Some fuck from a colonial looting & murdering bunch of thieves died. Gets featured on HN.
Prince Philip has died
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
An interesting perspective I've heard is that she should have been more political in a few extreme cases. She is the head of state and her actual job should be to bring left and right together in the very controversial, almost unsolvable issues, and get them sorted out. She should really be like a couples therapist for political leaders. She never did this. She always stayed out of politics.
Can you think of a single case where this is true? King George VI publicly praised Chamberlain for appeasing Hitler and apparently preventing another world war. I'd be wary of making _any_ public statement of that sort as a royal with that kind of precedent.
Didn't know that, thanks. Great point.
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#103I imagine the next few years will be quite interesting for the British monarchy.
Years? tabloids will be on fire in the funeral
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
It will only really get interesting after the Queen kicks the bucket. For most non monarchists she isn't a bad sort to be in charge. The rest of them are a shower of shites.
An interesting perspective I've heard is that she should have been more political in a few extreme cases. She is the head of state and her actual job should be to bring left and right together in the very controversial, almost unsolvable issues, and get them sorted out. She should really be like a couples therapist for political leaders. She never did this. She always stayed out of politics.
It should be noted that the 'staying out of politics' is a public phenomenon. In her weekly meeting with the Prime Minister, The Queen makes her political stance well known (that is the entire point of the meeting).
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#106Why these rich people live so long?
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#107More out of curiosity than judgement; why is this on HN?
Because white people paying respects to their racist colonial master.
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#108Some famous quotes of Prince Philip. Make your own judgement while you downvote his comments. “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.” (to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit) “Do you still throw spears at each other?” (in Australia in 2002, talking to a successful Indigenous Australian entrepreneur) “There’s a lot of your family in tonight.” (after looking at the name badge of th…
I hope you feel happy that you are basically spitting on someone's grave in HN. There is no point to what you are doing except statisfying your own narcism.
Those are his words and he always stood by them. Whether one wishes to cheer it or ignore it or criticize it is up to them. But he never once renounced them. This is all in the public domain.
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#109More out of curiosity than judgement; why is this on HN?
Apparently mostly to be a lightning rod for people to rant about the British monarchy and get flagged in the process. Threads like these have a certain car wreck quality in that it's hard to look away but you really shouldn't expect much of quality,
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#110Rest in peace! I have always felt strongly against monarchy. Especially against the British royal family, more so as I am an Indian. They never apologized for any of the massacres (Jallianwala is just one example) or pogroms committed at their behest and in their name. I do believe they are a disgusting symbol of colonialism, racism, subjugation. It is very disturbing that a good part of the world and an entire natio…
I think it’s interesting that you’d blame this family for the horrors of colonialism. They haven’t had a say in British policy for around 2 centuries. Although the monarch meets the Prime Minister every week, they cannot tell the PM what to do, unless it affects the royal family personally. The PM listens to what they have to say but charts their own course. If you’re looking for someone to blame, Churchill deserves…
Unfortunately people are very quick to assign "generational guilt" these days. It's as if we've gone backwards, and are no longer capable of being individuals. "Oh, you're white/black/related to x/decended from y, did you know your ancestors did *that*?"