solarvector

A yes, the benevolent ruler, almost as common as the benevolent slave owner.

Funded infrastructure

Or, returned a small amount of the value extracted in order to facilitate further extraction

Hired knights to

Keep his interests safe

(Hoarded resources and returned a pittance to prop up) food stores and the economy in times of famine

Negotiated with neighboring kingdoms

To further state interests

Funded research

At public expense for private gain

• don't actually drink Test C

owner

A cat would never say this. This meme is clearly the worst kind of slander and impersonation intending extreme reputational damage.

I agree with the "don't be shitty to animals" sentiment, but I'm honestly a little surprised no one else has bothered to consider how shitty that cat might be. If it was always shitting in your yard, picking fights your cat or dog, using your bird feeder as a cat feeder, and tearing up your flower beds, then a cup of water is a pretty benign deterrent that still has a chance of being effective.