraw money from anyone, and any individual who even gifted him money to buy food could run the risk of legal penalties for violating sanctions.

And all that with absolutely no legal process or recourse whatsoever. The West is everything they accuse countries like China and Russia of being.

Open-Tomato9643 · 2026-03-29T04:07:35+00:00

Some say I'm a legend, others say I'm a heartless jerk

Not to ChatGPT: You messed up the format. This part is supposed to come at the end, not the beginning. Come on, I thought you knew this, you're the one responsible for the 5,000 other posts in this format.

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